Would be the August 2005 issue of Game Developer Magazine. While it's not the most in-depth article, it does describe in better detail the modding features of Civ4, how they work, and a bit on why. There's also some sidebars on city layout and making the planet round. I don't know if the article has made it to Gamasutra, but if it has, it's much more worthy of anyone's time than that Gamecloud article.
I'm designing a FOSS equivalent to OneNote, but dog only knows if it'll ever get coded. (It wouldn't hurt if someone could rev.eng. the.one file format for me, though.)
OneNote will probably still be in Office 12, but whether or not it'll be a new version is up for grabs, and if it is a new version, it would appear that it won't have the new UI.
They were already publishing (if not also developing) games under their Fox Interactive print. I too suspect it has to do with subverting the media for ratings.
I'm sure that you can figure out some kind of hardware hack to make a N64 controller work with a computer game port. Once you do that, just write the device driver, and you're set!
Retailers (the real guys with money) tell the publishers just what they'll stock. Publishers then tell the developers just what they'll publish (see above). Then developers just rehash what's already been done, adding a couple of graphics enhancements but not bothering with much else. Because that's what the retailers say they will exclusively sell. Gamers are then stiffed, but a lot don't realize it because the gaming magazines are pretty much in the hands of publishers and/or retailers (because of this).
Do the world a favour, and start buying (indie) games right from the developers rather than buying games at retail. It's cheaper for you, and provides you with much more interesting options in gameplay rather than feeding you Doom with headshots and HDR graphics.
You know you can use your gmail addy with MSN Messenger and scrap your old Hotmail box? Just create a new MS Passport account using your gmail address. I did that, and now I don't see notices stacking up on my monitor, informing me of new spam.
That's because they're lazy and spend more time boasting about their skills than actually applying them. A good number of people in my college are Russian and while they do have the skills, they aren't too keen on actually doing anything with them beyond boasting.
I agree. Maybe at first Wikipedia should have operated like it does now, just letting in any submission and change, but now that it's mature it should really have proper peer-editing and should hold back changes until they can be verified for being correct and unbiased.
It seems to me that this is just a bigger and badder version of Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, since it's just more of the same. While Saltzman makes a good journalist, his authoring skills are sorely lacking, and as such, I'd suggest not going near any of his books.
For a good look at game design from start to finish, there are much better sources than a compilation of interviews, and while most of those other sources aren't exactly for the weak (they are usually quite technical and detailed) they would suit the/. crowd far better than pedestrian materials such as this.
GC&C might be good to pick up for your 13 year old nephew who enjoys making deathmatch maps for Doom 3, especially if he wants to get into professional game development, but any age past that and you'll only do him a disservice by picking up anything short of the serious books like from Charles River and Course PTR.
I would assume that the gaming market is more lucrative than elsewhere, or that the company is betting on this assumption. As long as there is developer support for PPUs, especially with more popular games, then many gamers will feel the need to buy PPU cards on the knowledge that the game will run better with one in the box.
As it is, with the real physics simulations chances are that distributed computing will stay, perhaps further bolstered by any advancements offered by the new PPU technology. Something says to me that a 40k body limit would still be restrictive for massive simulations run by government agencies and the such.
I'm not sure about FOSS games, but I'm sure that they're out there. However, one of the IGF finalists, Supremacy, uses OGRE for the graphics end of things.
At least where I'm taking my post-secondary education, students aren't educated on the use of source control, and I've seen the results. A lot of times, students will end up with regressions in their class projects without any way to recover any code that worked better.
Even I'm at fault for this in my class projects, sometimes, but generally I use SVN for pretty much everything else.
The new and upcoming version of Netscape is supposed to use both the Mozilla and Microsoft HTML rendering engines. If I'm not mistaken, I heard that there will also be a way to have pages automatically use MS's renderer based on content; it's possible to also do that based on domain.
If you can hold on a while longer, you might find it easier to use that rather than jury-rigging something up yourself.
That's very true. Similarily, that's what we Canadians need with you Americans... There's more than enough of us making fun of you guys behind your backs, and I'm certain it's the same the other way around.
If the French were really the cheese-eating surrender monkeys everyone takes them for, then why did they bother to resist Washington over middle-east issues? Similarily, don't forget that during WW2, the French had a very strong underground movement to screw over the Nazis.
Fucktard. America is far from the majority. Let's see, 293 million or so, compared to a world population of 6.4 billion. China and India together have almost half of the world population, so screw your thought that you're the fucking majority.
Actually, it seems that at least some of the developers at MSFT use browsers other than IE (some even use Firefox). Anyway, most developers are pretty concious of what's on their machines, so at least among the programmers, I doubt that there's much need to fight spyware.
Of course, among the marketing department, it's probably a totally different story.:D
By saying that they're running this, however, even if it's totally fake, will still encourage people who sit on the fence to buy a legitimate copy rather than pirate it. It's a good move, even if it is a lie.
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Would be the August 2005 issue of Game Developer Magazine. While it's not the most in-depth article, it does describe in better detail the modding features of Civ4, how they work, and a bit on why. There's also some sidebars on city layout and making the planet round. I don't know if the article has made it to Gamasutra, but if it has, it's much more worthy of anyone's time than that Gamecloud article.
