Nintendo still insists on WiiWare developers having a dedicated office and "relevant game industry experience" (a previous commercial game on another platform), and indie developers operating out of home offices can't necessarily afford those.
Then go to work for an established developer, pay your dues, build up a nest egg/get funding/take out loans and then start up your OWN company, with an office and employees. if you REALLY want to be a professional game developer quit complaining and actually DO something.
However, lack of faith that a developer will have access to a market in which to derive revenue from the work discourages developers from making it one's day job.
The easiest way to make it your day job is to work for an established developer and stop obsessing about being the "one guy in the garage" that makes it big, that rarely happens.
If that means moving, move. I know you have a local support system and probably have issues with interviewing, but that's the reality. You might be able to work remotely, but will probably still have to travel to interview...
How would you like to have worked on a game eight hours a day for 250 days only to be told that the platforms' gatekeepers don't want to make your game available to the public?
the gatekeepers remember the crash of 84....don't you? Crappy knockoffs made for a quick buck, even the worst games today suck less than some of the crap for the 2600.
Simply put, they don't want a bunch of 14 year olds making penis games or tetris knockoffs for their systems. They want a minimum level of polish and expertise... they want professionals, not hobbyists, if that shuts out someone like you, so be it.
SCEJ has a hard-on for Netfront, because it's made a fellow Japanese company, they ignore how crappy Netfront is. The PS2's Japan only BBN browser for the PS2 was also netfront, as is the PSP's browser.
When I had LInux on my PS3, I actually preferred to use Firefox under LInux to browse on TV.
but I thought at one point most of the videos didn't work because they required a newer version of Flash (which, from what I remember, hasn't been updated in ages
A youtube update broke PS3 viewing for a bit, yes, but the PS3 browser got updated, Youtube is fine now....
The key word being engineers, which skews you data sample.
It'd be like asking how many of them put together a heathkit and then saying that heathkit is very popular in general, when it never was, always a niche market.
Of course, you could always buy a drive for you 360. It costs $100 for the 250GB
Say what? I have an 80GB PS3 and I've been thinking of getting a bigger hard drive. Now, I assumed that PS3 and 360 hard drives would have similar cost...but apparently not.
Most indie games suck, we only hear about the good ones on slashdot, not the vast wasteland of puzzle game clones done by nerds with no real game ideas of his own.
Sure it does, if you have a "Fat" CECH(A/B/E) model like me, if not, you're out of luck except for the remastered PS2 games on PSN.
PS3 never "approved" nor "shipped" any version of Linux. It was rumored long ago that Sony would sponsor this, and there were numerous hacks that let Linux run.. it was never a Sony configuration and never "approved".
That's a hell of a lot of misinformation you have and anybody who had Linux on their PS3 could tell you that. It was an officially supported function, right in the XMB, called "OtherOS" in Sony documentation. One of the PS3 manuals mentions it, and sends you to Sony's openplatform website for more info. All you needed to install Linux on the PS3 was the proper install media, put it in, and install. Real easy. Sony also released a Linux distro themselves for the PS2, but to get that you had to buy a "kit" for $199.
And by the way, I was active in both the PS2 and PS3 Linux communities so when it comes to Linux on the PS2 and PS3, I know what I'm talking about.
As to Camecube games, that was never a feature of the Wii.
I must be imagining connecting a Gamecube controller and memory card to the jack and slot in the Wii in the living room.
If it's Steve Jackson games, why do they need Kickstarter...they're Steeve Jackson Games. I'm beginning to think that Kickstarter is just for those who've already hit the "big time" but want to make some kind of ultra-niche vanity project that appeals to their hardcore fanbase and thusly wouldn't actually SELL in todays market, without spending their own capital.
Relaunching OGRE, it seems that Slashdot current editors dont thing the biggest Geek game of all time is news.
