there's no limit to how much you can download.. its how much you can d/l in one month. So you have unlimited downloads, as long as u subscribe for long enough;)
you can not forgive the PS2 for only having 2 controller ports.. and I'll not forgive the XBox for requiring u to buy a remote to watch DVDs:P All the systems do stuff like this.. you just gotta balance who's is worse
theres a reason not to do this... If you look at SATA, one of the reasons its safe to hot-swap is that on the power connector, the pins are different lengths. This way, when u connect/disconnect, you wont have shorts happening. I think its the ground connector on the power cable that connects first, disconnects last... Old school PATA devices dont have this, so every time you connect/disconnect while running... you have the risk of shorting and blowing your drive/MB
My smoking is conductive to everyone elses health... Its just doing my little part to keep from killing "users". Also... I've determined that w/ the amount i pay in tax on a pack of smokes (bc, canada.... $9 CAD/pack, way over half tax)... Im supporting out health care system. So if i quit smoking, theres less tax revenue to help out all of u "uncool" people:P So i've realized that until i get someone else to start smoking, I can't quit... for the good of the country.
lua is a great scripting language when it's used well. When i was studying game development in school, we were introduced to it as a good way to drive out games. Its easy to add functionality for it... its fast... it simple. I could write all my rendering/sound/network/input code in c++, and just have interfaces for everything from lua... this way, when i wanted to drive a game app, i could do the following:
(pseudo lua... hmm... pseudo scripting:) )
load level
load char at xyz
load enemy at xyz
go
then, my c++ code could handle all the collision detection/AI/proper sounds for things... it all comes down to good design. Something like lua is great for having somethign high level drive a low level engine.
i dont see why there shouldnt be lots of jedis in the game.. When i was playing jedi knight 2.. the best part of the game was light saber battling... To get me to play the game.. I think they should have twisted the reality of it so that all the professions could have force powers to a certain degree (jedi knights fighting... healers... even smugglers and pilot types be unreal at flyign (when it FINALLY gets put in the game) I'd rather play a game where you have 10 different classes of characters with different force strengths in different areas partied up against another 10. They should have used the big battle at the end of episode 2 as an example... lots of jedis running around fighting/jumping/blasting is fun... being an entertainer in a bar.. or a chef... is not. They really should have focused on the good parts of the Star wars Galaxy and left out the bad.
it does seem like they extended the bombing run game type... When we were doing out projects in school... we were doing Total Conversions... there were:
Jupiter Effect: 3rd person mech
Asylum: ( - i worked on this one) a fps/horror game
And some sort of dream one.. had some AMAZING lev design. (3rd person platformer)
And another called Chronicles of Cythera that i worked on... 3rd person fantasy/platformer
I went to school (and finished) with the guys who did jupiter effect... probably one of the coolest mods ive ever seen. They put many.. many... mnay hours into getting that one finished and looking awsome.
this just reminds me of how many days of my life i spent watching the the mario bro's show... I always remember being excited for friday when instead of the mario cartoon... it was link! woo! As far as game review shows go, Electric Playground is probably the only good one out there. We spent a lot of time when i was in school watching it... and while not a great show... its definately the best ive seen by far.
this has to be... quite possibly... the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. I mean common... they take the line completely out of context, and then bitch and moan over it. hey, im part italian... how about all the games/movies that portray italians as mobsters... should i rage.. NO. Its fiction... a "game"... not real. This is just another example of stupid people following other stupid people who have nothing better to do.
as far as i can tell, sony has pretty much conceded the kids games to nintendo, they have a strong presence in the late-teen to adult range and I think thats where this device is going to be focused. Kids dont mind playing games w/ cartoony graphics, so the 100 device is perfect for them.. many adults want realism in their games, so they can go the sony route... of course, Im an adult now, and have no problem breaking out the GBA in front of others:) but it helps that all my friends have their geek side and break theirs out to join in. I'm thinking the real competition will be the tapwave zodiac (if they can get a large number of development studios on for gaming), as it looks now, I think the zodiac might be a better platform for the older market. Awsome PDA abilities + gaming = I want one... I'll probably buy the PSP, but thats just cause I'm a hardcore gamer.
so now we get 2x as bad reviews... or do they just cancel each other out. Either way, the only good game reviews are those written by the individuals playing them... not trying to make money off reviewing/selling them.
Who needs rocks.. I want my own mooninite ATHF They can jump WAY higher then us, smoke when they shoot the bird.... and have the powerful QUAD-LASER... much cooler than some stupid rocks.
