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Joshua Reichard emailed us today about a new game he coded with his 12 year old daughter. The game is called Stranger Things, and is based on the hit American science fiction-horror web television series you all know and love! The project was created on old hardware running FreeDOS and Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5. The game game consists of just under 2,500 lines of code. The father/daughter team started the first lines of code the day before Thanksgiving and finished just before Christmas, 2017 (about 4.5 weeks).

The game is completely original and amateur, No professional team of programmers, graphic designers, or production staff were involved. Yep, it was coded by a dad and his 12 year old daughter! Every single sprite created by hand, pixel-by-pixel, using their own sprite editor that they also coded themselves! Written in an 80’s programming language, not a modern language. Joshua Reichard added tons of Easter eggs in the game, to the point that Maria said, “Daddy, you’re missing the point of Easter eggs. If you put too many in the game, they’re not Easter eggs anymore.”!

Maria also mentions her next project is a remake of the game but it will be in first person!

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