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Easter Egg apps?

I'm toying around with a graphical game app I wrote a couple years ago in VB.  The game is sort of a tetris/bubble-style game and everyone I've given the game to gets caught up in it.  I've resurrected the app since I ordered the book “Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start“ that I blogged about earlier.

Then a thought hit me.  What if I made the game a library that throws up a form and allows the game to be played. People could take the library and put it in their apps as an easter egg.  I could control the amount of customization (naming, functions available, etc.) throught the class interface.  I was thinking about adding some animations using DirectX, but maybe I'd keep it a simple GDI+ based drawing application to keep runtime requirements absolutely minimized. 

I think this would be kind of cool, or is that just me?  Does anyone know of people who currently provide easter egg apps?



Comments

Steve Hebert said:

Interesting... So would it be better to have the application run as a seperate executable, or just a seperate thread within the parent application (or at least modeless)?
# June 30, 2004 4:43 AM
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