the true problem with indy games is that they try to go after the same lowest common denominator market that all the big financed games go after.
They really need to look around the gaming community and see what niches haven't been filled.
for example, there has yet to be a decents sports mmo, a decent non-ship based space/sci-fi mmo (swg was innovative but not fun, now it is neither innovative nor fun). wizardry 8 was the last decent turn based rpg, there is not a decent 3d roleplay mmo yet, not a one has captured the feel of pen and paper games, um, etc...
not sure xenophobic is the word for Chinese outlook. its more of, "You are all part of China but don't know it yet." Basically,
1)if you have Chinese ancestry, you are part of China.
2)Anywhere that a person of Chinese ancestry calls home rightfully should be part of China
3)If you are not of chinese ancestry but anyone in your ethnic group lives within current borders of China then all of your ethnic group should rightfully be part of by China.
This covers a good chunk of the world and as their borders expand it becomes more inclusive and if China has its way the planet will be united under them eventually.
a good RPG game is more akin to a good 'choose your own adventure book' than anything currently considered literature. the problem is not story in games it is the perception of english literature professors that needs broadening to include the cultural and literary impact of the electronic medium.
bleh. alienware has been cutting corner recently. i think they will fit right in with dell. now, if m-tech got bought out then i would be disappointed.
I really think its the Massive part of MMOs that doesn't capture those of thus who enjoyed dungeons and dragons. my gaming concept SCORPG, Small community online role playing game is going focus on around 500 (give or take still testing, def less than 1k) players per server with an emphasis on roleplaying.
good point. spamming chat channels for ingame items is already a problem in a few games. how about equal time? how about people who pay 15$ a month to be in the game world get free ad time for their in game clans, items, services?
will the devs tell us that "no, the advertisers are more important to their bottom line than the players?"
i really like auto assault and i can see the ads would fit fine on the destructable billboards or sides of some the buildings. nothing amiss with say a soda vending machine that can be knocked over and maybe salvage some broken glass from it(btw, the game seriously needs more broken glass. having a hard time finding this and it is a crafting component).
i gotta think of a way to empower my eyeballs. how about a buy my eyeball time. skip the middle man pay me 2-3 cents a click to look at your ad.
probably a bit late too post as a separate news item...
"The popular online game Lineage has led to the online theft of no fewer than 1 million identities, a police investigation has revealed. The police's Cyber Terror Response Center said Monday its analysis of Lineage accounts created between October 2005 and Feb.14 this year revealed that anywhere between 980,000 and 1.22 million of them were set up in the name of Internet users who never signed up to play the game. Most of them were created in China"
from this article http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603 /200603130026.html
i guess as always, the wife and are doing things backwards. we are entertainment consumers. we will watch just about any stupid movie anybody ever makes.
for us, the decision is NOT, "watch or not" it is where to watch it. for us, if it has special effects that are going to be more impressive on the big screen. we see it in the movie theater.
everything else, we watch at home.
off side, i don't what kind of rattrap theaters you guys go to but the only ones i go to have what they call stadium seating with huge spacious seats, cushions, and cup holders, parking is free if you present your movie ticket stub. if other people are rude, you go complain to the manager and they kick em out and give you free concession coupons.
movie tickets are still cheaper than the grease musical, any concert i have been to, even the cats forever reruns cost musicals cost way more than movie tickets.
um, actually, the U.S. has given up on spying. Too many facts were making their way into the fabrications used to justify national policy. Also, the ROI was just not there. Much cheaper to pay a couple of guys to sit in an office in the pentagon and make up stuff than to actually field a fully functional intelligence effort.
i have been a fan of offline mode for played characters for a while. my idea is that you could give the player a scripting interface that would allow the player to dialog, adventure, work while you are offline depending on how much you were willing to risk your character getting killed or not while you were gone.
bleh, here is an old post i made on the subject http://www.kaneva.com/forum/forumThreads.aspx?topi cId=1147&communityId=896
get her to play a netgame with cash prizes...
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turn her focus into a source of revenue, RYL, guildwars, and Painkiller come to mind. maybe, she could become the next Fatal1ty? a slight shift in direction will turn this into a positive and rewarding experience for both of you.
I suspect that this due to your familiarity with and pre-conceived notions of how the interface of a graphics program is supposed to work. For me and others, for whom Blender was our first introduction to these tools, the interface is easy to learn and makes no assumptions about the knowledge or experience of the user.
i find that being polite and sincere works fine. then again, everytime someone pisses me off, i go back to my cubicle and update my resume and send it to one of my company's competitors HR office.
i use drupal for my guildwars fansite at www.tyria.net, of all the CMS out there its probably the most intuitive. its biggest drawback is that forums, the main component of most community sites is an after thought with drupal and ends up being more work to manage than its worth.
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They have been pretty good about picking hit games, the popularity of chat avatars among women and girls in korea makes this game a good bet http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/ncgames/al_intro.asp
my anecdotal experience is that korean women are online as much as korean men. this may just be the vehicle to turn them on to gaming.
