When a new game comes out, people may wow at the graphics, but always come back to - is the game play good, and even, is the story good.
A compelling story is in itself a good gameplay, a simple standard point and click, and interestingly rendered worlds (not necessarily realistic, see Sam and Max and DOTT).
So why are adventure games destined to be always the dying genre of computer games!
Anyone ever play 'Terrormolinos' for the Spectrum? I played it for the best part of a day and got ran over. The good old days of pocket lint and useless stuff.
The game has great looking graphics, I would love a JOGL powered adventure kit, where you plug in 3ds/obj and textures and rooms, and ogg dialogue and text and use x on y.
Anyone know of anything? Anyone also interested in doing such a program? XML desriptors for the games, such like... then work on making 3d versions of DOTT! just to showcase it of course... the sotry and characters are the best parts!
Sybase have made a very smart move - by association people will see thier larger user base as a sign that they are more stable, and more widely used.
They will be the 'oracle' of linux. Of course this is first impressions, I haven't used Sybase, or Postgresql - only oracle, mysql, mkcoi and db2 (oh that toy database, from a company in redmond?)
Anyone had experience with Sybase ?? Anyone using Postgresql for really heavily loaded DB?
Any real differences in todays markets? (patch reliability, support)
Is this an indefinate ability, my first thoughs are if this is limited and the main fuel cell requires changing after processing so much biological fuel, then there is limited use for this (how many flies can a robot eat if a robot could eat fleis... doesn't have the ring to a woodchuck...)
I mean, if it eats 500 flies... couldn't you rip out all that biocrap and slap a battery on it:-)
Of course, even if there are/aren't limits, it is a great stride forward in self sufficient robotics... a robot that is able to identify and power itself on a power source that is not depenmdant on human intervention
a robot that could plug itself into the mains is reliant on the mains power. a robot that could eat insects and survive indefinately (with solar panels as well perhaps) that would be very cool.
The Robot - Biting the hand that built it (apologies to the register!)
Projet gutenberg has a stupid domain. That is, I never knoew which one it is, and the design sucks, and is unrecognisable (non branded) and so I always take a few pot shots trying to find it.
Googling doesn't help (or didn't) now I hope project gutenberg will take me to the real site.
I guess slashdot should work in it. I say it is a good idea if it is in a seperate box, and DOESN'T take a search for 'orange' and take me to some mobile network site.
that they really loved the Chrono Trigger game/world/characters/story and wanted to work with that material.,
I saw that - which is why I suggested the renaming trick to avoid copyright, keep the ethos, but not the trademarks.
Of course, they should make entirely new material, and use thier nice engine and skills to make it a great collaborative RPG which they sell for 15 EUR or 25 EUR for a MMORPG version with 6 months of server thrown in.
Never played a square game, except 42.1 seconds of FF7.
This is a good demo of the power of Java, it handles the game, then passes this smoothly to the native opengl rendering. Jogl is great, I hope I can find time to work with it some more.
Those crazy Germans do deserve some awesome credit for this! (having lived in Germany I can say I love Germans, and they are crazy!:-)
Use a computer to compose a song with all possible 3 note combinations in the popular note range, and then you have both copyrighted every 3 note combination, and broke all previous copyrights.
It will be doing 20mph when it lands, but that is enough to fsk it.
Why not just drive very soft landing zones around underneath it....
How much shock will it take being snared by a harness? Unless it has a g-grapple which will unwind and slowly brake on the coord at a suitably low force.
No? I watched one episode of that new one, you know, with quantum leap guy (IANASTL) and it was too dumb actors stuck in a ship, with no air, and then it was cold, then they plugged a hole in the hull with some stupid food.
I think it has been dying a long and painful death, and we can already smell the advanced decomposition of the script writters.
"a Segway, which he is modifying to follow a pink ball"
If only Kamen knew of this, he could have sold so many more...
What is the point really? Although *penny drop* a segway robot is basically a unipedal/bipedal (how you define it) robot with self righting, low center of gravity, and a nice platform to place things.
So I guess if you could get it to follow you over any terrain, using GPS, that would be like...
The luggage!
(currently reading the light fantastic... ook!)
Only with less legs. Now if I scrawl wizzard onto my tinfoil hat I will feel complete!
""The 450-pound capsule, moving 25,000 miles per hour, carries with it the same kinetic energy as a four-and-a-half-million pound freight train at 80 miles an hour,"
Spiderman stopped a train in
Perhaps he could do the same here? I wonder what kind of pay packet these stunt guys are on. We want you to catch this little ball of sunshine rays, won't be too hard.
I don't think 'freight train' was a term used in the job description...
four-and-a-half-million pounds? that is 2,250 tons
Go spidey! (and good luck to the dudes, hope they get home safely!)
