Using XNA requires a very deep understanding of C# and OOP first. You're not going to get anywhere by just downloading XNA and firing it up.
That said, XNA does come with Visual Studio Express, a decent starting editor, and you can make some good things with XNA, and C# would be a great first language IMO; all the supposed ease of java but you can still compile it down and run your game on windows.
But he's going to need to find lots of tutorial websites or a good programming book on C# before he can hope to use XNA.
Maybe to the sheep who went from one ideology to another, and have been taught to be helpless about using their own minds. But to suggest that science is inherently becoming an ideology for everyone is absurd. The very fundamental scientific method teaches an opposition to ideology. If you find science as an ideology, either you've been working in a field so long you've become biased and lost, or you've been trained to find ideologies and then not question them, and then you just traded one for another.
Mutators for the Unreal series of games are like mini-mods, and they're how I cut my teeth as a game programmer. I tried learning Visual Basic on my own, and at first I found the book I was reading to be WAY too slow, so I skipped ahead. Then there was all this stuff I didn't understand, because I skipped ahead. Finally I took a CS course in Highschool and they forced me to a fixed curriculum, and I will NEVER forget that first "eureka!" moment where I began to understand the true concept of object-oriented programming, and it was just off from there, I was hooked.
But I definitely wanted to program games, and 1 student simply CAN NOT program a modern video game. Thats like saying that a kid could build a house by himself; no, he can't. So build a shed or a birdhouse instead. I played lots of UnrealTournament, so I wrote some mutators that used unrealscript and just modified a few exiting things, rather than complete changes. It was easy, fun, and there was a quick turnaround to see what I did being used in-game. Thats awesome. Either do that, or try making simple games like pong and pac-man, thats fun too.
Oh definitely, haha. There would have to be LOTS of studies. I'm just saying, why are people so afraid of technology and progress? Its silly, progress is all we have and all we are.
I love how mixed up people are these days, and the mere idea of hallucinating is associated with the most harmful of effects any chemical could have on your brain. When in reality, there are several natural, human made substances (like DMT, check it out) that cause you to hallucinate (near-death experiences anyone?). If magnetic fields do cause people to hallucinate, there aren't inherently any health problems. There may be health problems with hanging out in that much magnetic field, but if there's not, then this would be really awesome, and there's no reason on earth why we should "think of the children"
I know you were being sarcastic, but people really do think that way:P
Yeah, this mind virus that has been released making everyone think that piracy = = theft is absolutely ridiculous. Piracy is software infringement. Piracy IS NOT, and NEVER HAS BEEN, and NEVER WILL BE theft. It is FUNDAMENTALLY different.
Now I wonder where the hell everybody got the idea it was theft?
Yeah, this stuff really bothers me. They've been calling piracy theft forever, and it simply IS NOT. It is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. Just recently there was a very interesting study that showed most software companies are claiming losses of up to 90% due to piracy, but then it was shown that like 99% of pirates are either poor people in third world countries or students or children, people who can't afford software anyways, and it ends up even all 90% of those pirates only account for AT MOST 10% lost sales. And the fact of the mater is you're just not going to get those sales, and its not worth spending half your time trying to nab that 10%. Just focus on your current customers already and sell things they like.
The multiplayer maps and game modes are on the disc. If you could host your own local server, then I'd be fine with this. But you can't; the only way you can access multiplayer, a feature which is advertised as part of the game, part of the package you're getting when you buy it, is if you buy it first.
Yes, this is exactly like saying that if you sell a book to somebody, then they're not allowed to read the last chapter until they pay the publisher $10. Its COMPLETELY LUDICROUS, and I hope people realize it.
Ugh, I'm already boycotting Ubisoft for its draconian DRM, now I've gotta boycott EA for its content locking out and violation of property rights? The way video game studios are going, soon everything's going to be owned by either one of those two, or Activision. At least they aren't doing anything terrible right now, right? (*reads about lawsuits with infinity ward*) Agh!
No. Anybody who buys the game from a vendor, first, gets the code and forever has access to the "service" for free. Anybody who then purchases that title legitimately from that first owner cannot access the same content, content WHICH IS ON THE DISC, not some DLC he "could" download, but actual data and code that is on the physical copy he purchased and is within the game for which the user licence is sold and has been transferred. This is 100% EA locking out people who buy used, and forcing them to pay up to them directly, or to go buy from a vendor and not used. I can't disagree with you more.
Sure its "like" that. But when you have content, that is on a disc, that you legally purchased from someone who legally owned it and legally transferred that ownership to you, and then just because of the transfer, you cannot access part of the content on the disc unless you pay a third-party a fee, thats a violation of first sale.
Okay, I just RTFA, and if you watch the video, the "interactive book" is no more than a picture book with very nice font, and if you slide you iPad around, then the pictures jiggle a little.
Is this a joke? thats what you call "interactive" ? I mean, if the book read itself to kids, and they're just clicking little buttons to play games or watch scenes, thats definitely interactive and it is definitely interfering with the reading.
