I am just going to take the time to comment on what a brilliant job the Gideros team has done and continues doing.
I am a professional software developer (not apps though, that's mostly for fun at this point) and have been developing software since I was a kid (more than 20 years ago), often working with new languages and interfaces, and I don't remember anything that's been as easy to get started with as Gideros.
It just works. My team actually started out with Corona, but switched to Gideros within the first couple of hours as we were unlucky (well, lucky, as it turned out) to immediately hit the first unsolvable problem and look for alternatives.
We also immediately noticed how active atilim is on this forum and that is a HUGE deal.
Instant app testing is just brilliant and we never want to work without that again, especially for apps you can't really test in simulators (accelerometers, multi-touch, etc.).
To us Gideros means extremely easy development and the plugin system means that when something is no longer extremely easy, it's still possible.
Thank you very much for all of this. What you have here and have given us (for next to nothing) is truly unique.
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Anyway I second what he said!
10 PRINT "Hello, World!"
20 GOTO 10
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I pretty much blame basic on my getting into programming, it went Qbasic->Pascal->ASM->C->C++->Visual Basic->PERL->Python->PHP->ASP->JAVA->ObjectiveC and now LUA :P
Actually I forgot quite a few languages in there but you get the idea, code forever lol
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from what I see i'm not the only almost forty!
none of you has used C64 ?
ahhh... good old days....
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@Teranth: I also had a Nascom which never got built, I don't know where it went to.
OK who's idea was it with the reminiscing? I won't get any work done now for at least a few hours while I go searching for the games I used to love playing. Grrrrrr
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Castlegate+Interactive
@GregBUG - I'm not as old as @Scouser but I have slipped over the wrong side of 40 as well (in fact according to Douglas Addams I'm the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything!) )
Also - like @Scouser, I *upgraded* to a C64 when my VIC-20 packed up! (never did get a spectrum though), then went Atari ST, a range of PC's until I finally got to the setup I have today!
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Castlegate+Interactive
- although I'll be using a single pixel white gradient scaled across the width and then dynamically adjusting the colours.
Next - vetcaballs!
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
I'm actually in coding world only for about 4 years now. And had my first PC less then ten years ago. Which was new Pentium 4 with Windows XP. Did not see anything before that
Personally I think it's really important that classics like tetris, manic miner, jetpac, knight lore etc etc get made, remade and carried forward.
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
:-t
I'm actually not really into games
they consume too much time, more than I can afford. I'd rather be creating ones and not playing them. But unfortunately, one does not go without other
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill