01: Languages to write web and desktop applications. Bussines level stuff. Bussines logic. 10: Languages to write web server, desktoops, bussines, logic, and everything else that the other can't.
Visual Basic, Basic.NET and all the Pascal variants (pun no intended) are to build the 01 type, but C is needed for the 01 type.
I give you some reasons:
- You already trust the Steam shop. This is important for people nervaous about his credit card details
- You have a centralized location to re-download. If you move to another computer (or OS), you just click to download again
- If you have savegames on your Mac, Netbook, PC,..these savegames follow you around. You can start playing on the netbook, continue on the Mac and finish on the PC.
Most progress bars on the world are there to make the wait more fun. Drawing the progress bar takes CPU, and probably some activities sould be done in a incremental way, to be progressbar friendly, where a bach apropach would be faster. Most progress bars are not really needed, but make programs feel faster by making programs a bit slower but more fun. Anything that make a program 0.1% slower but feel 20% more faster is better for everyone. Yea, any human.
Is all about fight the First Sale doctrine. Make games a "not transferable account", so you can't re-sell the game you have buy (only part of it, here).
I wonder we will see the ones like General Motors, fighting the user car industry.
You can get a GPL program, put a Public Domain part, add a Very Closed Source code, compile the whole thing, and work with it. You can't distribute the result, but you can use the result.
You can make a GPL program, get hired to continue working on this program, add a Public Domain part, add a Very Closed Source code... and the result can be distributed only if you donated to your employer your work wen you was hired. So probably can't be distributed.
Steamworks on other games like Torchlight just serve to add features, not remove then. In Torchlight it redistribute your savegames. So you can start a game on the Netbook, and wen you get home, continue that game on the Desktop.
I don't know you, but this sounds like a good feature to have in Civi.
And you can play Torchlight offline. The whole Steam thing can run offline.
These that don't want to buy something, don't need to. Yesterday "Pay what you want" 5 games pack has made to the authors $342.000.
The money is not on the people that don't have money (students that piracy his games), the money is on the people 35 years old, with childrens, and a love for gaming. Tryiing to extract more money from these students is stupid. Is like tryiing to extract juice from rocks, having a river nearby. GO AND FUCKING FORGET THESE ROCKS, AND GO TO THE RIVER!.
The river is fucking awesome, or maybe I am stupid and $342.000 is nothing. Also, the owners of Steam must be stupids too, and seriusly, It a system that is probably losing a lot of money. Sure? nope. It just don't work that way. Steam is good for these that want to pay for his games. Hence, is making money. All these systems like SecuROM, Ubisoft cracked DRM, and GFWL... are misguided and stupid,.. "don't get it".
You will not make money from the pirates, these people is not your public. Is a public, but one that don't want to pay for stuff. Your public is the people that have money and want to use it to buy nicenies things. Give the awesome to then, and forget the pirates.
Flash by his nature will eat all available resources and more. Maybe you have to blame more on the flash authors than in flash itself.
If you give access to hardware acceleration, these people will consume that too. Now, a single flash banner can put your CPU at 100%, tomorrow a single flash banner will put the GPU at 100%. The diference is that for these devices withouth a GPU, today netbooks, Flash just works. If you give these morons access to hardware acceleration, soon you will need a very good GPU on your netbook to cope with Flash banners,.. OR REMOVE FLASH, that is what some people do anyway, or if you buy a iPad, it come "pre-removed" so you don't have to remove it (maybe you are a greatparent and you don't even know is possible).
Console gaming *need* to make the games much more simple than on the PC, because the pad is a very poor control scheme. Games around the PC are built around the keyboard. So you have games with 9 weapons... thats interesting, if these weapons are really different, you activate these weapons with the number keys 1...9. Games built around the console, often have limits to 4 weapons. You activate these weapons (or skills, powers) with the digital direction pad.
See? the interface change the shape of the game, and games for consoles *need* to be simpler.
There are some gaming bussines (probably less than 10 companys), where the cost to make a PC version is marginal, maybe "null". So It just make sense to re-release the console game to the PC world. Wen this conversion is made, you end with games with 4 powers, and a TV fov. The migration effort don't include re-recreating the game around a keyboard and a mouse.
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Often is a bad thing. Wen the HUD is not modified, the hud has a "rosseta" aparecen (N, S, E, W) that you will use with the keyboard (1, 2, 3, 4). Is a very bad thing wen the migration effort is given to the lower bidder, and the keys assignation is "random" (like F1, F2, F3, F4 to change powers... ). Is a good thing wen the original PC design is exausted and was not all that fun.
