A few friends and I started a software company selling games for the Pocket PC. We don't do this full time, by any means. We distribute through Handango.com. It saves some headaches but it's to make your product noticed.
A main thing to consider is that you need to make things that aren't out there. We just made an ogg player, then found out someone is giving on away for free. And coming up with an original idea is difficult, if you've thought of it, chances are someone else has as well.
It is hard work, but you're more motivated if its YOUR company. There's something about that control aspect that really drives you. I myself got to the point where I cringe when I think about interviewing with an HR drone, but legal forms no longer scare me.
Anyway, we're giving away a free ogg player. Check us out at www.swordandspiritsoftware.com
I'm trying to understand how video games totally override's someones ability to discern right and wrong.
They fact that they were bored and just started killing people is rather scary. But is lack of immagination the only thing that prevented them from being killers? Couldn't they have easily watched the footage of the twin towers and get the idea to fly or drive into a building?
Did Pac-Man promote gluttony? Did Donkey-Kong promote animal abuse?
sigh....never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups....
I think that you should have to give email PERMISSION to send you attachments of any sort. Unless its a trusted source, then no attachment should get through. There's nothing like checking my mail at work and seeing a picture of two 90-year old whatevers going at it and then getting fired for having porn on my machine.
Of course if we could get everyone on trillian....
Now the job postings will read:
must have five years exp. in f#
rather than:
must have five years exp. in c#
just when I was getting my 10 years exp in Java that they also require...
I have had trouble with Verizon as well. When I had dsl and moved, they told me that I would have to cancel my account, and get a new one even though I was using the same number and was only moving half a mile. I was looking at a three week laps in service.
Well, after unpacking and my local service started, for sh*ts and giggles I tried my dsl and lo and behold I was connected.
I called them up and told them I currently have service and not to cancel my dsl, and to cancel the new account I had set up, since they were completey wrong about having it needed to be changed.
Well, a month down the road I got two bills. And still got two bills for three months. Then for a few months I got no bills. Then I would get double billed. Then my bill would be high because they claimed that didnt charge me for a few weels 6 months ago.
Oddly enough, Verizon still has an outstanding bbb rating. But I recommend going to them, don't underestimate the power of the BBB!
The next time I moved I got cable and said to hell with Verizon.
I have no local phone service and I carry a cell phone. I highly recommend it. T-Mobile gives me long distance, 600 minutes, caller id, voicemail service for 30$ a month plus it MOBILE!
My local phone service with long distance and caller id package : 40 dollars. Plus I get a charge for long distance calls.
Only negative: Pizza deliveries wont deliver to my door since I have no local number.
#1 off topic
#2 Conspiracy crap
#3 Very bad video editing
#4 So if these illuminati-new-world-order-saucer-people are so powerful, how come they havn't taken out your sorry ass yet?
Remember, nothing ever happened to america that wasn't the governments grand master plan. Everybody in the world loves us and couldn't possible hurt us without the government's support.
but if all spammers move offshore, could we black list providers at routers where they come into the country? If a provider refuses to remove a spammer, can they be added to a black list, so that any packet with an ip from those routers get tossed? Or packets without received ips in their email headers? I know its kind of an extreme solution, but it would defintely attact the providers attention if their users can no longer send email to usa or canada
speaking of carbon rods, the democratic party is seeking one to run against bush in 2004.
Personally, I'd take the inanimate carbon rod over Leiberman.
So how does playing the game a certain way going to stop the publishers from making deals that make them money?? Especially in an industry were nearly everyone is losing money.
Let's say there's a lot of "vomitting" by the establishments. You think McDonald's is actually going to bulk? As if there was such a thing as bad publicity.
Imagine if you spent all that time researching politicians and voting....
Since outlook express formats html code that is sent automatically, and I assume uses the saem engine explorer does, could it be possible to send a spam email that will re-format the hard drives on all IE windows systems?
scary.
like divx did!
Actually I think the "disposable" tag has lost its marketability, since more and more people are wondering actually how much landfill space is left.
I always take every "warming" story with a huge grain of salt. Ever temperature timeline we see for the last 500 years shows the "Hockey Stick" graph : A declining line that suddenly upswings at the end of the 20th century. This is the "shock" graph researchers use to scare people into giving them more funding.
