With Natural Selection, Uskaarj, Unreal Annihilation, Warcraft III FPS mod, and Empires all blending or totally converting between game genres and/or engines, there seems to be an interesting trend of "breaking the rules" or using a game very differently than it was originally intended. Is this a gimmick, first notably commercialized by Savage or do you think it will keep its place on the game-store shelves?
I was making an analogy. I was not saying that I expected to find a 500gb pocket sized device - that obviously is absurd. I was only trying to figure out what audience they were targeting and, in the process, ruled one target out for sure.
I am not trolling, nor am I stupid. I leave that to the mindless droves that critique posts without understanding them or asking for clarification.
Since when is that adequate for video storage? I recently filmed a ten minute digital video at a reasonable resolution and it weighed in at 2.2 gb. This is the sort of media I'd be transporting and watching with this device. Now, am I supposed to accept that 2 hours of high-fidelity recordings would crap out my Archos device? I think there's a reason that the video-editing workstations of the desktop world have 250 gb drives (and, if you are serious enough to get something similar to this archos, you'd likely use 2x250 gb drives).
What about a turn-based strategy game for those who don't have the dexterity required required for RTS and FPS titles. I could imagine that turn based would be much more easily commented on as well. I propose that Civilization III be one of the games. That way, geeks that do not have the money to invest in heavy-duty hardware can compete. Besides, a cerebral competition is what geeks have been looking for for ages. Hasn't chess survived? With Rome: Total War being shown on the History Channel, who knows what popularity gaming would gain if a good match of Civilization III made it into mainstream media.
I would liken it to the patenting of the value of pi. Imagine that. People could only use pi up to a certain significant digit because of a possible patent infringement. It is a derived, discovered, value. Genes, and pi, are simply observationsof the functioning of the universe. Unlike the similar JPEG problem, nothing in its own right is being created. Maybe entire synthetic genomes should be patentable, but certainly not any that occur naturally and are simply observed and decoded.
Cube is a really great game. The best part about it is its customizability. There are many people out there working to mod the game. One really great example of the Cube engine being modified is Death Illustrated. It is a very original game in which you play the hero of a black and white ink-sketched comic book. It has similar gameplay to the original Cube game but the ambiance is really something, especially considering the limited tech they're working with. Here's a link, they are definitely worth checking out: Death Illustrated
Actually, I tried to get my school to teach the introductory programming course with Borland Turbo C++. I love the embedded graphics functions. I voluntarily spent a big chunk of my summer with Turbo and QB... (admittedly, that chunk ended the day I got my MS Visual C++ 6.0).
oh yeah, and snow? PFFT! We are in school until late June because of snow. I've got no pitty for you.
Why emulate the world when you can be an active participant in the real thing? Sure, this functions as a political statement (and a good one at that). But I don't need to see the world in a videogame to be able to laugh at its irony.
In the article, Wong says "I want an RTS game that will give me a stress headache after an hour and an ulcer after a week." Why bother with a game when you can easily get this from watching any fine news station. You'd even get a bonus shot of ignorance for watching Faux News! For blood-loss, watch Al Jazeera! For contrast watch CNN Headline News (the only station on which body pyramids are followed by what dress Troy McClure's husband wore to the Oscars).
If you're really angling for some pain, you can even try to participate in the political arena itself at either the Democratic or Republican National Conventions!
Actually, my high school does this.
If time permits, the students in the Java programming class get to design and code a fully networked multiplayer Java game. The class works as a team to write the game.
The class has been known to experiment extreme programming techniques for short stretches also. Also, most tests are open-book and internet (as real-world jobs are). I find this pretty impressive. Most schools take the easy way out and stick to an oppressive lecture-only teaching format. Booklearning gets tedious and gives you no idea of how the industry works in real life.
The money gained by receiving a patent and suing has become a huge issue nowadays. With SCO, GM crops, JPEGs, and even human genes - people are trying to cash in on others' success. It's like standing on the shoulders of a giants and then denying the giants any claim to the profits these people reap. We need clearer patent laws or else we will be inundated with licensing fees for even the most basic goods and human rights
Cube: A remarkably compact and elegant first person shooter. Besides surprisingly good graphics, Cube features full networking and a server browser. It also sports some rudimentary single player support.
Parsec: A deathmatch space combat game reminiscient of a streamlined Freespace. It packs beautiful visuals and excellent sound effects (including full voiceover and original music). The gameplay isn't bad either and comes complete with LAN support.
Tenebrae: Based on the Quake 1 sorce code, this is a remarkable graphical modification. Now supporting bump-mapping, per-pixel lighting, and greater model polycounts, Quake is scarier than ever before. Tenebrae is now being developed into a standalone engine (T2) and a game entitled Industri.