I think the "streamlined" version of a FPS game that consoles have invented is fun. I like the sprint, the cover,.. there are good things on that streamlining. What I also like, is the deep of our games. Morrowind is 1000 million times better than Red Faction:Guerrilla, and 9000 times better than FUEL. Ultima 7 is 89999 times better than Last Stand.
So... streamlining? yes, deep? yes. Most games are good wen have decent design and deep. Games that have not deep, have not long playability, never teach you something, never make you feel something that will stay with you, etc.
Do gamers want simpler games?
What are we calling a gamer here? is the casuals that play PvZ and don't know Vectorial Turret Defense?. Are we calling gamers to the 80 millions that play FarmVille? the 15 millions that play Club Penguin?, the 8 millions that play WoW? the 40.000 that play Nexuiz? the 3200 that play Tremulous? are these people gamers? Are gamers the 250 millions that play or have played Windows Solitary?
Since gaming is something bigger and bigger, there are a group of people that is now playing videogames, that don't think as gaming like a hobby (or his hobby), or something to dedicate money. Bussines men must care about these people. but are you a bussines men? do you sell videogames? I don't sell videogames, so I don't have to care for the 80 million FarmVille players.
Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? Some do, others not, others can't even called gamers. Somethimes even what you ask for is not what you need. is not a simple question you are asking a simple answer.
A bad implementation, of a bad idea with 100.000 users, worth 40.000 than the best idea ever. Ideas are multiplicators, not additives. A good idea multiply the value of a good implementation and a big userbase.
value = QualityOfIdea * (CoolStuffImplementation / ShitStuffImplementation) * userbase.
Example, a ferrari car:
value = 0.1 (everyone have the 'idea of luxury car', is nothing novel) * (1000 (ferraris are hella coool) / 0.1 (there are very few downsides on a ferrari)) * 60000 (that number is out of my hat, I don't know the userbase of ferraris)
Example, a ford fiesta:
value = 0.01 (a no-luxury car is a even more popular, hence cheap, idea) * ( 8 (the ford fiesta is not very cool) / 4 (the ford fiesta has a few downsides, like is small)) * 16.000.000 (another number from my hat)
Writting and publishing articles for free on a website? puff... I suppose congratulations or condolences are in order.... that I extend to all these people that climb mountains. And.. oh... to all these people that explored the world. Poor Columbus, soo sad man. Also, all the scientist, advancing our knogment of how the world work for not other reason than "just because".
Inventors, explorer, editors, people that beat things...IDIOTS!.. could be having sex, or doing something that give direct money instead!. What a bunch of idiots wasting his time. Probably nerds. And Slashdot editors hate nerds.
Is the idea of these that laugh at IP laws less right than the idea these that think intellectual property is sacred? why? I am not a proponent of relativism, but here is see just two options, two design decisions for different cultures, no one is better than the other. It would be.... wrong.. for USA to force his view on other cultures.
With flash, if you like a app, but It don't work exactly like you want, you are fucked. With HTML5, if you like a app, but has a lame banner or other element you don't want, you can remove it. We can remove banners from html pages, because html pages ar open. You can't remove banners inside flash.
Everyone that have a wall, or any 2D surface in Brazil (no movie pun intended) has better demolishing it, since it can be used to "an post any type of message without any checks beforehand, ".
Tell that to the musicians, modelers, mappers, texture artist, people that make capture movements, voice actors.. then then that are not artist, because random critic on the internet that admit not having any idea about games has other opinion.
Is true that games are both craft and art, theres a "usefull" part. But that don't kill the art part.
A good example is movies, movies are too art, but are a mix of craft and art.
I don't even understand how a movie critic can't do the comparation of movies.
Students don't have much money (much less than people with jobs), but still have the same needs, created by the industry and our dynamic culture. The only way for these people to fullfill these needs is to piracy. I don't condone piracy.. but I have to say that the other option is frustration.
I don't theres any solution. But theres also no damage either: these people will not buy anyway. Once these people finish his studios and get a job, these same people will start buying things again, wen buying is easier.
Let students warez his music, there are things more important for us.
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01: Languages to write web and desktop applications. Bussines level stuff. Bussines logic.
10: Languages to write web server, desktoops, bussines, logic, and everything else that the other can't.
Visual Basic, Basic .NET and all the Pascal variants (pun no intended) are to build the 01 type, but C is needed for the 01 type.
I give you some reasons: ..these savegames follow you around. You can start playing on the netbook, continue on the Mac and finish on the PC.
- You already trust the Steam shop. This is important for people nervaous about his credit card details
- You have a centralized location to re-download. If you move to another computer (or OS), you just click to download again
- If you have savegames on your Mac, Netbook, PC,
Most progress bars on the world are there to make the wait more fun. Drawing the progress bar takes CPU, and probably some activities sould be done in a incremental way, to be progressbar friendly, where a bach apropach would be faster.
