Well damn. I thought I tried that and it didn't work. Thanks for pointing that out.
I will admit, other than those damnably terrible colour conversions/choices, Calc works mostly well for me. I just used a Calc problem in my above post because I have it open right now.
Other than their Wiki (and in-program help), is there a good place for finding random help/insight/tricks for using OpenOffice?
I think that MS will have a hard time maintaining market share in the next 30 years on the desktop market. [...] over the long term, there's no way that MS can keep on charging for upgrades to software when software with the same features can be had for free.
Features is one thing, but efficiency is a totally other ball game. And maybe it's just me (and I do use more advanced features that many other people), there's no way in a frozen hell that OpenOffice is going to catch up to Microsoft with that.
For example, adding cells into Excel/Calc. In the Calc version I have*, I can only add 1 row/column of cells at a time. If I need to do it 5 times, not only do I have to do multiple clicks to add in a single row, I have to do that five times. There doesn't seem to be any easy keyboard shortcut even. In Excel, I can just highlight 5 rows and add them all in at the same time. Even better, since I do this a lot, I have a button setup so I can do this is far fewer clicks.
It's small crap like that which really adds up.
*Yeah, I'm running version 3.1 right now, but I'm not holding my breath that this specific upgrade is in 3.2. I will be looking for it though.
What hurt the Wii [...] was its very weak multiplayer capability.
Wii supports four Wii Remotes and four GameCube controllers per console. Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii allow for up to four players, and I've read about Wii games that allow for up to five.
Amusingly, there is a game that actually has a mode which allows up to 8 people to play simultaneously: Bust-A-Move Bash!
That said, that mode is fucking terrible, but it exists.
Which I suppose makes the whole 160% thing the GP pointed out actually rather interesting; wouldn't a percentage that low indicate that far more titles are single-platform than multi-platform? I thought releasing your game on every damn platform possible (or at least 360/PS3) was the thing that everyone did now...
You think Apple doesn't have people analysing places like Slashdot?
It's 2010. The producers of Lost study Lost fan forums, and make agile changes to the show in according to what they find.
People who frequent the Lost fan forums are obviously a significant portion of the Lost show's target market. What makes you think that the Slashdot forums are actually remotely comparable in terms of Apple's target markets? We're definitely a portion of it, but the significance is extremely questionable.
Adjust the scenario so that in some minutes one side or the other will receive reinforcements if they haven’t been eliminated, and you won’t have the two camping snipers. One of them will have to seek out and kill the other, die trying, or be suddenly faced with very bad odds.
That's a good start. You then have the issue of games lasting literally forever, but there can still be mitigating factors added into that (such as win by points after X minutes, or if Y team stays above a certain player count for Z time they win, etc).
I'm fairly certain actually realistic shooters exist. It's just that realistic mechanics, from a player perspective, are extremely boring, except for in a few limited cases (only one I can think of that is fun and isn't at least a bit fantastic or sci-fi is Counter Strike).
With the whole rise of casual gamer shenanigans going on, making games realistically punishing isn't lucrative in the slightest. Even the most successful hardcore/brutally evil game that has come out recently, Demon's Souls, has a lot of unrealistic elements in it (such as excessive hit points, predictable AI, magic, etc).
The average cost to bring a new coder up to speed measures in the 10s of thousands of dollars.
Your typical PHB doesn't even understand that. He'll probably think it means you hired someone who can't type very fast.
Well, I hope that isn't the case. I remember when I was going through post secondary, when my Professional Development instructor was going over why you don't want to waste the time of someone who's interviewing you, because if you ballpark what they make in an hour, then take into account the amount of time to:
-Listen to initial cold calls/read resume -Interview you -Do any other administration work to get you hired -Introduce you to the working environment
That can be multiple hours, which indeed can be multiple thousands of dollars.
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Sounds unique enough to be worth experiencing, at least. As a game designer, I'm certainly interested.
Thanks for all of the insight, by the way.
