It was a big surprise for me to see a jump in attention that my Solitaire remake got. Thank you all for taking a look at my repo and I hope that you enjoy playing the game.
Minesweeper was also a lot of fun to remake, interestingly it took around 3-4 months of work to finish that before starting on Solitaire which took a little over a year to complete.
When I was a young boy we had a Windows 95 machine and an Apple Macintosh at my elementary school, where I got introduced to Solitaire, Minesweeper, MS Flight Simulator, The Secret of Monkey Island, Hit the Road Sam and Max, and a bunch of other games and applications.
I thought it would be nice to keep a little bit of that nostalgia around so I tried to remake Minesweeper and Solitaire as close to pixel perfection as I could.
The Solitaire game still has to have the card animation support released which I am in middle of getting done.
A bit of backstory on the mead.jar reference.
I started making tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess to get more into having a few small projects finished that I can look back and be proud of. While I worked on those three small games, I would reference this other Java project that would be in charge of asset management; I called this project Mead, which is the name of my Dwarf Ret Pally back in my WoW days.
Mead is a code base that has a tile editor that lets you add in images to generate a tile map with simplistic layers, and with code generation support that when referenced from your Java project, would give you access to your tile map through a common interface. Think Tiled for MonoGame, but back in 2012 and with features specific to my games. I will also open source that project for everyone once everything gets upgraded to a more recent JRE.
If you would like to check out my other games as I go along please feel free to follow my progress on GitHub. If you would like to contact me for questions on things that i did in my games please feel free to message me anytime.
And it goes without saying that if ever I can help anyone out from the development side with your projects I will do my best just send me a ping.
Again thank you all for trying out the Solitaire remake.
I did a 1-1 replica of the Windows 95 version of Minesweeper.
You can find it at https://github.com/danielricci/minesweeper
I didn’t do anything fancy in terms of reducing the size of the output file, but it was fun to try and replicate that game as best as I could.