Yeah reconfiguring the levels would be possible, but I figured the only way to keep such an enteprise viable would be to be multiplayer (ie laser tag kind of thing). It would be hard to reconfigure the levels with more than one person in it...
But no helmets could cheaply be replaced with UV paint and blacklight... Like in current laser tag setup.
Its been a while, but when I was younger (like 20, i'm 29 now;)) I pondered on a "real life Doom" technique. The way I saw it, after countless hours of Doom level editing, is to make it just the way Doom made it. With heightmaps.
I know it would be hard and probably not pratical but... You take a big warehouse, rig the floor and ceiling with 6' high wooden or plastic rod. Each rod is controlled by pneumatic (or whatever) to raise (in the case of the floor rod) or lower (for the ceiling one) and they meet in the middle (assuming a 12' space between the rods)
Anyone that made Doom levels will know how that would work. One could create any kind of levels, provided you keep the stairs to a minimum. But you can have Doom like doors (that open like in the game), window, walls and stairs.
Mix that with a VR helmet so that the user can see a gun, textured walls and ennemies instead of rods, and you have yourself a real life Doom. Reflective patches on the rod coupled with IR on the helmet could even be used to track if the player crouch or jump (god forbid)
It would not work for space infinite levels, but it would be great for hi-tech paintballs games. You'd have infinite maze for the players to play into.
I just checked the page I linked. Although its the right page, its not updated and still talk about Microcell, which was the old owner. Which is weird. You'd have thought hat Rogers would have updated the page before they got in an agreement and made the news...
I used to work for Fido, the creator of the Inukshuk project. I'm glad Rogers picked it up after they bought Fido, I could never phantom how the smallest cell network in Canada could have implemented it by themselves.
(They did try some lame attemp a wireless internet behind the Inukshuk banner, but you needed a bulky wireless modem to go with it... It wasn't very fast and the price was not very competitive)
I've been questionned by security at Walmart once because I took a picture of a Dora table to show my girlfriend at home before I bought it. They caught me on camera! (Of course I have a Sidekick 2, it does look like a camera to start with)
Amazon is patenting that because of the emergence of megapixel phone camera. As for prior, I know of at least 1 developer who tried to implement just that for the phone I use. But the camera on the phone is not good enough, you need a magnifying glass between the lense and the barcode for it to work;) Cool concept though. Price matching retailer wont see that one coming...
From their products page, LGP doesn't deal with that much developer. Unless the new game is from a new dev house, the only developer that have upcoming games are
-GRIN with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigter.
That one would be surprising, as Tom Clancy's stuff is usually published by Ubisoft, and Ubi can take care of Linux by themselves
-Metropolis Software, but their upcoming games don't seem to be slated for a North American release, and it would be susprising that a Linux launch would be announced before a PC launch.
-Stategy First. And they have quite a few games coming... So it might be a Strategy First title, Disciple 2 : Gallean's Return would be a good choice as LGP carries Disciple 2.
-Pyrogon. Their only game not on the Linux platform is Super Letter Linker. They have a OS X port out, so a Linux port wouldn't be far fetched.
My bet is on Super Letter Linker. I mean if you get Disciple 2 or Ghost Recon lined up, you announce the damn game, the news cannot be bigger than that, no need for a contest...
Couldn't they provide something else than a compressed jpeg full of jpeg artifact (zoom the large picture, you will see a the image is composed of 8x8 block of seemingly random pixels)
How is one supposed to know what the hell is in there if the jpeg compression moves the changed pixels around?
From the blurb, and the article : "However, Daniel Perry, a lawyer who has followed the case, says that Wall's case is complicated by his own negative comments about Traffic-Power, which could be seen as a competitor to his site. 'To be candid, he sort of moved into this moving propeller,' Perry said. 'The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people."
This is more than visitors related comments. He joined the party.
Your comment might be valid if it was another situation, but not this one.
If you read the article, or even just the Slashdot blurb about it, you will see that SEOBook.com and Whatever-Power.com are 2 sites about the same thing : Optimizing your site position in a search engine.
Thus, they are competitor. Its more like if Ronald McDonald was publicly saying that The Who's-your-King-Now guy was a fraud. Its not just a random, out of the blue blogger's opinion about something.
Of course, Ronald might litigate that The King tried to run a fake McDonald behind is back in the first place, which seems to be what happen between SOEBook and Traffic-Power. Traffic Power opened a fake web forum to cash in on the SOE eBook popularity, and to slander that Wells character at the same time.