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Sounds entertaining.
It really is a shame that this game isn't planned to be multiplayer, as it sounds like it has potential. That said, one of my roommates has been playing Mushroom Wars (I believe it is called), which is a PSN title that is an interesting take on the RTS genre as well, but we both feel that the game promotes defensive play way too much, which would make multiplayer absolutely terrible. So maybe it's for the best, or maybe Eufloria may not suffer from that, and something cool with multiplayer could happen.
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You seem to be the right person to ask in the thread then...
What is the objective of the game/each level? Somehow, amongst all of the complaints/defending of the game/review, that still doesn't seem to be mentioned.
You say "Piracy is rampant" but Apple _is_ releasing updates and making manufacturing changes on a fairly regular basis to try and foil the jailbreakers.
1) Open iTunes and Google 2) Do a google search for any random app that's in a non-free top 100 list (overall or specific genre) 3) View first page or two
If you don't come up with at least one page that has a download for a pirated version for at least 90% of the apps you check, I'll be god damn shocked. I've seen apps I worked on available to be pirated within 24 hours of release (before most people even knew about it, and it was a sequel to a previously successful game).
Even if your allegation that Apple is releasing updates constantly is true, it's doing virtually nothing.
The big thing is that the games for the iPod Touch are very, very cheap compared to the prices for the DS and the PSP.
Which is why there are DSi Ware titles and PSP Minis. Both are pretty sad attempts to capitalize on the market (DSi Ware has a few gems, but is otherwise extrordinarily small, and PSP Minis right now are basically just a few iPod Touch ports for double the price), but they do exist.
Tetris is between zero and two bucks on the iPod Touch, while it grosses more than $30 on the DS.
That's also because the DS game has wicked multiplayer (including an excellent handicap system and revenge system), items, superb gameplay physics, and other features. You're not going to get that at even half the quality on an iPod Touch (unless all you want is solo, simple gameplay, in which case you can easily get what you want for less with a Touch).
This is the model to explore for iPhone game developers who are complaining about market resistance to price points above $2, and piracy.
I was just about to say "Nope", but...
My coworker, just before I hit "Submit", got an email from the iPhone Developer Program titled "In App Purchaces Allowed for Free Apps", so yes, maybe it is.
I have an idea, how about making sure that the ORIGINAL unedited version is available upon request, with a link in the advertisement to the source of the original.
Two problems:
1) This is only possible to implement online, and not in TV/Magazines/Handout paper ads/etc
2) What's stopping me from doing a few filter/saturation changes after doing any major liquefy work (ie submitting a photo that has been manipulated)? Care to inform us how you'll be able to prove that "her cheek bones aren't that high" or some similar manipulation?
If Ford said they would install free car alarms in every Ford, do you think that would apply to cars that had been reported stolen?
Then some jackass wanders into the conversation and states that the cost to Ford for making the car alarms and hiring people to install them is not equal to the cost of just letting people download something you're effectively giving away for free (or at a very small loss, if you're thinking about bandwidth costs).
And if it isn't about the cost of adding this on, then why would Microsoft be disallowing this? To feel like they're on moral high ground?
Slashdot Mirror
[..] googling site:oooforums.org $TOPIC would work well also.
Fair enough. Thanks for the tip.
Well damn. I thought I tried that and it didn't work. Thanks for pointing that out.
I will admit, other than those damnably terrible colour conversions/choices, Calc works mostly well for me. I just used a Calc problem in my above post because I have it open right now.
Other than their Wiki (and in-program help), is there a good place for finding random help/insight/tricks for using OpenOffice?
I think that MS will have a hard time maintaining market share in the next 30 years on the desktop market. [...] over the long term, there's no way that MS can keep on charging for upgrades to software when software with the same features can be had for free.
Features is one thing, but efficiency is a totally other ball game. And maybe it's just me (and I do use more advanced features that many other people), there's no way in a frozen hell that OpenOffice is going to catch up to Microsoft with that.
