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Might be surprised how many of us knew BASIC.
I taught myself when in was about 9 or 10.
Made a few incredibly bad games and music programs.

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"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."

Both my parents used punch-card when they were students and both my paternal grandparents apparently used them in their day-jobs. It's an ancient and venerable tradition that is thankfully gone now...

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Recent work - iSchool Dreams: First Semester / iSchool Dreams: My Valentine (iPhone / iPad, dating sims)

Well! I started to doubt my youth when I found myself listening to copious amounts of psychedelic music and wearing saddle oxfords with white knee socks, but now I find out the punch card I use to clock in at my job is an ancient and venerable tradition...

I AM A LIVING FOSSIL

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"It is [the writer's] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart,
by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride
and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past."
— William Faulkner

I think he meant punch-card *programming*. Although clocking in with punch cards is still pretty outdated, but not as much!

I believe my mother used punch cards at some point in her life.

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Hanako Games

Started doing my first game at 14 and finished it at 15, but yeah... XD It wasn't that awesome. I did it out of hobby, though. All was about the fun!

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I might not write on your thread, but I am lurking and watching. Intently.

I started writing fiction around the age of 11. I've been working at it ever since. I was a child prodigy myself, I understand that unsureness very well. Just keep pressing and you'll discover that even if your skills aren't up to snuff in certain areas, that you can be augmented in those areas, just as you help boost others.

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My common sense is tingling!
Woah! I actually have a website now.

Man, I wish I knew about engines when I was younger.
I spent my youth playing videogames and drawing comics.
Also I think internet has influenciated a lot on kids today, knowledge is everywhere now ahaha
I'm very glad! I'm not a kid anymore(...snif) but I can take advantage internet as well.





...what?

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My WIP project:The hurtful wall
:Other VNs:
+The Knife of the Traitor(Nanoreno 2012)
+Eyes of Wilderness
++Currently colaborating with other folks as an artist.

sadfrog developer blog

Someone putting in the year wrong either by mistake or for luls

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Hanako Games

...I haven't actually made a game yet successfully ;w;
But I discovered Ren'py when I was 16 or 17.

I wish I was like azure and make a game a year after I find Ren'py haha

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I've been programming since I was 10. (That makes it 30+ years now!)

My very first game was a racing game on the Vic 20. It had 1K of Ram and I used it all up.

Another of my first games was a fan-game based on Tron (The original movie) done in Basic on the TRS Color Computer. It had graphics and everything.

When I was 15, I made a dungeon crawler in Basic for Math class.

Susan

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In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous)

I wrote a little picture-book (with art!) at age six, and started writing seriously not long after my fourteenth birthday. In between those times, I discovered computers and went through a phase of learning everything I could about how they work. I even wrote a little math-quiz program for a class early in my high-school career in AtariBASIC. From what I hear the elementary school next door (for whom had been asking about something like that) used it until the last of the Ataris died of old age.

Later on, my C64 and I built a sci-fi adventure game in the 'tradition' of the AD&D Gold-box games. Not my finest-ever spritework (I never was any good at that), but the writing was workable, the game mechanics could be fine-tuned easily, and the first half of it worked fairly well. Problem was, it was also coded entirely in BASIC, and so was too heavy code-wise to work front to end on that poor machine. C64 Assembly mystified me.

One of these days, I want to see about remaking it in C++. Anyway, that was long ago. I've been writing now more than a quarter century, and I *think* I'm getting good enough at the writing thing to try for Pro status. My teachers think so, at any rate.

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I'm going to get off my soap-box now, and let you get back to your day.

Academy Daze- Demo pending
Knights of Chaos: Ghost- Coding underway
DevBlog: http://www.renaigames.net
Troubleshooter Tales: Childhood's End (story) http://www.knightschaos.com

Nope. 33 isn't even close to those of us in the 'oldest here' range. LOL!
-- Renpy is my first experience with any kind of programming, but I published my first short story in 1980, while I was still in high school and long before the Internet existed. I had to use a Typewriter. (I hate typewriters.)

We're being cryptic about our age because the sheer size of the age-gap between us and the kids still in school is kind of embarrassing.

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Ookami Kasumi ~ Purveyor of fine Smut.
Erotic Visions ~ Visual Novels

• The DEEP Dark [Maze Game] ~ G
• The End of the Raven [Kinetic Poem] ~ G
• What kind of Fiction should YOU Write? [Quiz Game] ~ PG

"No amount of great animation will save a bad story." -- John Lasseter of Pixar

Just a tiny bit, yeah.

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I'm going to get off my soap-box now, and let you get back to your day.

Academy Daze- Demo pending
Knights of Chaos: Ghost- Coding underway
DevBlog: http://www.renaigames.net
Troubleshooter Tales: Childhood's End (story) http://www.knightschaos.com

I just had my birthday!

I am now the Answer to the Life, the Universe, and Everything!

Susan

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In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous)

Happy birthday Susan!

If somebody asks me the meaning of life, I'll just have to answer, "Susan!"

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