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So fun to see Gold Miner mentioned! I built the GameRival.com site where it and many other flash games were hosted. The game was so popular it led to an integer
by tomnipotent 5y ago
So fun to see Gold Miner mentioned! I built the GameRival.com site where it and many other flash games were hosted. The game was so popular it led to an integer overflow in the (unsigned) int32 primary key column of our logging table (SQL Server).
I didn't realize how insanely popular the game was until I was in Las Vegas about five years ago, and a Gold Miner rip-off game was available while drinking at the bar.
Fun story - GameRival.com actually started from an advertisement game for NASCAR on Fox. We built this silly little Flash racing game that let you "challenge" your friends to beat your high score at the end. It did so well, we decided to double down and and licensed games to launch a new property to compliment our network of original Flash animations (sites like FlowGo).
- password4321 5y agoI don't know if I'm being purposely nerd sniped or not, but SQL Server doesn't support any unsigned data types. This caught my eye because so few start their IDENTITY columns at the lowest possible negative value, thus missing out on half the possible values.
- tomnipotent 5y agoYou're totally right, I meant signed. I was writing "didn't support unsigned" and realized I could just say signed and still screwed it up.
- userbinator 5y agobut SQL Server doesn't support any unsigned data types. ...except tinyint. (Sorry. That was definitely a nerdsnipe.)