I’ve found it folks! The secret to indie game dev success in 2025!!! - ThreadSky

greyalien.bsky.social • 69 days ago

I’ve found it folks! The secret to indie game dev success in 2025!!!

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demofox.bsky.social•69 days ago

That's where I hopped on!

richtaur.bsky.social•69 days ago

That brings back memories 😭

oakwarrior.bsky.social•69 days ago

Yooooo that looks like something I'd try out as a breather from the modern stuff. DOS you say? Hmmmmm....

greyalien.bsky.social•69 days ago

Yeah you can find this cd on https://archive.org and code in Dosbox.

greyalien.bsky.social•69 days ago

Alt Text: It's a CD-ROM that says "Teach yourself game programming in 21 days" and is from 1994. I actually did follow this back in the 90s. I think it was C or C++ using DOS and I used something called DJGPP to compile it.

yak3d.com•69 days ago

reminds me of this tome my dad got for me back in the day called 3D Programming All in One! I couldn’t even understand it back then unfortunately.

yak3d.com•69 days ago

sorry it was "Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX" by Jim Adams!

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•69 days ago

I somehow also remember all of those words so apparently I did as well

malkyne.com•69 days ago

Wow. I had completely forgotten about the very existence of DJGPP, until this moment.

greyalien.bsky.social•69 days ago

I used it bunch back then. Also a library called Allegro.

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•69 days ago

ooooooh yeah also same

The dev kept updating that library way, waaaay past when you'd expect - like it still exists https://liballeg.org/

I don't know if it's remotely good, but - like, geeze