For example, adding cells into Excel/Calc. In the Calc version I have*, I can only add 1 row/column of cells at a time. If I need to do it 5 times, not only do I have to do multiple clicks to add in a single row, I have to do that five times. There doesn't seem to be any easy keyboard shortcut even. In Excel, I can just highlight 5 rows and add them all in at the same time. Even better, since I do this a lot, I have a button setup so I can do this is far fewer clicks.
It's small crap like that which really adds up.
*Yeah, I'm running version 3.1 right now, but I'm not holding my breath that this specific upgrade is in 3.2. I will be looking for it though.
What hurt the Wii [...] was its very weak multiplayer capability.
Wii supports four Wii Remotes and four GameCube controllers per console. Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii allow for up to four players, and I've read about Wii games that allow for up to five.
Amusingly, there is a game that actually has a mode which allows up to 8 people to play simultaneously: Bust-A-Move Bash!
That said, that mode is fucking terrible, but it exists.
Which I suppose makes the whole 160% thing the GP pointed out actually rather interesting; wouldn't a percentage that low indicate that far more titles are single-platform than multi-platform? I thought releasing your game on every damn platform possible (or at least 360/PS3) was the thing that everyone did now...
"To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory."
— Pierre Corneille, Le Cid
Sure, but what do you do when some of your audience wants the triumph and doesn't actually care about the glory?
Thus, the conundrum of attempting to meet casual and hardcore in the middle.
You think Apple doesn't have people analysing places like Slashdot?
It's 2010. The producers of Lost study Lost fan forums, and make agile changes to the show in according to what they find.
People who frequent the Lost fan forums are obviously a significant portion of the Lost show's target market. What makes you think that the Slashdot forums are actually remotely comparable in terms of Apple's target markets? We're definitely a portion of it, but the significance is extremely questionable.
Adjust the scenario so that in some minutes one side or the other will receive reinforcements if they haven’t been eliminated, and you won’t have the two camping snipers. One of them will have to seek out and kill the other, die trying, or be suddenly faced with very bad odds.
That's a good start. You then have the issue of games lasting literally forever, but there can still be mitigating factors added into that (such as win by points after X minutes, or if Y team stays above a certain player count for Z time they win, etc).
They exist.
That said, they're not wide spread because, like most gaming peripherals, they're not a standard and don't actually add to your ability to succeed.
That and I guess that most people that play games aren't into the whole "learn through pain of failure" thing (or at least literally).
And here I was, thinking "oh, nobody's posted yet, maybe I can open with something interesting".
Shouldn't have wasted time hitting the damn refresh button.
I'm fairly certain actually realistic shooters exist. It's just that realistic mechanics, from a player perspective, are extremely boring, except for in a few limited cases (only one I can think of that is fun and isn't at least a bit fantastic or sci-fi is Counter Strike).
With the whole rise of casual gamer shenanigans going on, making games realistically punishing isn't lucrative in the slightest. Even the most successful hardcore/brutally evil game that has come out recently, Demon's Souls, has a lot of unrealistic elements in it (such as excessive hit points, predictable AI, magic, etc).
The average cost to bring a new coder up to speed measures in the 10s of thousands of dollars.
Your typical PHB doesn't even understand that. He'll probably think it means you hired someone who can't type very fast.
Well, I hope that isn't the case. I remember when I was going through post secondary, when my Professional Development instructor was going over why you don't want to waste the time of someone who's interviewing you, because if you ballpark what they make in an hour, then take into account the amount of time to:
-Listen to initial cold calls/read resume
-Interview you
-Do any other administration work to get you hired
-Introduce you to the working environment
That can be multiple hours, which indeed can be multiple thousands of dollars.
Sounds unique enough to be worth experiencing, at least. As a game designer, I'm certainly interested.
Thanks for all of the insight, by the way.
Sounds entertaining.