But as far as I can tell, you still HAVE to read this. It won't read itself to you. It'll barely even distract you, its pretty much just an animated picture book. I don't see a problem with a kid reading a picture book, and I don't see a problem with a kid reading an animated picture book. He/she is still reading, albeit accompanied by some fun, but thats how kids learn to LIKE books at a young age. I had a ridiculously high reading level, I was reading Anne Mccaffrey books by the end of elementary school. But, I PROMISE you, I didn't start reading dense text, I started with some picture books that seemed like they were fun, and I learned to enjoy reading and be good and fast at it, and THEN I moved on to "adult books".
ooooh, somebody who's had a kid feels they're immediately qualified to be a parent and refuses to let anybody "tell me how to raise my kids". Never had that happen before.
I'm with you, until you said "eat lunch alone". Thats the most ridiculous piece of career advice I've ever heard; lunches with my co-workers is what turned my boss from a faceless authority figure into the guy whose kids I know and whom I occasionally play mario kart with. Eating lunch with my coworkers was like 80% of my social interaction with them (I try to stay productive at work, though I forward the occasional ridiculous youtube vid) and is part of what makes work bearable.
Actually the human eye's 3 types of cones best respond to Yellow, Green, and Violet, and can best differentiate colors on the green-orange range. Red, Green, and Blue were chosen because their color space is greater than just yellow, green, and violet, though still not all-encompassing.
You make a really good point. Unfortunately, I think its all the more likely that the marketing department would just turn the brightness of the 3-color TV down a bit, rather than take the time to run an analog imagine through several 3-color output/inputs and several 4-color output/inputs.
uh, WoW doesn't count as GaaS. If it does, then just say ALL MMORPGs becasue they all use the exact same business model. But you're definitely still have to "buy" the game first before you can use it, so I don't think that counts as a service. you still have to initially purchase the licence, you're just ALSO paying supporting fees. GaaS would be more like GameTap, where you pay monthly and can just play all the games you want. No ownership involved.
MaaS I guess pandora and Last.fm count, you can't download any of the songs, but you can listen to them in a service-like manner.
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Uh, can't hear you from all the way back there in the FORTIES, man.
In case you didn't realize, 40% of AMERICA plays video games, and the AVERAGE video gamer is OVER THIRTY YEARS OLD.
I guess most HUMANS just don't have enough interesting things to talk about...
Using XNA requires a very deep understanding of C# and OOP first. You're not going to get anywhere by just downloading XNA and firing it up.
That said, XNA does come with Visual Studio Express, a decent starting editor, and you can make some good things with XNA, and C# would be a great first language IMO; all the supposed ease of java but you can still compile it down and run your game on windows.
But he's going to need to find lots of tutorial websites or a good programming book on C# before he can hope to use XNA.
Maybe to the sheep who went from one ideology to another, and have been taught to be helpless about using their own minds. But to suggest that science is inherently becoming an ideology for everyone is absurd. The very fundamental scientific method teaches an opposition to ideology. If you find science as an ideology, either you've been working in a field so long you've become biased and lost, or you've been trained to find ideologies and then not question them, and then you just traded one for another.
Mutators for the Unreal series of games are like mini-mods, and they're how I cut my teeth as a game programmer. I tried learning Visual Basic on my own, and at first I found the book I was reading to be WAY too slow, so I skipped ahead. Then there was all this stuff I didn't understand, because I skipped ahead. Finally I took a CS course in Highschool and they forced me to a fixed curriculum, and I will NEVER forget that first "eureka!" moment where I began to understand the true concept of object-oriented programming, and it was just off from there, I was hooked.
But I definitely wanted to program games, and 1 student simply CAN NOT program a modern video game. Thats like saying that a kid could build a house by himself; no, he can't. So build a shed or a birdhouse instead. I played lots of UnrealTournament, so I wrote some mutators that used unrealscript and just modified a few exiting things, rather than complete changes. It was easy, fun, and there was a quick turnaround to see what I did being used in-game. Thats awesome. Either do that, or try making simple games like pong and pac-man, thats fun too.
You know, we wouldn't even have this problem if we didn't try to prohibit Americans from so many things...
Oh definitely, haha. There would have to be LOTS of studies. I'm just saying, why are people so afraid of technology and progress? Its silly, progress is all we have and all we are.
I love how mixed up people are these days, and the mere idea of hallucinating is associated with the most harmful of effects any chemical could have on your brain. When in reality, there are several natural, human made substances (like DMT, check it out) that cause you to hallucinate (near-death experiences anyone?). If magnetic fields do cause people to hallucinate, there aren't inherently any health problems. There may be health problems with hanging out in that much magnetic field, but if there's not, then this would be really awesome, and there's no reason on earth why we should "think of the children" :P
I know you were being sarcastic, but people really do think that way
if it only knocked out new production that would be true, but it seems to me like it would kill the already existent sperm as well.
Lazer beam vasectomy:
Do you expect me to talk, doctor?
No sir, I expect you to die!
think you meant without
DRM free games are selling, and now as a result being open sourced?
I for one would just like to say, awesome.
I will totally be dling the src code.
