Four million words about me

[davidn]

Over the last few weeks, I've been doing an interview with Tisnart from the Clickteam boards, as part of an ongoing series where he talks to people about their involvement in the community and their current projects.

I had first thought that there would be a few questions back and forth and that would be the end of it, but things got rather carried away and I would now estimate that it contains everything that I've ever done in my entire life. If you're interested in finding out about how I got to being where I am in terms of game-related projects, and details of the other various things that are currently weighing on my conscience, the interview will explain more than you ever wanted to know. Most of it is about the stuff I do with Clickteam, but my music and ZZT get honourable mentions.

It also concludes with a notably bad photograph, a property I seem to manage to lend to all my photos simply by being in them.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Commodore of z2 here. It's cool that you worked on c64, since it continues to be my hobby. I was looking for My Liver Hurtz on LJ, since I lost his email and wanted to give him a shout for Christmas, when I came across your post. Check out the C64 game I just made if you have the chance! http://sites.google.com/site/malcontentsgames/dunjon-battler

Also I note you have an awesome PoP avatar, so you may be interested in the great port that was recently made for the venerable 64.

[davidn]

I didn't know you worked with the Commodore - though I suppose the clue has been in the name all this time :) I went back to look at it again quite recently and I was impressed that people still wrote fairly up-to-date IDEs for it, but I was stunned by how... obtuse it all was compared to today, with graphics and music set up by poking strings of numbers into memory, no concept of scope and program flow that could come from anywhere to anywhere else. Given all that - though I never thought I'd be saying this - the assembly for your own game actually looks quite understandable to me, or at least, no worse than Commodore BASIC :) I'll have to put that in my emulator and have a go...

And I'll look at Prince of Persia as well - I did a sort of comparison of all the different versions a hundred years ago, and found that all the 'official' versions tended to have something terribly wrong with them, apart from the SNES one which was a different game. Certainly when I played the NES one, it was a hugely frustrating experience despite knowing the game on the PC inside-out. I'll be interested to see if the fan community could do any better :)

[davidn]

And when I said 'official' I meant console, without the quote marks. I'm not sure how that could have got there, but I can blame the short amount of time between getting out of bed and writing that comment.