My four-year-old son has decided that he wants to be like his dad when he grows up. He is planning to work in my office, and write computer programs just like I do. But there is one problem—he thinks I write games. My attempts to explain the complex content publishing systems I work on didn't get very far. It seems that I will have to either get a job in the Xbox® group at Microsoft, or start developing games on the side, so I decided to write a simple game for this column to illustrate some interesting programming concepts. As I looked around at some of my son's favorite games I noticed that he enjoyed playing matching games, so I fired up ..
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