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common... XSLT is fun........ like cancer:P The only way I've found it bearable is to use Sonic Software's Stylus Studio. It makes the hell of XSLT debugging much easier.. and my pain was worse... I was doing XSLT, FOP, and SVG all in the same doc.. for my first introduction to writing XML !! oh.. the pain, the pain, the pain.
Halo is a great game.. though mSoft was definately using it to carry xBox for far too long. AFAIK, xBox runs directx... pcs use directx... hmmm... how long did that port take... I understand that they would want to spruce it up a bit, and test for/add compadibility for other graphics cards... but that wait time was too obscene. I would have bought HALO for PC if it had come out near the time it came our for xBox. And up until recently.. HALO has been the only need to have game for xBox, so i wasnt ready to buy an xBox for it. I've just moved on to better FPSs (Call of Duty.. and soon HL2)... and left HALO behind.
bit of rambling on that post... what i meant, is I like the ease of use of MacOS and windows.. but dont like the restrictions WINDOWS places on me (should have said that.. sorry). I've only had a brief chance to play w/ MacOS X... and its very... veryy.. verryyy nice:P friend of mine bought a new G4 laptop (w/ the big-ass display)... note though: watch where u put your hands.. apparently theres a sweet spot on the button, where if u press (like if u hold it with one hand, your palm tends to rest there) you can screw up the RAM... he had his shut off a couple times.. and not start. Took it in and they said he had bad RAM. a strange flaw, with an otherwise gorgeous laptop.
as much as it pains me to say this... linux needs to drift much more to the windows/MacOS way of doing things... point and drool works for the majority of the people out there. If u need a windows driver... click on it and it goes (most of the time:P )... I think Linux has the foundation to be the ultimate OS if there is an easy setup and configuration, along with the power to drop to the command line and change anything. I recently had a chance to try out the new MacOS, and was very impressed... if I could have a windowing system like that, with all the configuration abilities of linux... the world would be a happier place for me. as it is now.. the only reason i run windows now is because im a hard core gamer.. and too many games use DirectX(in my opinion, one of the greatest things MSoft has ever made (and free:P) ), but if i could game on linux and have the ease of use for others in my household that windows provides... I'd make the full switch no prob.
Will these kids be scared of assembler?
AHH assembler:P actually, in my program, we learned assembler as the first step to writing shaders. After we spent some time on it though, we switched to HLSL. According to the instructors, the only time anyone in the game industry uses assembly now is after the game is mostly written, and certain parts need to be optimized. also, according to them, the only people who write assembler now, are the poeple who have been doing it for a long time. we are getting to the point where assembler is becoming obselete in games. with things like HLSL, and other higher level shader languages coming out, there wont be much of a need for it soon. Even when I see all the posts on the directx mailing list, i always see render code done in c/c++. The only time the assembler is broken out is for shaders, and even that right now seems to be people finding bugs to fix in the compiler.
I recently finished my studies at A.I.C.D.I.S. Artschool in burnaby, bc, canada. They were recently bought by the arts institute, which in a way is a good thing. After graduating, you have access to the whole AI job board, and from what I've been told, they are decently good at finding job placements for people. I studied game programming there and learned a lot about programming and game design that I would not have learned elsewhere. They have some excellent instructors there (my programming instructor is probably the best teacher i've ever had), and the course is very much driven to applicable studies. I've found the universities offer a lot of theory, and while this is good, we spent most of our time making use of those theories. I worked on one game there that was our schools feature at the 2003 game developers conference (a fantasy sword fighting total conversion of UT2003). They also stress the importance of working with teams and from the start, you work with groups on projects. As with any school, there are some flaws (mainly the high cost as it is a for-profit, private, and thereforce non-subsidized school) but on the whole, it was a positive experience. I work as programmer now (not in games though, as game companies seem to prefer people with experience) and am working on a demo to start my career in games on the side as I develop my programming experience. There are some big bonus' in going to a private school though.. unlike large universities, they can change the curriculum at any time, and with the constant and frequent changes in the game industry this is a must. I started my 3 year program there when directX 8 was in the mainstream, but by the 3rd year, dx9 had been released, so our instructor took much of his personal time out to learn the differences to be able to instruct us in its use. They also stress the importance of good game design, which many games seem to be lacking these days. I still remember the biggest point of this when a fellow student posted a piece of paper on the wall that said:
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there's no limit to how much you can download.. its how much you can d/l in one month. So you have unlimited downloads, as long as u subscribe for long enough ;)
you can not forgive the PS2 for only having 2 controller ports.. and I'll not forgive the XBox for requiring u to buy a remote to watch DVDs :P All the systems do stuff like this.. you just gotta balance who's is worse
yeah... but it's starting to cause me harm. Keep it down over there!! :)
theres a reason not to do this... If you look at SATA, one of the reasons its safe to hot-swap is that on the power connector, the pins are different lengths. This way, when u connect/disconnect, you wont have shorts happening. I think its the ground connector on the power cable that connects first, disconnects last... Old school PATA devices dont have this, so every time you connect/disconnect while running... you have the risk of shorting and blowing your drive/MB
i want a MACROdrive :P
My smoking is conductive to everyone elses health... Its just doing my little part to keep from killing "users". Also... I've determined that w/ the amount i pay in tax on a pack of smokes (bc, canada.... $9 CAD/pack, way over half tax)... Im supporting out health care system. So if i quit smoking, theres less tax revenue to help out all of u "uncool" people :P So i've realized that until i get someone else to start smoking, I can't quit... for the good of the country.
