Check out our 2D game framework and real game samples, available at http://developer.popcap.com/index.php. We've used and continue to use this framework for all our own games. Nearly all the hard technical issues you'd need to tackle have been solved here, so you can really put your focus on game design. There's a pretty active community of people on the Popcap Developer Forums who can help you out too. Best of all, it comes with one of the most free and open open-source licenses out there. Give it a shot!
As I've posted elsewhere in this topic, our games are now and always will be 100% free of ad-ware and spy-ware. We hate ad-ware, spy-ware, and spam as much as you do. This is a case of Trend Micro falsely reporting our PopCapLoader ActiveX component as an ad-ware installer. We are in contact with Trend Micro right now to get this issue sorted out. Rest assured that all of our games, both deluxe titles and web-based ones, are free of ad-ware.
Since Firefox was getting so popular among our web site users and so many of us here at PopCap were using it as our default broswer, one of our guys wrote a useful plug-in to make our ActiveX web games work with Firefox under Windows.
> I'd rather be spyware free then have Bejeweled2.
I can guarantee you that Bejeweled 2 and every one of our other games are 100% free of ad-ware and spy-ware. We hate ad-ware, spy-ware and spam as much as all of you do, and we will never go down the road of putting sleazy features like these into our games. For us it's all about making games that are fun, simple, and addictive! I give you my word that you can and always will be able safely play Bejeweled 2 and any of our other games (both deluxe and web-based) without fear that we're going to install some kind of ad-ware of spy-ware on your system.
You can register in Linux and have it work in Windows. You'll get a registration key you can write down, then enter into the game once you're booted into Windows.
I'm running a fresh install of RedHat 8.0 on my Thinkpad T20. I downloaded the rpms from this Ximian ftp mirror site (other mirrors can be found here), moved them into a temporary directory, did an `rpm -e bonobo-conf-devel gtkhtml-devel`, then performed an `rpm -Uhv *rpm` from inside that temp directory. Evolution 1.2 installed perfectly, required no other file or library dependencies, and broke no existing file or library dependencies.
This definitely takes you off the path of pure RedHat Network up2date strategy, at least where those files/libraries are concerned, but for me it's worth the hassle of having the latest version of Evolution running on my system... YMMV, no warranty, etc.
Let's hope this doesn't turn into another Foobarco Systems All-Clients-in-the-Box(TM) thing like NWN turned out to be.
I'm beginning to think that sort of thing is becoming the game industry standard - clients for Mac and Linux turn up months after the Windows release does, as the company tries to find other ways to eek out the maximum revenue of a product whose sales are dwindling,
What's next? Is the RIAA going to sue Cisco because their border routers support BGP? Cisco devices carry the packets involved in nearly all internet file sharing services. Is the RIAA going to come after them for not filtering the contents of those packets as they make their way from hop to hop?
Don't be so sure. Remember back when the Intel said they were going to release every Pentium with a unique processor ID? They released it, but they were forced to implement it as an optional feature because of the public uproar it caused. Since the release of the unique processor ID feature, literally every system BIOS I've looked at since then has had the feature disabled. All because the buying public called them on it and said, resoundingly, "We don't want corporations tracking our activity or poking around in our private lives.".
Palladium will go the way of the unique processor ID, a disabled feature that nobody wanted in the first place, if it ever gets off the ground at all.
Though I wonder if running a dedicated linux server will take up your CD key?
Nope. I set up a Linux server last night and successfully logged in and played an internet multiplayer game on it with a buddy of mine. Worked great! =)
Develop a good UI and let experts in the area choose it and you will find that there are few people who disagree that it's the best.
Don't you think this is *exactly* the approach M$ uses in developing their Win UIs? It hasn't generated the best UI by any stretch of the imagination, as many long-time Windows users will tell you.
UI design doesn't come down to personal preference, it is based on common traits that almost all people share.
Not true at all - UI preference is a matter of training, exposure, and repetition. Users who begin their computing experience on Macs will, in all likelihood, come to prefer Mac UI over any other UI, only because they've become accustomed to using it and not a different UI. Even OS upgrades demonstrate this: a great example can be found in the UI changes between Win2K and WinXP. Long time Win2K users (especially admins) grumble at length when they first move to XP, because MS has changed the location, lay-out and content of so many of the system and application interfaces. If the so-called "UI experts" had nailed it the first time, there'd be far fewer admins playing hide-and-go-seek with their TCP/IP network settings interface!;)
Now, if these broken Web sites are revealed as such by a larger audience, we could see some improvements in the overall quality, because something tells me the typical AOL user will happily complain about anything.:)
What a sweet irony it'll be if (gasp!) AOL becomes a force for *improving* html standards compliance.
Gotta wonder what's going on over at Toshiba... Why didn't they commit to the standard along with everyone else? Seems like they've been somewhere outside the DVD group for awhile now, but I have to wonder if they're going to try moving forward with a spec of their own. Anyone know what's up with them?
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Check out our 2D game framework and real game samples, available at http://developer.popcap.com/index.php. We've used and continue to use this framework for all our own games. Nearly all the hard technical issues you'd need to tackle have been solved here, so you can really put your focus on game design. There's a pretty active community of people on the Popcap Developer Forums who can help you out too. Best of all, it comes with one of the most free and open open-source licenses out there. Give it a shot!
