
I Kept Enjoying Game Programming—and Ended Up with 500 Homemade Games
If you watch the animated GIF on my personal website in the tweet below for about two minutes, you can see screenshots of all the games I’ve made. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-2017885702147756505-553'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2017885702147756505&theme=dark" } “500 games” sounds like a lot, but most of them are tiny one-minute mini-games. There are hardly any large-scale titles. Out of curiosity, I broke them down by category. Rank Category Count Share 1 One-button games 245 48.1% 2 Flash games 114 22.4% 3 Browser games 88 17.3% 4 Windows 14 2.8% 5 Palm 9 1.8% 6 Other 8 1.6% 7 Java 7 1.4% 8 P/ECE 5 1.0% 9 i-appli 5 1.0% 10 Wonder Witch 3 0.6% 11 Petit Computer 3 0.6% 12 PC-9801 2 0.4% 13 Unity 2 0.4% 14 Pocket Cosmo 1 0.2% 15 Ruputer 1 0.2% 16 Zaurus 1 0.2% 17 PC-6001 1 0.2% Total 509 The mini-games mostly fall into one-button games, Flash games, and browser
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