The first actual game I made was Term Paper. It's not an audio game, and it's not very long either. Actually, I have to remake the game and fix a lot of bugs like sounds and menu options like, 1341 or something, back to the previous level, and back to school. I made the mistake of deleting my source code for the game. The second Term Paper, the Revenge of School I think is a lot better. The real reason I made these games was because I actually got my first real term paper at school and I hated it a lot. Of course I did the paper and didn't defeat my English teacher. I actually got a descent grade on the paper as well. I think I'm going to either learn BGT and make some audio games, or learn Text Game Maker 0.9781 and make games that are almost as long as Morokuma's text games. I had been playing a lot of his games and just thought to myself one day, I want to try to make text games like him. So I took the example source for Dungeon Quest and after studying Japanese for a long time, I started the source for Term Paper. Now the hardest part of text game creation isn't the source code, it's either the sounds or music. Music is hardest, then sounds, then source code, then thinking of what the game will be about. That's actually why we haven't sceen any Term Paper or Term Paper 2 updates, because I've been working on a game. And trust me, this game will be much longer than the Term Paper games. It won't be something like after going through this place you beat the final boss and it ends, there will be more. It will probably be out maybe next year or sooner.

Okay, my first game wasn't really a game. Back in around 1992 (not sure about this because the relevant operating system has absolutely no facility whatsoever for storing timestamps on files) I wrote a silly program in Applesoft Basic. It wasn't so much a game as it was a demonstration of random numbers. The scenario was that there were these objects in space called sateymoohts, don't ask, it's a long, complicated, and meaningless story. Anyway, all of them were launched by Sateymooht Systems, inc. This was apparently this mega company. They were sort of like satellites. The main character of this game was trying to use specialized equipment to destroy all the sateymoohts before the people at Sateymooht Systems caught up with him and arrested him. Each time he would send his special signal, several things could happen, only a few of which were desirable. Everything was controlled by the rnd function of Applesoft Basic, and once you started the program, you just sat back and watched the fireworks. In this respect, it wasn't a game at all, but of course in the mind of the fictional main character, it sort of was. This program had extra bits and pieces added to it over time, with absolutely no thought given to strategy, the fairness of the new additions, etc. Work probably stopped in late 1993.

Although I hate to admit it, the game does still exist in multiple places. Only one copy of the completed game was extant until mid 2000, when I got new Apple equipment and imaged that disk. No earlier versions survive.

Now if you want to know about my first BGT game, here goes. Again, a stupid idea, but at least there is some interactivity. Your character is at the left end of a fifty-square playing field. Each step he takes right or left is counted, and so is each time he bumps into the left or right wall. Naturally, all these things play their own weird sounds. The objective is to take 100 steps successfully before hitting either wall I think it's five times. The game does still exist, and has even been posted a few places and given to a few friends as a coding example.