Yeah, this mind virus that has been released making everyone think that piracy = = theft is absolutely ridiculous. Piracy is software infringement. Piracy IS NOT, and NEVER HAS BEEN, and NEVER WILL BE theft. It is FUNDAMENTALLY different.
Now I wonder where the hell everybody got the idea it was theft?
"You wouldn't steal a car...."
Damn PSAs
Yeah, this stuff really bothers me. They've been calling piracy theft forever, and it simply IS NOT. It is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. Just recently there was a very interesting study that showed most software companies are claiming losses of up to 90% due to piracy, but then it was shown that like 99% of pirates are either poor people in third world countries or students or children, people who can't afford software anyways, and it ends up even all 90% of those pirates only account for AT MOST 10% lost sales. And the fact of the mater is you're just not going to get those sales, and its not worth spending half your time trying to nab that 10%. Just focus on your current customers already and sell things they like.
You wouldn't steal a car..
If thats how it is, then I'm more okay with it. But thats now how it read to me.
The multiplayer maps and game modes are on the disc. If you could host your own local server, then I'd be fine with this. But you can't; the only way you can access multiplayer, a feature which is advertised as part of the game, part of the package you're getting when you buy it, is if you buy it first.
Yes, this is exactly like saying that if you sell a book to somebody, then they're not allowed to read the last chapter until they pay the publisher $10. Its COMPLETELY LUDICROUS, and I hope people realize it.
Ugh, I'm already boycotting Ubisoft for its draconian DRM, now I've gotta boycott EA for its content locking out and violation of property rights? The way video game studios are going, soon everything's going to be owned by either one of those two, or Activision. At least they aren't doing anything terrible right now, right? (*reads about lawsuits with infinity ward*) Agh!
No. Anybody who buys the game from a vendor, first, gets the code and forever has access to the "service" for free. Anybody who then purchases that title legitimately from that first owner cannot access the same content, content WHICH IS ON THE DISC, not some DLC he "could" download, but actual data and code that is on the physical copy he purchased and is within the game for which the user licence is sold and has been transferred. This is 100% EA locking out people who buy used, and forcing them to pay up to them directly, or to go buy from a vendor and not used. I can't disagree with you more.
Sure its "like" that. But when you have content, that is on a disc, that you legally purchased from someone who legally owned it and legally transferred that ownership to you, and then just because of the transfer, you cannot access part of the content on the disc unless you pay a third-party a fee, thats a violation of first sale.
Okay, I just RTFA, and if you watch the video, the "interactive book" is no more than a picture book with very nice font, and if you slide you iPad around, then the pictures jiggle a little.
Is this a joke? thats what you call "interactive" ? I mean, if the book read itself to kids, and they're just clicking little buttons to play games or watch scenes, thats definitely interactive and it is definitely interfering with the reading.
But as far as I can tell, you still HAVE to read this. It won't read itself to you. It'll barely even distract you, its pretty much just an animated picture book. I don't see a problem with a kid reading a picture book, and I don't see a problem with a kid reading an animated picture book. He/she is still reading, albeit accompanied by some fun, but thats how kids learn to LIKE books at a young age. I had a ridiculously high reading level, I was reading Anne Mccaffrey books by the end of elementary school. But, I PROMISE you, I didn't start reading dense text, I started with some picture books that seemed like they were fun, and I learned to enjoy reading and be good and fast at it, and THEN I moved on to "adult books".
Give your kids a break. Jeeze.
ooooh, somebody who's had a kid feels they're immediately qualified to be a parent and refuses to let anybody "tell me how to raise my kids". Never had that happen before.
I'm with you, until you said "eat lunch alone". Thats the most ridiculous piece of career advice I've ever heard; lunches with my co-workers is what turned my boss from a faceless authority figure into the guy whose kids I know and whom I occasionally play mario kart with. Eating lunch with my coworkers was like 80% of my social interaction with them (I try to stay productive at work, though I forward the occasional ridiculous youtube vid) and is part of what makes work bearable.
Actually the human eye's 3 types of cones best respond to Yellow, Green, and Violet, and can best differentiate colors on the green-orange range. Red, Green, and Blue were chosen because their color space is greater than just yellow, green, and violet, though still not all-encompassing.
The more you know!
You make a really good point. Unfortunately, I think its all the more likely that the marketing department would just turn the brightness of the 3-color TV down a bit, rather than take the time to run an analog imagine through several 3-color output/inputs and several 4-color output/inputs.
uh, WoW doesn't count as GaaS. If it does, then just say ALL MMORPGs becasue they all use the exact same business model. But you're definitely still have to "buy" the game first before you can use it, so I don't think that counts as a service. you still have to initially purchase the licence, you're just ALSO paying supporting fees. GaaS would be more like GameTap, where you pay monthly and can just play all the games you want. No ownership involved.
MaaS I guess pandora and Last.fm count, you can't download any of the songs, but you can listen to them in a service-like manner.
but still, they both seemed off.
he was being satirical, obviously pirated downloads cannot be equated to lost sales, thats ludicrous.