Most progress bars are not really needed, but make programs feel faster by making programs a bit slower but more fun.
Anything that make a program 0.1% slower but feel 20% more faster is better for everyone. Yea, any human.
Is all about fight the First Sale doctrine. Make games a "not transferable account", so you can't re-sell the game you have buy (only part of it, here).
I wonder we will see the ones like General Motors, fighting the user car industry.
You can get a GPL program, put a Public Domain part, add a Very Closed Source code, compile the whole thing, and work with it. You can't distribute the result, but you can use the result.
You can make a GPL program, get hired to continue working on this program, add a Public Domain part, add a Very Closed Source code... and the result can be distributed only if you donated to your employer your work wen you was hired. So probably can't be distributed.
IANAL.
Like is possible to stop a particular set of bits to move from network node A to network node B.
Steamworks on other games like Torchlight just serve to add features, not remove then. In Torchlight it redistribute your savegames. So you can start a game on the Netbook, and wen you get home, continue that game on the Desktop.
I don't know you, but this sounds like a good feature to have in Civi.
And you can play Torchlight offline. The whole Steam thing can run offline.
You will need to Install the latest Flash plugin to view this page properly.... To view a video? how quaint.
These that don't want to buy something, don't need to.
Yesterday "Pay what you want" 5 games pack has made to the authors $342.000.
The money is not on the people that don't have money (students that piracy his games), the money is on the people 35 years old, with childrens, and a love for gaming. Tryiing to extract more money from these students is stupid. Is like tryiing to extract juice from rocks, having a river nearby. GO AND FUCKING FORGET THESE ROCKS, AND GO TO THE RIVER!.
The river is fucking awesome, or maybe I am stupid and $342.000 is nothing. Also, the owners of Steam must be stupids too, and seriusly, It a system that is probably losing a lot of money. Sure? nope. It just don't work that way. Steam is good for these that want to pay for his games. Hence, is making money. All these systems like SecuROM, Ubisoft cracked DRM, and GFWL ... are misguided and stupid,.. "don't get it".
You will not make money from the pirates, these people is not your public. Is a public, but one that don't want to pay for stuff. Your public is the people that have money and want to use it to buy nicenies things. Give the awesome to then, and forget the pirates.
Flash by his nature will eat all available resources and more. Maybe you have to blame more on the flash authors than in flash itself.
If you give access to hardware acceleration, these people will consume that too. Now, a single flash banner can put your CPU at 100%, tomorrow a single flash banner will put the GPU at 100%. The diference is that for these devices withouth a GPU, today netbooks, Flash just works. If you give these morons access to hardware acceleration, soon you will need a very good GPU on your netbook to cope with Flash banners,.. OR REMOVE FLASH, that is what some people do anyway, or if you buy a iPad, it come "pre-removed" so you don't have to remove it (maybe you are a greatparent and you don't even know is possible).
Console gaming *need* to make the games much more simple than on the PC, because the pad is a very poor control scheme.
Games around the PC are built around the keyboard. So you have games with 9 weapons... thats interesting, if these weapons are really different, you activate these weapons with the number keys 1...9. Games built around the console, often have limits to 4 weapons. You activate these weapons (or skills, powers) with the digital direction pad.
See? the interface change the shape of the game, and games for consoles *need* to be simpler.
There are some gaming bussines (probably less than 10 companys), where the cost to make a PC version is marginal, maybe "null". So It just make sense to re-release the console game to the PC world. Wen this conversion is made, you end with games with 4 powers, and a TV fov. The migration effort don't include re-recreating the game around a keyboard and a mouse.
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Often is a bad thing. Wen the HUD is not modified, the hud has a "rosseta" aparecen (N, S, E, W) that you will use with the keyboard (1, 2, 3, 4). Is a very bad thing wen the migration effort is given to the lower bidder, and the keys assignation is "random" (like F1, F2, F3, F4 to change powers... ). Is a good thing wen the original PC design is exausted and was not all that fun.
I think the "streamlined" version of a FPS game that consoles have invented is fun. I like the sprint, the cover,.. there are good things on that streamlining. What I also like, is the deep of our games. Morrowind is 1000 million times better than Red Faction :Guerrilla, and 9000 times better than FUEL. Ultima 7 is 89999 times better than Last Stand.
So... streamlining? yes, deep? yes. Most games are good wen have decent design and deep. Games that have not deep, have not long playability, never teach you something, never make you feel something that will stay with you, etc.
Do gamers want simpler games?
