The only games I've found on Steam that have any DRM are Source-based games, in that you can't run them without running Steam (though you can run them in offline mode). Everything else can just be launched from the.exe like normal, all Steam provides is a Library system (like Media players do for music and video)
Hell, some games you can buy WONT run from Steam, especially if they have a launcher programme that needs admin rights (like Fallen Earth or APB)
You're worried about achievements spoiling the plot of WoW when there's a great big statue in the middle of Dalaran that plays the LK Kill cinematic?
Also, remember Crusaders Colloseum's final boss? In the achievements it's just listed as "Complete the Crusaders Colloseum" or something similar. It doesn't say "Defeat xxxx" (honestly I don't know why I'm preserving spoilers from three patches ago, other than the sense of irony I'd get for spoiling the plot in a post about not spoiling the plot)
So the real question is, by doing a full game in flash, what are you limiting yourself?
well.. flash is expensive to make
I agree, it's around £400 for the full CS4 and £550 for CS5. You can however buy CS3 for under £100, which is good enough to make flash games (I've been using it for years before we upgraded to CS4). However, £100 for a better dev environment is better than hand rolling your own in dreamweaver or the like.
is not flexible to add content.
What? If you know what you're doing you can make some decently modular engines. Content is simple and easy to update, you can load in external files and use them as configs. You can load in other.SWFs into a parent one and seperated loading, content and engine.
Is also designed (mostly) for the fullscreen thing, read... most flash websites avoid the scroll bar.
Again what? Have you ever been to newgrounds? Okay, I admit there's alot of tripe on there but little or none of it forces you fullscreen, and what's all this nonsense about a scrollbar?
Virgin have better tech, but utterly shash customer service. Not only are they outsourced to India and about 50% of the time you speak to someone uninteligible, they're also not allowed to deviate from a set script, so when you have a complex problem you just have to keep shouting at them until they pass you to someone who can actually help you. Compound this with my tech-unsavvy gran who has a terrible time when something unusual pops up on her screen (ie, Films on demand selection screen showing over BBC1) and I'm not anywhere to help her, she ends up having to call their help number and just ends up getting frustrated. Honestly, they were going to send her out a brand new box because she doesn't know that pressing "TV" will clear whatever is on her screen, and their script doesn't cover crap like that.
Dream Theater opening for Iron Maiden?! You're lucky you got in at all:D but yeah, saying paperless system will speed up entry is utter nonsense. You still have to brandish your card/ID and they still have to check the system.
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and wreck the BIOS
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and overheat the system
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and remove the security on your WIFI hub
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and flag you as a terrorist
Chrome has built in dev tools that mimic pretty much what firebug does. It even does breakpoints in javascript. It's pretty much missing proper adblocking and flashblocking (I'm using adblock for chrome and it's one unwieldy bastard tbh). otherwise it's a good browser.
Although BT are upping their max speeds, it's limited in most places, they're only just rolling out fibre lines and hitting 20Mbps. Virgin have been offering 50Mbps for the past three years, and THAT is going up soon too. If I had to switch to BT to play OnLive it's not worth it (not that it'd be worth it on any other ISP imo)
A Client of mine - who shall remain nameless - has some of the least computer literate people I've ever met. The head's username is their first name, and password is 'password' - I just shake my head and facepalm. It's open to obvious abuse and we have NO control over it (I'm a content developer, as opposed to a sysadmin). As for Blackboard itself, they use it, it's the most convolouted horrible hard to learn LMS I've ever had the misfortune to have to use. I had to go through about seven menus just to get to the upload screen, and it's got more vague and uncertain options spread all over the screen it looks closer to the dash of a Boeing 747 than a website.
I'm studying for MS Certification (don't shun me) - the company basically said "We need a.Net developer, go do the exam, take Friday Afternoons to study, We'll give you a pay rise at the end too"
The problem is that the only viable alternative to Flash is Canvas. Internet Explorer doesn't support it except through a plugin Firefox supports it, but it's about 70% the speed of Chrome Chrome supports it, runs it the fastest (as far as I can tell anyway) but it's still about half as fast (Atleast) as an equivalent thing made in Flash.
Javascript needs a serious kick up the arse from where it is now to even think of taking on Flash. It also needs a decent Developer GUI that can be handled by Artists (like Flash has)
I love Canvas, and I love Javascript. But for ease of use, and for rapid development, I use Flash. Also, AS3 has a much better custom class syntax than JS that's much more similar to C++/C#.
I've used facebook before, never again. A friend of mine just moved to Australia and he's using pretty much every social networking tool out there to keep in touch. He's finding Google Wave best for keeping us up to date on big things and for posting images, and Twitter for day-to-day stuff. Not only can you keep in touch but you don't have to suffer adverts, no game invites, no throwing sheep at people.
As a developer however, I'm not against Facebook when it comes to milking a cash cow.
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The only games I've found on Steam that have any DRM are Source-based games, in that you can't run them without running Steam (though you can run them in offline mode). Everything else can just be launched from the .exe like normal, all Steam provides is a Library system (like Media players do for music and video)
Hell, some games you can buy WONT run from Steam, especially if they have a launcher programme that needs admin rights (like Fallen Earth or APB)
I have a job, you insensitive clod!
