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0 pointsswaggyBoatswain7y ago0 comments

> 62,176 lines of code

then I watched the youtube video demo in 2017.

A 2D gaming scroller that requires 62,126 lines of code written from scratch? There's tons of libraries out there, game engines you could adopt, etc.

I would argue you could be an awful programmer and use prebuilt tools but have great design aesthetics, vision, music composition, and storytelling, and deliver something far better

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gmueckl7y ago

How can you criticize the amount of code without knowing how much of that is generic engine code and how much of it is gameplay code (game logic, AI, event triggers...) that would have to exist regardless of the engine being used?

rasz7y ago

It doesnt matter, game is a generic 2D keep running right ~1986 Amiga with bits of Chip's Challenge thrown in piece.

hannasanarion7y ago

Because in the former case, it's a waste of time, duplicating work that others have done already available online for free, so of course there are no customers

And in the latter case, it's got to be a poorly written mess, no 2d platformer could need so much game logic. That's twice the size of the entire Super Metroid cartrige, engine and assets included.

gmueckl7y ago

Wait... did you just compare lines of source code to the size of a compiled binary code of something that was written over 25 years ago and clearly optimized for the size of the deliverable? In that case you might just as well have compared an apple to the Apollo program LAM module. It is just not a valid comparison.

I am sure that if Super Metroid were to be developed today in a high level language with the exact same gameplay logic, the resulting code would be in at least the same ballpark.

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0 pointsswaggyBoatswain7y ago0 comments

> 62,176 lines of code

then I watched the youtube video demo in 2017.

A 2D gaming scroller that requires 62,126 lines of code written from scratch? There's tons of libraries out there, game engines you could adopt, etc.

I would argue you could be an awful programmer and use prebuilt tools but have great design aesthetics, vision, music composition, and storytelling, and deliver something far better

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gmueckl7y ago

rasz7y ago

It doesnt matter, game is a generic 2D keep running right ~1986 Amiga with bits of Chip's Challenge thrown in piece.

hannasanarion7y ago

Because in the former case, it's a waste of time, duplicating work that others have done already available online for free, so of course there are no customers

And in the latter case, it's got to be a poorly written mess, no 2d platformer could need so much game logic. That's twice the size of the entire Super Metroid cartrige, engine and assets included.

gmueckl7y ago

I am sure that if Super Metroid were to be developed today in a high level language with the exact same gameplay logic, the resulting code would be in at least the same ballpark.

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