“This game has been shamelessly stolen ”

I posted this little story to Reddit and I thought the HN crowd might get a smile out of it as well. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was overly protective of their work at a younger age. The good news is that I was able to remove the sitelock by decompiling the SWF.

Younger me definitely had an inflated opinion of my own early BASIC programming work, and very secretive about the source code. (C)(R)(TM) etc. Now I wish I <i>had</i> copied that floppy.

Thanks for this, it gave me a laugh. There&#x27;s something beautiful about how we see the first few things we create. We think everyone will love them as much as we do. I remember my first game made in Visual Basic- it was <i>this close</i> to being a hit- just missing some better graphics, and better code, and actual fun gameplay.

His younger self probably thought that working on drm was more interesting than working on improving gameplay.