the world doesn't need a single game engine more that isn't coupled to a game. there's way too many of them already.
I'm still looking for one that's Open Source and really usable. I had hopes about NeoAxis, but it turned out to be commercial as well.
I'm aware that building a game engine is hard and thus needs a lot of money, but somehow it worked out greatly for a certain graphics engine, even though it's the same problem in the same industry.
and imaginative games tend to need the engines customized to the moon anyways.
That's why you can get the source to nearly every engine (if you can pay for the super premium license).
there really aren't that many engines that support planets in solar systems in galaxies like frontier first encounter..
I don't know that game, but generally, with a bit of smoke & mirrors (clever LoD, static cubemaps, etc.) most engines can be used for space shooters.
You could just build a webpage describing the project and ask for preorders (using paypal or Fastspring or whatever), then do some (free) social media advertising.
I was pondering it more in a voluntary sense. Say for example that I, as a game developer, due to circumstances beyond my control am unable to finish the project I started.[...] If this happens, is there some established mechanism for me to return funds to the people who were kind enough to support the project, without anybody having to sue anybody?
Kickstarter itself doesn't provide any.
I suppose in many cases the money is simply gone, but for me the alternative to my game project is finding a "real job", in which case I think I'd feel somewhat morally compelled to attempt to return people's hard earned money for a project that never came to pass.
If you don't have a "real" job besides the Kickstarter project, how are you paying your rent/food/equipment/etc? If you use the Kickstarter money for that, it's gone by the time you know you have failed.
If you do have a job besides the Kickstarter project, it might go on forever, since there is no extrinsic motivation for you finishing it on time. This has already happend with game projects on Kickstarter, and the backers were not amused. I researched one of these events, and the developer specifically said in an update "I had multiple projects going with a deadline, and the Kickstarter one was the only one where slipping the date wouldn't mean having to pay for a contract violation." That was two years ago, and he still hasn't delivered.
But seriously, does anyone know what games were developed there? Falafel Games seems to best be known for "Knights of Glory," which I've never heard of. But anything bigger?
I guess if they had any projects, they were developed for big game productions, where you aren't allowed to talk at all about it.
What's the program? Sounds like there might be some money in recoding those calculations into a nice shiny iPhone app...
I don't know, and I'm unable to ask (due to something unrelated to this). However, I guess the application isn't that popular even among astrologers, since otherwise the original programmer would likely have rewritten it using a more modern approach.
No fortune teller believes in their own powers any more than a stage magician does.
I actually know someone personally who does believe in her own future prediction power. How I can be sure? She makes financially obviously unsound decisions like selling her nearly-new car, etc. because of some calculations she did based on the current locations of some molten rocks in the sky. She actually has to run a special Win 3.1 program for that, because it's the only one which does the calculations she needs.
To provide customers with a skillful illusion requires the awareness of building the illusion - the fortune teller has to cold-read their customer, provide vague hints and leading questions.
Generally yes, but you can learn to do that unconsciously, to the point where you can do that successfully on yourself. You just have to really believe in it.
well, one easy standard to apply is "would they do were it not forced on them?" i have yet to read about or see any animal in the wild stockpile their milk outside their bodies, let alone for consumption by another species.
So a mother feeding her child directly is vegan, but a mother stockpiling bottles of her milk (so the father can feed as well) is not?
Milk is vegan, if the animal you obtain it from, consents to give it to you [...]
But since non-human animals can't give us consent to take the milk they produced for their own offspring, that stolen cows' or goats' milk is not vegan.
That's highly subjective -- How do you define "consent" when it comes to animals without speech? Modern cows certainly don't look like they're objecting to that part of their treatment (it even saves their lives, actually). If you're saying they only do that because they were bred that way (which is correct)... Well, the same can be said for human females.
There's those pesky little specks called Austria and Switzerland right in the middle of the continent that make the whole deal really unpleasant. No matter where you want to go in Europe you pretty much have to cross them.
Being from Austria I can tell you that there's absolutely no spine involved when it comes to our politicians. Don't expect any miracles there (and the US knows that).
In practice, the child most likely had the password. Note that you can also disable in-app purchases in the settings (and protect that setting with a different password).
That's still a textual serialization though, just with a different container. Since there is a one-to-one mapping between classes and files in Java, it already kinda does that.
Maybe there's a way to represent code with no text commands at all? CryEngine's Flowgraph already does that, but its solution is of limited use (it gets really messy with more complicated code).