"Workstation 318 has a hyperlink or HTML browser 324 that allows a user of the workstation to "browse" hyperlinked documents the hyperlinked documents 322 include active or executable content such as Active Server Pages (ASPs) the information server executes any commands, scripts, or programs contained in the ASP document to set configuration parameters as indicated by the user through interaction with the hyperlinked documents 322. "
And yey it came to pass the 'click here to hack me' age of the Internet. Why do I have a feeling this is going to be another nice roller coaster ride of service pack upon fix pack.
[ ] Click here to always trust content from Microsoft
I think they mean (r) TM but in thier tersity they missed out an F:-)
Windows.RTFM:-)
I tell ya, if we can expect the 2999 other patents (for this year) to be along this line, I think we can see a new strategy of Microsofts becoming clear.
Slashdot Mirror
When a new game comes out, people may wow at the graphics, but always come back to - is the game play good, and even, is the story good.
A compelling story is in itself a good gameplay, a simple standard point and click, and interestingly rendered worlds (not necessarily realistic, see Sam and Max and DOTT).
So why are adventure games destined to be always the dying genre of computer games!
Anyone ever play 'Terrormolinos' for the Spectrum? I played it for the best part of a day and got ran over. The good old days of pocket lint and useless stuff.
The game has great looking graphics, I would love a JOGL powered adventure kit, where you plug in 3ds/obj and textures and rooms, and ogg dialogue and text and use x on y.
Anyone know of anything? Anyone also interested in doing such a program? XML desriptors for the games, such like... then work on making 3d versions of DOTT! just to showcase it of course... the sotry and characters are the best parts!
Sybase have made a very smart move - by association people will see thier larger user base as a sign that they are more stable, and more widely used.
They will be the 'oracle' of linux. Of course this is first impressions, I haven't used Sybase, or Postgresql - only oracle, mysql, mkcoi and db2 (oh that toy database, from a company in redmond?)
Anyone had experience with Sybase ?? Anyone using Postgresql for really heavily loaded DB?
Any real differences in todays markets? (patch reliability, support)
I am not a db administrator.
Timothy Roberts CEO of infinium labs
SCO
Have nothing of real value
Sue people
Lacking money
Infinium
Have nothing of real value
Sue people
Lacking money
Oooooh one at a time please, there are plenty of stocks to go around.
Prediction: Infinium can suck my balls.
How many game developers have voiced support?
0
I think it is a hyped up PC with gfx card and a subscription to a games download server - sounds pants to me.
Gotta link:
Timothy Roberts, CEO of infinium labs
Gotta love penny arcade.
Great! any music tuition books with 'practice your scales' that have entered public domain? they must have all the useful combo sorted out! :-)
Is this an indefinate ability, my first thoughs are if this is limited and the main fuel cell requires changing after processing so much biological fuel, then there is limited use for this (how many flies can a robot eat if a robot could eat fleis... doesn't have the ring to a woodchuck...)
:-)
I mean, if it eats 500 flies... couldn't you rip out all that biocrap and slap a battery on it
Of course, even if there are/aren't limits, it is a great stride forward in self sufficient robotics... a robot that is able to identify and power itself on a power source that is not depenmdant on human intervention
a robot that could plug itself into the mains is reliant on the mains power. a robot that could eat insects and survive indefinately (with solar panels as well perhaps) that would be very cool.
The Robot - Biting the hand that built it (apologies to the register!)
Projet gutenberg has a stupid domain. That is, I never knoew which one it is, and the design sucks, and is unrecognisable (non branded) and so I always take a few pot shots trying to find it.
Googling doesn't help (or didn't) now I hope project gutenberg will take me to the real site.
I guess slashdot should work in it. I say it is a good idea if it is in a seperate box, and DOESN'T take a search for 'orange' and take me to some mobile network site.
Don't be evil Mr.Google.
As anyone dabbling in image processing knows. Given any image information, you cannot add entropy to an image with certainty that it is correct.
However they label thier zooming, if they are introducing information into the image then you have a false image.
However, like the DivX 'warmth' plugin, randomised information can give us perceptual detail that is interpretted by our visual system to 'look right'
Otherwise all are doing is zooming with subpixel antialiasing.
In this day and age I think the signal is digital, so how is any modification of the original signal enhancing?
Now enhancing is a very broad word, but to me this article is a marketting trip to consumer land, nothing new here, move along.
According to the article the fountain of use is temporarily unavailable.
shucks.
I'll post the article for anyone else having problems with the site:
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Cryptic, i'll give you that, but I expect they will find out the question to the answer soon enough.
that they really loved the Chrono Trigger game/world/characters/story and wanted to work with that material.,
I saw that - which is why I suggested the renaming trick to avoid copyright, keep the ethos, but not the trademarks.
Of course, they should make entirely new material, and use thier nice engine and skills to make it a great collaborative RPG which they sell for 15 EUR or 25 EUR for a MMORPG version with 6 months of server thrown in.
