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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 4 days ago (50 children)

Roller coaster Tycoon is one of a lifetime game.

Now everything is electron or react shit. Gone are the times of downloading fully featured software under 10mb.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (17 children)

Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well worth it. The mobile version is amazing, that is to say, almost exactly the same as the original.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I guess i just found out there's a mobile version.

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