Anyway, I don't see how this thing would be something followed by every blogger, its a dispute over 2 money making business, not a blogger and a business... but IANABS (I am not a blogger scum)
Doom L1E1 music, the Mario bros theme song, and the first Sonic gane theme are one of the few video game song that gamers will remember all their lives.
I feel that you should have spent your posting time on something a bit more deserving. And unlike your opinion about Doom's music, I am not the only one who think that.
How much time before we see a "A way to rent movie with one click", "A way to post DVD back in one step", "A way to watch DVD in one viewing" patent surfacing?
RTFA. That Jack seems to have a point this time and he is not targeting Take Two but the retailler that allow preorder without any age check.
And he is right. It will be a M rated game, and even if it SHOULD be the parent's responsability to check what their kids buy, especially online, retailer have some sort of responsability. They took upon themselves to be responsible about rating the minute they decided to pull out AO game from their shelves.
Nothing to do with the oh so sacred First Amendment.
Yeah... Americans and the All Mighty Lie. Clinton could screw everyone he knew, but by god, he got linched because he lied about it! Now Rockstar is not guilty of covering their ass to the mass media, but of, god forbid, lying. And the media circus is all over it. Why?
Its because of people like you, who like to wave their opinion on non-issue, that mass media and politicians are triving on those stupid, useless stories.
I am Canadian. And proud to be. And I don't care if our prime minister sleep with every voters (beside me). Nor do I care about pixelated whore, especially when you have to sell your first born to the devil and code in the protein sequence for the cure of cancer to see it.
Look out! All the slashdotter will have a heart attack reading this one, and miss the point which was : (fromt he article)
"My hunch would be that Linux still has the edge but it's difficult to tell with all this misleading information being pumped out."
FUD is FUD, and its being given by both side. It happenned in the C64 vs Mac, Mac vs PC, Nintendo VS Sega, XBOX vs PS2 wars, and will continue to happen in everything where nerds is involved.
Those wars are Nerd's answer to woman staffed clothes store. (if you don't get that one, go spend 1 hour in there while your girlfriend shop, and listen to the saleslady dispute who got the sale. Sounds like a Linux vs Windoze Slashdot thread).
http://patrickw.gtagames.nl/ :
"All the contents of this mod was already available on the original disks. Therefor the scriptcode, the models, the animations and the dialogs by the original voice-actors were all created by RockStar. The only thing I had to do to enable the mini-games was toggling a single bit in the main.scm file. (Of course it was not easy to find the correct bit). The Nude models that are used as a bonus in the Quick action version of the mod, were also already present on the original disk.
But all this material is completely inaccesible in an unmodded version of the game. It can therefor not be considered a cheat, easter-egg or hidden feature. But is most probably just leftover material from a gameplay idea that didn't make the final release. I would really like to stress that this material is only accessible after willfully applying the hot coffee mod (or something similar) to the game."
So politician looking for the latest fad to go against should shut the hell up. This is leftover code. Whats next? Going after Microsoft because they reputedly have swear words in the comments of Windows's source?
"Let's face it, businesses are becoming more dependent on their computers but they continue to be a point of failure, and subsequently, frustration through lost profits"
Wow. Corporations loosing profits is now a logic reason for a death penalty.
Maybe it will stop the "I found a finger in my Chili" people though.
Or we should kill everyone that report a business to their local BBB... That is bound to make a dent in a corporation's profit.
Oh! oh! I got it! Such a law would make all those bible-belt-Disney-boycotting-asshat think twice!
The green line player is just too scary for me. He can hack a live Tron device AND go all the way around town on a bicycle? That guy went around his 2 other friends, and the long way round at that.
/Welcome my new super intelligent, super fit overlord! I hope he is not the next nerd evolution.
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Yeah reconfiguring the levels would be possible, but I figured the only way to keep such an enteprise viable would be to be multiplayer (ie laser tag kind of thing). It would be hard to reconfigure the levels with more than one person in it...
But no helmets could cheaply be replaced with UV paint and blacklight... Like in current laser tag setup.
Its been a while, but when I was younger (like 20, i'm 29 now ;)) I pondered on a "real life Doom" technique. The way I saw it, after countless hours of Doom level editing, is to make it just the way Doom made it. With heightmaps.
