http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com Coding tutorials, example code and lessons Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:52:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en David Brady, this is for you. And for me. When you install PDCurses is comes with some demo programs, which to me is better than a tutorial. Somehow I got a hold of some other demo programs that I thought came with PDCurses but apparently didn't (the fact that they all ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/learning-curses-by-example/ Buttons is a fun puzzle game, not to difficult. Whenever you push a button down buttons around it will change. You can only push a button down if it is up. If all the buttons are down at one time you’ll lose, unless that is your goal. If you complete ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/buttons/ Accidentally had buttons update late this week, switched PM for AM. But that's okay because Star Trek deserved a little more time on the front page. Ah, stats. I know I probably shouldn't care about them, but it's sometimes fun to check out the traffic of this burgeoning site. The first ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/weekend-warriors/ "It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it." - Zaphod Beeblebrox I absolutely love concepts that ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/unfinished-ideas/ This post is made to provide a place to recieve feedback on the book. If you have any critisism, suggestions, or comments this is the place to air them. http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/book-feedback/ This week's game is for all the retro-heads out there. This is one that I'm super excited for. Maybe I'll make a YouTube video for it like I did for Alleytris. Being a couple of weeks ahead now I'm trying to get the book together. It feels like there's a deficit ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/should-i-do-tutorials/ Part of me has always considered Cymon's Games to be an educational resource. I guess I still consider myself a teacher. And while Cymon's Game's doesn't contain any actual tutorials, I still feel like a constant flow of inspiration and practice is enough to teach anyone programming. And why not, ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/others-teaching-programming/ The United Federation of Planets is under attack! A fleet of Klingon warships have invaded and it’s up to you to stop them before they destroy Federation headquarters. Star Trek simulates captaining a spaceship if that spaceship was built before gui interfaces. Part of the fun of the game is mastering ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/startrek/ I've finished writing a new tutorial that I've added to the Get Set Up section for Installing Allegro. Now why do you suppose I'd do that? At the moment there's no video attached with this one. The videos seem to get good usage on YouTube so I'll have to do ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/a-new-tutorial/ Cymon's Games is cool, but at the moment there may not be many games that are really representative of games that maybe you want to be making. One day soon this site may start to feature that sort of program, but until it does I can't blame you if you ... http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/games-with-source-code/