I think the use for the touchscreen will be for picking things in an inventory or getting information about an area of a map, for example in a zelda like game you could choose your action item by touching it instead of cycling through your choices, or in a strategy game you could get stats for a building by touching it on the map. It will most probably not have anything to do with arcade games for the less gifted or more violent.
I think you're right about the meaning of the acronym 'PSG' but I don't think it is the same as the one in the Genesis, it is probably just a generic term for their sound chip. Playing digital samples on the Genesis PSG was a pain.
There are some timing sensitive stuff going on, setting up dma to vram can go wrong without good timing, and expect to see lots of flashing pixels in games that change colours using a hblank interrupt.
You don't buy a 128 meg card of already taken pictures, do you? Cartridges are ROMs, there's no way to rewrite them with other games. Preloading the whole game into RAM is a good idea but even without cutscenes you're looking at around 512 MB just for loaded data of a modern game, so the best course of action to keep loadtimes small is probably streaming in the next section of gameplay while you play.
"...which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant."
"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behavior," said Frank Lindblad
For some reason Swedish television companies (the violent swedish experts in the article) loves to make documentaries and take things out of proportion, and then make another program where celebrities (but not usually experts who, if present, don't get to say much) debate the program.
It is as if Rush Limbaugh made a documentary and then used his own documentary as proof in another program.
EA didn't have much to do with Looking Glass when they went under, they were working with Eidos, Nintendo and Ubi Soft at the time. Looking Glass pretty much screwed themselves.
"Let's review. The N-Gage is not a gaming deck, but it is a great phone "
Why then do all the ads and commercials for the piece feature only gaming and no phoning? It is definitely a gaming deck built on what should be a phone.
Wasn't Viewpoint done by Sammy though? I thought the version for MegaDrive was excellent, but the PSX version was pretty crappy. I had problems playing the NeoGeo version because I found the controller to be unforgiving with the whole 45-degree thing.
For younger audience games there is usually a threshold spec that marketing determines that most kids have access to, say that it is a 233 MHz machine. Then the developers have to simply make sure that the game runs on that. I don't think that's how UT games determine the minimum spec though, but they would test the game on a large number of PC configurations to look for compatibility bugs so they probably get their spec from that.
Ok, so Cruisn'USA wasn't cheap to develop, but it didn't stand up to Ridge Racer on the playstation. The whole physics experience of Cruisn'USA is horrible, and the clipping issues make the experience so much worse. The game may not be a low-budget dog, but it is a dog. That the kit came in at a price point higher than a playstation means it was overpriced technology.
If PS2 outsold XBOX 5:1 why should the xbox2 bother about backwards compatibility with the lower amount of customers expecting backwards compatibility? I for one would like to suggest that xbox2 is backwards compatible with PS2 instead! Everybody wins except sony.
They've surely got 3d projects of their own, waiting for an opportunity to use an internal Disney studio to compete with Pixar. I don't think they are closing down one section of the company (orlando animation) without something else in mind.
I think the sony guy meant not exceeding what the ps2 does, it plays cds and dvd movies and the PSP will play movies (see their presentation of the UMD disks) and music but it will not make telephone calls or work as a palm pilot.
"doesn't the article say you are stuck in your cursed apartment in 4?"
It says you start out being stuck in an apartment in Silent Hill. I doubt anyone would make a whole game taking place in a small apartment, apart from maybe some mosquito simulator...
"What rule stated that every game on the nextgen consoles HAS TO BE 3D? I still like to 2D games. I mean, they could just as easily used fixed angle 3D, so it looks 2D."
Sony, with the initial approval process of games for the playstation.
What if they open a new corporation in the cayman islands and buy the services from them instead? Not that I know if I'd like to watch movies on a Panaphonics Schony tv though...
There's the CPU power required for the game to run for one thing (I'd say just around 100%), plus the I/O stuff which is usually kind of busy during gameplay too.
You might be able to open up the ipod with a screwdriver, but it won't be pretty:) For one thing, there are no screws on the outside.
I consider battery repair fixing the battery, not replacing it. And the ipod should have a user replacable battery, but it doesn't and it isn't designed to be replacable.
If you're looking for an extravagant christmas present for the richo gamer freak, why not put down the cash for a decent game developer. US$9 million should get you your own GTA or half-assed RPG game developer, you'd be able to give the kid EXACTLY the game it always wanted to have!
Who says it can't be a presidential election game AND an FPS? Just imagine running around with a political conversion gun converting hippies into republicans in a commune of hempgrowers, occasionally failing, making them turn democrats or 3rd party candidate voters...
LucasArts is in San Rafael, CA, which is quite far away from Hollywood, CA. Besides, LucasArts are game people and LucasFilm as movie people and that's why they are good at what they are doing, the movie people aren't doing the games and the game people aren't screwing up the movies.
"HTML is interpreted, not compiled. If that's your basis behind calling it not a programming language, then throw out php and other serversides while you're at it."
I'd call it parsed, not interpreted as in an interpretive programming language. HTML is a document format that happens to be text-based instead of binary. If you can make an iterative function to calculate pi or a similar function I'd call it a programming language.
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I think the use for the touchscreen will be for picking things in an inventory or getting information about an area of a map, for example in a zelda like game you could choose your action item by touching it instead of cycling through your choices, or in a strategy game you could get stats for a building by touching it on the map. It will most probably not have anything to do with arcade games for the less gifted or more violent.