However, the graph conviently leaves out the medieval ice age, where rivers in britan froze and is mentioned in the "Cantabury Tales," and the medieval warming period that allowed the Vikings to colonize Greenland.
In reality, we're not sure which way the temperature has been swinging and we just now have technology and methods to study it with, rather than taking tree sample rings in isolated sections of the globe and guessing what the temperature was that year the ring grew.
My biggest concern is painting Co2 as the "killer gas" that will prevent the spread of alcohol fueled cars since their main byproduct is c02 and water.
"Operating systems are the moldy basements of computing. We used to live down there, but are now moving upstairs to healthier quarters. We rely on the courts and antitrust laws to keep Microsoft from abusing its enormous power. We need Microsoft itself to be the universal stepladder that lets us climb out of our hole and smell the roses."
didn't we hear this 20 YEARS AGO with STEVE JOBS??
Isn't this guy just droning on about user interfaces? Having the user not worry about the machine is something the industry has been working on for 20 years now....
I think this guy needs a serious clue.
This is the same country that outlawed red blood in video games. Well, if the those violent video games and nazi symbols aren't getting through, how is there crime to even wiretap?
*couch*
sorry, choked on my own sarcasm.
Games are TOO expensive to make anymore. In the last 4 years, dues to increases in technology, people want games to look cutting edge. Now you have three times the number of staff working on content and you're selling the game for the same price you did three years ago. When you did 2d, you had a cell animator to make a character. Now you have a texture artist, a 3d modeler, and an animator to make a character.
So all the publishers have consolidated down to four, half the dev companies have gone bankrupt, and the only games publishers want to make are sure-fire hit sequels. Innovation is too risky, that's why presto studios quit even though they were ahead.
You guys can talk about bad ideas and programmers until you're blue in the face but the real truth of the matter is that it takes too long to make a game anymore and the chances of making the money back on it are getting slimmer. Game developers work on average 70 hours a week and make less than equivalent jobs in the IT field. I'm not kidding, go ask a few.
Might have already stated this, but PC games have a limited future. There are going to be fewer and far between. The consumer knows it, the developer knows it, and the publishers are causing a great deal of it. Most of the production money is going into the console titles, with less and less firms wanted to shell any cash into PC products. Also, games will come out on the consoles first and then be ported to the pc.
All in all, the biggest thing that PC's have going for them is the mouse. I'm not kidding. Shooters and strategy games will be popular on the pc, but everything else will go console side. The fact that new hardware comes out on the pc first is actually a minus for it. You have a technology pyramid to develope for, with the newest being and the fewest being on top. Not a pretty demographic. Since consoles are fixed and very powerful right now and have large distribtion they're the only sane choice in a crumbling market.
...in an age were processors are dirt cheap anymore. I mean really, if I saw a p2 400 chip and a quarter lying side-by-side on a street corner, I'd pick up the quarter.
I always wondered why in star trek they didn't use lasers to bypass the shields. Obviously if you can SEE the ship, then light must be able to pass through the shields, so a laser weapon could be very effective.
On another note, since lasers aren't normally in a visible spectrum and don't make a loud bang, this could be a very deadly stealth weapon. I can imagine Sadam and his crew marching out and all of a sudden everyone starts dropping and nobody can figure out what the hell is going on.
Ok, so we'll have chameleon tanks and trucks rolling across the battle field.
Even though most shells just bounce of our armor anyway. While ours go through the enemies and then whatever was behind our enemy.
But unfortunately we're all out of enemies with powerful armies to make it worth it.
Commies! Come back commies! I didn't mean what I said...
You can't get the dot. Worse, there's no sprite flicker. The sprite flicker made it possible to get to the secret room. Since atari games only could display 1-2 sprites at a time, sprites would flicker if you had more than 2.
Also, the green and yellow dragon speeds are switched. The line wall don't change to the color of the object you're carrying. And you can't switch to the harder levels, such as the one with the white castle.
You can tell I spent WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much time playing adventure as a kid. Hey, it was 20 years before counterstrike!
