I hate to break this to you but the ideas are the easiest part of game development. My group has dozens of ideas on our wiki and we add great ideas all the time. But we've been working on our current project for YEARS now.
Taking a great idea and making a great game is hard and expensive. Taking a great game and making a mediocre game is also hard and expensive.
In this case, make a prototype. If it's good enough and your marketing skills are up to snuff, you might be able to get a publishing deal or self publish on the internet. Retail is still the most important part but some of the indie devs out there have proven you can at least survive if your games are decent.
You won't be able to sell an idea, but a working example of the game might.... even if it's only one level.
You don't want to turn options down for a PC game so you're willing to settle for console which doesn't compare to current PC systems on launch and get even more behind year after year?
Doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever floats your boat.
He writes erotic fiction based on well known science fiction properties. His latest book, Jean Luc Picard: Stone Cold Space Pimp, was amazing, I hear he won an award for it.
Sure, Steve Jobs has been acting like a massive douche bag as of late, but he's just mentioning that the open source patents may be attacked if they pose a threat to profitable closed/very patented codecs.
I don't think Apple is somehow directly planning to sue Xiph or other open source codecs personally.
While I'm a huge fan of apocalyptic prophesies, I tend to agree.
The reason being, business is going to use the cloud but it's going to augment existing practices, not replace them. No sane business is going to trust all of their valuable IP with a 3rd party, there isn't a third party out there you can really trust. Not Google, Not Apple, Not Microsoft (LOL)... they've all had very serious and public security failings in their recent history.
This may be less true for consumers at home, but that's nothing new as "the cloud" for them is just a fancy new term for "the world wide web."
Increasing Silverlight's market share is what this is about.
Basically, Microsoft is going to embrace HTML5 and use it to hurt Flash, it'll then start to phase HTML5 support out once Flash's market share starts to take a large enough hit and talk about how HTML5 doesn't have enough support or doesn't "have all the features our users demand," then it will start to pimp Silverlight, integrated it with the next Xbox and so forth and remove "upgrade" all the devs to their Expression platform for developing Silverlight apps.
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Put the crack pipe down. Most companies do not succeed at the 99% part.
Coming up with 1% is easy, hence the saying.
You seem to think that games have a lack of originality because the idea was bad.
No, the devil is in the details. It's 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, not the other way around.
I hate to break this to you but the ideas are the easiest part of game development. My group has dozens of ideas on our wiki and we add great ideas all the time. But we've been working on our current project for YEARS now.
Taking a great idea and making a great game is hard and expensive. Taking a great game and making a mediocre game is also hard and expensive.
In this case, make a prototype. If it's good enough and your marketing skills are up to snuff, you might be able to get a publishing deal or self publish on the internet. Retail is still the most important part but some of the indie devs out there have proven you can at least survive if your games are decent.
You won't be able to sell an idea, but a working example of the game might.... even if it's only one level.
You don't want to turn options down for a PC game so you're willing to settle for console which doesn't compare to current PC systems on launch and get even more behind year after year?
Doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever floats your boat.
You only *need* to upgrade you PC hardware about as often as new consoles come out.
A better question is... they used a TORCH to show off the optical cable?
Guy who sells GPUs says if people don't start to buy more GPUs, computers are DOOMED.
I don't know about you, but I'm sold.
I know, it's like FreeBSD's rm command, it literally DELETES your files without warning.
Crazy!
Wow, you're way out of touch with reality.
Have you ever thought about checking into a hospital or something?
Game consoles are not a general purpose information/work/entertainment device.
Then play games, some of them have very basic communication systems but to compare a game console to a smartphone is ridiculous.
That said, I'm all for more open game consoles but they're not a good comparison.
haha, Flash doesn't things
I think that was Freudian.
Flash doesn't things you just can't do with the web using any other technology.
Once HTML5 has matured enough to compete, it'll be an option. But for now, HTML5 is practically vaporware.
This isn't the iPhone. There are other options available.
He writes erotic fiction based on well known science fiction properties. His latest book, Jean Luc Picard: Stone Cold Space Pimp, was amazing, I hear he won an award for it.
One CONE.
Ah, that is very plausible.
/edit Open Source *codecs may be attacked
Sure, Steve Jobs has been acting like a massive douche bag as of late, but he's just mentioning that the open source patents may be attacked if they pose a threat to profitable closed/very patented codecs.
I don't think Apple is somehow directly planning to sue Xiph or other open source codecs personally.
Which isn't the world wide web as we know it, how?
This isn't about outsourcing some kind of widget that can be duplicated and mass produced, it's about the data that drives the business itself.
What you suggest is like Paul McCartney outsourcing a new Beatles album.
Mod parent funny!
Good one, Pojut! LOL!
While I'm a huge fan of apocalyptic prophesies, I tend to agree.
The reason being, business is going to use the cloud but it's going to augment existing practices, not replace them. No sane business is going to trust all of their valuable IP with a 3rd party, there isn't a third party out there you can really trust. Not Google, Not Apple, Not Microsoft (LOL)... they've all had very serious and public security failings in their recent history.
This may be less true for consumers at home, but that's nothing new as "the cloud" for them is just a fancy new term for "the world wide web."
Increasing Silverlight's market share is what this is about.
Basically, Microsoft is going to embrace HTML5 and use it to hurt Flash, it'll then start to phase HTML5 support out once Flash's market share starts to take a large enough hit and talk about how HTML5 doesn't have enough support or doesn't "have all the features our users demand," then it will start to pimp Silverlight, integrated it with the next Xbox and so forth and remove "upgrade" all the devs to their Expression platform for developing Silverlight apps.
When the hell is Blizzard going to support all four of us Linux gamers? HUH?
Why so they can cry on my shoulder about getting owned by Nintendo?