The first weekend of Vince''s reincarnation arrived, and he decided to invite Kyle to his home.
He asked Kyle to bring hisptop, but Kyle already had that in mind; probably to y some online game.
After eating breakfast, Kyle entered through the front door with an excited smile on his face.
Vince assumed he was hyped to y some video games but was surprised to see him more interested in his newputer.
"How manyponents did you need to build this thing. It''s a fairrger than the desktopputers I normally see." Kyle asked inquisitively.
"The case or chassis will dictate howrge aputer will be. Arger chassis like this will allow more andrgerponents. A motherboard will follow the standard of the case itself. This one uses the ATX standard and a decent current-generation Intel Core i5 processor.
Two other vitalponents are needed to start the machine and enable ess to the software programs within theponents. These two are the RAM sticks, 16 GB in total. And finally, the power supply for obvious reasons." Vince exined nonchntly.
Kyle was amazed by the detailed exnation presented to him.
"How do you know so much aboutputers? This was your first time building aputer, right?" Kyle asked.
"I studied theponents before I bought them while saving up the money. You can also say I watch too much Linus Tech Tips on YouTube." Vince jokingly replied.
Vince knew he was heavily invested in learning more about this topic based on Kyle''s look in his eyes.
"What are all these applications I see on your desktop. I can recognize Steam and Chrome, but the others I haven''t seen yet." Kyle asked in excitement.
Vince exined each application for about an hour, and Kyle was still on the edge of his seat.
[He''s so excited about this; it''s offputting.] Vince thought.
"You mentioned that one can use the Eclipse program to write programs and games. Is it hard to make games?" Kyle asked.
"It''s tough to make games like Skyrim that''sing out soon. It takes hundreds, if not thousands, of coborators for something like that, but there are exceptions like a straightforward game on mobile. One skilled person can a make a game, but of course, more people will reduce the development time." Vince replied.
"Have you learned anything like creating mobile games with those YouTube tutorials you bookmarked the other day?" Kyle asked. "You can say that," Vince replied with a smile.
"How about this? We can skip the gaming for today, and I can show you some of the things I''ve learned." Vince asked.
"Please! Yes, please!" Kyle said as he nodded with vigor.
Vince opened Eclipse IDE and wrote some lines as a force of habit. He wanted to show Kyle the basics of mobile game development and had the perfect example project to start. ppy Bird.
It''s a throwback to a time when going viral was still a novelty. Many aspiring game developers start their journey by writing a clone of ppy Bird.
It was an infamous game that went viral a few months after its release. It was a rtively simple game with only one input, touching the screen.
Millions of people yed the game, but it never reached the peak it had the potential to achieve because the developer took it down the App Store due to personal concerns.
Vince exined what the code he wrote meant, primarily as a temte with certain functions rted to how ppy Bird yed.
"See this line right here? It controls the object based on input from the user. I''ll make this object jump and hover simr to how Jet-Pack Joyride works but with fewer frills, of course." Vince said.
He exined the parameters and the other lines of code they were working on designing. Then, Vince decided to change the static object mesh and downloaded a chicken image file and stuff like fences and ceiling beams.
He organized them all within the project folder and imported them into Eclipse. The sample project turned from barebones to looking like a video game people would y during their downtime. Kyle was amazed again by what Vince created in a matter of hours.
[It would be so epic to make my own game with my ideas. I should start reading and watching those tutorials soon to create games quick and easy.] Kyle thought.
Vince finished the game he called ''Wingin'' Chicken'' a few momentster. It was a game that worked exactly like ppy Bird.
The objective was to maintain the chicken''s flight using the mobile device''s touchpad.
The chicken needed to avoid fences on the ground and other impediments. It gets harder and harder with more speed and obstacles until the chicken dies.
Vince programmed it so that after 1 hour of flight time (which is an absurd amount of time), the chicken will spontaneouslybust with a stormtrooper death sound effect.
The sound effect would be the only easter egg Vince would include in the final version.
Kyle yed it for a bit on the simted mobile screen on myputer and was having a st.
[It seems it wasn''t the game itself that made him like this but the idea that we created it together just in the past few hours.] Vince thought.
He told Kyle the game would be uploaded to the iOS App Store and the Android y Store eventually after a few crucial changes needed to be made. Kyle wondered what other features would be added to the game, but Vince reassured him that the gamey would stay true to what they''ve created.
Vince bade farewell to Kyle as the day was starting to darken. Kyle was amped up after gathering all the resources rmended to him by Vince that he will no doubt excitedly study.
[This strategy is perfect. How did I not think of this sooner? Using tforms as a service like the App Store is the best option I have currently. They provide the hardware infrastructure, and I create the quality product. I only have to add features like personal ounts via social media ounts and a leaderboard. A cash shop would be amazing, but that would entail a bunch of red tape I couldn''t deal with at the moment.] So Vince thought after spending some time with Leah.
He spent the entirety of the next day finalizing the game, and Vince uploaded it for review. It was already avable to download the very next day.
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