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A few friends and I started a software company selling games for the Pocket PC. We don't do this full time, by any means. We distribute through Handango.com. It saves some headaches but it's to make your product noticed. A main thing to consider is that you need to make things that aren't out there. We just made an ogg player, then found out someone is giving on away for free. And coming up with an original idea is difficult, if you've thought of it, chances are someone else has as well. It is hard work, but you're more motivated if its YOUR company. There's something about that control aspect that really drives you. I myself got to the point where I cringe when I think about interviewing with an HR drone, but legal forms no longer scare me. Anyway, we're giving away a free ogg player. Check us out at www.swordandspiritsoftware.com
I'm trying to understand how video games totally override's someones ability to discern right and wrong. They fact that they were bored and just started killing people is rather scary. But is lack of immagination the only thing that prevented them from being killers? Couldn't they have easily watched the footage of the twin towers and get the idea to fly or drive into a building? Did Pac-Man promote gluttony? Did Donkey-Kong promote animal abuse? sigh....never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups....
I think that you should have to give email PERMISSION to send you attachments of any sort. Unless its a trusted source, then no attachment should get through. There's nothing like checking my mail at work and seeing a picture of two 90-year old whatevers going at it and then getting fired for having porn on my machine. Of course if we could get everyone on trillian....
Now the job postings will read: must have five years exp. in f# rather than: must have five years exp. in c# just when I was getting my 10 years exp in Java that they also require...
I have had trouble with Verizon as well. When I had dsl and moved, they told me that I would have to cancel my account, and get a new one even though I was using the same number and was only moving half a mile. I was looking at a three week laps in service.
Well, after unpacking and my local service started, for sh*ts and giggles I tried my dsl and lo and behold I was connected.
I called them up and told them I currently have service and not to cancel my dsl, and to cancel the new account I had set up, since they were completey wrong about having it needed to be changed.
Well, a month down the road I got two bills. And still got two bills for three months. Then for a few months I got no bills. Then I would get double billed. Then my bill would be high because they claimed that didnt charge me for a few weels 6 months ago.
Oddly enough, Verizon still has an outstanding bbb rating. But I recommend going to them, don't underestimate the power of the BBB!
The next time I moved I got cable and said to hell with Verizon.
I have no local phone service and I carry a cell phone. I highly recommend it. T-Mobile gives me long distance, 600 minutes, caller id, voicemail service for 30$ a month plus it MOBILE!
My local phone service with long distance and caller id package : 40 dollars. Plus I get a charge for long distance calls.
Only negative: Pizza deliveries wont deliver to my door since I have no local number.
#1 off topic #2 Conspiracy crap #3 Very bad video editing #4 So if these illuminati-new-world-order-saucer-people are so powerful, how come they havn't taken out your sorry ass yet? Remember, nothing ever happened to america that wasn't the governments grand master plan. Everybody in the world loves us and couldn't possible hurt us without the government's support.
but if all spammers move offshore, could we black list providers at routers where they come into the country? If a provider refuses to remove a spammer, can they be added to a black list, so that any packet with an ip from those routers get tossed? Or packets without received ips in their email headers? I know its kind of an extreme solution, but it would defintely attact the providers attention if their users can no longer send email to usa or canada
speaking of carbon rods, the democratic party is seeking one to run against bush in 2004. Personally, I'd take the inanimate carbon rod over Leiberman.
there were gaming jobs who are interested in those candidates.
As it stands, the industry ain't doing that good. Nowadays you either need to know someone, or have already shipped a game.
So how does playing the game a certain way going to stop the publishers from making deals that make them money?? Especially in an industry were nearly everyone is losing money. Let's say there's a lot of "vomitting" by the establishments. You think McDonald's is actually going to bulk? As if there was such a thing as bad publicity. Imagine if you spent all that time researching politicians and voting....
Now that I was able to read the article, my question seems to be answered in the first line. I broke the read-before-comment rule again...
Since outlook express formats html code that is sent automatically, and I assume uses the saem engine explorer does, could it be possible to send a spam email that will re-format the hard drives on all IE windows systems? scary.
like divx did! Actually I think the "disposable" tag has lost its marketability, since more and more people are wondering actually how much landfill space is left.
so is proper spelling.
I always take every "warming" story with a huge grain of salt. Ever temperature timeline we see for the last 500 years shows the "Hockey Stick" graph : A declining line that suddenly upswings at the end of the 20th century. This is the "shock" graph researchers use to scare people into giving them more funding.