OGRE? The biggest geek game of all time? OGRE? You have got to be kidding. Even in the glory days of tabletop gaming, which are loooong gone, OGRE was a niche game. The biggest Geek game of all time is obviously D&D, which not only still survives in tabletop form and can still be bought in any bookstore, but inspired games on computers and consoles, has had a TV show AND movies, based on it.
It can't properly estimate the size of JPEG files before saving. Instead, it shows an absurd number (1.3 GB, I think) for any JPEG preview on save, no matter what the actual size is.
That's a standard GIMP "feature" I think, "size is unknown", unless you have "show thumbnail" in that dialog on. Annoying, yes.
if you bought Dragon Age complete pack from Amazon.com when it was on sale, that is 40 GB or more worth of downloading for those two games alone!).
Never underestinate the bandwidth of a truck full of blu-rays/DVD's. if you're worried about caps, pick up the physical copies, and save your data for something else.
People all over screaming "Separation of Church and State". Which does not and never did exist.
Thomas Jefferson invented the concept, remember him?
National days of prayer, God on our money, God in our Pledges.
Which did not exist for many many years.
Did you know that In God we trust didn't start appearing on all coinage till the 1950's, about the same time the pledge was altered....the original version (which is the one my father and mother used when they were kids) did NOT have "under god" Blame the Knights of Columbus and hysteria about communists being atheists....which they weren't. Sure the Soviet Union discouraged religion, knowing first hand the Orthodox Church helped keep the ol Tsar in power by preaching divine right and all thatt...bu tthere were still churches.
Say Joe Blow has a nice AVCHD camera and wants to make videos to upload to Youtube. Don't say this isn't a "normal user" thing either, the vast quantity of crap on Youtube attests otherwise. Well on Windows it is real easy. It has a built in program (Movie Maker) that can do basics, but you can easily get all sorts of programs like Vegas Movie Studio that do a real good job. It is as simple as plugging in your camera, importing clips, editing, and then having the software upload them to Youtube.
I had to work my way through all that pulse bullshit in combination with HDMI over a year ago. Tested a new release last week and it still does not work.
Using Pulse with HDMI audio right now. One of the tricks is to tell Pulse to use the "right" hw numbers.
Yes, unless you wanted to use "combined sink", which Fedora 16's Pulseaudio doesn't get along with.. But then again, I only used combined sink in Fedora 15 because Pulse wouldn't switch my audio on the fly (between my analog headphone and the HDMI that leads to the monitor/TV with it's own speakers), which it now does in Fedora 16. So I'm actually better off that I was before.
Sure, you can get a dedicated TV and use it like a monitor on a desk, but that's a very small minority use, and not what the system designers intended.
Yep, that's how I have my PS3 set up connected to the same screen my LInux machine is., course I had LInux on PS3 itself at one time. Same setup with the PS2, which yes, had Linux kit in it., Also played MMORPG's on the PS2 so desk/keyboard was useful. (Yes I had a second PS2 for the FFXI hard drive)
Though I did try to see if a TV tray would work in the living room as a keyboard holder...it does. Though most aren't large enough for mice as well, so the mice has to be beside you on the couch (Large book makes a good mousepad), and of course you need a loooong USB cable and it helps to have a keyboard with a USB port to plug the mouse in.
With Bluetooth keyboards and mice it would be even easier these days.
You forget that dx.......and atrocious character modeling/animation,
Except on the PS2 port, which was mocapped.
[quote]Where it wins where the sequels fail is playing to platform strengths. Good story, depth of world, and a UI/mechanism only capable with mouse and keyboard. Simple shooters are still limited on consoles due to lacking a mouse so developers have to dumb them down.[/quote]
Said PS2 Deus Ex port supported keyboard and mouse,,,,,10 years ago. It's a developer choice to not add mouse support, not a hardware limitation. In fact some have said they don't implement it, because most of their players are couch players who aren't interested in using a mouse even if it's supported.
I think part of the problem it seems that SCE(J) writes the dev documentation, and they suck. The language issue doesn't help either.
