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LaughingLioness has SPY Fox in: Dry Cereal

Oct 16, 2017 @ 5:17pm

Happy Fun Sub scoreboard

What's your highscore? It's actually a hard game...
My best: 55500, initialted YIF

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stepwaljohn Apr 4, 2022 @ 12:52pm

Happy Fun Sub was the first thing I ever wrote as a professional game dev. I'd like to extend my apologies to players for making it so hard. In retrospect, difficulty tuning should have been done by someone with some perspective. Someone who who hadn't been neck-deep in the code for months. :) It does warm my heart to see that people still play it.

Wannabe Skater has SPY Fox in: Dry Cereal

Apr 27, 2022 @ 11:16pm

Originally posted by stepwaljohn:
Happy Fun Sub was the first thing I ever wrote as a professional game dev. I'd like to extend my apologies to players for making it so hard. In retrospect, difficulty tuning should have been done by someone with some perspective. Someone who who hadn't been neck-deep in the code for months. :) It does warm my heart to see that people still play it.

Oh, wow, an actual HE dev! You might not see this, but hi! I used to play it a lot as a kid. Died a lot but still had fun. Happy Fun Sub is one of the things I recall most fondly about Spy Fox 1. If you don't mind, I have a few questions for you (Some of them are probably dumb; sorry in advance):

1. Does Happy Fun Sub actually have an ending or does it go on forever until the player dies? Whose idea was it to make such a minigame?

2. Is it just me, or does the sub take a long time to switch to its different modes and jump to avoid meteors? That was one thing that always got me eventually. That and the underwater mountains.

3. Judging by your comments, I take it the pieces that Julian Soule and/or Geoff Kirk composed for this section of Spy Fox 1 grated on you after a while :( but how did you feel when you first heard them? On a related not, did you ever get to interact with folks in other departments (like music) during game development?

4. Did you program the other minigames in Spy Fox 2 and 3 or any other HE titles? Speaking as a player, the HE team had a lot of creative ideas that have stuck with me through the years, but Things from Space and Radioactive Trash Collector stood out the most in the minigame section. I recall playing all of them for hours.

5. Are there any other games you can tell us about, not necessarily at HE, that you programmed? We'd love to hear about it, if you're willing!

Thank you for your time! And if you can't answer this, it's fine!

Last edited by Wannabe Skater; Apr 27, 2022 @ 11:43pm