This is exactly how TellTale Games keeps improving their games: by listening to their customers. Heck, they even have contests sometimes that makes user-submitted lines or arts appear in their games.
If you're always experimenting, it's useful to see what the reception is. This is exactly what TellTale does, and it's working.
If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad, yes, but when you make a game you should already be able to make a judgement on what works and what doesn't. Ignoring them completely isn't going to make them happier, listening to them is, even if this means pissing off some other people (which will happen no matter what you do).
Well... It's a LAN party. Usually several computers with several keyboards and mice are involved. If not, I've seen (experimental) single-computer games use multiple keyboards and mice before, so bringing another mouse isn't exactly anything big. But if the games being played are gamepad-based, it's best to just bring a gamepad.
My only point here is that some controllers are just more suited to some types of games, but that doesn't stop game devs from trying stuff out.
Well, if you're going in that specific direction, one could argue that keyboards and mice are good enough for most types of games. Just not always the best. This is why PC gaming works most of the time even if you don't have the special controller for the best experience.
It's also the reason why there are FPSes for consoles. Having the best controller on a certain platform doesn't necessarily mean you'll be using it when you're doing stuff for a different platform, especially when it doesn't have the optimal type of controller. So the gaming studios try to compensate for it (like auto-aim), sometimes succeeding in at least making the experience enjoyable (and sometimes not).
I use gamepads on my PC regularly because they just work better for some types of games. It's a different type of controller, meant for different games. Also, the 100,000 buttons available on a XBox 360 controller requires quite a bit of coordination and memorization, especially when a game abuses them with awkward control schemes.
Of course, you wouldn't know this if you only ever played keyboard and mouse-appropriate games.
The Wiimotes still have the problem that you have to "touch" the edge of the screen to turn. I don't know if there are any FPSes out there that actually use the Wii remote expansion, but if there are, these games would really benefit from being able to just turn your remote around to turn your character around. Then you'd get near-mouse precision (I say near because flipping a Wii remote 90 degrees is still more effort and inconvenience than moving your mouse to the right quickly).
A keyboard/mouse combo is better for online first-person shooters, I'll grant. But that doesn't mean it's better for everything.
This pretty much goes without saying. Why do you think there's so many different types of controllers, and they're still in use? Because there simply are games that work best with that kind of controller.
I can see sprite collision detection becoming a very real-world example when people are actually going to write browser games, which is the primary use for Canvas anyway.
Image hosting sites, or sites hosting their own images? Image hosting sites have the actual opposite intent of actually providing you with a place to upload and hotlink your pictures, after all...
One reason could be because ARM is lower-power (by nature). Another could be because the processors have been making more and more of an introduction into computers with the introduction of some ARM-based netbooks and tablets. Realistically speaking, ARM notebooks couldn't be that far away.
But the current laws allow lawyers to abuse it, and so they do. The blame lies at both ends. Sure, having proper copyright law in place would stop the other thing, but that doesn't make the lawyers who pull off this kind of shit innocent.
Still better than the Wii, which doesn't let you set any language other than the one of the country you're in. Set anything else, and half of the built-in Wii channels suddenly stop working. I want my games in English, not in broken, badly translated Dutch (my native language)!
Opera was actually the first one to 100% the Acid3 test and adhere to the web standards the best, so I guess you meant to say 'Can IE finally render correctly the 75% of websites in the wild it couldn't before' that FF chrome and Opera have been able to do since the start?'
They already have all your data, and synchronize it on any machines you want it to. That's why backing up would become obsolete; the whole thing is basically based on a multi-machine capable backup restore type technology.
USB wasn't supported by anything else either. Though it became widespread fast enough.
Problem is, LightPeak is apparently a Mac "exclusive" right now, so I can't see the technology take off if it's only available for those computers for the first year (or longer?).
If I were to be hosting a website that merely links to child porn sites, would I be breaking the law or not? It's a very wrong thing to do in either case, and I'd more or less be "supporting" child porn in my own way.
(Disclaimer: there is no way I would do this, ever. Just a theoretical situation.)
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This is exactly how TellTale Games keeps improving their games: by listening to their customers. Heck, they even have contests sometimes that makes user-submitted lines or arts appear in their games.
If you're always experimenting, it's useful to see what the reception is. This is exactly what TellTale does, and it's working.
If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad, yes, but when you make a game you should already be able to make a judgement on what works and what doesn't. Ignoring them completely isn't going to make them happier, listening to them is, even if this means pissing off some other people (which will happen no matter what you do).