I'm designing a FOSS equivalent to OneNote, but dog only knows if it'll ever get coded. (It wouldn't hurt if someone could rev.eng. the .one file format for me, though.)
OneNote will probably still be in Office 12, but whether or not it'll be a new version is up for grabs, and if it is a new version, it would appear that it won't have the new UI.
Yeah, but I need my FilePlanet-type site, GamerMetrics, etc.
They were already publishing (if not also developing) games under their Fox Interactive print. I too suspect it has to do with subverting the media for ratings.
Buy at retail only if you can't buy online.
I'm sure that you can figure out some kind of hardware hack to make a N64 controller work with a computer game port. Once you do that, just write the device driver, and you're set!
It kinda works like this:
Retailers (the real guys with money) tell the publishers just what they'll stock. Publishers then tell the developers just what they'll publish (see above). Then developers just rehash what's already been done, adding a couple of graphics enhancements but not bothering with much else. Because that's what the retailers say they will exclusively sell. Gamers are then stiffed, but a lot don't realize it because the gaming magazines are pretty much in the hands of publishers and/or retailers (because of this).
Do the world a favour, and start buying (indie) games right from the developers rather than buying games at retail. It's cheaper for you, and provides you with much more interesting options in gameplay rather than feeding you Doom with headshots and HDR graphics.
With what Thompson wrote, were I in Doug Lowenstein's shoes I would for certain go to court over that kind of libel.
You know you can use your gmail addy with MSN Messenger and scrap your old Hotmail box? Just create a new MS Passport account using your gmail address. I did that, and now I don't see notices stacking up on my monitor, informing me of new spam.
That's because they're lazy and spend more time boasting about their skills than actually applying them. A good number of people in my college are Russian and while they do have the skills, they aren't too keen on actually doing anything with them beyond boasting.
I agree. Maybe at first Wikipedia should have operated like it does now, just letting in any submission and change, but now that it's mature it should really have proper peer-editing and should hold back changes until they can be verified for being correct and unbiased.
Thanks for the present, Microsoft. Can I return it for something better?
Actually, on Win32 Mono isn't as good as Microsoft .NET. Of course, on all other platforms, it is superior.
It seems to me that this is just a bigger and badder version of Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, since it's just more of the same. While Saltzman makes a good journalist, his authoring skills are sorely lacking, and as such, I'd suggest not going near any of his books.
/. crowd far better than pedestrian materials such as this.
For a good look at game design from start to finish, there are much better sources than a compilation of interviews, and while most of those other sources aren't exactly for the weak (they are usually quite technical and detailed) they would suit the
GC&C might be good to pick up for your 13 year old nephew who enjoys making deathmatch maps for Doom 3, especially if he wants to get into professional game development, but any age past that and you'll only do him a disservice by picking up anything short of the serious books like from Charles River and Course PTR.
I would assume that the gaming market is more lucrative than elsewhere, or that the company is betting on this assumption. As long as there is developer support for PPUs, especially with more popular games, then many gamers will feel the need to buy PPU cards on the knowledge that the game will run better with one in the box.
As it is, with the real physics simulations chances are that distributed computing will stay, perhaps further bolstered by any advancements offered by the new PPU technology. Something says to me that a 40k body limit would still be restrictive for massive simulations run by government agencies and the such.
I'm not sure about FOSS games, but I'm sure that they're out there. However, one of the IGF finalists, Supremacy, uses OGRE for the graphics end of things.
At least where I'm taking my post-secondary education, students aren't educated on the use of source control, and I've seen the results. A lot of times, students will end up with regressions in their class projects without any way to recover any code that worked better.
Even I'm at fault for this in my class projects, sometimes, but generally I use SVN for pretty much everything else.
The new and upcoming version of Netscape is supposed to use both the Mozilla and Microsoft HTML rendering engines. If I'm not mistaken, I heard that there will also be a way to have pages automatically use MS's renderer based on content; it's possible to also do that based on domain.
If you can hold on a while longer, you might find it easier to use that rather than jury-rigging something up yourself.
I prefer domestic terrorism, myself.
That's very true. Similarily, that's what we Canadians need with you Americans... There's more than enough of us making fun of you guys behind your backs, and I'm certain it's the same the other way around.
:D
"Can't we all just... get along?"
I'd still have issues with Take Two since they seem to be mortal enemies of the IGDA. But certainly better them than EA.
Otherwise, right on.
If the French were really the cheese-eating surrender monkeys everyone takes them for, then why did they bother to resist Washington over middle-east issues? Similarily, don't forget that during WW2, the French had a very strong underground movement to screw over the Nazis.
Fucktard. America is far from the majority. Let's see, 293 million or so, compared to a world population of 6.4 billion. China and India together have almost half of the world population, so screw your thought that you're the fucking majority.
Actually, it seems that at least some of the developers at MSFT use browsers other than IE (some even use Firefox). Anyway, most developers are pretty concious of what's on their machines, so at least among the programmers, I doubt that there's much need to fight spyware.
:D
Of course, among the marketing department, it's probably a totally different story.
By saying that they're running this, however, even if it's totally fake, will still encourage people who sit on the fence to buy a legitimate copy rather than pirate it. It's a good move, even if it is a lie.