lua is a great scripting language when it's used well. When i was studying game development in school, we were introduced to it as a good way to drive out games. Its easy to add functionality for it... its fast... it simple. I could write all my rendering/sound/network/input code in c++, and just have interfaces for everything from lua... this way, when i wanted to drive a game app, i could do the following: (pseudo lua... hmm... pseudo scripting :) )
load level
load char at xyz
load enemy at xyz
go
then, my c++ code could handle all the collision detection/AI/proper sounds for things... it all comes down to good design. Something like lua is great for having somethign high level drive a low level engine.
I think what they meant to say, is it hit THE CREATOR... It's gods way of telling us to stay on the damn planet he made for us :)
its simple.. just dont start fires :P
i dont see why there shouldnt be lots of jedis in the game.. When i was playing jedi knight 2.. the best part of the game was light saber battling... To get me to play the game.. I think they should have twisted the reality of it so that all the professions could have force powers to a certain degree (jedi knights fighting... healers... even smugglers and pilot types be unreal at flyign (when it FINALLY gets put in the game) I'd rather play a game where you have 10 different classes of characters with different force strengths in different areas partied up against another 10. They should have used the big battle at the end of episode 2 as an example... lots of jedis running around fighting/jumping/blasting is fun... being an entertainer in a bar.. or a chef... is not. They really should have focused on the good parts of the Star wars Galaxy and left out the bad.
it does seem like they extended the bombing run game type... When we were doing out projects in school... we were doing Total Conversions... there were: Jupiter Effect: 3rd person mech Asylum: ( - i worked on this one) a fps/horror game And some sort of dream one.. had some AMAZING lev design. (3rd person platformer) And another called Chronicles of Cythera that i worked on... 3rd person fantasy/platformer
I went to school (and finished) with the guys who did jupiter effect... probably one of the coolest mods ive ever seen. They put many.. many ... mnay hours into getting that one finished and looking awsome.
this just reminds me of how many days of my life i spent watching the the mario bro's show... I always remember being excited for friday when instead of the mario cartoon... it was link! woo! As far as game review shows go, Electric Playground is probably the only good one out there. We spent a lot of time when i was in school watching it... and while not a great show... its definately the best ive seen by far.
this has to be... quite possibly... the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. I mean common... they take the line completely out of context, and then bitch and moan over it. hey, im part italian... how about all the games/movies that portray italians as mobsters... should i rage.. NO. Its fiction... a "game"... not real. This is just another example of stupid people following other stupid people who have nothing better to do.
as far as i can tell, sony has pretty much conceded the kids games to nintendo, they have a strong presence in the late-teen to adult range and I think thats where this device is going to be focused. Kids dont mind playing games w/ cartoony graphics, so the 100 device is perfect for them.. many adults want realism in their games, so they can go the sony route... of course, Im an adult now, and have no problem breaking out the GBA in front of others :) but it helps that all my friends have their geek side and break theirs out to join in. I'm thinking the real competition will be the tapwave zodiac (if they can get a large number of development studios on for gaming), as it looks now, I think the zodiac might be a better platform for the older market. Awsome PDA abilities + gaming = I want one... I'll probably buy the PSP, but thats just cause I'm a hardcore gamer.
so now we get 2x as bad reviews... or do they just cancel each other out. Either way, the only good game reviews are those written by the individuals playing them... not trying to make money off reviewing/selling them.