What are we calling a gamer here? is the casuals that play PvZ and don't know Vectorial Turret Defense?. Are we calling gamers to the 80 millions that play FarmVille? the 15 millions that play Club Penguin?, the 8 millions that play WoW? the 40.000 that play Nexuiz? the 3200 that play Tremulous? are these people gamers? Are gamers the 250 millions that play or have played Windows Solitary?
Since gaming is something bigger and bigger, there are a group of people that is now playing videogames, that don't think as gaming like a hobby (or his hobby), or something to dedicate money. Bussines men must care about these people. but are you a bussines men? do you sell videogames? I don't sell videogames, so I don't have to care for the 80 million FarmVille players.
Do Gamers Want Simpler Games?
Some do, others not, others can't even called gamers. Somethimes even what you ask for is not what you need. is not a simple question you are asking a simple answer.
Normal people:
$12.34
that is also his password.
Ideas worth less than implementations.
Implementations worth less than clients.
A bad implementation, of a bad idea with 100.000 users, worth 40.000 than the best idea ever. Ideas are multiplicators, not additives. A good idea multiply the value of a good implementation and a big userbase.
value = QualityOfIdea * (CoolStuffImplementation / ShitStuffImplementation) * userbase.
Example, a ferrari car:
value = 0.1 (everyone have the 'idea of luxury car', is nothing novel) * (1000 (ferraris are hella coool) / 0.1 (there are very few downsides on a ferrari)) * 60000 (that number is out of my hat, I don't know the userbase of ferraris)
Example, a ford fiesta:
value = 0.01 (a no-luxury car is a even more popular, hence cheap, idea) * ( 8 (the ford fiesta is not very cool) / 4 (the ford fiesta has a few downsides, like is small)) * 16.000.000 (another number from my hat)
Writting and publishing articles for free on a website? puff... I suppose congratulations or condolences are in order.... that I extend to all these people that climb mountains. And.. oh... to all these people that explored the world. Poor Columbus, soo sad man. Also, all the scientist, advancing our knogment of how the world work for not other reason than "just because".
Inventors, explorer, editors, people that beat things.. .IDIOTS!.. could be having sex, or doing something that give direct money instead!. What a bunch of idiots wasting his time. Probably nerds. And Slashdot editors hate nerds.
Is the idea of these that laugh at IP laws less right than the idea these that think intellectual property is sacred? why? I am not a proponent of relativism, but here is see just two options, two design decisions for different cultures, no one is better than the other. It would be.... wrong.. for USA to force his view on other cultures.
With flash, if you like a app, but It don't work exactly like you want, you are fucked.
With HTML5, if you like a app, but has a lame banner or other element you don't want, you can remove it.
We can remove banners from html pages, because html pages ar open. You can't remove banners inside flash.
It seems is easy to be a guru on the internet. You can make lots of weird predictions, and some will be right.
Like this 2006 comic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/05/01/
And this today news:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/54532/Activision-Bungie-Sign-Ten-Year-Publishing-Partnership
And this part of the reason Penny Arcade is still relevant.. theres a lot of predictions, and some are right.
what is the probability of a car to hitting something from space?
Is not like the surface of the earth is covered in cars. It can be intentional.
"For ones, is Freedom.
Others want One Item of Luxury.
Others want hugs. Others want sex.
One man Oxygen is other man luxury item. "
Everyone that have a wall, or any 2D surface in Brazil (no movie pun intended) has better demolishing it, since it can be used to "an post any type of message without any checks beforehand, ".
This is ridiculous.
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Then they came for hitler, and no one is around to help us :-(
Tell that to the musicians, modelers, mappers, texture artist, people that make capture movements, voice actors.. then then that are not artist, because random critic on the internet that admit not having any idea about games has other opinion.
Is true that games are both craft and art, theres a "usefull" part. But that don't kill the art part.
A good example is movies, movies are too art, but are a mix of craft and art.
I don't even understand how a movie critic can't do the comparation of movies.
Students don't have much money (much less than people with jobs), but still have the same needs, created by the industry and our dynamic culture. The only way for these people to fullfill these needs is to piracy. I don't condone piracy.. but I have to say that the other option is frustration.
I don't theres any solution. But theres also no damage either: these people will not buy anyway. Once these people finish his studios and get a job, these same people will start buying things again, wen buying is easier.
Let students warez his music, there are things more important for us.
I can't get over the idea of people so sexually represed that think the video is scaring.
Ok, it has some really minor sexual potential.
But people have sex.
Yes, people, some people fuck with other people. Sending some tits is just something that happends.
"OH THE HORROR!."
Is the real world. The people that get scared about this, still have a 4 years old mind.
Again, a great post.
Thanks Mr. RogueyWon. You made me understand third person shooters better.