Your first game?

[NothingLikeit]

Hi I was just wondering if any of you ladies and gents recall your first game. How much did you do? Did you work alone or did you have a team? Was it a huge project?

My first project was who wants to be a millionaire clone done in Qbasic. Alas I can't remember how it was done. maybe that's why i'm not so good at programming.....

[Rainer Deyke]

My first ten games were all done entirely by myself, and never released to the public.

First game: Matches game.
Second game: Space shooter without actual shooting, with ASCII graphics.
Other notable early games:
- A Pac-man clone with new graphics and some new gameplay features.
- Several tile based action-adventure games without fighting (i.e. avoid the monsters or you die)
- A primitive ASCII space-empire simulation.
- A very primitive spaceship flight simulator without actual 3D graphics.

My first publicly released game is Wrath of Darkness (http://eldwood.com/wrath), which I also did completely by myself.

[NothingLikeit]

I'm trying to remind myself that I"m working on my first game and that I shouldn't expect too much.... I keep trying to start small but I have a penchant for tricking myself to biting off more than i can chew.

So did you already know how to program when you started?

[Ricardo C]

My very first game was a text adventure done in BASIC, on an 8086 PC with 640kb of RAM. It was... The very definition of crappy.

[ggambett]

We had a similar thread before - Post your ancient games (http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=3418)

[Raptisoft]

"If you remember your first game..."

Dude, forgetting a game is like forgetting your pet's name, or that you have a kid!

I was seven or eight, and my friends and I used to play this stupid game in the backyard where one of us would hang in a tire swing (he was the "turtle") and other kids would circle around him (they were the birds). He'd have to jump (while in the tire swing) and try to grab a bird. Usually the bird would dodge and he'd end up swinging back in the tire swing. The eventual sentence for the turtle was nausea, but it was great fun. Being old enough to have sex is definitely not a replacement. Now that I'm 33, I understand completely why people are willing to bathe in the blood of virgins to recover their lost youth.

Anyway...
So I ported this insane concept to a Timex Sinclair machine. 8k of ram forces weird, psychedilic interpretations of real life... but that was my first game. Basically, it was press a button, and turtle's head shoots out. Try to snag passing birds.

[Bouncer]

It's still around... heh... Although I've lost the source years ago... :I

http://hol.abime.net/4480

[Anlino]

An easy poker, where the comp told you what you had, and randomized the cpu:s cards. Wrote it in QBasic, and of course, was it text-based... ;)

[mahlzeit]

Actually, I don't remember my first game... My early creations were on C64 tapes that got lost somehow. The oldest game (from one of those tapes) I remember is "Ed" where you could walk some guy around a city street and enter a shop to do work and earn money or enter a restaurant to spend that money on food. Not much of a game, but that didn't stop Donald Duck's Playground (http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/1921/). :)

[TimS]

but that didn't stop Donald Duck's Playground.

I played the hell outta that game when I was wee.

My first "game" was a text based hacker simulation for the Commodore 64... it didn't do much, but if you didn't know the proper bank account ID you would be treated to a flashy screen and a warning about the feds headed your way. MAN I was (and still am) a geek.

I'm trying to remind myself that I"m working on my first game and that I shouldn't expect too much.... I keep trying to start small but I have a penchant for tricking myself to biting off more than i can chew.

So did you already know how to program when you started?

Is alright... just remember, it is quite impossible to code more than you're capable of. Staying small is sound advice you'll hear often, but it's also important in my opinion to be interested in your own project. Good luck!

[Escapee]

My very first game was a Tic tac toe, then i made a slot machine , follow by an asteriod game , finally a "big leap forward" withThe Prodigious Escapee Supreme (http://www.funpcgame.com/productO1.html).

ALL OF these were done mostly by me, with a small portion of music made by my sister in prodigious escapee ( dntoll said it's horrible , stressful & annoying but i feel completely opposite :D :D )

[Christian]

My first video-game was a text adventure in Qbasic...it was mainly a survival game, it was a very hard game because you died with the answers that appeared "right" and kept going with the answers that didnt seem right, it was really silly and with a really crazy sense of humour (not sick bad taste crazy, just silly crazy and innocent...but a little gory too).

[svero]

The first game I developed and released was Aargon. It was a modest hit. (or maybe a flop by todays standards were hits often do 100-300k units, but when I released it I think it did ok) -- The game continues to sell to this day and does a lot of side business in level packs and hint guides as well as various editions like a mac version, and a pocket pc/palm version. I think its just about time to write and release the sequel. Its definitely showing it's age.

[stupidlikeafox]

my first game was a point and click bathroom, where when you exited it, it asked you a series of questions about the bathroom. it was in director-my first and only game ive made with it!