Introduce Yourself
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Hello everyone. I’m Nick, UK based.. Learnt to code nearly 40 years ago when my dad brought a BBC basic home and you could (failing multiple times) try to write code from Ceefax. Eventually ended up coding at work for scientific data analysis. Donated a long time ago when this first was announced and so looking forward to coding retro style games for my 7 year old who has been drawing all sorts of ideas ;-P
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Hi, I'm french and probably you could see me as an old man. I'm interested in Fuze 4 Nitendo Switch because i would like to understand and give examples to my younger sons and his friends May be they will get interest in programming but they have to see examples to get ideas, understand what we can do with that ...
I'm not sure I understand everything though I start to play with computers and programm around 1981 1982 (at beginning plot pixels on screen only, dos, then basic fortran, C++ , Javascript ..) But things are so different now.
I hope you will be able to help me sometimes and i 'm sorry for my english.
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Je m'appel Pinaxial j'ai 19 ans et je vie en france. Mon rêve est d'aller vivre au Quebec et devenir developper multitâches. En se moment je fais un Baccalaurea Systèmes numériques, je suis à ma dernière année. Quand j'aurais fini mon BAC je continurais sur un BTS SIO( BTS Services informatiques aux organisations) en alternance pour payer le voyage au Quebec.Malheureusement pour moi je comprend l'anglais écrit mais pas l'oral et je sais pas encore faire de dialogue ;(. En terme de connaissance de language de programmation je connais juste l'HTML et CSS grâce à openclassroom et mainteant je vais essayer d'apprendre grâce à Fuze technologie d'autre languages de programmation et je vous en remercie d'avance :).
My name is Pinaxial I am 19 years old and I live in France. My dream is to go to live in Quebec and become multitasking. In this moment I am doing a Baccalaureate Digital Systems, I am at my last year. When I finished my BAC I continued on a BTS SIO (BTS Computer Services Organizations) alternately to pay for the trip to Quebec.Unfortunately for me I understand written English but not oral and I do not know yet In terms of programming language knowledge, I just know HTML and CSS thanks to openclassroom and now I will try to learn Fuze technology from other programming languages and I thank you in advance: ).
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I am Donald... CFO... 43 years old... I know SQL and Python to format some .txt arrays. Both self taught. In the late 80s, i tried to self-learn GFA Basic on Atari ST.
What I am looking for... self learning with my 9 year old son some programming skills.
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Hi my name is Colin and I have been programming for a very long time in a lot of different languages and environments.
I may have been responsible for a lot of the command reference and code examples so I apologise in advance for that.
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Hi I am Nicole, learned to program on c64 but I was quite young, have tinkered with other languages over the years but feel like I have some unfinished business. Particularly looking forward to exploring the synth in Fuse, loced the demo scene on c64 and Amiga
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My Name is Jon Silvera / AKA Jonnyboy. FUZE started out in 2012 as a question. Could we recreate a coding environment in the same mould as the 1980s 8Bit micros that got everyone coding like there was no tomorrow. We originally started with out own coding workstation called the FUZE. The main idea was to have a version of BASIC at the forefront and back it up with plenty of learning material. We sold around 5,000 of them. Not many really. However we started running FUZE Coding Workshops up and down the country. This have been very popular and proved we had developed a method of teaching that produced excellent results.. every single time.
With this experience we approached Nintendo to ask for development rights on the Switch so we could bring our coding platform to the device.
The results are exactly what we intended in the beginning. Putting FUZE, a very advanced and modernised variation of BASIC, on the Switch simply turns it into a home computer just like the old days. In fact it is possible to get to your code even faster than we could then. Add a keyboard and a larger screen and it becomes a proper coding workstation. Undock it and carry on in the bedroom, bus, tube, toilet, plane, train and so on.
FUZE has been an incredible journey so far, a tough one too. Hopefully we will now reap the rewards, not financially, though that would be nice of course, but rather by bringing an easy to learn, very accessible and blazingly powerful programming environment to all generations of coders either at the very start of their adventure or the seasoned professionals wanting to flex their 1337 skilz1
Let me introduce you to the band..
Pianofire - as old as i am and from the same town back in the 1970s and 80s. Colin is a professional coder by trade and quite simply the nicest chap ever! Colin's work on the help content and underlying system has been invaluable.
MikeDX - Mike and I have been involved (together) in the game coding scene for almost 20 years. He is an incredible talent across all platforms and a all round dude
Martin - another one from Minehead and the same era as Colin and I. Martin is such a cool frood and has a heart of gold to boot! A true hard worker and another great bloke
Luke - Luke has written underlying engines that drive the 3D, 2D and audio functions in FUZE. His talent knows no bounds. For a 19 year old his abilities defy all laws
Kat - our in-house 3D graphics designer. Kat, quiet as a mouse but ferociously talented. Look out for our first DLC pack - it is all Kats work.