Let me give a couple of PS2 LInux kit examples. The Kit's distro is a Red Hat variant, but NOT a mainline Red Hat, but a funky crazy Japanese variant. called Kondara.
1. At first Sony said that you would need a VGA monitor to do the install, but could then set it after installation to use the PS2's DTV or NTSC modes if desired. Some people actually did a blind install. But some time after the kit release it was discovered that the RTE boot loader AND installer most certainly did support installing in the other modes through undocumented controller sequences. Just hold down Select + R1 and the RTE disc and installer boots in NTSC mode from the start.
2. The installed kit had a little utility that in some ways performed the desktop environment choosing functions of the modern GDM. It was apparently created by SCE(J) and worked in either console or X. Can't remember the name of it, but it had NO documentation.
Here's another example from the PS3:
There's a PS3 "app" called AdHocParty which lets a PS3 act as a sort of ad-hoc bridge to let one play Adhoc only (local wireless play) PSP games over the Internet. If you try to pull up the help page within it, all you get is a blank. SCE(J) never got around to writing the non-japanese documentation.
And India became weakly chummy with the USSR solely to upgrade it's military on the cheap. Once they had done so, they asked the Russian military trainers/techs to leave.
The US had offered our stuff, but it was too expensive for India, that's why the turned to Russia. Out of sheer spite, the US became chummy with Pakistan. Stupid Stupid Stupid. I'd rather the US was chummy with India over Pakistan any day of the week, and twice on sundays.
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Nintendo still insists on WiiWare developers having a dedicated office and "relevant game industry experience" (a previous commercial game on another platform), and indie developers operating out of home offices can't necessarily afford those.
Then go to work for an established developer, pay your dues, build up a nest egg/get funding/take out loans and then start up your OWN company, with an office and employees. if you REALLY want to be a professional game developer quit complaining and actually DO something.
However, lack of faith that a developer will have access to a market in which to derive revenue from the work discourages developers from making it one's day job.
The easiest way to make it your day job is to work for an established developer and stop obsessing about being the "one guy in the garage" that makes it big, that rarely happens.
If that means moving, move. I know you have a local support system and probably have issues with interviewing, but that's the reality. You might be able to work remotely, but will probably still have to travel to interview...
How would you like to have worked on a game eight hours a day for 250 days only to be told that the platforms' gatekeepers don't want to make your game available to the public?
the gatekeepers remember the crash of 84....don't you? Crappy knockoffs made for a quick buck, even the worst games today suck less than some of the crap for the 2600.
Simply put, they don't want a bunch of 14 year olds making penis games or tetris knockoffs for their systems. They want a minimum level of polish and expertise... they want professionals, not hobbyists, if that shuts out someone like you, so be it.
For one, stop responding like an Eliza-bot.
yes, I know, you can't stop being what you are.
SCEJ has a hard-on for Netfront, because it's made a fellow Japanese company, they ignore how crappy Netfront is. The PS2's Japan only BBN browser for the PS2 was also netfront, as is the PSP's browser.
When I had LInux on my PS3, I actually preferred to use Firefox under LInux to browse on TV.
Does the PS3 browser support HTML 5?
As far as I know, it doesn't.
but I thought at one point most of the videos didn't work because they required a newer version of Flash (which, from what I remember, hasn't been updated in ages
A youtube update broke PS3 viewing for a bit, yes, but the PS3 browser got updated, Youtube is fine now....
I work with a bunch of engineers,
The key word being engineers, which skews you data sample.
It'd be like asking how many of them put together a heathkit and then saying that heathkit is very popular in general, when it never was, always a niche market.
Of course, you could always buy a drive for you 360. It costs $100 for the 250GB
Say what? I have an 80GB PS3 and I've been thinking of getting a bigger hard drive. Now, I assumed that PS3 and 360 hard drives would have similar cost...but apparently not.
