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Minesweeper got me into development, my first real project was building a minesweeper clone for Android using web technologies. It only sold 3 copies, but it go
by TipVFL 9y ago
Minesweeper got me into development, my first real project was building a minesweeper clone for Android using web technologies. It only sold 3 copies, but it got me a new job making more than twice as much as I made doing graphic design.
My version is called Swine Peeper, and you're trying to find pigs in a field. It's now free if you're interested:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.myapp630896 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframe...
I guarantee this is both the most literary, and most pun-filled version of minesweeper available.
To anyone who has just barely gotten their feet wet in programming, building a minesweeper clone is a great next step after something like a text-based blackjack game.
Do yourself a favor, don't look up any of the standard solutions for building it. Try weird things, figure it out. I made several completely different systems for propagating clicks through empty squares before I came up with a simple, reliable, and performant solution. If anyone had given me a hint I would have learned half as much.
- smellf 9y agoWow. My Minesweeper clone was called Swine Meeper, and the premise was similarly bonkers (interstellar livestock pig shipment infected with alien parasite, the player "meeps" them to find the infected hosts). Wrote it in Java way back but never got it on Android.
- TipVFL 9y agoMy version was originally going to be called Swine Meeper! However, after googling it I found this version here: http://www.karaffeltut.com/MineSweeper/minesweeper1.html http://www.karaffeltut.com/MineSweeper/minesweeper1.html I'm guessing that's not yours, as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with pigs. Since it lacked actual pigs I carried on with my idea and just modified the title. If I'd seen yours I might have come up with some other silly theme.
- smellf 9y agoSmall world, at least three different programmers spoonerized Minesweeper. No, mine is not online, nor will it ever be - it was jacked-up student-written Java, I had no idea how to structure code at the time. It's amazing it ever worked at all.