Dave - A fantastically talented musician and FUZE teacher. Dave has also written the tutorial section of the help system as well as a great deal more. Dave is also the son of Jonnyboy
Will - Our USA contingent. Will has quietly contributed to FUZE for the last 18 months. He is responsible for the user interface and quite a lot of the 2D functions. Will is a professional pixel artist and demonstrates this rather well in his asset collection in FUZE as well as in his included game Super Arena Mega Blaster!
Ben - just starting high school Ben is a great coder, presenter and quality control assistant - you'll see lots of Ben on the tutorial videos
We also have a few more part-time employees who have contributed along the way so huge thank yous go to Lizzie, Molly, Grace and Charlotte for all their support either testing FUZE and or working at our workshops.
There.. that was more than you bargained for wasn't it!
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Hello!
I am Ben.
I am 16 years old and am starting sixth form next month.I first met Jon at a presentation, that I spoke in, organised by my school, with a room of people in the education industry. Before the presentation, I spoke to Jon, and he told me about FUZE. One thing that really stuck with me after that conversation were the words: "Nintendo Switch".
A few months after that, my school started organising work experience. FUZE immediately came to mind! I made contact with Jon, and agreed to meet him at a holiday workshop to sign a form. This is also where I met Dave and Luke. I was amazed by the attitude of the kids and how much progress they were making; working on games that I didn't know where to begin with!
FUZE Basic provided a graphical output, which allowed for games to be made much easier than in Python, which is where I first started programming. Speaking of which, Python is a very good programming language, that can be used in a lot of ways. For this reason, I don't mean to put Python down, when I say; Fuze 4 Nintendo Switch is much more intuitive, and therefore easier to learn. F4NS makes it easier to understand the basics, and the foundations to programming, and computational thinking, but, beyond that, advanced programmers have the ability to play about with 3D, and other complicated things like that! (I know that this was less about me, but this is how I view FUZE as a language).
Shortly before the work experience week, I was invited to the FUZE office to help categorise the assets that you can use in FUZE 4 Nintendo Switch.
Now, I continue to help the Switch project, and with workshops. Dave and I are also working on a series of video tutorials for the Switch, that will be just another resource that you can use if you are struggling with some of the concepts. (As well as a bit of fun).
I have seen only a chunk of the whole FUZE 4 Nintendo Switch journey, but I am so proud to have been a part of it. Thank you Jon and the rest of FUZE for this incredulous opportunity.
I also cannot wait to see what this growing community can come up with.
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Hi! I'm Dan! I have a background in tech and have fiddled with bits of python and PICO-8, but never to much success. I've been super excited about the accessibility of FUZE⁴ Switch, and I'm hoping that the ability to use it away from a TV will mean I actually finish a project! I've been teaching my younger sister at home, so I'm looking forward to learning together. Here's hoping the community keeps growing after Friday!
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Hi, I'm Joe.
So programming experience - I did Maths in college & as part of that did C on first year & C++ in second year & completely sucked at both. Roll on around a decade later & after getting lost through the cracks in a major restructure my new manager drop a how to program vba in Excel book on my desk - worked through the book & next thing I know my job is mainly writing macros. Would soon learn a bit of SQL to use a Access Database with some of my vba. Since then with the help of Google I got a fair bit better. Have moved on to a SQL Server Database & last year got myself a book & took the leap to vb.net winforms which I've steadily improved at. It'd be a major exaggeration to call me a programmer or developer though.
In terms of video gaming as a kid of the 80s I started off with an Atari 2600 before moving on to the SNES which I loved! Also got a Mega Drive a bit later. Also got the 4 PlayStations, Wii, DS, 3DS & most recently the Switch although gotta admot that after PS2 & Wii I didn't really play the other consoles as much as I might like & probably have more unplayed games for them then played!
Not got a clue what I'm going to try make with this - my nephews might be able to give me ideas (& maybe even give it a go themselves when they get a bit bigger).
I've probably been one of the more negative people on the original forum & Facebook with the delays announcements - hopefully I won't be persona non grata here because of that 😉
I'm hoping to have a lot of fun & maybe make something that's functional - not going to aim any higher then that 😂
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I'm Karl, I work as a developer, and started with an Apple ][ way back when. I've been working with my two kids teaching them more about how computers actually work, using microbits, robots, and ucb logo. They both love the Switch, and I'm excited to show them how much fun it is to have a computer that you can hold in your hands and program on the device itself - I had a Casio FX-802P calculator that I used to program in basic on a 12-character LCD screen to make teeny tiny games.