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the true problem with indy games is that they try to go after the same lowest common denominator market that all the big financed games go after. They really need to look around the gaming community and see what niches haven't been filled. for example, there has yet to be a decents sports mmo, a decent non-ship based space/sci-fi mmo (swg was innovative but not fun, now it is neither innovative nor fun). wizardry 8 was the last decent turn based rpg, there is not a decent 3d roleplay mmo yet, not a one has captured the feel of pen and paper games, um, etc...
not sure xenophobic is the word for Chinese outlook. its more of, "You are all part of China but don't know it yet." Basically, 1)if you have Chinese ancestry, you are part of China. 2)Anywhere that a person of Chinese ancestry calls home rightfully should be part of China 3)If you are not of chinese ancestry but anyone in your ethnic group lives within current borders of China then all of your ethnic group should rightfully be part of by China. This covers a good chunk of the world and as their borders expand it becomes more inclusive and if China has its way the planet will be united under them eventually.
a good RPG game is more akin to a good 'choose your own adventure book' than anything currently considered literature. the problem is not story in games it is the perception of english literature professors that needs broadening to include the cultural and literary impact of the electronic medium.
seems to me you will only be giving these guys a messianic complex. matrydom the sign of a true PKer, blah, blah, etc...
bleh. alienware has been cutting corner recently. i think they will fit right in with dell. now, if m-tech got bought out then i would be disappointed.
so they took 10 quotes from 4-5 people out of context and made it a list. slow day at IGN?
I really think its the Massive part of MMOs that doesn't capture those of thus who enjoyed dungeons and dragons. my gaming concept SCORPG, Small community online role playing game is going focus on around 500 (give or take still testing, def less than 1k) players per server with an emphasis on roleplaying.
good point. spamming chat channels for ingame items is already a problem in a few games. how about equal time? how about people who pay 15$ a month to be in the game world get free ad time for their in game clans, items, services? will the devs tell us that "no, the advertisers are more important to their bottom line than the players?" i really like auto assault and i can see the ads would fit fine on the destructable billboards or sides of some the buildings. nothing amiss with say a soda vending machine that can be knocked over and maybe salvage some broken glass from it(btw, the game seriously needs more broken glass. having a hard time finding this and it is a crafting component). i gotta think of a way to empower my eyeballs. how about a buy my eyeball time. skip the middle man pay me 2-3 cents a click to look at your ad.
probably a bit late too post as a separate news item... "The popular online game Lineage has led to the online theft of no fewer than 1 million identities, a police investigation has revealed. The police's Cyber Terror Response Center said Monday its analysis of Lineage accounts created between October 2005 and Feb.14 this year revealed that anywhere between 980,000 and 1.22 million of them were set up in the name of Internet users who never signed up to play the game. Most of them were created in China" from this article http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603 /200603130026.html
i guess as always, the wife and are doing things backwards. we are entertainment consumers. we will watch just about any stupid movie anybody ever makes. for us, the decision is NOT, "watch or not" it is where to watch it. for us, if it has special effects that are going to be more impressive on the big screen. we see it in the movie theater. everything else, we watch at home. off side, i don't what kind of rattrap theaters you guys go to but the only ones i go to have what they call stadium seating with huge spacious seats, cushions, and cup holders, parking is free if you present your movie ticket stub. if other people are rude, you go complain to the manager and they kick em out and give you free concession coupons. movie tickets are still cheaper than the grease musical, any concert i have been to, even the cats forever reruns cost musicals cost way more than movie tickets.
the corps puts the image of the corps above all morality. public dissembling and fudging the numbers for the 'good of the corps'.
expand Congress until there are so many of them/us that special interests groups would go broke trying to buy us off. Power to the people.
um, actually, the U.S. has given up on spying. Too many facts were making their way into the fabrications used to justify national policy. Also, the ROI was just not there. Much cheaper to pay a couple of guys to sit in an office in the pentagon and make up stuff than to actually field a fully functional intelligence effort.
i have been a fan of offline mode for played characters for a while. my idea is that you could give the player a scripting interface that would allow the player to dialog, adventure, work while you are offline depending on how much you were willing to risk your character getting killed or not while you were gone. bleh, here is an old post i made on the subject http://www.kaneva.com/forum/forumThreads.aspx?topi cId=1147&communityId=896
turn her focus into a source of revenue, RYL, guildwars, and Painkiller come to mind. maybe, she could become the next Fatal1ty? a slight shift in direction will turn this into a positive and rewarding experience for both of you.
based on anecdotal evidence, Starcraft is on the decline here along with PC bangs in general. More gamers are playing from home and have more options.
I suspect that this due to your familiarity with and pre-conceived notions of how the interface of a graphics program is supposed to work. For me and others, for whom Blender was our first introduction to these tools, the interface is easy to learn and makes no assumptions about the knowledge or experience of the user.
i find that being polite and sincere works fine. then again, everytime someone pisses me off, i go back to my cubicle and update my resume and send it to one of my company's competitors HR office.
no air gap. http://iase.disa.mil/acronym.html#S
i use drupal for my guildwars fansite at www.tyria.net, of all the CMS out there its probably the most intuitive. its biggest drawback is that forums, the main component of most community sites is an after thought with drupal and ends up being more work to manage than its worth.
They have been pretty good about picking hit games, the popularity of chat avatars among women and girls in korea makes this game a good bet http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/ncgames/al_intro.asp my anecdotal experience is that korean women are online as much as korean men. this may just be the vehicle to turn them on to gaming.