Creative game developer Terry Cavanaugh has recently decided to release the source code for his beloved gravity-bending platformer VVVVV in honor of the game's tenth anniversary.
On January 10, video developer Terry Cavanaugh posted a celebrating the tenth anniversary of his critically acclaimed platform game VVVVV. Cavanaugh's post reflected on the past ten years of the game, opening with, "Today is the 10th anniversary of VVVVVV’s release! Or possibly tomorrow is, depending on who you ask – technically, the game first went live at 3am GMT on the 11th January 2010, after a very, very long day of fixing every last bug I could, , and trying to slowly upload everything on an extremely unreliable internet connection that kept cutting out. But I’ve always gone by “it’s not tomorrow until you wake up” rules, so I stಌill think of🃏 January the 10th as the real launch day <3"
But his post was not merely to share his sentiments. As a treat for fans who have supported the game for the past decade, he decided to release the sou🤡rce code for the popular platformer as well.
"Gosh, ten years," he wrote, "VVVVVV is such an important game to me, I barely even know where to start. I wanted to do something special to mark t๊he occasionﷺ: so, as of today, I’m releasing the game’s source code!"
In the rest of his detailed blog post, Cavanaugh wrote extensively about VVVVVV's unique code, explaining what makes it so interesting and additional thoughts on why VVVVVV has held up for the past ten years.
The game was released back in 2010, where it was almost immediately praised by fans and critics alike. Today it's knඣown as one of the first hits in the indie game market. Players control Captain Viridian, a space captain who is tasked with rescuing their spacecrew after being separated by a teleporter malfunction. What made the game unique was the player's inability to jump; instead, tꦑhe player utilized gravity to control falling upward or downwards.
VVVVVV is🐷 currently availab𝓡le for a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Pandora, Nintendo 3DS, and the Nintendo Switch.
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