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hi~
Programming languages I know: R16K1S60 Assembly, Lua, fuxj, @yBASIC, FALSE, CHIP-8
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Hello, I'm Steve, I'm in the high 50s (yes I'm THAT old!) and I'm a huge fan of the golden era of gaming (the 80's)
I started with a lowly 1kb ZX81 and started tinkering with basic on that and then quickly moved to the BBC Model B where I attempted to learn BBC basic and spent many happy years hammering away at the keyboard attempting to make games. After that I moved to the C64 and eventually Amiga where I fell in love with a programming language called Amos. Sadly I'm rather dumb and a slow learner so I never progressed beyond basic, something like machine code is utterly so far over my head that it's in earth orbit.I stumbled onto Fuze quite recently and it proved lucky as my Switch has been collecting dust for many months and I don't see any games coming that really appeal to me so I was considering selling the Switch. Then I saw Fuze and everything changed. I'm super excited for this now and even just ordered a usb keyboard from amazon just to use for it.
My personal aims in Fuze are twofold, first I'd like to create some simple 4 player games for me and my family to enjoy and secondly I'm a huge arcade fan and I'd love to recreate some of my fave games of all time: Berzerk, Galaxian, Mr Do, Dig Dug, Wizard of Wor, Missile Command, Tempest, Robotron, Gyruss. etc
Unfortunately I'm rather dim and uneducated so I might be asking for a help a lot.
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Hi, I'm Lewis. I'm just going into third year of a degree in CS and Maths, and while I have a fair bit of experience in programming (mainly in working with data - I've been doing quite a bit lately with sports analytics), I wanted to gain some more experience with some hardware.
I'm a big fan of board games, in part because of their tactility - you can really feel the tiles being placed, the money being gathered, and the board taking shape. I want to bring some of those feelings to the digital world, and with the capabilities of the JoyCons, coupled with their small form factor, I think there's a lot of potential in using Fuze to blend physical and digital games together. In particular, I'd like to make a game which doesn't require a screen at all!
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Hi. I am Levent. Originally from Turkey, lived in the UK in the 80s and now in Silicon Valley thanks to the ZX-81 computer that introduced me to computing. Owned ZX Spectrum, Grundy Newbrain, Tatung Einstein, Acorn Electron and Commodore Amiga. Like most people here I was amazed by AMOS on Amiga and spent many hours writing simple games. Hopefully Fuze will bring some memories back;)
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Hi All
I'm Jim aged 55 from NW England.
My first experience with a computer / coding was on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum way back in 1982, and I also owned most of the 8 bit computers from that era, my favourite is probably the Tatung Einstein.
In more recent years I came across FUZE BASIC for Raspberry PI / Windows whilst trying to relive my youth, that in turn brings me here as we have a Nintendo Switch in the house and I shall be picking up a copy of F4NS once it launches in the UK.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish all THE FUZE team the best of luck and hope everything goes well during the launch and the future.
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Hello fellow coders
My name is Britton, 31 years old, web developer from Wisconsin. I consider my self a bit of a swiss army knife programming wise, as I'm pretty good at solving problems even when I have no background info or knowledge of the topic at hand. Most of my work experience is in a C#, MVC, JQuery stack but over the years I've touched everything from Assembly to PHP.
I have definitely been looking forward to FUZE for at least the past year, as I don't get much free time to code my own personal projects so having the convenience of a coding environment on my switch will help with that tremendously. No major projects in mind at the moment, but I will definitely dabble with some game programming, perhaps try to generate some fractals with the 3D graphics library.
I look forward to being a part of this community, best of luck to all.
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Hello, i'm doumdoum from France.
I started learning Basic on a Sharp PC1211 calculator. That was before "Back to the future".
Then I've coded with many languages :
C64 Basic, Amos, BlitzBasic, Div, DarkBasic, Blitz 3D, Lua Love2d, Pico8, AGK, Smile Basic, and Monkey 2 (my favourite).
The Nintendo Switch can be our creative showroom.
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Hello. My introduction to programming was the DSiWare called Petit Computer MkII (which is not available anymore, unfortunately) and it brought many great memories of me making games on car trips and spending days and nights staying up finishing my projects (which admittedly, most of them are now deleted). I don't quite do that as much anymore, but I think it will be fun to see how people are introduced to programming with Fuze Basic like how I was with Petit Computer.
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Cut my teeth on Petit Computer.
Familiar with: SmileBASIC, Kotlin, Ruby, JavaScript
Favorite:
Video game: Super Mario World
Sound chip: YM2612
ASCII character: @
Assembly instruction: vsync
