But flash as a game development environment does not deserve the same treatment. Especially when it ends up on mobile devices. I can see a lot of interesting multi-player games evolving out of this. SMS based games like fudfite are going to be twice the fun.
As for being a waste of bandwidth. Yes, flash websites are, but flash games are certainly not. A game like Lightning Break is only just over 300k. Write something similar in SDL/PyGame and it's going to be a couple of meg's, minimum.
Yes, flash websites suck, but flash games do not. A lot of clever programmers are handling the limitations of Flash to come up with some good, optimised code that always loads fast.
Now, if they could just make Flash a bit more secure and a bit more web-aware, I'd be much happier.
Disclaimer: I work with Flash games daily on Chickstop and Playaholics so I'm quite biased I guess.
I noticed that some of the early interviews for Half Life 2 mentioned the need to frequently clean your gun so that it would always work.
Not surprisingly, that's something I've heard little more of;-)
It's interesting what good pedigree and some good PR will do.
The app. is destined for nothing though - no-one really wants to search locally and on the network at the same time.
"Where did I lose my files? Was it here, on my laptop, or over there, on the ever-expanding web?"
The only interesting thing is the Gruaniad article which puts the buzz down to blogs.
Which is cute really, PR that incrimintes blogs as a way of hiding the fact that this is just PR.
Puzzle games are just the best, so it doesn't suprise me seeing this much effort put into developing the basic ideas of puzzle games.
At Chickstop and Playaholics we find that almost all of these puzzle games are guarenteed a decent play.
It's worth pointing out that although $5,000,000,000 doesn't sound like a lot to companies in the US, in the UK that's a massive amount of money.
Bear in mind also that the average height of someone in the UK is around 4 foot 6. Things, in general, are much bigger in the US.
Which is where GrokItBot comes in:
http://www.suttree.com/code/GrokItBot/
It's a simple ALICE bot that has a Bayesian front end, so it can guess what you're talking about before it even has to look it up and works its' AI magic.
Plus you can train it. Plus it's pretty resilient to speeeling mistokes. If you like Python and you like IM bots, I'd recommend it, of course;)
I'm biased, but everytime I see IM bots like this I cringe at the interface.
I plugged a bayesian guesser into a trimmed down ALICE bot and the interface is much more tolerant of speeling mistokes and the way different people phrase questions and answers.
GrokItBot is a bare bones version of this. If you're interested I'd strongly encourage you to download the code:)
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Flash based websites suck, no doubt about it.
But flash as a game development environment does not deserve the same treatment. Especially when it ends up on mobile devices. I can see a lot of interesting multi-player games evolving out of this. SMS based games like fudfite are going to be twice the fun.
As for being a waste of bandwidth. Yes, flash websites are, but flash games are certainly not. A game like Lightning Break is only just over 300k. Write something similar in SDL/PyGame and it's going to be a couple of meg's, minimum.
Yes, flash websites suck, but flash games do not. A lot of clever programmers are handling the limitations of Flash to come up with some good, optimised code that always loads fast.
Now, if they could just make Flash a bit more secure and a bit more web-aware, I'd be much happier.
Disclaimer: I work with Flash games daily on Chickstop and Playaholics so I'm quite biased I guess.
Can you actually get your rocks off listening to Britney?
No doubt about it, I'm bookmarking this page.
:)
Next time I screw up, I'm coming back here to wallow in it
Give him a job at any of the big UK IT companies ;-)
I noticed that some of the early interviews for Half Life 2 mentioned the need to frequently clean your gun so that it would always work. ;-)
Not surprisingly, that's something I've heard little more of
so it's our anyway.
You can't claim that 'That's all right' is a song that would not have happened if Elvis hadn't sung it.
Just for a minute there I read that as:
CNT-alt-del
it's not fair, etc, etc, etc
It's interesting what good pedigree and some good PR will do. The app. is destined for nothing though - no-one really wants to search locally and on the network at the same time. "Where did I lose my files? Was it here, on my laptop, or over there, on the ever-expanding web?" The only interesting thing is the Gruaniad article which puts the buzz down to blogs. Which is cute really, PR that incrimintes blogs as a way of hiding the fact that this is just PR.
...CacheLogic seem to want to get their name in the headlines, so they run some basic stats about fading Kazaa vs. shiny new Bittorrent
Well, in the continuing absence of Perl 6, 'Perl is your friend' is about all that's left of Perl for now. Which is a massive shame.
Is there a problem - you don't seem sure of what you're saying?
Most likely their diet is poor. Really, we are what we eat to a great degree
Puzzle games are just the best, so it doesn't suprise me seeing this much effort put into developing the basic ideas of puzzle games. At Chickstop and Playaholics we find that almost all of these puzzle games are guarenteed a decent play.
What is it about debugging code? It almost mythical the level of speed upds people think they'll gain once all this debug code has gone.
post!
Patronising her won't work. I'd recommend a site that serious about games for girls, Chickstop
http://www.chickstop.com
It's worth pointing out that although $5,000,000,000 doesn't sound like a lot to companies in the US, in the UK that's a massive amount of money. Bear in mind also that the average height of someone in the UK is around 4 foot 6. Things, in general, are much bigger in the US.
One word: fluxbox!
Just wait till they make the link from IRC to newsgroups, then newsgroups to Deja News, then Deja News to Google Groups... evil, evil, evil?
It's the prostate of webmail, clearly.
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Which is where GrokItBot comes in: http://www.suttree.com/code/GrokItBot/ It's a simple ALICE bot that has a Bayesian front end, so it can guess what you're talking about before it even has to look it up and works its' AI magic. Plus you can train it. Plus it's pretty resilient to speeeling mistokes. If you like Python and you like IM bots, I'd recommend it, of course ;)
I'm biased, but everytime I see IM bots like this I cringe at the interface.
I plugged a bayesian guesser into a trimmed down ALICE bot and the interface is much more tolerant of speeling mistokes and the way different people phrase questions and answers.
GrokItBot is a bare bones version of this. If you're interested I'd strongly encourage you to download the code :)
1) Security through obscurity, no?
2) Agreed, a SQL dictionary is nice although it comes with added overhead.