Re:Open Source Game Clones
by kiddico on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:36PM
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You missed the best clone of them all :P
https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone
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Oh... oh my Gosh..... it's full of... he globally declared his LOOP INDEXING VARIABLES?!
I really appreciate him making that available, fantastic little cautionary tale, clearly from an enthusiastic and thoughtful learner of Java - glad he's made good progress since then, though, that's... I mean, dang it is REALLY bad, but it is also amazing as a sort of exercise in him just knowing what he wants to do and finding (bad) ways to make it happen. And that's admirable, even if it is also horrifying to see unfold. :D
Just submit a PR to https://github.com/piranha/osgameclones/
It's not a real game. It's a project online to show all the bad code the guy wrote when he was a young coder.
Lol oh ok