I remember this RTS called "ping" or "pung" or something, where you had to position a line of units to defend against incoming attack from a kind of bouncing bomb. I'm pretty sure that was the first RTS
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Whats your point? I'm sure some of the people who played Sims Online don't like FPS games. So what? who cares what you like, you obviously aren't the target audience.
I thought that most consoles never make a profit? That the hardware parts cost more than what the complete unit it sold for - the profit coming from the sale of games. Is this an urban legend? or by profitable do they include games, or do they mean turnover exceeds marketing spending?
There is a *ton* of interesting, original and cheap independent games out there. The small indy developers are the only ones that can afford to take risks on originality in games.
So before you complain about the lack of originality in games, open your sodding eyes for once and look past the big publishers.
That pretty much is a tabletop FPS. Fast turns, simple rules and hordes of flesh-eaters out for your brains. Its not exactly a hugely tactical game, but neither are most FPS games.
If you haven't seen it, this site is an accessible-ised version of the Odeon website, made by a fellow sufferer. It's what the Odeon site should be like, although you can't book tickets through it.
why is Greece so different about gambling problems that they had it going underground? Easy, one word: "Religion"
The Greek Orthodox church just about runs the country, as no politician can survive disagreeing with a church that is supported by 98% of the population. There is no seperation of church and state, and the clergy are paid wages by the state.
An example of the church power: A few years ago, *millions* of Greeks protested in Athens against the introduction of barcodes because of the 6,6,6 thing, and the church said to protest. In this political farce its not hard to see how bizarre illogical laws get passed.
The sweetest, juiciest quote of the whole article:
The game found an appreciating target audience and managed to generate enough profit to let the company continue developing games.
This goes to show, people are finding indie games, and done right they can generate enough profit to sustain a small development studio. They did have a little help from the IGF nomination, but still its an incredible achievement given they worked full time and risked it all.
I know its a joke, but the icon is a good step - its cuter than the IE one. Having a cute logo is a billion times more important than reliability and security to a lot of people.
Case in point - my wife now uses Mandrake exclusively after switching from Win98. Why? She saw the mascot (Tux with tufty hair) over my shoulder on some site. If Firefox just had a cute fox logo, maybe with a teary eye and a bandaged paw, it would be downloaded by millions of women world over. Its the hormones or something.
Besides, it's a myth that timekeeping is what analog watches are for. They are worn as jewelry for men. It's a vain, metrosexual affectation to wear a gold watch. There's your real reason.
No it isn't, we wear them because our wives have bought them as presents for us, and its cold sleeping on the couch.
From the article: 72 Gov. Schwarzenegger quickly unveils a new plan to fix the state's budget woes by selling herbal supplements and prepaid phone cards. Animal-rights group PETA sues the California Milk Advisory Board for false advertising in a campaign that claims that "happy cows come from California," contending that California's cows actually live on dung- and urine-soaked lots. A judge dismisses the case on a technicality, ruling, in essence, that as a state entity, the CMAB is free to deceive customers as much as it likes.
Those little tag-lines have nothing to do with each point, just being the writers idea of a quick joke about the previous item. It makes it impossible to scan for interesting ones, and just confuses the reader. Maybe its just me, but I couldn't read more than the first few pages. Its like coding and putting the comments on the function after the one in question. Frustrating. Maybe that can be point 102.
What about if you don't want to publish it through traditional channels?
I was thinking Nintendo would do well to embrace the homebrew scene (especially with the GBA), sharing official development kits, and cheap hardware available to all. i.e. a Nintendo brand flash-cart with some hardware restriction that only allows it to store/run games made using the homebrew kit. If the flash-cart were reasonably cheap, ordinary people could download the little games from a Nintendo community site for a nominal fee ($1-$3 straight to Nintendo) and treat them like little cheap game-nuggets. Everyones a winner
When I have done interviews in the past, the most important factor was: "Could I sit next to this guy for 40 hours a week?". This was more important than anything else, including qualifications. At the end of the day, you could be God's gift to programming, but if you are an arragant SOB in the interview/cover letter, you aren't going to get the job.
The EyeToy has already sold *millions* of units here in the EU, and the unit itself has been in the top ten selling games in the UK for 29 consecutive weeks. (http://www.elspa.com/about/charts/charts.asp?d=20 040117&chartType=17)
They don't need you to buy it, the EyeToy is a hugely successful peripheral aimed squarely at the mainstream market.
Support for this system in games adds value to those games for those who already own an EyeToy unit, regardless of whether they like that genre or have ever heard of that game.
Some films don't get released here in the UK for exactly that reason. If it doesn't sell well in the US, they won't bother spending all the time and money making other versions. See Wing Commander
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I remember this RTS called "ping" or "pung" or something, where you had to position a line of units to defend against incoming attack from a kind of bouncing bomb.
I'm pretty sure that was the first RTS
Whats your point? I'm sure some of the people who played Sims Online don't like FPS games. So what? who cares what you like, you obviously aren't the target audience.
Hehe, yeah. In Wolf3d, "Outside" was a square texture of some grass and sky painted on the wall at the end of a tunnel :)
You would probably see traffic accidents go down because its next to impossible to talk on a cell phone while driving a car with a stick shift.
Never been to the UK (or continental Europe for that matter)?
Loads of people talk on phones while driving a "stick shift" car - they just let go of the wheel when changing gears.
Its terrifying how stupid some drivers are.
Rare are owned by Microsoft. Does this pretty much confirm that Microsoft are not considering entering the handheld market with their own console?
I'd like to know if they (or other MS studios) are also working on PSP games. It could be significant if they are supporting Nintendo only. Tactical?
