Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods(reallyeli.com)
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Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods
https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html
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Good work! I first played this game in my elementary school computer lab which was stocked first with apple IIe. They then transitioned to apple LC with 1 or two Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One models. On these machines they had this game and Nanosaur.
<3 Thanks!
How old were you when you played it?
How old were you when you played it?
You just triggered some deep memories when you mentioned Nanosaur :)
Btw your game is added to the HN Arcade! https://hnarcade.com/games/games/ported-the-1999-game-bugdom...
Btw your game is added to the HN Arcade! https://hnarcade.com/games/games/ported-the-1999-game-bugdom...
aw thanks!
We used to race to school in the morning to try to get to the iMac G3s with Bugdom. From memory my school had three of them!
Upon seeing the port to modern systems (https://github.com/jorio/Bugdom), I figured it should be able to run entirely in-browser nowadays, and also that AI coding tools "should" be able to do this entire project for me. I ended up spending perhaps 20 hours on it with Claude Code, but we got there.
Once ported, I added a half-dozen mods that would have pleased my childhood self (like low-gravity mode and flying slugs & caterpillars mode), and a few that please my current self (like Dance Party mode).
EDIT: Here are some mod/level combinations I recommend
* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?gravity=0.3&video=s...
* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?level=3&visual=2&gr...
* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?level=8&flying_slug...