[Coco] DynoSprite Demo Approval

[Richard Goedeken]

Bill, thanks for passing along the story about your grandson; that's really
cute.  I have a son who is the same age (2 1/2), and he also seemed quite
interested in the Dynosprite demo when I was working on it.  I ran it on my
desktop PC in MESS and on my Coco 3 in a different room at various times while
I was developing the engine.  He always called out "Bubbles!" when he saw it
or wanted it.  I often gave him the Tandy Deluxe joystick to play with it but
all he wanted to do was push the button over and over, which of course reloads
the demo.  It's been a couple of months since he's played with it, so maybe
now he could understand that he needs to move the joystick too.

DynoSprite Demo -- cheap babysitting for toddlers!

I'm currently sidetracked on some contracting work, but pretty soon I should
be able to get back to the Coco and start making the game for my 6 year old
daughter.  Now she's really into Minecraft, so I'm hoping that she'll still be
at least somewhat interested in playing the Coco game by the time that I
finish it.

Richard

On 01/08/2015 06:07 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> 
> @Richard, DynoSprite now has the offical approval of my 2 1/2 year old
> grandson. I run the demo quite often on my Coco 3 as a screen saver while
> I'm working on the PC in VCC. My grandson was laughing at the balls
> bouncing around so I gave him the joystick and showed him how to move the
> screen around and how to push the button to reload. He now comes into the
> room and points to the CM-8 and yells "ga-balls"... I have to load up the
> DynoSprite demo for him and he will play with it for at least 45 minutes
> laughing at the balls bouncing and reloading the demo. I can't show him it
> will run on the big pooter in Vcc or I'd never get my mouse back
> <laughing>
> 
> So... when you get the approval (and attention) of a 2 1/2 year old, you
> know you have a winner!
> 
> 
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