The current state of DOS gaming is iffy at best. With some of the sleeper hits holding abandonware status, one can get by. But the classics like Duke Nukem remain licensed (until DK: Forever comes out [read: never]). The "romz" scene is full of sketchy websites that are supported by links to innapropriate content and viruses.
Does anybody know a good virtual source for the real great classics (if not a phsyical dealer?)
The philosophy behind many of these "idea sites" is to make good ideas/products public so that do-gooders can realize them. If a corporate pirate steals an idea from such a site, it is only half of a crime. This is because, although they took the idea without permission, the product is eventually created - thereby achieving what the board sought in the first place.
Should Exist has a very strong little commmunity centered on actually carrying out the ideas that they come up with. I seriously suggest checking them out.
Seriously, Clearplay doesn't check what what scenes are crucial to the understanding of the movie. Take Solaris for example. Many of "ipiphony" scenes for the characters included Clooney flashing his ass. Had I seen the movie without these scenes, as difficult as they were to watch to begin with, the movie would have been rendered incomprehensible.
The reason that these middle class children are being diagnosed with ADHD and similar conditions is not because their parents are lazy.
The parents have an obligation to maintain their family - frequently three kids and two sets of parents. That is no small feat - even for a two wage earning household.
My parents fall into your so called "yuppie" classification. They also sent me to public school. Despite that, they found the time in their busy academics' schedules to teach me to read. In addition, my primary school education was far from second rate. In fact, I score exceptionally highly on english language, verbal, and reading comprehension exams. I am the counterproof to your argument.
Those who cannot afford to take time off from work to spend with their children are not going have their children diagnosed as ADHD. Such families would not be able to afford the great medical costs associated with treating a psychological disorder, nor would they have the time to pursue a positive diagnosis against the will of their first doctor.
There is no more correlation between the more socially mobile classes and ADD than there is between hours of TV watched and ADHD diagnoses. The causality is wrong in your arguments.
I'm not going to bother commenting on your anorexia/bulimia remark any more than this: that is truly insolent remark.
I am posting this under my own name not to incite argument and "troll" throwing but to give credibility to my assertions and the facts I mentioned in this post. If you respect varying opinions and sound logic, mod this post up. If you are indifferent to reason, simply ignore it.
I am experiencing a strange phenomenon when I view stereograms on my computer. When my eyes cross, I see an intense stroboscopic effect on any white sections of the screen. Obviously, this is the monitor refreshing itself. At my relatively low 60Hz refresh rate, it becomes exceedingly irritating and could, I presume, induce a siezure in a photosensitive person. Be careful with this people . ..it's neat, but it can really be dangerous. Not to mention, it expedites the speed at which your vision is degraded. But it's so much fun... hmm, Quake Stereo for a year or vision for life . ..hmmm:)
The proposal should be at the beginning of the game where the bright blue sky opens up to the optimistic Mario under the shining yellow sun. Then she should play the level and get pummeled with barrels at the worst times possible. After all, isn't that what marriage is like?
It is perfectly sunny inside with my one-way polarized glass to ensure my privacy. I can go out with friends virtually while testing the beta version of the There virtual world. Whenever I boot Windows, I see a lovely blue landscape. Meh, sex is overrated anyway. There's nothing that Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation can't fix (nice in my basement).
The PowerPod is actually an accessory for the iPod that is sold by Griffin Technologies. The so called "PowerPod" mentioned in the article appears to be an April fools hoax. Not to mention, there is no sign of this on Apple's front page
You have got to love Eliza. What a classic. It was the first chatbot ever. It was ingenious to write a psychologist chatbot - that allows it to ask questions when it, itself, is questioned. I have very fond memories of coaxing Eliza into going on dates with me when I first fooled with her about five years ago...
I will voluntarily pay those $7 to download a working retail game off of bit torrent. If advertising costs are an issue, I would suggest paying an additional $3 per game. Using bit torrent would allow for worldwide distribution at no cost to the publisher and would more or less sustain itself. Piracy may not dissapear, but reducing prices would certainly lessen it. If little Joe down the street could spend a week's allowance on the latest pok-ee-men game rather than a month's allowance, game buying would become just as much as a pasttime for kids as game playing is. Companies should endorse this oppurtunity to net compulsive buyers. I'd fall for it for sure - and love it all the same!
What about the built in Windows Messenger service? All you have to do is hand out a list of computer names and you're good to go.
if that is not your style, then write a frontend for Net Send using VB and just "net send ' Response with your computer name"
That's worked wonders for me on school networks in the past.
