How hard could it be?

To be fair, assembly lines of code are fairly short.

/ducks

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.

I don't know if everyone gets the reference: RollerCoaster Tycoon is in fact writing mostly in assembly to use the hardware more efficiently

• Programming was never meant to be abstract so far from the hardware.
• 640k is enough ram for everybody.
• The come with names like rust, typescript, go, and python. Names thought up by imbeciles.
• Dev environments, environmental variables, build and make scripts, and macros, from the minds of the utter deranged.

They have played us for fools

Your game will actually likely be more efficient if written in C. The gcc compiler has become ridiculously optimized and probably knows more tricks than you do.

I love Roller Coaster Tycoon. It's absolutely crazy how he managed to write a game in a way many wouldn't even attempt even in those days, but it's not just a technical feat, it's a creative masterpiece that's still an absolute blast to play.

It still blows my mind how smoothly it gives the illusion of 3D and physics, yet it can run on almost anything.

OpenRCT brings a lot of quality of life and is often the recommended way to play today, but the original RCT will always deserve a spot on any "Best Games of All Time" list.

If you’ve written 500k lines of code you were surely pretty confident about your decision.

try writing it it in Assembly

Small error, game crashes and takes whole PC with it burning a hole in the ground.

I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride

Step 1: Begin writing in Assembly

Step 2: Write C

Step 3: Use C to write C#

Step 4: Implement Unity

Step 5: Write your game

Step 6: ???

Step 7: Profit

I mean, I'm pretty sure it would be a good learning experience so I would really not regret it.

Shifts bit to the left

Um what am I doing

Shifts bit to the right

program crashes

petah please what's this mean

They call me the Programmer and I speak to the metal,

Now check out this app, that really shows off my mettle!

Chris Sawyer is a madman.

Not Assembly, but HROT was written in Pascal by one person and runs buttery smooth.

This game ran so smooth.

I've written several games in assembly and I've never regretted any of them.

Reminder that ttd was open source even before open ttd :D

Don’t Want to be that Guy but you can actually use libraries in Assembly and probably want to, as otherwise you have no good way of interacting with the os.

I've already got a park map.

I wanna see someone make a GPU accelerated game in assembly.

Just throw the Vulkan and DX12 C APIs in the garbage and do it all yourself lol.

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I don't know exactly how much code reuse Sawyer had going back then, but if you've ever played Transport Tycoon (or more likely the open source version around today, OpenTTD) then you know that the interface and graphics are extremely similar. So it's not like he started from scratch each game with nothing but a hot spinning disc and a magnetized needle.

But yeah, the main reason to put up with all the modern framework bloat is the ever-ephemeral promise of being able to write your thing once and have it ported to run anywhere with minimal to no further effort.

you need all of that when writing a game in assembly. wtf do you think assembly is?

What's with the V12 engine?