james_hague

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by james_hague 6y ago
When I used to write games in 6502 assembly, I'd use a more native style rather than modeling the code after a high-level language. For example, I'd maintain global settings instead of passing lots of parameters, often having thes
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by james_hague 9y ago
Not platformers I realize, but lots of outer space games with actual acceleration/velocity calculations preceded SMB. Off the top of my head: Lunar Lander (1979), Asteroids (1979), Defender (1981), Gravitar (1982), Sinistar (1982). Jus
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by james_hague 10y ago
I'm quoting a citation-free sentence from Wikipedia (ugh), but it sums up what I've always heard: "this paper did less to garner interest in the FP language than to spark research into functional programming in general."
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Mindset computer(en.wikipedia.org)
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by james_hague 12y ago
If you want a more personal take on building vector games at Atari, Memories of a Vector World (1998) is a good companion piece: http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n2/contri... (Disclosure: I
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by james_hague 12y ago
I started blogging into the void almost exactly seven years ago. No promotion. No trying to be controversial. No plan. What I didn't expect was the effect that reddit, Hacker News, and eventually Twitter would have. They're essent
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by james_hague 12y ago
I'd like to clarify that I was using J6.02 for Windows when I wrote that. You can still download it from jsoftware.com. Since then the priority has been for J to be platform independent, but it's resulted in some big steps backwar
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by james_hague 12y ago
Every time this article crops up I stop and read the whole thing, word for word. Not only does he nail the beauty of and fundamental trouble with Forth, but it's a deep ramble through a world in the way that the best New Yorker pieces
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by james_hague 12y ago
The App Store is EXTREMELY clogged on the low-end. If it's your first game, if you use "puzzle" to describe it, if it's a spin on Tetris or Threes or Snake or match-3 or anything well-known, if someone could clone it in