Well, I can say 2 Pong clones and a Lightcycles game. Two worked and on partially worked before I gave up on it.

I don't have a version I can compile; I'm still in the process of porting it to a library made this century. No it's not abandoned, believe it or not.

Heh. I abandoned pretty much all the games I ever started. Don't think I ever finished a single one. Closest I ever got was an old-schoolish platformer (featuring a sheep); this one merely lacked interesting content and a bug-free menu UI; I had this 2D top-down space shooter, which is actually playable and all, but lacks a story and a mission system (say, objectives and such), and obviously there's no real content yet, you just spawn and shoot it out against AI opponents until you get tired. And I had a 3D space shooter, also with fairly complete space flight dynamics and all, but again, no mission objectives, no content, no story, and the models were crap. Jeez, I really have to dig these back up and see if I can get them to compile, if only for screenshots...

I've completed a number of websites / web applications though (at least they've made it into production; there's always room for improvement), and the music notation thing I'm currently working on is useful enough already - it's not really 'finished' in the sense that I don't know what else to add, but it is seeing some actual real-world use already (if only by myself).

One day I hope to finish my 'KILL EM ALL' game. Its a cross between worms and ogre tactics. I stole the sprites from Metal Slug 2 for the units, and had some nice arcing grenade action going on at one point...but it's been so long, I just had a peek through one of the .c files and closed it again.

One day...

I haven't abandoned any game yet, however I just have less than two years programming so there is a lot to come.

Well I think that changing completely the same game doesn't mean that I abandoned it... Or it does?

Wikipedia is a troll fest. The points come from random projections or you create a grid based on mathematical methods of generating 3d surfaces. It wouldn't make sense not to have a subroutine to generate the dots before connecting them.

I guess I could say the same about simcity 4 although I didn't get bored of it and I still have an urge to play sometimes but I have no time.

Yeah, contemplating just taking a break from everything. Not like I'm doing anything that would suffer from not doing it though. Started on a SP map to do a project that was 75x75xMAX_HEIGHT and using SPC I got the 75x75 done and then just said "Ah, fuck it! Too bored to care to do the project. Never get anything done cause I'm on IRC goofing off too much, so I may need a break from that (plus I was tired of Sev's smart ass replies to almost every question I asked ), again not like I would get anything done if I wasn't in IRC. Truth be told, today I thought I was going to code and instead I took son to school, came home and helped wife get cleaned up so we could go into town. Got home and set up my wife's Kindle Fire, put my Battlefield 3 down with my other untouched games, picked up son, played angry birds (taking turns with wife), and now goofing off on YT, complaining on FB, and typing on here. Yep, I'm a lost cause, I'll never amount to anything because I no longer apply myself to anything I want to do (yay, me! failure extraordinaire! 14 years strong so far, my parents would be so proud!).

Doesn't that make me a bigger failure though? I mean I have this dream way up here, and a family which means I should have drive to achieve that dream in order to support them. Yet here I am still down here with my family dreaming about making a living programming and making games.

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My problem really isn't the language. I mean I know about classes, know that for file i/o I can ask for a string but to open it I have to do filename.c_str() or such to convert the name so it can be loaded. My issue seems that I get majorly caught and distraught over the turning any idea (beyond simple) into code. I just get overwhelmed I guess would be a good way of putting it.

Damn, I think the grammar discussion has fucked up your ability to make sense. You need bed rest.

Heh...
On coding note. This is what I just coded in a few minutes...minus a few typos on my part. Nothing major, but small things like this I can normally do no problem, but something like say an address book, or something more complex I see the whole picture rather than the individual things and I get overwhelmed and never do anything.

Heh, I wasn't trying to be a moaning bitch. Just comparing against Specter. He thinks he's a failure, but I don't think he really knows the meaning of the word.

Personally I'm doing pretty good. money is tighter than ever, but I'm scraping by.

I think a lot of people have that problem. I know I do. I used to spend my spare time on bus's and daydreaming and falling asleep (etc), planning out the structure of semi complex (or just plain complex) programs and/or libraries. I've learned to stop doing that quite so much over time. I just try to sit back look at the really big picture and trace an outline of it my mind, then try and build that outline in code. It doesn't always work, but along the way, that work leads you to a better solution. That's when it's time to refactor or replace bits. Don't be afraid to change or throw out code that isn't working. I still spend entirely too much time trying to fix code that I should sometimes just replace outright. But I can't always resist my urge to figure out the problem. I really do think we have a fair bit in common, except you have a wife and child. Something I've only dream about.

I do all my projects from the finished part. First I hack it into pieces, then I reverse engineer every part of it myself and reassemble everything. I find this more useful because I learn from a lot of other peoples work.