Des nouvelles de Crazy Brix

February 9th, Case Portman, author of the platformer game "Flynn, son of Crimson" was asking

The first ever game you developed, "finished" and publicly released. Show the world (don't be shy!).

In my case, that was Crazy Brix. More a technical demo than a real game. A breakout clone with raytraced graphics and 6-tracks. His was "Blappy Fird", a clone where a pipe must avoid columns of birds. But Brix eventually turned into a 100K compo entry that got 1st place at Inscene, so I count it as "publicly released".

I got a few tokens of appreciation, but also a fun feedback from Joke

c'est impressionnant tout ça dans le contexte 1997/langage machine/pas d'Internet... vous êtes des génies ! -- Joke, Biloumaster

And digging for archives of Brix, I found old pictures from pre-raytracing era ... initial "all flat" bricks, mock up showing tentacle bobs attacking and sized-up bat suggesting an arkanoïd clone for the second title.

There was also a second tileset intended for "egypt theme" that never got used. 

That happened a few days after I created my BSKY account, so I posted pictures there too and to my surprise, I got someone saying
 

I played this one back then 😁 My first developed game was a collection of arcade games, like pong, breakout and tetris, but nothing special tho... :] Still need maintenance nowdays... -- pix3l on bluesky

It was some years ago, 2010 if I remember correctly... I think it was this one, or just another arkanoid clone, but I'm quite sure it was this one, since it looks pretty familiar :/ Its also on Internet archive, and published in 1999. Whats make strange to you? ó.ó I've played a lot of games myself, also the more obscure ones, and sometimes I've reviewed them on my blog. Maybe this one has been came out in some search, I don't remember now :]

So there it is. Not only Crazy Brix was a publicly released game, it is now archived, playable online (although sound will be crappy until you figure out how to increase cpu rate). Oh, and it is used by dosbox folks to improve their code, apparently.