Agreed. I remember well the various games I made on the ZX81 at school and then (much more fun) on the Apple 2+ at home. Basic FTW!
Hugely different target market though and with the various graphical programming type websites/tools which target younger budding developers it could be a tall order to do much (potentially great if they can tho). David. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jeremy North Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2011 1:30 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition Where Delphi (every edition) really fails these days is the poor support for creating games. You try to get a child/teen involved in programming, they don't want to connect to a database and update contact details. They want to kill (or eat or catch or drive) things. Where is the "Delphi Starter - Gaming edition". That's what is needed... Over christmas I wrote a pacman clone for my nephew and put his image on the pacman and had him add voice effects. It was a lot of fun. When my daughter was about 8 I wrote a little maths game for her. It would display simple problems (add, subtract, etc) and she'd have to answer. Also included her voice in it ("Correct" and "You're Wrong" - her favourite phrase at the time!). She played that game for several years just answering the problems (there were levels of difficulty and also a countdown version), high score list (a must have). Also did one where the player is at the bottom of the screen with a large net and would try to catch butterflies, also incorporating her likeness into the character. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