I think you're right about the meaning of the acronym 'PSG' but I don't think it is the same as the one in the Genesis, it is probably just a generic term for their sound chip. Playing digital samples on the Genesis PSG was a pain.
There are some timing sensitive stuff going on, setting up dma to vram can go wrong without good timing, and expect to see lots of flashing pixels in games that change colours using a hblank interrupt.
You don't buy a 128 meg card of already taken pictures, do you? Cartridges are ROMs, there's no way to rewrite them with other games. Preloading the whole game into RAM is a good idea but even without cutscenes you're looking at around 512 MB just for loaded data of a modern game, so the best course of action to keep loadtimes small is probably streaming in the next section of gameplay while you play.
"...which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant."
"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behavior," said Frank Lindblad
For some reason Swedish television companies (the violent swedish experts in the article) loves to make documentaries and take things out of proportion, and then make another program where celebrities (but not usually experts who, if present, don't get to say much) debate the program.
It is as if Rush Limbaugh made a documentary and then used his own documentary as proof in another program.
EA didn't have much to do with Looking Glass when they went under, they were working with Eidos, Nintendo and Ubi Soft at the time. Looking Glass pretty much screwed themselves.
Don't create meetings for no purpose
Don't attend meetings outside of the team when there is no purpose
Don't let marketing pull your team into meetings
Don't let your frustrations out on the team
Deal with the frustrations of the team
(The last two probably won't be a problem as long as there are no meetings)
"Let's review. The N-Gage is not a gaming deck, but it is a great phone "
Why then do all the ads and commercials for the piece feature only gaming and no phoning? It is definitely a gaming deck built on what should be a phone.
Wasn't Viewpoint done by Sammy though? I thought the version for MegaDrive was excellent, but the PSX version was pretty crappy. I had problems playing the NeoGeo version because I found the controller to be unforgiving with the whole 45-degree thing.
For younger audience games there is usually a threshold spec that marketing determines that most kids have access to, say that it is a 233 MHz machine. Then the developers have to simply make sure that the game runs on that. I don't think that's how UT games determine the minimum spec though, but they would test the game on a large number of PC configurations to look for compatibility bugs so they probably get their spec from that.
Ok, so Cruisn'USA wasn't cheap to develop, but it didn't stand up to Ridge Racer on the playstation. The whole physics experience of Cruisn'USA is horrible, and the clipping issues make the experience so much worse. The game may not be a low-budget dog, but it is a dog. That the kit came in at a price point higher than a playstation means it was overpriced technology.
If PS2 outsold XBOX 5:1 why should the xbox2 bother about backwards compatibility with the lower amount of customers expecting backwards compatibility? I for one would like to suggest that xbox2 is backwards compatible with PS2 instead! Everybody wins except sony.
They've surely got 3d projects of their own, waiting for an opportunity to use an internal Disney studio to compete with Pixar. I don't think they are closing down one section of the company (orlando animation) without something else in mind.
Oh, the days before A*
Or the engineered marketing was more notable than the PC clone.
I think the sony guy meant not exceeding what the ps2 does, it plays cds and dvd movies and the PSP will play movies (see their presentation of the UMD disks) and music but it will not make telephone calls or work as a palm pilot.
"doesn't the article say you are stuck in your cursed apartment in 4?"
It says you start out being stuck in an apartment in Silent Hill. I doubt anyone would make a whole game taking place in a small apartment, apart from maybe some mosquito simulator...
"What rule stated that every game on the nextgen consoles HAS TO BE 3D? I still like to 2D games. I mean, they could just as easily used fixed angle 3D, so it looks 2D."
Sony, with the initial approval process of games for the playstation.
What if they open a new corporation in the cayman islands and buy the services from them instead? Not that I know if I'd like to watch movies on a Panaphonics Schony tv though...
There's the CPU power required for the game to run for one thing (I'd say just around 100%), plus the I/O stuff which is usually kind of busy during gameplay too.
You might be able to open up the ipod with a screwdriver, but it won't be pretty :) For one thing, there are no screws on the outside.
I consider battery repair fixing the battery, not replacing it. And the ipod should have a user replacable battery, but it doesn't and it isn't designed to be replacable.
If you're looking for an extravagant christmas present for the richo gamer freak, why not put down the cash for a decent game developer. US$9 million should get you your own GTA or half-assed RPG game developer, you'd be able to give the kid EXACTLY the game it always wanted to have!
Who says it can't be a presidential election game AND an FPS? Just imagine running around with a political conversion gun converting hippies into republicans in a commune of hempgrowers, occasionally failing, making them turn democrats or 3rd party candidate voters...
LucasArts is in San Rafael, CA, which is quite far away from Hollywood, CA. Besides, LucasArts are game people and LucasFilm as movie people and that's why they are good at what they are doing, the movie people aren't doing the games and the game people aren't screwing up the movies.
"HTML is interpreted, not compiled. If that's your basis behind calling it not a programming language, then throw out php and other serversides while you're at it."
I'd call it parsed, not interpreted as in an interpretive programming language. HTML is a document format that happens to be text-based instead of binary. If you can make an iterative function to calculate pi or a similar function I'd call it a programming language.