Most indie games suck, we only hear about the good ones on slashdot, not the vast wasteland of puzzle game clones done by nerds with no real game ideas of his own.
Lies
Lies!
PS3 still plays PS2 games just fine.
Sure it does, if you have a "Fat" CECH(A/B/E) model like me, if not, you're out of luck except for the remastered PS2 games on PSN.
PS3 never "approved" nor "shipped" any version of Linux. It was rumored long ago that Sony would sponsor this, and there were numerous hacks that let Linux run.. it was never a Sony configuration and never "approved".
That's a hell of a lot of misinformation you have and anybody who had Linux on their PS3 could tell you that. It was an officially supported function, right in the XMB, called "OtherOS" in Sony documentation. One of the PS3 manuals mentions it, and sends you to Sony's openplatform website for more info. All you needed to install Linux on the PS3 was the proper install media, put it in, and install. Real easy. Sony also released a Linux distro themselves for the PS2, but to get that you had to buy a "kit" for $199.
And by the way, I was active in both the PS2 and PS3 Linux communities so when it comes to Linux on the PS2 and PS3, I know what I'm talking about.
As to Camecube games, that was never a feature of the Wii.
I must be imagining connecting a Gamecube controller and memory card to the jack and slot in the Wii in the living room.
When did a six digit UID become low? Sure I've been reading Slashdot since 99/00 but I don't consider my UID low.
You're far too obsessed with edge casses, and in fact YOU are an edge case.
Steve Jackson games,
If it's Steve Jackson games, why do they need Kickstarter...they're Steeve Jackson Games. I'm beginning to think that Kickstarter is just for those who've already hit the "big time" but want to make some kind of ultra-niche vanity project that appeals to their hardcore fanbase and thusly wouldn't actually SELL in todays market, without spending their own capital.
Relaunching OGRE, it seems that Slashdot current editors dont thing the biggest Geek game of all time is news.
OGRE? The biggest geek game of all time? OGRE? You have got to be kidding. Even in the glory days of tabletop gaming, which are loooong gone, OGRE was a niche game. The biggest Geek game of all time is obviously D&D, which not only still survives in tabletop form and can still be bought in any bookstore, but inspired games on computers and consoles, has had a TV show AND movies, based on it.
Hell, even Battletech is bigger than OGRE.
It can't properly estimate the size of JPEG files before saving. Instead, it shows an absurd number (1.3 GB, I think) for any JPEG preview on save, no matter what the actual size is.
That's a standard GIMP "feature" I think, "size is unknown", unless you have "show thumbnail" in that dialog on. Annoying, yes.
if you bought Dragon Age complete pack from Amazon.com when it was on sale, that is 40 GB or more worth of downloading for those two games alone!).
Never underestinate the bandwidth of a truck full of blu-rays/DVD's. if you're worried about caps, pick up the physical copies, and save your data for something else.
People all over screaming "Separation of Church and State". Which does not and never did exist.
Thomas Jefferson invented the concept, remember him?
National days of prayer, God on our money, God in our Pledges.
Which did not exist for many many years.
Did you know that In God we trust didn't start appearing on all coinage till the 1950's, about the same time the pledge was altered....the original version (which is the one my father and mother used when they were kids) did NOT have "under god" Blame the Knights of Columbus and hysteria about communists being atheists....which they weren't. Sure the Soviet Union discouraged religion, knowing first hand the Orthodox Church helped keep the ol Tsar in power by preaching divine right and all thatt...bu tthere were still churches.
Say Joe Blow has a nice AVCHD camera and wants to make videos to upload to Youtube. Don't say this isn't a "normal user" thing either, the vast quantity of crap on Youtube attests otherwise. Well on Windows it is real easy. It has a built in program (Movie Maker) that can do basics, but you can easily get all sorts of programs like Vegas Movie Studio that do a real good job. It is as simple as plugging in your camera, importing clips, editing, and then having the software upload them to Youtube.
sudo yum install pitivi avidemux-gtk
I had to work my way through all that pulse bullshit in combination with HDMI over a year ago. Tested a new release last week and it still does not work.