I know it would be hard and probably not pratical but... You take a big warehouse, rig the floor and ceiling with 6' high wooden or plastic rod. Each rod is controlled by pneumatic (or whatever) to raise (in the case of the floor rod) or lower (for the ceiling one) and they meet in the middle (assuming a 12' space between the rods)
Anyone that made Doom levels will know how that would work. One could create any kind of levels, provided you keep the stairs to a minimum. But you can have Doom like doors (that open like in the game), window, walls and stairs.
Mix that with a VR helmet so that the user can see a gun, textured walls and ennemies instead of rods, and you have yourself a real life Doom. Reflective patches on the rod coupled with IR on the helmet could even be used to track if the player crouch or jump (god forbid)
It would not work for space infinite levels, but it would be great for hi-tech paintballs games. You'd have infinite maze for the players to play into.
I just checked the page I linked. Although its the right page, its not updated and still talk about Microcell, which was the old owner. Which is weird. You'd have thought hat Rogers would have updated the page before they got in an agreement and made the news...
Which is weird, its not even listed in the article either.
http://www.inukshuk.ca/anglais/index.html
I used to work for Fido, the creator of the Inukshuk project. I'm glad Rogers picked it up after they bought Fido, I could never phantom how the smallest cell network in Canada could have implemented it by themselves.
(They did try some lame attemp a wireless internet behind the Inukshuk banner, but you needed a bulky wireless modem to go with it... It wasn't very fast and the price was not very competitive)
I've been questionned by security at Walmart once because I took a picture of a Dora table to show my girlfriend at home before I bought it. They caught me on camera! (Of course I have a Sidekick 2, it does look like a camera to start with)
;) Cool concept though. Price matching retailer wont see that one coming...
Amazon is patenting that because of the emergence of megapixel phone camera. As for prior, I know of at least 1 developer who tried to implement just that for the phone I use. But the camera on the phone is not good enough, you need a magnifying glass between the lense and the barcode for it to work
I don't go much further than 5 pages on that site, to check the PSP and DS release date in the preview section
That means that another user is visiting 335 pages a months!
From their products page, LGP doesn't deal with that much developer. Unless the new game is from a new dev house, the only developer that have upcoming games are
-GRIN with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigter.
That one would be surprising, as Tom Clancy's stuff is usually published by Ubisoft, and Ubi can take care of Linux by themselves
-Metropolis Software, but their upcoming games don't seem to be slated for a North American release, and it would be susprising that a Linux launch would be announced before a PC launch.
-Stategy First. And they have quite a few games coming... So it might be a Strategy First title, Disciple 2 : Gallean's Return would be a good choice as LGP carries Disciple 2.
-Pyrogon. Their only game not on the Linux platform is Super Letter Linker. They have a OS X port out, so a Linux port wouldn't be far fetched.
My bet is on Super Letter Linker. I mean if you get Disciple 2 or Ghost Recon lined up, you announce the damn game, the news cannot be bigger than that, no need for a contest...
Couldn't they provide something else than a compressed jpeg full of jpeg artifact (zoom the large picture, you will see a the image is composed of 8x8 block of seemingly random pixels)
How is one supposed to know what the hell is in there if the jpeg compression moves the changed pixels around?
I didn't hear that much FUD since the Segway came out. And look how disapointing that was...
Yep.. God killed the Neanderthalls. Thats being an Intelligent Designer.
And he left their bones to test our faith.
Did somebody said Intelligent Design?
From the blurb, and the article : "However, Daniel Perry, a lawyer who has followed the case, says that Wall's case is complicated by his own negative comments about Traffic-Power, which could be seen as a competitor to his site. 'To be candid, he sort of moved into this moving propeller,' Perry said. 'The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people."
This is more than visitors related comments. He joined the party.
Your comment might be valid if it was another situation, but not this one.
If you read the article, or even just the Slashdot blurb about it, you will see that SEOBook.com and Whatever-Power.com are 2 sites about the same thing : Optimizing your site position in a search engine.
Thus, they are competitor. Its more like if Ronald McDonald was publicly saying that The Who's-your-King-Now guy was a fraud. Its not just a random, out of the blue blogger's opinion about something.
Of course, Ronald might litigate that The King tried to run a fake McDonald behind is back in the first place, which seems to be what happen between SOEBook and Traffic-Power. Traffic Power opened a fake web forum to cash in on the SOE eBook popularity, and to slander that Wells character at the same time.