However, the graph conviently leaves out the medieval ice age, where rivers in britan froze and is mentioned in the "Cantabury Tales," and the medieval warming period that allowed the Vikings to colonize Greenland.
In reality, we're not sure which way the temperature has been swinging and we just now have technology and methods to study it with, rather than taking tree sample rings in isolated sections of the globe and guessing what the temperature was that year the ring grew.
My biggest concern is painting Co2 as the "killer gas" that will prevent the spread of alcohol fueled cars since their main byproduct is c02 and water.
"Operating systems are the moldy basements of computing. We used to live down there, but are now moving upstairs to healthier quarters. We rely on the courts and antitrust laws to keep Microsoft from abusing its enormous power. We need Microsoft itself to be the universal stepladder that lets us climb out of our hole and smell the roses." didn't we hear this 20 YEARS AGO with STEVE JOBS?? Isn't this guy just droning on about user interfaces? Having the user not worry about the machine is something the industry has been working on for 20 years now.... I think this guy needs a serious clue.
This is the same country that outlawed red blood in video games. Well, if the those violent video games and nazi symbols aren't getting through, how is there crime to even wiretap? *couch* sorry, choked on my own sarcasm.
Games are TOO expensive to make anymore. In the last 4 years, dues to increases in technology, people want games to look cutting edge. Now you have three times the number of staff working on content and you're selling the game for the same price you did three years ago. When you did 2d, you had a cell animator to make a character. Now you have a texture artist, a 3d modeler, and an animator to make a character.
So all the publishers have consolidated down to four, half the dev companies have gone bankrupt, and the only games publishers want to make are sure-fire hit sequels. Innovation is too risky, that's why presto studios quit even though they were ahead.
You guys can talk about bad ideas and programmers until you're blue in the face but the real truth of the matter is that it takes too long to make a game anymore and the chances of making the money back on it are getting slimmer. Game developers work on average 70 hours a week and make less than equivalent jobs in the IT field. I'm not kidding, go ask a few.
Might have already stated this, but PC games have a limited future. There are going to be fewer and far between. The consumer knows it, the developer knows it, and the publishers are causing a great deal of it. Most of the production money is going into the console titles, with less and less firms wanted to shell any cash into PC products. Also, games will come out on the consoles first and then be ported to the pc.
All in all, the biggest thing that PC's have going for them is the mouse. I'm not kidding. Shooters and strategy games will be popular on the pc, but everything else will go console side. The fact that new hardware comes out on the pc first is actually a minus for it. You have a technology pyramid to develope for, with the newest being and the fewest being on top. Not a pretty demographic. Since consoles are fixed and very powerful right now and have large distribtion they're the only sane choice in a crumbling market.
...in an age were processors are dirt cheap anymore. I mean really, if I saw a p2 400 chip and a quarter lying side-by-side on a street corner, I'd pick up the quarter.
I always wondered why in star trek they didn't use lasers to bypass the shields. Obviously if you can SEE the ship, then light must be able to pass through the shields, so a laser weapon could be very effective. On another note, since lasers aren't normally in a visible spectrum and don't make a loud bang, this could be a very deadly stealth weapon. I can imagine Sadam and his crew marching out and all of a sudden everyone starts dropping and nobody can figure out what the hell is going on.
Ok, so we'll have chameleon tanks and trucks rolling across the battle field. Even though most shells just bounce of our armor anyway. While ours go through the enemies and then whatever was behind our enemy. But unfortunately we're all out of enemies with powerful armies to make it worth it. Commies! Come back commies! I didn't mean what I said...
I thought we gave tax BREAKS to struggling businesses when the economy is down. Hasn't e-commerce taken enough of a beating yet?
You can't get the dot. Worse, there's no sprite flicker. The sprite flicker made it possible to get to the secret room. Since atari games only could display 1-2 sprites at a time, sprites would flicker if you had more than 2.
Also, the green and yellow dragon speeds are switched. The line wall don't change to the color of the object you're carrying. And you can't switch to the harder levels, such as the one with the white castle.
You can tell I spent WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much time playing adventure as a kid. Hey, it was 20 years before counterstrike!
yeah, i'll remember to laugh next time I drive past sommerset. This moderator blows.