Who needs rocks.. I want my own mooninite ATHF They can jump WAY higher then us, smoke when they shoot the bird.... and have the powerful QUAD-LASER... much cooler than some stupid rocks.
common... XSLT is fun... ... .. like cancer :P The only way I've found it bearable is to use Sonic Software's Stylus Studio. It makes the hell of XSLT debugging much easier.. and my pain was worse... I was doing XSLT, FOP, and SVG all in the same doc.. for my first introduction to writing XML !! oh.. the pain, the pain, the pain.
Halo is a great game.. though mSoft was definately using it to carry xBox for far too long. AFAIK, xBox runs directx... pcs use directx... hmmm... how long did that port take... I understand that they would want to spruce it up a bit, and test for/add compadibility for other graphics cards... but that wait time was too obscene. I would have bought HALO for PC if it had come out near the time it came our for xBox. And up until recently.. HALO has been the only need to have game for xBox, so i wasnt ready to buy an xBox for it. I've just moved on to better FPSs (Call of Duty.. and soon HL2)... and left HALO behind.
bit of rambling on that post... what i meant, is I like the ease of use of MacOS and windows.. but dont like the restrictions WINDOWS places on me (should have said that.. sorry). I've only had a brief chance to play w/ MacOS X... and its very... veryy.. verryyy nice :P friend of mine bought a new G4 laptop (w/ the big-ass display)... note though: watch where u put your hands.. apparently theres a sweet spot on the button, where if u press (like if u hold it with one hand, your palm tends to rest there) you can screw up the RAM... he had his shut off a couple times.. and not start. Took it in and they said he had bad RAM. a strange flaw, with an otherwise gorgeous laptop.
as much as it pains me to say this... linux needs to drift much more to the windows/MacOS way of doing things... point and drool works for the majority of the people out there. If u need a windows driver... click on it and it goes (most of the time :P )... I think Linux has the foundation to be the ultimate OS if there is an easy setup and configuration, along with the power to drop to the command line and change anything. I recently had a chance to try out the new MacOS, and was very impressed... if I could have a windowing system like that, with all the configuration abilities of linux... the world would be a happier place for me. as it is now.. the only reason i run windows now is because im a hard core gamer.. and too many games use DirectX(in my opinion, one of the greatest things MSoft has ever made (and free :P) ), but if i could game on linux and have the ease of use for others in my household that windows provides... I'd make the full switch no prob.
haha... just wanted to make it prettier.. sorry to all the text onlies out there :P
Will these kids be scared of assembler? AHH assembler :P actually, in my program, we learned assembler as the first step to writing shaders. After we spent some time on it though, we switched to HLSL. According to the instructors, the only time anyone in the game industry uses assembly now is after the game is mostly written, and certain parts need to be optimized. also, according to them, the only people who write assembler now, are the poeple who have been doing it for a long time. we are getting to the point where assembler is becoming obselete in games. with things like HLSL, and other higher level shader languages coming out, there wont be much of a need for it soon. Even when I see all the posts on the directx mailing list, i always see render code done in c/c++. The only time the assembler is broken out is for shaders, and even that right now seems to be people finding bugs to fix in the compiler.
I recently finished my studies at A.I.C.D.I.S. Artschool in burnaby, bc, canada. They were recently bought by the arts institute, which in a way is a good thing. After graduating, you have access to the whole AI job board, and from what I've been told, they are decently good at finding job placements for people. I studied game programming there and learned a lot about programming and game design that I would not have learned elsewhere. They have some excellent instructors there (my programming instructor is probably the best teacher i've ever had), and the course is very much driven to applicable studies. I've found the universities offer a lot of theory, and while this is good, we spent most of our time making use of those theories. I worked on one game there that was our schools feature at the 2003 game developers conference (a fantasy sword fighting total conversion of UT2003). They also stress the importance of working with teams and from the start, you work with groups on projects. As with any school, there are some flaws (mainly the high cost as it is a for-profit, private, and thereforce non-subsidized school) but on the whole, it was a positive experience. I work as programmer now (not in games though, as game companies seem to prefer people with experience) and am working on a demo to start my career in games on the side as I develop my programming experience. There are some big bonus' in going to a private school though.. unlike large universities, they can change the curriculum at any time, and with the constant and frequent changes in the game industry this is a must. I started my 3 year program there when directX 8 was in the mainstream, but by the 3rd year, dx9 had been released, so our instructor took much of his personal time out to learn the differences to be able to instruct us in its use. They also stress the importance of good game design, which many games seem to be lacking these days. I still remember the biggest point of this when a fellow student posted a piece of paper on the wall that said:
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no way.. just do all the graphics on the graphics card (which is what its there for) and leave the CPU for block-munching