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With Natural Selection, Uskaarj, Unreal Annihilation, Warcraft III FPS mod, and Empires all blending or totally converting between game genres and/or engines, there seems to be an interesting trend of "breaking the rules" or using a game very differently than it was originally intended. Is this a gimmick, first notably commercialized by Savage or do you think it will keep its place on the game-store shelves?
I was making an analogy. I was not saying that I expected to find a 500gb pocket sized device - that obviously is absurd. I was only trying to figure out what audience they were targeting and, in the process, ruled one target out for sure.
I am not trolling, nor am I stupid. I leave that to the mindless droves that critique posts without understanding them or asking for clarification.
Since when is that adequate for video storage? I recently filmed a ten minute digital video at a reasonable resolution and it weighed in at 2.2 gb. This is the sort of media I'd be transporting and watching with this device. Now, am I supposed to accept that 2 hours of high-fidelity recordings would crap out my Archos device? I think there's a reason that the video-editing workstations of the desktop world have 250 gb drives (and, if you are serious enough to get something similar to this archos, you'd likely use 2x250 gb drives).
What about a turn-based strategy game for those who don't have the dexterity required required for RTS and FPS titles. I could imagine that turn based would be much more easily commented on as well. I propose that Civilization III be one of the games. That way, geeks that do not have the money to invest in heavy-duty hardware can compete. Besides, a cerebral competition is what geeks have been looking for for ages. Hasn't chess survived? With Rome: Total War being shown on the History Channel, who knows what popularity gaming would gain if a good match of Civilization III made it into mainstream media.
I would liken it to the patenting of the value of pi. Imagine that. People could only use pi up to a certain significant digit because of a possible patent infringement. It is a derived, discovered, value. Genes, and pi, are simply observationsof the functioning of the universe. Unlike the similar JPEG problem, nothing in its own right is being created. Maybe entire synthetic genomes should be patentable, but certainly not any that occur naturally and are simply observed and decoded.
Cube is a really great game. The best part about it is its customizability. There are many people out there working to mod the game. One really great example of the Cube engine being modified is Death Illustrated. It is a very original game in which you play the hero of a black and white ink-sketched comic book. It has similar gameplay to the original Cube game but the ambiance is really something, especially considering the limited tech they're working with. Here's a link, they are definitely worth checking out: Death Illustrated
Actually, I tried to get my school to teach the introductory programming course with Borland Turbo C++. I love the embedded graphics functions. I voluntarily spent a big chunk of my summer with Turbo and QB... (admittedly, that chunk ended the day I got my MS Visual C++ 6.0).
oh yeah, and snow? PFFT! We are in school until late June because of snow. I've got no pitty for you.
Why emulate the world when you can be an active participant in the real thing? Sure, this functions as a political statement (and a good one at that). But I don't need to see the world in a videogame to be able to laugh at its irony.
In the article, Wong says "I want an RTS game that will give me a stress headache after an hour and an ulcer after a week."
Why bother with a game when you can easily get this from watching any fine news station. You'd even get a bonus shot of ignorance for watching Faux News! For blood-loss, watch Al Jazeera! For contrast watch CNN Headline News (the only station on which body pyramids are followed by what dress Troy McClure's husband wore to the Oscars).
If you're really angling for some pain, you can even try to participate in the political arena itself at either the Democratic or Republican National Conventions!
Actually, my high school does this.
If time permits, the students in the Java programming class get to design and code a fully networked multiplayer Java game. The class works as a team to write the game.
The class has been known to experiment extreme programming techniques for short stretches also. Also, most tests are open-book and internet (as real-world jobs are). I find this pretty impressive. Most schools take the easy way out and stick to an oppressive lecture-only teaching format. Booklearning gets tedious and gives you no idea of how the industry works in real life.
The money gained by receiving a patent and suing has become a huge issue nowadays. With SCO, GM crops, JPEGs, and even human genes - people are trying to cash in on others' success. It's like standing on the shoulders of a giants and then denying the giants any claim to the profits these people reap. We need clearer patent laws or else we will be inundated with licensing fees for even the most basic goods and human rights
Cube: A remarkably compact and elegant first person shooter. Besides surprisingly good graphics, Cube features full networking and a server browser. It also sports some rudimentary single player support.
Parsec: A deathmatch space combat game reminiscient of a streamlined Freespace. It packs beautiful visuals and excellent sound effects (including full voiceover and original music). The gameplay isn't bad either and comes complete with LAN support.
Tenebrae: Based on the Quake 1 sorce code, this is a remarkable graphical modification. Now supporting bump-mapping, per-pixel lighting, and greater model polycounts, Quake is scarier than ever before. Tenebrae is now being developed into a standalone engine (T2) and a game entitled Industri.