I thought that most consoles never make a profit? That the hardware parts cost more than what the complete unit it sold for - the profit coming from the sale of games. Is this an urban legend? or by profitable do they include games, or do they mean turnover exceeds marketing spending?
There is a *ton* of interesting, original and cheap independent games out there. The small indy developers are the only ones that can afford to take risks on originality in games.
So before you complain about the lack of originality in games, open your sodding eyes for once and look past the big publishers.
Have you ever played Zombies!!!?
That pretty much is a tabletop FPS. Fast turns, simple rules and hordes of flesh-eaters out for your brains. Its not exactly a hugely tactical game, but neither are most FPS games.
If you haven't seen it, this site is an accessible-ised version of the Odeon website, made by a fellow sufferer. It's what the Odeon site should be like, although you can't book tickets through it.
why is Greece so different about gambling problems that they had it going underground?
Easy, one word:
"Religion"
The Greek Orthodox church just about runs the country, as no politician can survive disagreeing with a church that is supported by 98% of the population. There is no seperation of church and state, and the clergy are paid wages by the state.
An example of the church power: A few years ago, *millions* of Greeks protested in Athens against the introduction of barcodes because of the 6,6,6 thing, and the church said to protest. In this political farce its not hard to see how bizarre illogical laws get passed.
The sweetest, juiciest quote of the whole article:
The game found an appreciating target audience and managed to generate enough profit to let the company continue developing games.
This goes to show, people are finding indie games, and done right they can generate enough profit to sustain a small development studio. They did have a little help from the IGF nomination, but still its an incredible achievement given they worked full time and risked it all.
Is that a light I see at the end of the tunnel?
I know its a joke, but the icon is a good step - its cuter than the IE one. Having a cute logo is a billion times more important than reliability and security to a lot of people.
Case in point - my wife now uses Mandrake exclusively after switching from Win98. Why? She saw the mascot (Tux with tufty hair) over my shoulder on some site. If Firefox just had a cute fox logo, maybe with a teary eye and a bandaged paw, it would be downloaded by millions of women world over. Its the hormones or something.
They were convincing IT people, and the plan was perfectly conceived:
The T-Shirt doubles their wardrobe and allows them to go another fortnight without doing the laundry.
The stuffed toy is for them to give to a cute girl as valentines day is coming up (not that that would work!)
In fact, using a nice looking saleswoman, she probably got most of the stuffed toys right back as "thoughtful gifts" from the geeks. Money saved!
Yep, because influencing the way games look like is soooo much more important than influencing our legislators lawmaking, isn't it?
And what about posting snarky comments to Slashdot? Is that more important too?
Besides, it's a myth that timekeeping is what analog watches are for. They are worn as jewelry for men. It's a vain, metrosexual affectation to wear a gold watch. There's your real reason.
No it isn't, we wear them because our wives have bought them as presents for us, and its cold sleeping on the couch.
Pfft, back in the day we used to play Solitaire with 52 punch cards and a ball-point pen.
From the article:
72 Gov. Schwarzenegger quickly unveils a new plan to fix the state's budget woes by selling herbal supplements and prepaid phone cards.
Animal-rights group PETA sues the California Milk Advisory Board for false advertising in a campaign that claims that "happy cows come from California," contending that California's cows actually live on dung- and urine-soaked lots. A judge dismisses the case on a technicality, ruling, in essence, that as a state entity, the CMAB is free to deceive customers as much as it likes.
Those little tag-lines have nothing to do with each point, just being the writers idea of a quick joke about the previous item. It makes it impossible to scan for interesting ones, and just confuses the reader. Maybe its just me, but I couldn't read more than the first few pages. Its like coding and putting the comments on the function after the one in question. Frustrating. Maybe that can be point 102.
What about if you don't want to publish it through traditional channels?
I was thinking Nintendo would do well to embrace the homebrew scene (especially with the GBA), sharing official development kits, and cheap hardware available to all. i.e. a Nintendo brand flash-cart with some hardware restriction that only allows it to store/run games made using the homebrew kit.
If the flash-cart were reasonably cheap, ordinary people could download the little games from a Nintendo community site for a nominal fee ($1-$3 straight to Nintendo) and treat them like little cheap game-nuggets. Everyones a winner
My best advice to add to the list is:
Don't come across as being a wanker.
When I have done interviews in the past, the most important factor was: "Could I sit next to this guy for 40 hours a week?". This was more important than anything else, including qualifications. At the end of the day, you could be God's gift to programming, but if you are an arragant SOB in the interview/cover letter, you aren't going to get the job.
The EyeToy has already sold *millions* of units here in the EU, and the unit itself has been in the top ten selling games in the UK for 29 consecutive weeks. (http://www.elspa.com/about/charts/charts.asp?d=20 040117&chartType=17)
They don't need you to buy it, the EyeToy is a hugely successful peripheral aimed squarely at the mainstream market.
Support for this system in games adds value to those games for those who already own an EyeToy unit, regardless of whether they like that genre or have ever heard of that game.
Off topic, but why does this work? It seems to load exactly the same link, from NYT and not Google's cache. Strange
I get that reverse association too.
Every time I see Chupa Chups lollipops I think of the old Amiga game "Zool"
Same with 7-UP - it just reminds me of "Cool Spot"
Some films don't get released here in the UK for exactly that reason. If it doesn't sell well in the US, they won't bother spending all the time and money making other versions. See Wing Commander
Linux? Operating Systems?
The article is about OpenOffice.
pfft... sod the pigeon, DVDs make pretty good frisbees.
Perfect for transporting data around the office. Just make sure to shout "Incoming Transmission!" before throwing them as they can leave a nasty scar.