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A suite of games that I wish still came with the computer.

About The Missing Games Folder


Basically I just wish I still had Minesweeper.

This project is a small suite of classic PC games that I wish were still included with modern computers. I'm planning to write them in Odin, both to learn the language better and to get practice doing simple things with manual memory management.

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The most important feature has been implemented. (&games)

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Finally some progress on drag and drop. Among the bugs I encountered: UI actions triggering on multiple items per frame, UI actions persisting across too many frames, clearing out UI state too early in the frame... (&games)

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Got card rendering working for solitaire (the next game I'm working on as part of my essential &games collection for the jam)

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My little Minesweeper clone for my &games collection is done enough for today. Next is probably solitaire or something.

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I haven't had a ton of time to dedicate to the jam yet, but I have gotten this far in implementing Minesweeper as part of a (hopeful) suite of essential &games. Gameplay should come quickly later today when I have more time.

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Haven't had much time to jam on &games today, but I do have textures loading and nine-sliced rendering working.

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I have decided to do hand-drawn scribbly art for all the &games. The Freeform app for iPad is surprisingly nice in this regard, although getting the data out in any useful form is a pain (sync to Mac, copy to clipboard, paste into Preview or other image-editing app, save)

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