When i was about 13 or 14(before the internet gain paced) and during the time of the BBS's where MMORPGs were known as "Door Games", I wrote a door game called "In the Building" where you would move into an apartment as residents and would get into fights with one another as well as AI residents....
Needless to say, I was selling it for $10 a copy and uploaded to my friend's local BBS which somehow spread to all over the US and amazingly all over the world. I was getting purchases from Hong Kong, Israel, California, NC, all over the place. Made about $400 off of it....and the next year I started highschool and sorta...stop programming.......and things just went downhill from then. I think the selling point of it was the fact that it was so hilarious for its time as compared to other door games (LORD, Usurper, TW2002...)...i had everything on there from picking on nerds, to graffiti, to fighting bullies, to talking trash about peoples mothers....it was a fun time.
Interestingly enough, i did a search on it and actually found my game on this BBS Door game archive.....interesting!
Needless to say, I was selling it for $10 a copy and uploaded to my friend's local BBS which somehow spread to all over the US and amazingly all over the world. I was getting purchases from Hong Kong, Israel, California, NC, all over the place. Made about $400 off of it....and the next year I started highschool and sorta...stop programming.......and things just went downhill from then. I think the selling point of it was the fact that it was so hilarious for its time as compared to other door games (LORD, Usurper, TW2002...)...i had everything on there from picking on nerds, to graffiti, to fighting bullies, to talking trash about peoples mothers....it was a fun time.
Interestingly enough, i did a search on it and actually found my game on this BBS Door game archive.....interesting!