No way, this is very cool! I loved playing through VVVVVV. The first level music still lives and plays in my head from time to time.
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#12tangentially related, great to see https://www.iiiiiiii.com/ is still going
What's it supposed to be
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#13Incredibly fun game, I'm not a huge gamer but I remember buying the Humble Bundle just to get this. One of the few games that I've spent the time to finish. Awesome work, Terry, and thank you for the great times! btw also fuck you for veni vidi vici, jeez that took me a while! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtiY5D6HCs
That took me a long time too. It was rewarding tho
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#14I remember when a certain someone on an irc channel shared the vvvvvv flash demo with me and some others. That game, that period of time, the early Humble Bundles -- all of that was pretty formative for me. Crazy to think that was almost 15 years ago.
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#15Awesome game. Good to see the code is authentically bad for an indie game of that era.
It was originally written in flash, then ported to C++ which would explain some (not all) of the badness.
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#16I’ll take the chance to reference Super Hexagon by the same author. Incredibly fun and addictive game as well while being super simple. I recall reading somewhere that the author spent only a day or so writing it.
And PPPPPP, the soundtrack for VVVVVV, is neat too!
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#17When I was near the end of high school, my family visited London, and I was thinking about being a game dev. So I sent Terry Cavanagh an email, and to my surprise he completely agreed to get lunch.
He was extremely kind, gave me a lot of interesting life advice. I remember him saying that he got most of his ideas just from playing around with mechanics and experimenting a lot, he was never really one to get grand visions.
Anyways, great fellow, glad he opened source V (as he called it).
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#18If you liked VVVVVV, I suggest trying LOVE.
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#19Wow, this is great, I really enjoyed this game when it came out, what a pleasant surprise to see it was open sourced, truly a work of art.
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#20There was a period of time in my life where I had recently moved to California from Canada and I was desperate for a job. I got a job doing door-to-door sales for Comcast. I hated it. I often sat in my car playing VVVVVV on my phone while shirking my responsibilities. Thank you Terry, for the reprieve.