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great to see you here! quick question- you wouldn't happen to be BF? One of the first games I played on PC was ARC. Those leagues got me into scripting, which led me to Purdue CS, which led me to my career today.

just wanted to give a shout out to you & JV. you guys had a lot of influence over a generation of ARCers, some of which still play games together. so, thanks, and cool to see this from you. I will check it out and show my engineers

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Wow. That's amazing- yes, I am BF from ARC. I haven't heard from an ARC player in some time -- maybe ARC inspiring you to get that Purdue CS degree counteracts me and JV dropping out of Purdue.

JV just texted me the other day to pitch ARC VR actually. He went the VR route, founding Pluto VR after PopCap.

Anyway- let me know what you think of BeefLang!

Curious, do you have a link to that game? ARC isn't very Googleable.

Search for "attack retrieve capture". It's a multiplayer game from 1997 that I made with a friend in college. That friend and I co-founded of PopCap Games with another game designer we met during the development of ARC (actually, our "producer" on the game when we licensed it to TEN.net).

I seem to remember one of the PopCap founders being active on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, back when Brad Wardell and some of the other later-high-profile designers were in the conversation as well, mid 90s or so IIRC.

Would that have been one of you too? Those were gaming glory days for me, with limited forums for discussion and everyone gravitating to what there was. You got to rub shoulders with some pretty cool people, digitally speaking.

Also, how weird is it that the public net has been around long enough to ask things like if we met on the internet 25 years ago? My mind still reels.

That would have been Jason Kapalka - he was a video game reviewer before becoming a game designer.

Loved ARC and want to remake it myself. Not sure who owns what rights to it anymore. Would there be any issues if I used same or similar graphics?

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