What would excite a developer? How about little to no licensing fees? Right now, developing a console title means you give big bucks to console manufacter for the initial development kit and licensing rights for every copy you produce.
So, why would linux-as-console excite developers more than linux-as-desktop? There are already open development libraries for making games on Linux (OpenGL, SDL, etc.). How does making a Linux "gaming console" make Linux game development any more exciting or profitable than it already
is (or isn't) on Linux desktop machines?
There are two kinds of "Role Playing Games" in my mind. Stats-based advancement games, like Diablo and EverQuest, which are very popular, but less interesting to me, and games where you play a role first and the leveling up is less a focus, like Thief and Ultima. Leveling games are easier to build and often more popular. Yet, I feel that when the craft of role-playing is mastered some day, they will be the most desirable. Most console games are stats based games, thus less interesting to me.
Most console games are stats based games? More stats based than Ultima? It's always appeared to me that PC RPGs have far more statistics and complicated math than console RPGs. Perhaps he has more complex in mind in his "stats-based" vs. "playing a role" categories. Yet I fail to see how you could call advancement in Final Fantasy stats-based, and how could you describe console RPGs without describing Square?
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YOUR laser is april 1th.
LASER 1: PERL
LASER 2: HATRED.
LASER 3: PARROT.
MY dance is my nonchalance.
Together we become LASERDANCE (YOU + ME)
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So, why would linux-as-console excite developers more than linux-as-desktop? There are already open development libraries for making games on Linux (OpenGL, SDL, etc.). How does making a Linux "gaming console" make Linux game development any more exciting or profitable than it already is (or isn't) on Linux desktop machines?
How do you feel about the new console RPGs?
There are two kinds of "Role Playing Games" in my mind. Stats-based advancement games, like Diablo and EverQuest, which are very popular, but less interesting to me, and games where you play a role first and the leveling up is less a focus, like Thief and Ultima. Leveling games are easier to build and often more popular. Yet, I feel that when the craft of role-playing is mastered some day, they will be the most desirable. Most console games are stats based games, thus less interesting to me.
Most console games are stats based games? More stats based than Ultima? It's always appeared to me that PC RPGs have far more statistics and complicated math than console RPGs. Perhaps he has more complex in mind in his "stats-based" vs. "playing a role" categories. Yet I fail to see how you could call advancement in Final Fantasy stats-based, and how could you describe console RPGs without describing Square?
I AM DANCING--IN FRONT OF YOUR LASER YOUR laser is april 1th. LASER 1: PERL LASER 2: HATRED. LASER 3: PARROT. MY dance is my nonchalance. Together we become LASERDANCE (YOU + ME)
The solution? Balancing the extreme power and cooling requirements of the processor by making the computer made out of PURE DEATH!!!
NeoNecroElectrical Engineering is the future...
Whoa! I want a Corel Linux arm! Corel Linux is the best artificial limb operating system ever created since Project ArmitageOS.
I always thought an ethernet card was a selling your ether short ;)
Hey, that's right! More numbers mean a higher
probability of words being spelled in your phone
number!
Hooray!