Just wait until we have nuclear powered space ships exploding and showering us with radioactive space dust.
I thought it wasn't so much about the fact they shopped it, but the fact that they skimped out and got some worthless hack to do a terrible job of it.
You're worried about achievements spoiling the plot of WoW when there's a great big statue in the middle of Dalaran that plays the LK Kill cinematic?
Also, remember Crusaders Colloseum's final boss? In the achievements it's just listed as "Complete the Crusaders Colloseum" or something similar. It doesn't say "Defeat xxxx" (honestly I don't know why I'm preserving spoilers from three patches ago, other than the sense of irony I'd get for spoiling the plot in a post about not spoiling the plot)
In that sentence you said specifically you were talking about flash games, and not websites.
I agree, it's around £400 for the full CS4 and £550 for CS5. You can however buy CS3 for under £100, which is good enough to make flash games (I've been using it for years before we upgraded to CS4). However, £100 for a better dev environment is better than hand rolling your own in dreamweaver or the like.
What? If you know what you're doing you can make some decently modular engines. Content is simple and easy to update, you can load in external files and use them as configs. You can load in other .SWFs into a parent one and seperated loading, content and engine.
Again what? Have you ever been to newgrounds? Okay, I admit there's alot of tripe on there but little or none of it forces you fullscreen, and what's all this nonsense about a scrollbar?
Obligitory... Dilbert?
I don't have many friends who play farmville. And those that do know not to send me that crap :)
Virgin have better tech, but utterly shash customer service. Not only are they outsourced to India and about 50% of the time you speak to someone uninteligible, they're also not allowed to deviate from a set script, so when you have a complex problem you just have to keep shouting at them until they pass you to someone who can actually help you.
Compound this with my tech-unsavvy gran who has a terrible time when something unusual pops up on her screen (ie, Films on demand selection screen showing over BBC1) and I'm not anywhere to help her, she ends up having to call their help number and just ends up getting frustrated. Honestly, they were going to send her out a brand new box because she doesn't know that pressing "TV" will clear whatever is on her screen, and their script doesn't cover crap like that.
Dream Theater opening for Iron Maiden?! You're lucky you got in at all :D
but yeah, saying paperless system will speed up entry is utter nonsense. You still have to brandish your card/ID and they still have to check the system.
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It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and wreck the BIOS
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and overheat the system
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and remove the security on your WIFI hub
It's a good thing he publishes the source code then. But yeah, using that type of software will void your warranty and flag you as a terrorist
Chrome has built in dev tools that mimic pretty much what firebug does. It even does breakpoints in javascript. It's pretty much missing proper adblocking and flashblocking (I'm using adblock for chrome and it's one unwieldy bastard tbh). otherwise it's a good browser.
I still prefer firefox though.
Although BT are upping their max speeds, it's limited in most places, they're only just rolling out fibre lines and hitting 20Mbps. Virgin have been offering 50Mbps for the past three years, and THAT is going up soon too. If I had to switch to BT to play OnLive it's not worth it (not that it'd be worth it on any other ISP imo)
... you would be typing
Wozniak gave birth to Jobs?! Damn you Rule 34
A Client of mine - who shall remain nameless - has some of the least computer literate people I've ever met. The head's username is their first name, and password is 'password' - I just shake my head and facepalm. It's open to obvious abuse and we have NO control over it (I'm a content developer, as opposed to a sysadmin). As for Blackboard itself, they use it, it's the most convolouted horrible hard to learn LMS I've ever had the misfortune to have to use. I had to go through about seven menus just to get to the upload screen, and it's got more vague and uncertain options spread all over the screen it looks closer to the dash of a Boeing 747 than a website.
I'm studying for MS Certification (don't shun me) - the company basically said "We need a .Net developer, go do the exam, take Friday Afternoons to study, We'll give you a pay rise at the end too"
The problem is that the only viable alternative to Flash is Canvas.
Internet Explorer doesn't support it except through a plugin
Firefox supports it, but it's about 70% the speed of Chrome
Chrome supports it, runs it the fastest (as far as I can tell anyway) but it's still about half as fast (Atleast) as an equivalent thing made in Flash.
Javascript needs a serious kick up the arse from where it is now to even think of taking on Flash. It also needs a decent Developer GUI that can be handled by Artists (like Flash has)
I love Canvas, and I love Javascript. But for ease of use, and for rapid development, I use Flash.
Also, AS3 has a much better custom class syntax than JS that's much more similar to C++/C#.
no, the Aurora Borealis will cause him to be ill too.
no *native* Linux client. It works superbly on WINE
Hah, I'd buy GTA V just to cause bendy bus carnage.
So... GTA:Eastenders
I've used facebook before, never again. A friend of mine just moved to Australia and he's using pretty much every social networking tool out there to keep in touch. He's finding Google Wave best for keeping us up to date on big things and for posting images, and Twitter for day-to-day stuff.
Not only can you keep in touch but you don't have to suffer adverts, no game invites, no throwing sheep at people.
As a developer however, I'm not against Facebook when it comes to milking a cash cow.