So you think a 3DS Max shop like Blizzard has to sit down and think if they're going to use 3DS Max for their next game or they just decide that they're going to do Starcraft 2 and that OF COURSE they're going to use the tools that they're comfortable with and already trained on?
The tool pipeline is one thing but what about the engine? Is CrystalSpace appropriate for every type of game design or is it unfit for some of them?
I was thinking more of all the restrictions that exist on the current market (like the FCC, IP laws, safety standards, etc) which libertarians seem to object to.
such as emulators (sure the VC is great, except games are released at a snails pace and only 4 import games yet)
To be fair most people use emulators for high-profile games like the Mario series which would obviously conflict with Nintendo's intention to sell those games over the VC.
Even though the Xbox controller isn't identical to whatever system you're trying to emulate, it beats the pants off using a PC keyboard.
Not really, the 360 controller is a PITA for digital controls. The keyboard is much more accurate than any gamepad for digital controls, in part because you operate it palms-down like an arcade stick.
We haven't exhausted the possibilities of the current interfaces, there's not really a need for a new one. The thing a new interface does is change the rules, most publishers got a list of "safe" game designs but if you change the interface that list becomes useless and they'll look for new game designs. It changes the mentalities more than it really changes the games.
However, it's hard to get a new concept off the ground if you're not a one man dev team. Even if it's not about money it's much easier to recruit other devs for "let's clone our favourite game!" than "I've got this new idea and hought we should try it". I'm pretty active on the opensource engine Spring but despite all efforts to get beyond the initial plan to "remake Total Annihilation in 3d!" most of the playing still happens in TA mods which haven't even bothered to update their 3d models from the old 1997 material and many people still think about changes to the engine in a TA context (there's a lot of whining how some feature would be unfit for TA mods despite the feature being completely optional and only meant for use by mods that are not TA).
I think Commander Keen would work better in third person with FPS controls, platforming is easier if you can see your character and stuff like the pogo or pulling up ledges might be confusing in first person view.
What about better public transit so the distance between the homes of the workers and their work becomes less of an issue? Okay, you weren't talking about things the city could do but it would probably help a lot with both fuel use and congestion.
I think for a completely human-free economy you don't need replicators, just robots that can work without outside intervention, i.e. they can handle maintenance and production of further robots as well. Once we have those the issue will be that noone will have money other than the robot owners so something must be done to deal with the large numkber of people without food. But when the robots don't need human interaction to keep replicating and doing their job why should we reward any human for their work? Just let the robots run the economy and provide everything everyone wants, they won't need money if they can get their own resources. Basically a host economy between robots and a leech population consisting of humans. (cue the obligatory "and then they decide they don't need us" post) I don't believe there's any job a human can do that can't be replaced by a robot, if necessary just make that robot a modified human who is reprogrammed to enjoy being a slave and provide for the leeches (think of worker bees).
Stanislaw Lem's star diaries have a chapter like that, about an alien population that reached the point where the robots could do everything but they insist on keeping capitalism alive (because they see it as a basic freedom) even though capitalism ran into a deadlock there (the consumer has no money anymore, all money is owned by the factory owners but without consumers there's noone to buy their stuff).
Is that really a free market? After all the people are already in control of that and they don't mind the status quo much so wouldn't enforcing the will of the people reinforce the status quo?
But how do you equalize access to capital? Should banks be required to give you money independent of your credit worthyness and should investors be forced to use a govt-style contract auction? Or do you just mean banks shouldn't exclude you based on criteria that the govt doesn't approve of? That's not going to make a huge difference, by any sane criterium a small company should get less money than a big one.
This means that anyone must be able to set up and compete in the market, without barriers to entry or unequal access to suppliers, property, capital or labour.
Sounds like communism except the entities being equalized are companies instead of people. I don't see a real way anyone could equalize access to property, capital or labour.
How do large firms colluding make a market less free? Isn't the point of a free market that they are free to do anything they want? Or are you in favour of antitrust legislation?
Most regular cellphones don't need firmware updates. Also most phones stay unlocked once they are unlocked and changing their firmware will remove locks that were in place. I'm not sure I'd really expect all these people to know that the iPhone follows videogame console standards, not cellphone standards there.
Oh, I do think horrible punishment is fit for crimes against the public and/or infrastructure that were premediated, for profit and large scale. These guys are turning it into a business, there is no mercy necessary.
IMO it looks like they just wanted to create another gap to fit their god into, we've been able to observe evolution so they claim it's not real evolution and that there's a magical barrier that it cannot cross for some reason.I bet as speciation is obbserved they'll move higher and higher up the ancestry tree to find a place where they can say "we don't know what's here so it must definitely be god's work!".
But if we can't draw the line where one species ends and another begins and we have things like ring specieses, where is this "macro" evolution supposed to happen? From what we see speciation is just what happens when the adaption adds up.
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The genre will, im sure, not be FPS as it will be using furry little forest characters.
All the more reason to make it an FPS that deserves an 18+ rating. Think of Happy Tree Friends here.
So you think a 3DS Max shop like Blizzard has to sit down and think if they're going to use 3DS Max for their next game or they just decide that they're going to do Starcraft 2 and that OF COURSE they're going to use the tools that they're comfortable with and already trained on?