Well... It's a LAN party. Usually several computers with several keyboards and mice are involved. If not, I've seen (experimental) single-computer games use multiple keyboards and mice before, so bringing another mouse isn't exactly anything big. But if the games being played are gamepad-based, it's best to just bring a gamepad.
My only point here is that some controllers are just more suited to some types of games, but that doesn't stop game devs from trying stuff out.
Well, if you're going in that specific direction, one could argue that keyboards and mice are good enough for most types of games. Just not always the best. This is why PC gaming works most of the time even if you don't have the special controller for the best experience.
It's also the reason why there are FPSes for consoles. Having the best controller on a certain platform doesn't necessarily mean you'll be using it when you're doing stuff for a different platform, especially when it doesn't have the optimal type of controller. So the gaming studios try to compensate for it (like auto-aim), sometimes succeeding in at least making the experience enjoyable (and sometimes not).
Don't let kids under six play those games. It really makes sense when you think about it, you know.
Heck, I don't know anyone who'd have their kids play video games before they were at least five. It's just not a good thing to do.
Countering falseness with falseness doesn't work.
I use gamepads on my PC regularly because they just work better for some types of games. It's a different type of controller, meant for different games. Also, the 100,000 buttons available on a XBox 360 controller requires quite a bit of coordination and memorization, especially when a game abuses them with awkward control schemes.
Of course, you wouldn't know this if you only ever played keyboard and mouse-appropriate games.
The Wiimotes still have the problem that you have to "touch" the edge of the screen to turn. I don't know if there are any FPSes out there that actually use the Wii remote expansion, but if there are, these games would really benefit from being able to just turn your remote around to turn your character around. Then you'd get near-mouse precision (I say near because flipping a Wii remote 90 degrees is still more effort and inconvenience than moving your mouse to the right quickly).
Simple; either the game was coded badly when it comes to using gamepads, or your system isn't detecting three of them (possibly because of the HUB).
A keyboard/mouse combo is better for online first-person shooters, I'll grant. But that doesn't mean it's better for everything.
This pretty much goes without saying. Why do you think there's so many different types of controllers, and they're still in use? Because there simply are games that work best with that kind of controller.
Well, racecar drivers have a racecar, which is the controller more suited to going fast.
I can see sprite collision detection becoming a very real-world example when people are actually going to write browser games, which is the primary use for Canvas anyway.
I guess Jobs is ruler of his own little China now.
Image hosting sites, or sites hosting their own images? Image hosting sites have the actual opposite intent of actually providing you with a place to upload and hotlink your pictures, after all...
One reason could be because ARM is lower-power (by nature). Another could be because the processors have been making more and more of an introduction into computers with the introduction of some ARM-based netbooks and tablets. Realistically speaking, ARM notebooks couldn't be that far away.
But the current laws allow lawyers to abuse it, and so they do. The blame lies at both ends. Sure, having proper copyright law in place would stop the other thing, but that doesn't make the lawyers who pull off this kind of shit innocent.
It doesn't seem of any importance whatsoever to me, considering I had never heard of NX before opening this page.
Still better than the Wii, which doesn't let you set any language other than the one of the country you're in. Set anything else, and half of the built-in Wii channels suddenly stop working. I want my games in English, not in broken, badly translated Dutch (my native language)!
Europeans, Asians and Indians can't be really bad at geography now?
Opera was actually the first one to 100% the Acid3 test and adhere to the web standards the best, so I guess you meant to say 'Can IE finally render correctly the 75% of websites in the wild it couldn't before' that FF chrome and Opera have been able to do since the start?'
They already have all your data, and synchronize it on any machines you want it to. That's why backing up would become obsolete; the whole thing is basically based on a multi-machine capable backup restore type technology.
ChromeOS, not Chrome.
I'm afraid that Flash performance might get even worse if they do this, though. Flash performance is already bad.
Care to explain? DarkPlaces looks worse than Cube 2, judging by the screenshots...
USB wasn't supported by anything else either. Though it became widespread fast enough.
Problem is, LightPeak is apparently a Mac "exclusive" right now, so I can't see the technology take off if it's only available for those computers for the first year (or longer?).
If I were to be hosting a website that merely links to child porn sites, would I be breaking the law or not? It's a very wrong thing to do in either case, and I'd more or less be "supporting" child porn in my own way.
(Disclaimer: there is no way I would do this, ever. Just a theoretical situation.)
Yes. A first-gen Eee PC will stutter quite a bit, depending on how much you multitask. My lightweight laptop with 2 1Ghz cores is completely fine.
Can't wait to see how this will affect my lil' netbook.