At least until [...] they finally implement signed apps and sandboxing (which Apple keeps delaying since developers keep screaming about it).
No, sandboxing is there and working fine (actually too fine, that's why the devs keep screaming), it's just not mandatory for apps in the MAS yet. You can enable a sandbox column in the activity monitor to check which apps are already using it.
Replaceable batteries or a built-in SD card reader would mean adding extra hardware and an access port, which would mean a bulkier phone, a worse product.
On the risk that I may sound like an Apple apologist (I'm far from one!):
Apple only protects their OS, they do not hide files from you on Mac OS X.
Apple tries to produce good products (even though they fail a lot at that), but generally honors the warranty.
They don't sponsor the RIAA/MPAA (only indirectly by giving the member companies an outlet to sell their stuff). What Steve Jobs did was dragging them to digital distribution kicking and screaming. Without Apple, I guess we still couldn't buy music online legally.
Apple was the first to fully adopt industry standards like USB and Thunderbolt, while creating their own industry standards like IEEE1394 (FireWire) and OpenCL. They were the first cellphone maker to use the 3.5mm audio connector. Their cordless mice and keyboards all use standard batteries.
Their game was already essentially complete and had won some indie game dev awards and got a lot of positive press. It essentially falls under "people who already have a name" at that point.
Without anything to show, you wouldn't get a junior job at a regular game development company, not even thinking about running your own project...
It's certainly not a lie, this is just Slashdot demonizing an industry they don't like. The music industry wasn't trying to discourage piracy because they enjoy spending money on lawyers or revel in negative press. It's a theory that this latest piece of evidence doesn't bear out, although it certainly doesn't disprove.
No, I think the working theory is that the music industry is run by a bunch of old guys who just don't get the generations younger than 50, and are set in the ways of thinking they acquired in the fifties when they were young. They want everything to keep running the way it was back then.
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But if your predecessor started to beat me with a lead pipe, and then you stopped the beating, I would vote for you.
The problem is, since all of the applicants have financial incentive to not stop beating you, they won't stop, since you can't vote against them.
the world doesn't need a single game engine more that isn't coupled to a game. there's way too many of them already.
I'm still looking for one that's Open Source and really usable. I had hopes about NeoAxis, but it turned out to be commercial as well.
I'm aware that building a game engine is hard and thus needs a lot of money, but somehow it worked out greatly for a certain graphics engine, even though it's the same problem in the same industry.
and imaginative games tend to need the engines customized to the moon anyways.
That's why you can get the source to nearly every engine (if you can pay for the super premium license).
there really aren't that many engines that support planets in solar systems in galaxies like frontier first encounter..
I don't know that game, but generally, with a bit of smoke & mirrors (clever LoD, static cubemaps, etc.) most engines can be used for space shooters.
You could just build a webpage describing the project and ask for preorders (using paypal or Fastspring or whatever), then do some (free) social media advertising.
First, don't build a game engine.
I personally don't have an issue with him building a game engine, but it should be the only project there :)
I was pondering it more in a voluntary sense. Say for example that I, as a game developer, due to circumstances beyond my control am unable to finish the project I started.[...] If this happens, is there some established mechanism for me to return funds to the people who were kind enough to support the project, without anybody having to sue anybody?
Kickstarter itself doesn't provide any.
I suppose in many cases the money is simply gone, but for me the alternative to my game project is finding a "real job", in which case I think I'd feel somewhat morally compelled to attempt to return people's hard earned money for a project that never came to pass.
If you don't have a "real" job besides the Kickstarter project, how are you paying your rent/food/equipment/etc? If you use the Kickstarter money for that, it's gone by the time you know you have failed.
If you do have a job besides the Kickstarter project, it might go on forever, since there is no extrinsic motivation for you finishing it on time. This has already happend with game projects on Kickstarter, and the backers were not amused. I researched one of these events, and the developer specifically said in an update "I had multiple projects going with a deadline, and the Kickstarter one was the only one where slipping the date wouldn't mean having to pay for a contract violation." That was two years ago, and he still hasn't delivered.
Kickstarter would never lie to us.
No, they don't. See Who is responsible for fulfilling the promises of a project? on their FAQ. Spoiler: They don't claim to verify anything other than that the project idea itself is ok for Kickstarter.
And you thought women programmers were rare HERE.
But seriously, does anyone know what games were developed there? Falafel Games seems to best be known for "Knights of Glory," which I've never heard of. But anything bigger?