As I've posted elsewhere in this topic, our games are now and always will be 100% free of ad-ware and spy-ware. We hate ad-ware, spy-ware, and spam as much as you do. This is a case of Trend Micro falsely reporting our PopCapLoader ActiveX component as an ad-ware installer. We are in contact with Trend Micro right now to get this issue sorted out. Rest assured that all of our games, both deluxe titles and web-based ones, are free of ad-ware.
Since Firefox was getting so popular among our web site users and so many of us here at PopCap were using it as our default broswer, one of our guys wrote a useful plug-in to make our ActiveX web games work with Firefox under Windows.
Hope you all enjoy it!
> I'd rather be spyware free then have Bejeweled2.
I can guarantee you that Bejeweled 2 and every one of our other games are 100% free of ad-ware and spy-ware. We hate ad-ware, spy-ware and spam as much as all of you do, and we will never go down the road of putting sleazy features like these into our games. For us it's all about making games that are fun, simple, and addictive! I give you my word that you can and always will be able safely play Bejeweled 2 and any of our other games (both deluxe and web-based) without fear that we're going to install some kind of ad-ware of spy-ware on your system.
You can register in Linux and have it work in Windows. You'll get a registration key you can write down, then enter into the game once you're booted into Windows.
Looks like the doomed Columbia flight wasn't the first time hot gases intruded into a shuttle wing:
CNN Link
I'm running a fresh install of RedHat 8.0 on my Thinkpad T20. I downloaded the rpms from this Ximian ftp mirror site (other mirrors can be found here), moved them into a temporary directory, did an `rpm -e bonobo-conf-devel gtkhtml-devel`, then performed an `rpm -Uhv *rpm` from inside that temp directory. Evolution 1.2 installed perfectly, required no other file or library dependencies, and broke no existing file or library dependencies.
This definitely takes you off the path of pure RedHat Network up2date strategy, at least where those files/libraries are concerned, but for me it's worth the hassle of having the latest version of Evolution running on my system... YMMV, no warranty, etc.
If you are porting your java-based massive application to Mac, than ObjC is probably out.
;)
You're taking programming tips from someone who uses an IF-THAN statement?
Let's hope this doesn't turn into another Foobarco Systems All-Clients-in-the-Box(TM) thing like NWN turned out to be.
I'm beginning to think that sort of thing is becoming the game industry standard - clients for Mac and Linux turn up months after the Windows release does, as the company tries to find other ways to eek out the maximum revenue of a product whose sales are dwindling,
What's next? Is the RIAA going to sue Cisco because their border routers support BGP? Cisco devices carry the packets involved in nearly all internet file sharing services. Is the RIAA going to come after them for not filtering the contents of those packets as they make their way from hop to hop?
Sheesh.
Don't be so sure. Remember back when the Intel said they were going to release every Pentium with a unique processor ID? They released it, but they were forced to implement it as an optional feature because of the public uproar it caused. Since the release of the unique processor ID feature, literally every system BIOS I've looked at since then has had the feature disabled. All because the buying public called them on it and said, resoundingly, "We don't want corporations tracking our activity or poking around in our private lives.".
Palladium will go the way of the unique processor ID, a disabled feature that nobody wanted in the first place, if it ever gets off the ground at all.
Though I wonder if running a dedicated linux server will take up your CD key?
Nope. I set up a Linux server last night and successfully logged in and played an internet multiplayer game on it with a buddy of mine. Worked great! =)
Have fun! =)
Develop a good UI and let experts in the area choose it and you will find that there are few people who disagree that it's the best.
;)
Don't you think this is *exactly* the approach M$ uses in developing their Win UIs? It hasn't generated the best UI by any stretch of the imagination, as many long-time Windows users will tell you.
UI design doesn't come down to personal preference, it is based on common traits that almost all people share.
Not true at all - UI preference is a matter of training, exposure, and repetition. Users who begin their computing experience on Macs will, in all likelihood, come to prefer Mac UI over any other UI, only because they've become accustomed to using it and not a different UI. Even OS upgrades demonstrate this: a great example can be found in the UI changes between Win2K and WinXP. Long time Win2K users (especially admins) grumble at length when they first move to XP, because MS has changed the location, lay-out and content of so many of the system and application interfaces. If the so-called "UI experts" had nailed it the first time, there'd be far fewer admins playing hide-and-go-seek with their TCP/IP network settings interface!
Now, if these broken Web sites are revealed as such by a larger audience, we could see some improvements in the overall quality, because something tells me the typical AOL user will happily complain about anything. :)
What a sweet irony it'll be if (gasp!) AOL becomes a force for *improving* html standards compliance.
Gotta wonder what's going on over at Toshiba... Why didn't they commit to the standard along with everyone else? Seems like they've been somewhere outside the DVD group for awhile now, but I have to wonder if they're going to try moving forward with a spec of their own. Anyone know what's up with them?
Yup, I linked libjavaplugin_oji.so to the ns600 java plug-in. Bad news - it caused seg faults any time the browser hit anything java.