Never played a square game, except 42.1 seconds of FF7.
Read my post. I said open source the engine. I said remove copyrights/trademarks.
Except for the first line (my beautiful words) the rest was pretty redundant.
And, because it's open source, nobody will be able to stop us!
Hey you can't spell Open Source with out SCO dontchaknow.
First released notice in May.
:-)
This is a good demo of the power of Java, it handles the game, then passes this smoothly to the native opengl rendering. Jogl is great, I hope I can find time to work with it some more.
Those crazy Germans do deserve some awesome credit for this! (having lived in Germany I can say I love Germans, and they are crazy!
Sourceforge page
Use a computer to compose a song with all possible 3 note combinations in the popular note range, and then you have both copyrighted every 3 note combination, and broke all previous copyrights.
It will be doing 20mph when it lands, but that is enough to fsk it.
Why not just drive very soft landing zones around underneath it....
How much shock will it take being snared by a harness? Unless it has a g-grapple which will unwind and slowly brake on the coord at a suitably low force.
Compare
Johnny
Ginger
I wonder if someone has case modded thier segway to look like Johnny Five!
I tried this from a pic on his site, and it was googles birthday!
o gl e.jpg
http://www.opcoder.com/images/funny/frenchmilgo
well, it didn't work for me.
Happy birthday anyway google (note link is on that dudes site, so kinda on topic)
This will just improve people adeptness at creating sounds and samples and sharing them.
Perhaps someone with motivation will pull together an audio oriented site for GPL samples, tracks and MP3's
Requests for vocal instruments would go like this, here are some lyrics, here is the backing, sing it.
Then you could rate musicians, singers, etc, or form virtual bands...
like band-camp, only without the flutes...
Yes.
Errrr.
No? I watched one episode of that new one, you know, with quantum leap guy (IANASTL) and it was too dumb actors stuck in a ship, with no air, and then it was cold, then they plugged a hole in the hull with some stupid food.
I think it has been dying a long and painful death, and we can already smell the advanced decomposition of the script writters.
Awesome * pi ^ tan(90)
Great work on this, I think it was a closed source endeavour?
The engine is his XUEngine, with the following tools.
- XuStudio (World Editor, Character Editor, Particle Editor, Cinema Editor)
- XuExporter
- XuViewer
- XuConverter
I'd love to have a go with these tools, the work is good quality.
*cough*open source*cough* think about dual licensing, open source GPL and a commercial license.
I am not sure how those work in though, IANAL.
"a Segway, which he is modifying to follow a pink ball"
If only Kamen knew of this, he could have sold so many more...
What is the point really? Although *penny drop* a segway robot is basically a unipedal/bipedal (how you define it) robot with self righting, low center of gravity, and a nice platform to place things.
So I guess if you could get it to follow you over any terrain, using GPS, that would be like...
The luggage!
(currently reading the light fantastic... ook!)
Only with less legs. Now if I scrawl wizzard onto my tinfoil hat I will feel complete!
Remove all trademarks, and you are golden. Perhaps do a rockstar, and rename all the car names in a quirky way.
The screenshots look awesome, keep the engine and just remove trademarks.
beautiful screenshot
Good luck to 'em
""The 450-pound capsule, moving 25,000 miles per hour, carries with it the same kinetic energy as a four-and-a-half-million pound freight train at 80 miles an hour,"
Spiderman stopped a train in
Perhaps he could do the same here? I wonder what kind of pay packet these stunt guys are on. We want you to catch this little ball of sunshine rays, won't be too hard.
I don't think 'freight train' was a term used in the job description...
four-and-a-half-million pounds? that is 2,250 tons
Go spidey! (and good luck to the dudes, hope they get home safely!)
Todd Miller (the sudo maintainer for the last 10+ years) has decided to offer commercial support.
/. would throw a couple nickles my way accidentally :-)
Have I? I wish I had a paypal account and hope some
I think I should take him through the courts for some patent violation or something!
He might be older than me and cite prior art though!
(from back when the web was young, but I'm dating myself...)
From his site, either he is older than me, or he has unusual tastes!
"Workstation 318 has a hyperlink or HTML browser 324 that allows a user of the workstation to "browse" hyperlinked documents the hyperlinked documents 322 include active or executable content such as Active Server Pages (ASPs) the information server executes any commands, scripts, or programs contained in the ASP document to set configuration parameters as indicated by the user through interaction with the hyperlinked documents 322. "
And yey it came to pass the 'click here to hack me' age of the Internet. Why do I have a feeling this is going to be another nice roller coaster ride of service pack upon fix pack.
[ ] Click here to always trust content from Microsoft
I think they mean (r) TM but in thier tersity they missed out an F :-)
:-)
Windows.RTFM
I tell ya, if we can expect the 2999 other patents (for this year) to be along this line, I think we can see a new strategy of Microsofts becoming clear.