The current state of DOS gaming is iffy at best. With some of the sleeper hits holding abandonware status, one can get by. But the classics like Duke Nukem remain licensed (until DK: Forever comes out [read: never]). The "romz" scene is full of sketchy websites that are supported by links to innapropriate content and viruses.
Does anybody know a good virtual source for the real great classics (if not a phsyical dealer?)
The philosophy behind many of these "idea sites" is to make good ideas/products public so that do-gooders can realize them. If a corporate pirate steals an idea from such a site, it is only half of a crime. This is because, although they took the idea without permission, the product is eventually created - thereby achieving what the board sought in the first place.
Should Exist has a very strong little commmunity centered on actually carrying out the ideas that they come up with. I seriously suggest checking them out.
The same happens on google. Who's fishy now? Amazon didn't edit the google results.
Seriously, Clearplay doesn't check what what scenes are crucial to the understanding of the movie. Take Solaris for example. Many of "ipiphony" scenes for the characters included Clooney flashing his ass. Had I seen the movie without these scenes, as difficult as they were to watch to begin with, the movie would have been rendered incomprehensible.
The reason that these middle class children are being diagnosed with ADHD and similar conditions is not because their parents are lazy.
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The parents have an obligation to maintain their family - frequently three kids and two sets of parents. That is no small feat - even for a two wage earning household.
My parents fall into your so called "yuppie" classification. They also sent me to public school. Despite that, they found the time in their busy academics' schedules to teach me to read. In addition, my primary school education was far from second rate. In fact, I score exceptionally highly on english language, verbal, and reading comprehension exams. I am the counterproof to your argument
Those who cannot afford to take time off from work to spend with their children are not going have their children diagnosed as ADHD. Such families would not be able to afford the great medical costs associated with treating a psychological disorder, nor would they have the time to pursue a positive diagnosis against the will of their first doctor.
There is no more correlation between the more socially mobile classes and ADD than there is between hours of TV watched and ADHD diagnoses. The causality is wrong in your arguments.
I'm not going to bother commenting on your anorexia/bulimia remark any more than this: that is truly insolent remark.
I am posting this under my own name not to incite argument and "troll" throwing but to give credibility to my assertions and the facts I mentioned in this post. If you respect varying opinions and sound logic, mod this post up. If you are indifferent to reason, simply ignore it.
I am experiencing a strange phenomenon when I view stereograms on my computer. When my eyes cross, I see an intense stroboscopic effect on any white sections of the screen. Obviously, this is the monitor refreshing itself. At my relatively low 60Hz refresh rate, it becomes exceedingly irritating and could, I presume, induce a siezure in a photosensitive person. Be careful with this people . . .it's neat, but it can really be dangerous. Not to mention, it expedites the speed at which your vision is degraded. But it's so much fun... hmm, Quake Stereo for a year or vision for life . . .hmmm :)
The proposal should be at the beginning of the game where the bright blue sky opens up to the optimistic Mario under the shining yellow sun. Then she should play the level and get pummeled with barrels at the worst times possible. After all, isn't that what marriage is like?
Hey, don't look at me...!
It is perfectly sunny inside with my one-way polarized glass to ensure my privacy. I can go out with friends virtually while testing the beta version of the There virtual world. Whenever I boot Windows, I see a lovely blue landscape. Meh, sex is overrated anyway. There's nothing that Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation can't fix (nice in my basement).
The PowerPod is actually an accessory for the iPod that is sold by Griffin Technologies. The so called "PowerPod" mentioned in the article appears to be an April fools hoax. Not to mention, there is no sign of this on Apple's front page
You have got to love Eliza. What a classic. It was the first chatbot ever. It was ingenious to write a psychologist chatbot - that allows it to ask questions when it, itself, is questioned. I have very fond memories of coaxing Eliza into going on dates with me when I first fooled with her about five years ago...
This funding is crucial to the stumbling NASA. Also, it might give Russia a kickstart for their 6 man Soyuz upgrade.
I will voluntarily pay those $7 to download a working retail game off of bit torrent. If advertising costs are an issue, I would suggest paying an additional $3 per game. Using bit torrent would allow for worldwide distribution at no cost to the publisher and would more or less sustain itself. Piracy may not dissapear, but reducing prices would certainly lessen it. If little Joe down the street could spend a week's allowance on the latest pok-ee-men game rather than a month's allowance, game buying would become just as much as a pasttime for kids as game playing is. Companies should endorse this oppurtunity to net compulsive buyers. I'd fall for it for sure - and love it all the same!
What about the built in Windows Messenger service? All you have to do is hand out a list of computer names and you're good to go.
if that is not your style, then write a frontend for Net Send using VB and just "net send ' Response with your computer name" That's worked wonders for me on school networks in the past.