The tool pipeline is one thing but what about the engine? Is CrystalSpace appropriate for every type of game design or is it unfit for some of them?
I was thinking more of all the restrictions that exist on the current market (like the FCC, IP laws, safety standards, etc) which libertarians seem to object to.
such as emulators (sure the VC is great, except games are released at a snails pace and only 4 import games yet)
To be fair most people use emulators for high-profile games like the Mario series which would obviously conflict with Nintendo's intention to sell those games over the VC.
I've never heard of any Wii games being region free, are you thinking about DS games?
All I want is the thing to ignore the region on the disc so import games work.
Even though the Xbox controller isn't identical to whatever system you're trying to emulate, it beats the pants off using a PC keyboard.
Not really, the 360 controller is a PITA for digital controls. The keyboard is much more accurate than any gamepad for digital controls, in part because you operate it palms-down like an arcade stick.
We haven't exhausted the possibilities of the current interfaces, there's not really a need for a new one. The thing a new interface does is change the rules, most publishers got a list of "safe" game designs but if you change the interface that list becomes useless and they'll look for new game designs. It changes the mentalities more than it really changes the games.
However, it's hard to get a new concept off the ground if you're not a one man dev team. Even if it's not about money it's much easier to recruit other devs for "let's clone our favourite game!" than "I've got this new idea and hought we should try it". I'm pretty active on the opensource engine Spring but despite all efforts to get beyond the initial plan to "remake Total Annihilation in 3d!" most of the playing still happens in TA mods which haven't even bothered to update their 3d models from the old 1997 material and many people still think about changes to the engine in a TA context (there's a lot of whining how some feature would be unfit for TA mods despite the feature being completely optional and only meant for use by mods that are not TA).
I think Commander Keen would work better in third person with FPS controls, platforming is easier if you can see your character and stuff like the pogo or pulling up ledges might be confusing in first person view.
What about better public transit so the distance between the homes of the workers and their work becomes less of an issue? Okay, you weren't talking about things the city could do but it would probably help a lot with both fuel use and congestion.
I think for a completely human-free economy you don't need replicators, just robots that can work without outside intervention, i.e. they can handle maintenance and production of further robots as well. Once we have those the issue will be that noone will have money other than the robot owners so something must be done to deal with the large numkber of people without food. But when the robots don't need human interaction to keep replicating and doing their job why should we reward any human for their work? Just let the robots run the economy and provide everything everyone wants, they won't need money if they can get their own resources. Basically a host economy between robots and a leech population consisting of humans. (cue the obligatory "and then they decide they don't need us" post) I don't believe there's any job a human can do that can't be replaced by a robot, if necessary just make that robot a modified human who is reprogrammed to enjoy being a slave and provide for the leeches (think of worker bees).
Stanislaw Lem's star diaries have a chapter like that, about an alien population that reached the point where the robots could do everything but they insist on keeping capitalism alive (because they see it as a basic freedom) even though capitalism ran into a deadlock there (the consumer has no money anymore, all money is owned by the factory owners but without consumers there's noone to buy their stuff).
Is that really a free market? After all the people are already in control of that and they don't mind the status quo much so wouldn't enforcing the will of the people reinforce the status quo?
But how do you equalize access to capital? Should banks be required to give you money independent of your credit worthyness and should investors be forced to use a govt-style contract auction? Or do you just mean banks shouldn't exclude you based on criteria that the govt doesn't approve of? That's not going to make a huge difference, by any sane criterium a small company should get less money than a big one.
This means that anyone must be able to set up and compete in the market, without barriers to entry or unequal access to suppliers, property, capital or labour.
Sounds like communism except the entities being equalized are companies instead of people. I don't see a real way anyone could equalize access to property, capital or labour.
How do large firms colluding make a market less free? Isn't the point of a free market that they are free to do anything they want? Or are you in favour of antitrust legislation?
Most regular cellphones don't need firmware updates. Also most phones stay unlocked once they are unlocked and changing their firmware will remove locks that were in place. I'm not sure I'd really expect all these people to know that the iPhone follows videogame console standards, not cellphone standards there.
Oh, I do think horrible punishment is fit for crimes against the public and/or infrastructure that were premediated, for profit and large scale. These guys are turning it into a business, there is no mercy necessary.
I doubt that's really a contract issue but wiretapping or computer trespassing sounds likely.
You don't help a rabid dog; you put it down.
You don't help an animal with the flu either. Are you in charge of the British health care system?
Ethical?
Yeah now imagine Germany got to collect royalties on every movie or videogame depicting nazis.
IMO it looks like they just wanted to create another gap to fit their god into, we've been able to observe evolution so they claim it's not real evolution and that there's a magical barrier that it cannot cross for some reason.I bet as speciation is obbserved they'll move higher and higher up the ancestry tree to find a place where they can say "we don't know what's here so it must definitely be god's work!".
But if we can't draw the line where one species ends and another begins and we have things like ring specieses, where is this "macro" evolution supposed to happen? From what we see speciation is just what happens when the adaption adds up.
And in biology they just call it "ring species" and are done with it.
Creationists who somehow want to claim there is "macro-evolution" that's different from regular evolution?