I guess if they had any projects, they were developed for big game productions, where you aren't allowed to talk at all about it.
What's the program? Sounds like there might be some money in recoding those calculations into a nice shiny iPhone app...
I don't know, and I'm unable to ask (due to something unrelated to this). However, I guess the application isn't that popular even among astrologers, since otherwise the original programmer would likely have rewritten it using a more modern approach.
No fortune teller believes in their own powers any more than a stage magician does.
I actually know someone personally who does believe in her own future prediction power. How I can be sure? She makes financially obviously unsound decisions like selling her nearly-new car, etc. because of some calculations she did based on the current locations of some molten rocks in the sky. She actually has to run a special Win 3.1 program for that, because it's the only one which does the calculations she needs.
To provide customers with a skillful illusion requires the awareness of building the illusion - the fortune teller has to cold-read their customer, provide vague hints and leading questions.
Generally yes, but you can learn to do that unconsciously, to the point where you can do that successfully on yourself. You just have to really believe in it.
Fox News is pretty big and there are lots of examples of them leaning far right
If you can call Fox News a "news publication", I can call The Lord of the Rings a "nature documentary".
well, one easy standard to apply is "would they do were it not forced on them?" i have yet to read about or see any animal in the wild stockpile their milk outside their bodies, let alone for consumption by another species.
So a mother feeding her child directly is vegan, but a mother stockpiling bottles of her milk (so the father can feed as well) is not?
Milk is vegan, if the animal you obtain it from, consents to give it to you [...]
But since non-human animals can't give us consent to take the milk they produced for their own offspring, that stolen cows' or goats' milk is not vegan.
That's highly subjective -- How do you define "consent" when it comes to animals without speech? Modern cows certainly don't look like they're objecting to that part of their treatment (it even saves their lives, actually). If you're saying they only do that because they were bred that way (which is correct)... Well, the same can be said for human females.
Why the fuck would they do that???
More volume & money than the other 10 combined?
There's those pesky little specks called Austria and Switzerland right in the middle of the continent that make the whole deal really unpleasant. No matter where you want to go in Europe you pretty much have to cross them.
Being from Austria I can tell you that there's absolutely no spine involved when it comes to our politicians. Don't expect any miracles there (and the US knows that).
In practice, the child most likely had the password. Note that you can also disable in-app purchases in the settings (and protect that setting with a different password).
That's still a textual serialization though, just with a different container. Since there is a one-to-one mapping between classes and files in Java, it already kinda does that.
Maybe there's a way to represent code with no text commands at all? CryEngine's Flowgraph already does that, but its solution is of limited use (it gets really messy with more complicated code).
At least until [...] they finally implement signed apps and sandboxing (which Apple keeps delaying since developers keep screaming about it).
No, sandboxing is there and working fine (actually too fine, that's why the devs keep screaming), it's just not mandatory for apps in the MAS yet. You can enable a sandbox column in the activity monitor to check which apps are already using it.
But it begs the question if anyone has ever been jailed for copyright infringement.
Yep: Kino.to Admin Gets 2,5 Years Prison Sentence.
Replaceable batteries or a built-in SD card reader would mean adding extra hardware and an access port, which would mean a bulkier phone, a worse product.
On the risk that I may sound like an Apple apologist (I'm far from one!):
Their game was already essentially complete and had won some indie game dev awards and got a lot of positive press. It essentially falls under "people who already have a name" at that point.
Without anything to show, you wouldn't get a junior job at a regular game development company, not even thinking about running your own project...
It's just one of the many problems with the DCMA - a law that seemingly is quite outdated and needs a lot of rethinking.
They did that, and the "solution" is SOPA. Pray that the government doesn't implement that thought (you can't do anything else about it anyways).
Kikstarter lets people who already have a name get funding for their pet project.
Tell that to the oh-so-well-known game developers Justin Ma and Matthew Davis (not the actor), who run the Faster Than Light Kickstarter project.
It's certainly not a lie, this is just Slashdot demonizing an industry they don't like. The music industry wasn't trying to discourage piracy because they enjoy spending money on lawyers or revel in negative press. It's a theory that this latest piece of evidence doesn't bear out, although it certainly doesn't disprove.
No, I think the working theory is that the music industry is run by a bunch of old guys who just don't get the generations younger than 50, and are set in the ways of thinking they acquired in the fifties when they were young. They want everything to keep running the way it was back then.
Agreed, I used to doze off in lectures, until I started taking notes. Now that keeps me awake all day on conferences.