Congrats! Keep working hard and releasing more games!
Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
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Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#82congrats
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#83I wish I had had this kind of drive to learn to code when I was 14. Amazing job Omicron3141, your parents must be blown away.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#84When I was 14, I didn't have $99 to give to Apple. So I made games that no one ever knew about.
Shameless plug: if you publish through makegameswith.us, we cover the $99 fee. You do need a Mac though.
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#85I was writing/learning HTML with FrontPage 2003 and Flash 5 (6? 7? I thankfully don't remember anymore) when I was 14 - while knowing almost no English (thus, not understanding even what the menu items and controls mean!) and without a manual or teacher and just clicking around and seeing what happens to the code :-( Hard, hard times it was. But I enjoyed it nevertheless. But still, I'm jealous of you. If you were to…
Heh, when I was 14, I published my first book: Game Programming for Teens, which eventually became an international best seller in 6 countries. I even got a monthly tv spot with Leo Laporte on what was then called Tech Tv. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdh5dqbvrDE And still...none of my games have ever been as cool as OP's. Great work man
Your book was the first I ever bought about programming. I don't think I ever wrote a line of code from the book but it illustrated basic programming concepts that inspired me to continue development. Very impressed to read that you were only 14 when you wrote it, as I was probably only 14 when I bought it.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#86Man to be your age and feel what you're feeling right now! I had grandiose plans as an 11 year old to write games on the Amiga. But without the Internet and relying only on books learning was a slow process. It ultimately never happened. I hope your parents support and recognize your achievement. 90% of success is just showing up and actually doing something. It's important to do things like this because you just never know where it will lead, who you will meet, what you will learn. Keep it up!
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was 14, you couldn't just go buy a "personal computer", as the minicomputer revolution was underway. So, I had to build my own computer... and I did. (I think I started at 13, and finished at 15). When I say, I built my computer, I mean I designed a PCB, laid it out, etched it, assembled it, then needed to build a display board to output to a TV, which was another several months of design, etc. And when I had…
Oh the day I made spectrum joystick interface all on my own as a kid! I enjoyed that more than playing games subsequently. OP enjoy being a kid, the more you learn, the less your thinking is unbounded! Never forget that.
This deserves more attention. It's easy, as a kid, to crack doors open that would take a tremendous amount of effort as an adult.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#88Fantastic ... You are truly an inspiration.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#89Well done, Congrats!
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#90You're awesome.
If you aren't, the nicest gift you can give yourself in 10 years is a blog, even if it's private and you write all the crazy stuff you're learning and doing and how scary it felt at first and how great it felt after.
Some things I had someone said to me and I hope you'll say to someone at 14 one day:
As you get older you'll meet so many subtle doubt worshippers that spread their doubts because they can't get over their own self-doubt.
Be a man of action and launching. Haters and doubters are busy doing nothing.
Don't ever let anyone poison this ability to build, and launch.
Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't figure out anything and build something.
Do laugh, while you launch and ship often while everyones busy optimizing their stack.