+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) Developer Spotlight on John Champeau / ChampGames ZeroPage Homebrew will welcome John Champeau (@johnnywc) from Champ Games to the stream, LIVE via video, on Friday December 18, 2020 (6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT) for his Developer Spotlight! We will be discussing John's extensive history of programming videogames, not only for the Atari 2600 but we'll also touch on his DOS and even Atari 800 programming! His prolific work includes some of the most pixel pushing ports from classic arcade games such as Galagon, Mappy, Wizard of Wor Arcade, Scramble, Super Cobra Aracade, Zoo Keeper and Robotwar: 2600! PLUS we will also have the EXCLUSIVE WORLD DEBUT of his newest Atari 2600 homebrew, Gorf Arcade! All this and much, much more! YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! If you have any questions you'd like us to ask John Champeau during the livestream please post them below! - James Edited December 13, 2020 by ZeroPage Homebrew 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quohog Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Exciting! tl;dr: How can I learn to make games like Champ Games? Have you ever done a designer diary, given a postmortem presentation, posted source code or anything I can consume that would help me learn how Champ Games makes these amazing games? There is a good selection of "noob" tutorials now for 2600 homebrew, but if the next, more advanced step got some great educational material, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Please note the updated date of John Champeau's Developer Spotlight has changed to Dec 18! Adjust your calendars accordingly. - James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Didn't you plan your Christmas show for that date? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 11 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Didn't you plan your Christmas show for that date? I'm fairly flexible with most of the schedule so what I'll probably do is add an extra show before the holidays for the Christmas show! ? The more the shows the merrier, ho ho ho!! - James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 9 hours ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: Please note the updated date of John Champeau's Developer Spotlight has changed to Dec 18! Adjust your calendars accordingly. - James Well, there goes my Thanksgiving.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) TODAY IS THE DAY! Edited December 18, 2020 by ZeroPage Homebrew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillapojkenpåön Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I want to know if he works as a programmer? If he has any programming education or just self taught, how he doesn't get overwhelmed with having so many projects going at the same time, if he allmost sees it as an obligation to port these games since he's one of so few or possibly only one that could and they would never exist otherwise.. might be a weird question, but I can imagine I would if I had that 2600/cdfj expertise. If he has or think he might have any mental condition/diagnosis, asking only because I have and I desperatley want to have something in common with John ? That might be a totally socially unacceptable question, but how would I know? ? And how the enemies/playfield pixels in robotwar changes color from one pfpixel to the next, even my mom knows you can't do that and have a bunch of other things running around in the same zone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillapojkenpåön Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I want to know something else to!! Has he ever shown any of his games to the old atari programmers at PRGE? Do they ever come by the atariage booth and check out the homebrews? That would be pretty awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, Lillapojkenpåön said: I want to know something else to!! Has he ever shown any of his games to the old atari programmers at PRGE? Do they ever come by the atariage booth and check out the homebrews? That would be pretty awesome. Great questions, I'll ask them tonight on the show! - James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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