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My 14 month old girl is nearly walking and I expect will be programming too soon after.

My earliest programming experience was in the swinging 90's using GW-BASIC. (Surprise!) I blogged about this in an earlier post - rehashed here. LogoWriter was another program I recall using around this time - you know, the one with the turtle graphic?

AGS was probably my introduction to a C based language.

At Uni I studied a bit of computer science out of interest (but didn't follow that bunny too far down the rabbit hole). We covered C++, Haskell (I vaguely remembered the language sounded like Hucknell, as in Mick Hucknell from Simply Red), FORTRAN, MATLAB, and shell scripting.

Later, while job searching, I decided to teach myself some programming in MS Excel Visual Basic as I noticed a few jobs listed this as a desirable skill. I made a Sudoku solver and was quite proud of that.

My current job as a geotechnical engineer doesn't involve much programming but it will always be a hobby.

Whoops! Missed the first two games!

29-Jun Netherlands 2 vs 1 Mexico
29-Jun Costa Rica 1 vs 1 Greece   
30-Jun France 2 vs 1 Nigeria
30-Jun Germany 2 vs 1 Algeria
01-Jul Argentina 3 vs 1 Switzerland
01-Jul Belgium 1 vs 0 USA

Thanks Eastwing. That is a very logical approach and I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier. I had a brain fart!

Urinal cakes!

Downloading.. I could use some comic relief in my life right now!

Is there any way for a non-player character to reap the benefit of the AreaSpecificView setting of a walkable area? I want my NPC to follow the main character and change views as the main character does (i.e. using AreaSpecificView). I suspect I may need to use regions instead?

I never noticed that writing on the CD. Or more to the point, I never cared. I don't recall the game being sold as part of a bundle. I found it in a daggy op shop near home, in 1996 I think. It's a great game.

A boy carefully dodges eight footballs gliding high in Jakarta.

Oil of onion ointment ordered only on 1 October or occasionally on other outstanding occasions.

[EXHIBIT #29: Dizzy Collection]

Ok folks.. Without further ado, here is my final submission to The Museum, from the abyss of my parent's attic.

EXHIBIT #29: Dizzy Collection

Here we have:

1. Fast food Dizzy
2. Kwik Snax
3. Fantasy World Dizzy
4. Prince of Yolkfolk
5. Magicland Dizzy











Well, obviously, I'm missing the actual games! But the box did contain this neat poster..




The poster appears to be from Kwik Snax. I believe the other games had their own posters too, and may very well have been displayed on my bedroom wall when I was a lad.
As you can probably guess, I was the cool kid in school. 

Don't forget the awesome Stunts theme music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR6HfITvbFw

(Composed by Krisjan Hatlelid, Brian Plank & Michael J. Sokyrka)

Yes you get a walkthrough at the end (but it was in Chinese, and I'd lost interest by that stage to care). We managed to advance to the third room but needed abundant spoilers and hand-holding, provided by big-brother-esk announcements from a wall mounted speaker. Needless to say we were a pretty useless bunch!

Based on sophisticated statistical analysis of some of the earlier entries, here are my predictions:

12-Jun   Brazil  3  vs  1  Croatia (just kidding, it should have been 2 vs 0 according to the analysis)
13-Jun   Mexico  1  vs  0  Cameroon
13-Jun   Spain  1  vs  1  Netherlands
13-Jun   Chile  1  vs  0  Australia
14-Jun   Colombia  1  vs  1  Greece
14-Jun   Uruguay  2  vs  0  Costa Rica
14-Jun   England  1  vs  1  Italy
14-Jun   Côte d'Ivoire  1  vs  0  Japan
15-Jun   Switzerland  1  vs  0  Equador
15-Jun   France  3  vs  1  Honduras
15-Jun   Argentina  2  vs  0  Bosnia-Herzegovina
16-Jun   Germany  2  vs  1  Portugal
16-Jun   Iran  1  vs  2  Nigeria
16-Jun   Ghana  2  vs  1  USA
17-Jun   Belgium  2  vs  1  Algeria
17-Jun   Brazil  3  vs  1  Mexico
17-Jun   Russia  2  vs  0  Korea
18-Jun   Australia  1  vs  3  Netherlands
18-Jun   Spain  2  vs  1  Chile
18-Jun   Cameroon  1  vs  2  Croatia
19-Jun   Colombia  2  vs  1  Côte d'Ivoire
19-Jun   Uruguay  2  vs  2  England
19-Jun   Japan  1  vs  1  Greece
20-Jun   Italy  2  vs  0  Costa Rica
20-Jun   Switzerland  1  vs  2  France
20-Jun   Honduras  1  vs  1  Equador
21-Jun   Argentina  3  vs  1  Iran
21-Jun   Germany  2  vs  1  Ghana
21-Jun   Nigeria  2  vs  1  Bosnia-Herzegovina
22-Jun   Belgium  2  vs  2  Russia
22-Jun   Korea  1  vs  1  Algeria
22-Jun   USA  1  vs  3  Portugal
23-Jun   Netherlands  2  vs  1  Chile
23-Jun   Australia  1  vs  3  Spain
23-Jun   Cameroon  1  vs  2  Brazil
23-Jun   Croatia  1  vs  1  Mexico
24-Jun   Italy  2  vs  1  Uruguay
24-Jun   Costa Rica  1  vs  2  England
24-Jun   Japan  1  vs  2  Colombia
24-Jun   Greece  1  vs  1  Côte d'Ivoire
25-Jun   Nigeria  1  vs  3  Argentina
25-Jun   Bosnia-Herzegovina  1  vs  1  Iran
25-Jun   Honduras  0  vs  1  Switzerland
25-Jun   Equador  1  vs  2  France
26-Jun   Portugal  2  vs  1  Ghana
26-Jun   USA  1  vs  3  Germany
26-Jun   Korea  1  vs  2  Belgium
26-Jun   Algeria  1  vs  2  Russia

Stu, did you see the recent NY Times article on real-life Escape the Room experiences? Apparently, they're popping up in a few of the bigger cities in the United States. You get locked in with a team to get yourself out of the room, and if you don't get yourself out, they unlock you in an hour. Sounded fun!

Indeed it is fun! You can read about my real-life room escape adventures in this earlier post:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49119.msg636477079#msg636477079

Yeah. Pretty easy. Your go!

Mystic towers!

An alternative method:

I'd use a GUI with buttons for the key pad.

In your script, declare an array with 4 elements.

e.g.

int A[4];

(gives you: A[0], A[1], A[2], A[3])

Note that you don't have to use arrays, but I like them.

You need to assign code to each button to record it's value when clicked (i.e. store value in the last array element A[3]).

You also need to store the values of the last few buttons clicked (using the other array elements, in descending order).

Suggest this code:

// click on button

A[0] = A[1];

A[1] = A[2];

A[2] = A[3];

A[3] = value of last button pressed;

So when you press the four buttons in the correct order, the array variables will reflect this.

e.g.

press 8 9 3 5

will give A[0] = 8,  A[1] = 9,  A[2] = 3,  A[3] = 5

Maybe watch the 1986 film Labyrinth for inspiration. There are some talkative puzzle doors in that movie.

I'm a 1.618 (or an approximate of the golden ratio). Yes, not very swagy I'm afraid.

Brrrr..

I'd expect there'd be some major goolie shrinkage going on there with poor old mr freeze on batman's ice loo!