It really is a shame that this game isn't planned to be multiplayer, as it sounds like it has potential. That said, one of my roommates has been playing Mushroom Wars (I believe it is called), which is a PSN title that is an interesting take on the RTS genre as well, but we both feel that the game promotes defensive play way too much, which would make multiplayer absolutely terrible. So maybe it's for the best, or maybe Eufloria may not suffer from that, and something cool with multiplayer could happen.
You seem to be the right person to ask in the thread then...
What is the objective of the game/each level? Somehow, amongst all of the complaints/defending of the game/review, that still doesn't seem to be mentioned.
You say "Piracy is rampant" but Apple _is_ releasing updates and making manufacturing changes on a fairly regular basis to try and foil the jailbreakers.
1) Open iTunes and Google
2) Do a google search for any random app that's in a non-free top 100 list (overall or specific genre)
3) View first page or two
If you don't come up with at least one page that has a download for a pirated version for at least 90% of the apps you check, I'll be god damn shocked. I've seen apps I worked on available to be pirated within 24 hours of release (before most people even knew about it, and it was a sequel to a previously successful game).
Even if your allegation that Apple is releasing updates constantly is true, it's doing virtually nothing.
As near as I can tell, your version of "greater good" is "whatever benefits or doesn't hurt me".
A good portion of his argument revolves around the idea that the company is keeping other people employed, and you're saying he's the selfish one?
I never said the iPod Touch/iPhone wasn't worthless, I just said it doesn't compete in the same space as the PSP and DSi.
Granted, but the spaces still overlap enough that the DSi Shop competes with the App Store.
Saying DSi Ware competes with the App Store is like saying the local Mom'n'Pops store competes with the global chain of Walmart.
Nintendo may be large and popular, but their DSi Shop sure as hell isn't.
The big thing is that the games for the iPod Touch are very, very cheap compared to the prices for the DS and the PSP.
Which is why there are DSi Ware titles and PSP Minis. Both are pretty sad attempts to capitalize on the market (DSi Ware has a few gems, but is otherwise extrordinarily small, and PSP Minis right now are basically just a few iPod Touch ports for double the price), but they do exist.
Tetris is between zero and two bucks on the iPod Touch, while it grosses more than $30 on the DS.
That's also because the DS game has wicked multiplayer (including an excellent handicap system and revenge system), items, superb gameplay physics, and other features. You're not going to get that at even half the quality on an iPod Touch (unless all you want is solo, simple gameplay, in which case you can easily get what you want for less with a Touch).
Thank you; you have made my day.
This is the model to explore for iPhone game developers who are complaining about market resistance to price points above $2, and piracy.
I was just about to say "Nope", but...
My coworker, just before I hit "Submit", got an email from the iPhone Developer Program titled "In App Purchaces Allowed for Free Apps", so yes, maybe it is.
The control scheme (which is never explained) makes sense only on QWERTY keyboards and can't be changed [...]
Press "k". It says so in the instructions (which is in the same root folder as the *exe file).
I have an idea, how about making sure that the ORIGINAL unedited version is available upon request, with a link in the advertisement to the source of the original.
Two problems:
1) This is only possible to implement online, and not in TV/Magazines/Handout paper ads/etc
2) What's stopping me from doing a few filter/saturation changes after doing any major liquefy work (ie submitting a photo that has been manipulated)? Care to inform us how you'll be able to prove that "her cheek bones aren't that high" or some similar manipulation?
If Ford said they would install free car alarms in every Ford, do you think that would apply to cars that had been reported stolen?
Then some jackass wanders into the conversation and states that the cost to Ford for making the car alarms and hiring people to install them is not equal to the cost of just letting people download something you're effectively giving away for free (or at a very small loss, if you're thinking about bandwidth costs).
And if it isn't about the cost of adding this on, then why would Microsoft be disallowing this? To feel like they're on moral high ground?
Few viruses can make you puke just by looking at them.
Yeah, but hasn't Windows viruses been one of the things they're hated for?..