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LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
i found this really intriguing. i haven't really done much aside from a hidden game in a font end/back end database thingy, and some ascii art in the comments of an iOS app

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ndNSRy04YI

what is the extent of hiding it? do you load the text into memory? compress it? encrypt it?

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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

in the super monkey daibouken tileset:

quote:

Designer: Kaoru Nakajima
26 years old, born 1960 in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture. ...
I wanna lick some pussy!
I want a perverted miss. I like vagina and the clitoris!

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
tetris for n64 has some pretty good stuff.. https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

tetris for n64 has some pretty good stuff.. https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris

quote:

*** F001 *** Embracing the God as energy within yourselves, will bring all of you
to a new understanding and value of life, a vision that inspires you to live and
love on planet Earth. Like a priceless jewel burried in dark layers of soil and
stone, Earth radiates her brilliant beauty into the caverns of space and time.
Perhaps you are aware of those who watch over your home, and experience it as a
place to visit and play with reality. You are becoming aware of yourself as a
game master. *** F001 ***
fucken ch00n

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!

that was in 86

maybe he found his perverted miss and is a granddad now :unsmith:

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

http://www.bretz.ca/dave/
RIP guy who wrote that Tetris rant. :canada:

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

lol if u program

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




died before the world started to burn

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

Captain Foo posted:

lol if u program

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
i used to put insulting error and debug messages that i would always edit out before committing. i forgot to do the latter once, though...

moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer
I remember when a college friend named all their variables in a programming competition very rude words, and the code had to be audited.... many lols were had!

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork
Fun Shoe
our $op = "gay";

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



jony ive aces posted:

fucken ch00n

lol I'm ashamed that I know where that was used
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bboe1FRs2nI

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

tetris for n64 has some pretty good stuff.. https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris

well that explains why I lost all my data every time I got more than 60% of the way to the final unlockable :(

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

akadajet posted:

http://www.bretz.ca/dave/
RIP guy who wrote that Tetris rant. :canada:

holy poo poo, he dead? :(

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

yes. none of my programs actually do what I say they do

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Minnesota Mixup posted:

lol I'm ashamed that I know where that was used
don't be

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
i barely put programming in my programming let alone comments

pram
Jun 10, 2001
cant really hide stuff in open source code

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
are you not familiar with the obfuscated c contest

Dr. Honked
Jan 9, 2011

eat it you slaaaaaaag
"easter eggs" used to be really common in video games but it's becoming a lot more difficult in the 21st century to do this (if you aren't an "INDIE")

here's some easter eggs i put in a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5RqsMXCAw

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
i like when I go to do some task, find the code i need to change, and then find near it a bunch of commented out code that does the thing that im trying to implement

just lets me know someone in the past tried this and it idnt work ownage

also there is one really eccentric guy that leaves prose comments

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Silver Alicorn posted:

are you not familiar with the obfuscated c contest
or openssl

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


akadajet posted:

http://www.bretz.ca/dave/
RIP guy who wrote that Tetris rant. :canada:

that guy was a rough 29

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Dr. Honked posted:

"easter eggs" used to be really common in video games but it's becoming a lot more difficult in the 21st century to do this (if you aren't an "INDIE")

here's some easter eggs i put in a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5RqsMXCAw

lol

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

Dr. Honked posted:

"easter eggs" used to be really common in video games but it's becoming a lot more difficult in the 21st century to do this (if you aren't an "INDIE")

here's some easter eggs i put in a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5RqsMXCAw

i almost bought this game recently because some internet comment writing gently caress said that fans of echelon would enjoy it. however i decided not to buy. hope u like the story.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer
all our database names are 4 letter initials. i just made one called gnar with a thin rationale for how its an acronym. whelp thats my story.

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

Satellit3 posted:

i almost bought this game recently because some internet comment writing gently caress said that fans of echelon would enjoy it. however i decided not to buy. hope u like the story.

no u should buy it IGN gave it 4/5 so you should buy it

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

no u should buy it IGN gave it 4/5 so you should buy it

oho! well that changes things friend. i love every word a games journalist writes. in fact heres a picture of me

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
should i know who that is or something

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014

Satellit3 posted:

i almost bought this game recently because some internet comment writing gently caress said that fans of echelon would enjoy it. however i decided not to buy. hope u like the story.

loved the sstory! thansk for writing ti

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Migishu
Oct 22, 2005

I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful

Grimey Drawer

akadajet posted:

http://www.bretz.ca/dave/
RIP guy who wrote that Tetris rant. :canada:

tetrisphere owned

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