Anyway, I don't see how this thing would be something followed by every blogger, its a dispute over 2 money making business, not a blogger and a business... but IANABS (I am not a blogger scum)
Brilliant! Man, I bet my name will go down in history for having given a title to this new concept.
I'd be surprised, you posted as "Anonymous Coward". Bad luck...
Or Windows. Or any other platform. This IS Slashdot. But we keep coming back...
Doom L1E1 music, the Mario bros theme song, and the first Sonic gane theme are one of the few video game song that gamers will remember all their lives.
I feel that you should have spent your posting time on something a bit more deserving. And unlike your opinion about Doom's music, I am not the only one who think that.
How much time before we see a "A way to rent movie with one click", "A way to post DVD back in one step", "A way to watch DVD in one viewing" patent surfacing?
RTFA. That Jack seems to have a point this time and he is not targeting Take Two but the retailler that allow preorder without any age check.
And he is right. It will be a M rated game, and even if it SHOULD be the parent's responsability to check what their kids buy, especially online, retailer have some sort of responsability. They took upon themselves to be responsible about rating the minute they decided to pull out AO game from their shelves.
Nothing to do with the oh so sacred First Amendment.
Wow A whole thread a not 1 comments modded above 4! I see about 200 messages, all under 3.
What? Not enough MS bashing to be worth any serious Slashdotter attention? Or Do-no-harm Google is counterbalancing the evilness?
Yeah... Americans and the All Mighty Lie. Clinton could screw everyone he knew, but by god, he got linched because he lied about it! Now Rockstar is not guilty of covering their ass to the mass media, but of, god forbid, lying. And the media circus is all over it. Why?
Its because of people like you, who like to wave their opinion on non-issue, that mass media and politicians are triving on those stupid, useless stories.
I am Canadian. And proud to be. And I don't care if our prime minister sleep with every voters (beside me). Nor do I care about pixelated whore, especially when you have to sell your first born to the devil and code in the protein sequence for the cure of cancer to see it.
I was going to say "with your mom" but I was effraid that people would think I though I was on a kiddy site
Then again, seeing some post in that thread...
Look out! All the slashdotter will have a heart attack reading this one, and miss the point which was : (fromt he article)
"My hunch would be that Linux still has the edge but it's difficult to tell with all this misleading information being pumped out."
FUD is FUD, and its being given by both side. It happenned in the C64 vs Mac, Mac vs PC, Nintendo VS Sega, XBOX vs PS2 wars, and will continue to happen in everything where nerds is involved.
Those wars are Nerd's answer to woman staffed clothes store. (if you don't get that one, go spend 1 hour in there while your girlfriend shop, and listen to the saleslady dispute who got the sale. Sounds like a Linux vs Windoze Slashdot thread).
http://patrickw.gtagames.nl/ :
"All the contents of this mod was already available on the original disks. Therefor the scriptcode, the models, the animations and the dialogs by the original voice-actors were all created by RockStar. The only thing I had to do to enable the mini-games was toggling a single bit in the main.scm file. (Of course it was not easy to find the correct bit). The Nude models that are used as a bonus in the Quick action version of the mod, were also already present on the original disk. But all this material is completely inaccesible in an unmodded version of the game. It can therefor not be considered a cheat, easter-egg or hidden feature. But is most probably just leftover material from a gameplay idea that didn't make the final release. I would really like to stress that this material is only accessible after willfully applying the hot coffee mod (or something similar) to the game."
So politician looking for the latest fad to go against should shut the hell up. This is leftover code. Whats next? Going after Microsoft because they reputedly have swear words in the comments of Windows's source?
"Let's face it, businesses are becoming more dependent on their computers but they continue to be a point of failure, and subsequently, frustration through lost profits"
Wow. Corporations loosing profits is now a logic reason for a death penalty.
Maybe it will stop the "I found a finger in my Chili" people though.
Or we should kill everyone that report a business to their local BBB... That is bound to make a dent in a corporation's profit.
Oh! oh! I got it! Such a law would make all those bible-belt-Disney-boycotting-asshat think twice!
The green line player is just too scary for me. He can hack a live Tron device AND go all the way around town on a bicycle? That guy went around his 2 other friends, and the long way round at that.
/Welcome my new super intelligent, super fit overlord! I hope he is not the next nerd evolution.