Using Pulse with HDMI audio right now. One of the tricks is to tell Pulse to use the "right" hw numbers.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261378
Yes, unless you wanted to use "combined sink", which Fedora 16's Pulseaudio doesn't get along with.. But then again, I only used combined sink in Fedora 15 because Pulse wouldn't switch my audio on the fly (between my analog headphone and the HDMI that leads to the monitor/TV with it's own speakers), which it now does in Fedora 16. So I'm actually better off that I was before.
Sure, you can get a dedicated TV and use it like a monitor on a desk, but that's a very small minority use, and not what the system designers intended.
Yep, that's how I have my PS3 set up connected to the same screen my LInux machine is., course I had LInux on PS3 itself at one time. Same setup with the PS2, which yes, had Linux kit in it., Also played MMORPG's on the PS2 so desk/keyboard was useful. (Yes I had a second PS2 for the FFXI hard drive)
Though I did try to see if a TV tray would work in the living room as a keyboard holder...it does. Though most aren't large enough for mice as well, so the mice has to be beside you on the couch (Large book makes a good mousepad), and of course you need a loooong USB cable and it helps to have a keyboard with a USB port to plug the mouse in.
With Bluetooth keyboards and mice it would be even easier these days.
You forget that dx .......and atrocious character modeling/animation,
Except on the PS2 port, which was mocapped.
[quote]Where it wins where the sequels fail is playing to platform strengths. Good story, depth of world, and a UI/mechanism only capable with mouse and keyboard. Simple shooters are still limited on consoles due to lacking a mouse so developers have to dumb them down.[/quote]
Said PS2 Deus Ex port supported keyboard and mouse,,,,,10 years ago. It's a developer choice to not add mouse support, not a hardware limitation. In fact some have said they don't implement it, because most of their players are couch players who aren't interested in using a mouse even if it's supported.
BTW I didn't know the PS3 only ran at 720p
Depends on the game.
I think part of the problem it seems that SCE(J) writes the dev documentation, and they suck. The language issue doesn't help either.
Let me give a couple of PS2 LInux kit examples. The Kit's distro is a Red Hat variant, but NOT a mainline Red Hat, but a funky crazy Japanese variant. called Kondara.
1. At first Sony said that you would need a VGA monitor to do the install, but could then set it after installation to use the PS2's DTV or NTSC modes if desired. Some people actually did a blind install. But some time after the kit release it was discovered that the RTE boot loader AND installer most certainly did support installing in the other modes through undocumented controller sequences. Just hold down Select + R1 and the RTE disc and installer boots in NTSC mode from the start.
2. The installed kit had a little utility that in some ways performed the desktop environment choosing functions of the modern GDM. It was apparently created by SCE(J) and worked in either console or X. Can't remember the name of it, but it had NO documentation.
Here's another example from the PS3:
There's a PS3 "app" called AdHocParty which lets a PS3 act as a sort of ad-hoc bridge to let one play Adhoc only (local wireless play) PSP games over the Internet. If you try to pull up the help page within it, all you get is a blank. SCE(J) never got around to writing the non-japanese documentation.
If there was an actual mechanical switch on the PS3 (as the PS2 had) that completely powered the unit down, absolutely.
There is.
It also amazes me that the PS3 doesn't have a 'download quietly and then turn off when the download is finished' function.
It does.
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/users/turnoff.html
And India became weakly chummy with the USSR solely to upgrade it's military on the cheap. Once they had done so, they asked the Russian military trainers/techs to leave.
The US had offered our stuff, but it was too expensive for India, that's why the turned to Russia. Out of sheer spite, the US became chummy with Pakistan. Stupid Stupid Stupid. I'd rather the US was chummy with India over Pakistan any day of the week, and twice on sundays.