Distributed computing isn't a satisfactory answer for most of these types of games. You need a single arbiter to decide what happens when player A swings his sword at player B, and vice versa, but player A has much more net lag... Does player B slow down, player A not swing, or do you assume player A is going to repeat their last action.
Not to mention, if you distribute the judging rules, then that means each copy of the game has the judging rules built in, which makes it orders of magnitude easier to hack and tweak to your advantage.
When I was training in Poughkeepsie, they say the program had been in continuous, unchanged use since the 60s. This program is called just apout anytime the Big Iron moves files around, even today.
Actually he's re-written the script umpteen times, trying to ease the burden off a child actor. But after talking to Jake Lloyd and hearing of his interest in the part, he recently rewrote the script with more Ender (and thus truer to the book) focus. On the production company's site, they have the first 15 pages or so of the script...
That's not true. If they were looking for smart and ruthless, they would have taken Peter. They were looking for someone empathic, yet strong-willed enough, and smart.
Also a good comment made on the frescopix site was that if the Stilson fight was put in, without the ability to read ender's mind (like we can in the book), people would be turned off too early to Ender as a character, thinking he was too ruthless.
The Bonzo scene is still in, but it may not be quite as graphic. OSC wants the movie to be rated PG-13.
Speaker(Awesome, but different than EG), Xenocide (weakest of the 3 imo), Children of the Mind (A fitting ending for the series)
1 Parallel:
Ender's Shadow -- Ender's Game from Bean's (a character in EG) perspective. Possibly filmed at the same time as EG (although I hope not, it seems silly to have the same movie filmed twice:)
According to posts 3-4 yrs ago, The Fantasy Game would be a 3D hologrophic type thing, sorta like a Toy Story-esque animation... I don't know how it will be now. -Bok
Actually, the only thing they are now cutting is Peter/Val... They can always add it in the sequel, and OSC is right, it won't translate well to film to see a couple of kids typing at a computer, and voice-overs would be cheesy, imho.
He WAS going to remove the Fantasy Game, but if you read the script excerpt, it's back in. Also the 'surprise' ending is only a surprise ending once, and yet I continue to reread the book, and still find it great. And anyways, THAT'S back in the movie as well, I believe.
But relax, only Peter/Val are gone (and the fight with Stilson:) -Bokonon
I immediately felt the way as many of the posters here. I told my friends this was just revenge of the nerds. I was fortunate; I had a decent set of friends (all brighter than I, so they received more of the antagonism than I), a family and church (-- insert community here) that was open and supportive, and my parents had the intelligence to immerse me in books/learning as well as sports. Not that I ever did too well at sports:), but I gained an appreciation and and love for sports, and an understanding of the 'jock' mindset. I think they understood that, and therefore why I was exempt from a lot of bullying (although there were a few close-calls). A solution: I recommend everyone read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Slapstick. If we could somehow implement (not literally how Vonnegut puuts it) his ideas, I believe we would be a much better society for it. -Bokonon PS- I was never invited to any parties either...:(
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Distributed computing isn't a satisfactory answer for most of these types of games. You need a single arbiter to decide what happens when player A swings his sword at player B, and vice versa, but player A has much more net lag... Does player B slow down, player A not swing, or do you assume player A is going to repeat their last action. Not to mention, if you distribute the judging rules, then that means each copy of the game has the judging rules built in, which makes it orders of magnitude easier to hack and tweak to your advantage.
See here.
When I was training in Poughkeepsie, they say the program had been in continuous, unchanged use since the 60s. This program is called just apout anytime the Big Iron moves files around, even today.
-Bok
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-Bok
Also a good comment made on the frescopix site was that if the Stilson fight was put in, without the ability to read ender's mind (like we can in the book), people would be turned off too early to Ender as a character, thinking he was too ruthless.
The Bonzo scene is still in, but it may not be quite as graphic. OSC wants the movie to be rated PG-13.
-Bok
Speaker(Awesome, but different than EG), Xenocide (weakest of the 3 imo), Children of the Mind (A fitting ending for the series)
1 Parallel:
Ender's Shadow -- Ender's Game from Bean's (a character in EG) perspective. Possibly filmed at the same time as EG (although I hope not, it seems silly to have the same movie filmed twice :)
-Bok
According to posts 3-4 yrs ago, The Fantasy Game would be a 3D hologrophic type thing, sorta like a Toy Story-esque animation... I don't know how it will be now. -Bok
He WAS going to remove the Fantasy Game, but if you read the script excerpt, it's back in. Also the 'surprise' ending is only a surprise ending once, and yet I continue to reread the book, and still find it great. And anyways, THAT'S back in the movie as well, I believe.
But relax, only Peter/Val are gone (and the fight with Stilson :) -Bokonon
I immediately felt the way as many of the posters here. I told my friends this was just revenge of the nerds. I was fortunate; I had a decent set of friends (all brighter than I, so they received more of the antagonism than I), a family and church (-- insert community here) that was open and supportive, and my parents had the intelligence to immerse me in books/learning as well as sports. Not that I ever did too well at sports :), but I gained an appreciation and and love for sports, and an understanding of the 'jock' mindset. I think they understood that, and therefore why I was exempt from a lot of bullying (although there were a few close-calls). A solution: I recommend everyone read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Slapstick. If we could somehow implement (not literally how Vonnegut puuts it) his ideas, I believe we would be a much better society for it. -Bokonon PS- I was never invited to any parties either... :(