Maybe I don't know enough about Game theory or story telling, but it seems to me that Tim Schaefer is more interested in working out how to use computer games to generate good stories.
Lucasarts adventure games were (in)famous for not letting the player die. There is no win or lose, the only game is if the story is interesting enough for you to complete and buy more lucasarts games. You need a certain amount of intelligence to complete the puzzles, but you are likely to meet the requrements if you find the story interesting.
Beyond the story and image in his games seems pretty vacant. They are still among my favourite games though.
Do they still make a big loss on the XBox? I don't think they are worried about people using them as cheap computers anyway.
I think that they are using XBox as a test bed for their end user rights restriction technology (also misleadingly known as trustworthy computing and rights management). If they can make this technology work in just the American market they can milk Windows and Office users for even more cash.
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Maybe I don't know enough about Game theory or story telling, but it seems to me that Tim Schaefer is more interested in working out how to use computer games to generate good stories. Lucasarts adventure games were (in)famous for not letting the player die. There is no win or lose, the only game is if the story is interesting enough for you to complete and buy more lucasarts games. You need a certain amount of intelligence to complete the puzzles, but you are likely to meet the requrements if you find the story interesting. Beyond the story and image in his games seems pretty vacant. They are still among my favourite games though.
Do they still make a big loss on the XBox? I don't think they are worried about people using them as cheap computers anyway. I think that they are using XBox as a test bed for their end user rights restriction technology (also misleadingly known as trustworthy computing and rights management). If they can make this technology work in just the American market they can milk Windows and Office users for even more cash.
So Linux is better than windows because it installs interpreters as default that the average desktop user has no use for or understanding of?
.vbs attachments that cause so much fun in Outlook.
If that's the case, why don't Linux advocates praise Windows for those
Yeah, this is my bitter and twisted way of saying that windows does come with a script interpreter out of the box.