Vault · archived work, not current thinking

The games I made before the current ones. A self-published board game from 1999 (Inc., predating Stalefish Labs by three years). A game from 1989 that ran on an HP-28S calculator. A two-player Windows action game from 1994. And a batch of Java applets and J2ME mobile games written between 2002 and 2005 as demo apps for the game programming books I was writing then.

Most of these won’t run on anything modern, although I did cobble together an emulator for the HP calculator and ended up porting the Windows game to JavaScript. The Java applet plugin was killed by every major browser between 2015 and 2017, and J2ME stopped shipping on devices around the same time. The board game just needs a table.

They’re here as artifacts. A photo or screenshot and a short writeup for each, plus the original code archives where they exist, in case anyone wants to see what these actually looked like.

HP-28S calculator (1)

Tabletop (2)

Windows (8)

J2ME mobile (4)