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A little while ago I happened upon Gamedev.Tutsplus for the first time. After browsing through the articles for a little while I found a few particularly interesting and useful. I really enjoy writing on topics that interest me to teach and get others interested in the same topic. Naturally I wanted to see if I could write one as well, for the Tuts+ website. There are a bunch of different sections of the website... I actually have no idea how big the website really is.
Of course it can be fairly hard to find the time to sit down and write one of these things, but I felt like I had a magical empty day in my week to (being spring break and all) to get a good one out in a single day. So I sat and wrote for a few hours, and behold I made an article on 2D physics! There was another couple hours the next day making some images + the preview video.
The cool thing about this website is they pay 50-150 dollars for each small article. If you can write them quickly then the turnaround for payment is pretty nice. And for some dude taking uni classes extra cash directly from your major of specialization is a pretty cool thing! I have studied computer science for a couple years now but haven't been payed to do a single thing computer science related, until now.
Actually my favorite part about writing an article for Gamedev.Tutsplus was the editor for the Gamedev section of the website. His name is Michael, but the guy is extremely nice and helpful. I don't think he's a full-time editor, but it seems like he does it on the side. Always very friendly and very professional in editing the article I wrote. I was expecting things to be a bit disorganized in terms of the process to have my article go live. The process turned out the seamless and actually pretty fun!
So I suggest taking a look around the website! At the very least you will find some interesting things to read, and perhaps someone here might decide to write an article for some quick side-money. I am sure the editors and staff in the other sections of the website are equally cool.
I will probably write another one or two articles on tuts+, and I will probably buy old games like SNES and GB Color cartridges. There will probably be a blog (with pictures) about buying them if the time does come around to grow my retro collection!
Off-Topic: Okay so I'll likely want to get some N64 games. The problem is I never had a 64 as a kid or anything so I have little idea of what games to get. So far I'm thinking:
- All zelda games.
- Mario parties
- Rush 2049 (actually did play this one as a kid)
- Starfox
- Smash bros
Another other great games I should add to this list?
 
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Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie
Oh yeah, and Mario Kart 64
Edit: Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium 1 or 2.
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On April 07 2013 05:19 ClysmiC wrote:
Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie
Oh yeah, and Mario Kart 64
Oh shoot yeah I totally forgot about mario kart thanks! I have SM64 (came with 64) so I'm good there though 
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Dam, I used to have rush that game was soo much fun. I would add Perfect Dark to your list and and James Bond Goldeneye.
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Bomberman 64!, FZeroX, Diddy Kong Racing I would suggest^^!
I did not have a N64 as a child either, but two of my friends are actually collecting old Games and we meet two to three times a month and have a good time!^^
I think to enjoy FZeroX in particular and other Games in generall you should get some more controllers and find some friends to play with! :D
Ps:I always here that goldeneye was sooo good, but I have no hand on experience with that. :<
Actually, Starcraft was released for N64, but my friends shy away to spend 100bucks on that old cardridge^^ since they are no rts fans. It features multiplayer though! If you can afford it I would try to get one :d
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conker's for sure!!!!
amazing game, quite original
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On April 07 2013 04:18 CecilSunkure wrote:
I did a little googling and apparently they make at least $4k per day off of ads alone.
Please don't believe any of these estimations, they're based off incorrect calculations of traffic and fill rates/cpm numbers. The real number is way less than half of that.
Tuts+ is pretty dope though I learned a lot through some Photoshop tutorials they had. The N64 is kind of a hard system to go back to because it falls into the same category as PS1 games where you can see what they're trying to do but the tech was so far behind at that point, a lot of games that were tolerated then are are foggy popup mess that's frustrating to try to use.
That said you should probably check out Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire, the latter of which everyone I knew played the shit out of even though it's super mediocre because the game release schedule was so terrible for the first year or two of N64's life. Resident Evil 2 might be of interest to you only because it's super technically impressive that they managed to fit the entire thing on a cart somehow. You should probably have familiarity with Goldeneye/Perfect Dark too since they're staples of the system.
Banjo Kazooey is really amusing these days because it's like the prototypical 3D platformer of those days, it's extremely uninteresting and the basic goal is collect all this random shit that's tedious and boring yet everyone at the time loved it for reasons no one can explain now.
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On April 07 2013 07:00 heyoka wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2013 04:18 CecilSunkure wrote:
I did a little googling and apparently they make at least $4k per day off of ads alone. Please don't believe any of these estimations, they're based off incorrect calculations of traffic and fill rates/cpm numbers. The real number is way less than half of that.
Had no idea, removed that line 
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Personally I love Lego Racers and Pokemon Puzzle League. In fact, I still play both of them from time to time. That said, I think most of the gaming world was (and is) of the opinion they weren't great, so maybe take my recommendation with a grain of salt.
Edit: Lego Racers also requires a memory card to properly play it, which is incredibly inconvenient. But it makes up for it with a power-up system that (in my opinion) beats Mario Kart's any day!
Edit 2: Also if you have a SNES, get Tetris Attack instead of Pokemon Puzzle League. Or if you wanna do the work to get rid of region locking so you can play Super Famicom games, get Panel de Pon. I only play Pokemon Puzzle League because it's the one I have access to; it's just a Pokemon-themed clone of those other games, but on the N64.
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Blast Corps, you must find Blast Corps. It is one of those gaming experiences that is simply without comparison.
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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time and Majora's mask
Super Mario 64
Pokemon Snap
Harvest Moon 64
Perfect Dark
But there's a chance you won't like any of these or the ones listed in the thread. Most people like n64 games because they played them as kids, so it's out of nostalgia.
On April 07 2013 07:00 heyoka wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2013 04:18 CecilSunkure wrote:
I did a little googling and apparently they make at least $4k per day off of ads alone. Banjo Kazooey is really amusing these days because it's like the prototypical 3D platformer of those days, it's extremely uninteresting and the basic goal is collect all this random shit that's tedious and boring yet everyone at the time loved it for reasons no one can explain now.
o god I wasted so many countless hours collecting those musical notes... What was I thinking
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Wow good to know Tuts+ opened up a gamedev section. Really loved your writeups on TL as well so glad to hear you can earn extra cash for sharing your knowledge with everyone else.
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Pretty much all of the obvious picks have been mentioned, but if you're at all interested in SRPGs, Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber ate many of my childhood hours when I got my N64.
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i had Donkey Kong 64 when i was a kid and I really loved it
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I watched a Sublime Text tutorial on tuts+ a while back and was very impressed. It was a video tutorial though, not an article.
Personally though, I find 19 dollars/month pretty steep for tutorials. A quality tutorial might very well be amazing compared to free ones you find on google, but that doesn't change the fact that for most areas, you can find a buttload of free tutorials and even if there's not ONE of them which is amazing, you can do several of them. Paying for something which is freely available to that degree is tough if you're frugal.
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On April 08 2013 19:18 Tobberoth wrote:
I watched a Sublime Text tutorial on tuts+ a while back and was very impressed. It was a video tutorial though, not an article.
Personally though, I find 19 dollars/month pretty steep for tutorials. A quality tutorial might very well be amazing compared to free ones you find on google, but that doesn't change the fact that for most areas, you can find a buttload of free tutorials and even if there's not ONE of them which is amazing, you can do several of them. Paying for something which is freely available to that degree is tough if you're frugal.
Oh yeah I have no idea how their premium stuff goes. I don't think I'd pay for it either (seeing as I have all the information I can get at my uni).
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