the first rule of making games (and programming in general) is to downscope your ambitions by a factor of five, make a prototype, then divide that design again by a factor of three, and you'll have a project that's manageable and can be done in a reasonable time frame
and then there's projects like these, which began with "i wanna make an adventure game/art experience where a player connects to a bbs in a distant land". i called it Shima no Shima.
which meant, of course, that i had to simulate a BBS. and then simulate a software modem so the player could connect to it. and then design a filesystem so the player could download files. and then .. naturally design an operating system to manage the files.... 😬
two years later... i ended up with... a macintosh with a simplified macpaint and its own graphical terminal client 🤣
as of today, pretty much anything can be dragged and dropped, and it even has its own resource fork-like data so it understands which applications can run which data files.
edit: a few people have asked - this is made in Adventure Game Studio/AGS Script. 😅
#marchintosh #macintosh #bbs #shimaNoShima #gamedev #indiegamedev
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