I remember growing up in the 1980s and buying into the philosophy that becoming elite in video games will make you elite in other facets of life. You had the Last Starfighter, where they selected a kid based on his video game skills. You had Robotech, where the ace fighter was also an ace video game player. There was a host of media that said if you spent enough time in simulators, you'd be good at real life tasks. I guess this is taken up with America's Army to an extent today. I really dedicated myself to video games, and as a result, I'm really good at video games:P When you beat your favorite video game, you have all sorts of ideas on how it could have been done better. So tons of people want to be game designers and programmers. Programming is a marketable skill. Also, you get skills in video games, and learn strategies for problem solving. In school, they feed you the information and you just have to 'accept' it. In video games, you're the one that gets to choose your strategies for gain. The strive to become better at a game is a good goal, and helps you strive to become better in life. I could go on forever about this stuff because its a philosophy I bought into for over 20 years.
You should be gathering intelligence from inside the terrorist circles. You do this by recruiting the proper archeotype to infiltrate and become a fake terrorist.
It shows a professional level idiocy to desire to listen to random people's conversations in order to gather information on terrorists. I wish the intelligence agencies would shut up and do their job instead of publically saying the equivalent of,"Well golly gee, we really don't know what we're doing so lets shut down GPS, the internet and telephones because terrorists use these."
This game will probably never happen, but I wrote up a MMOFPS based on the cartoon Transformers. It has heavier RPG aspects than PlanetSide, so your character can take longer to level, and more personalized team work. I've always found that I can have a maxxed out character within a few short hours on PlanetSide. I kicked some tail on PlanetSide, but it had no long term character development to hold my interest.
Design Document
If you give every object in the game a name, and you relate distance and time, you can quite easily turn a MMORPG into a text adventure that can be read. This is a primitive step towards artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will have every real noun and verb in its dictionary, and create a virtual 3d world.
Artificial Intelligence is a long way off, but wiring up a MMORPG to play in text mode could be done now if funded. More on AI
Sorry. I meant to say that you can really do something in software. The sentence wasn't that long. Came off flat retarded.
It just seemed to me that College was incredibly difficult and in specialized areas I'd never use in order to "round off the education".
I would have been much better off doing independent projects that forked over the $100,000 I paid to do a bunch of hoop jumping.
It feels so much nicer to focus on work and drive research than it does to do all sorts of random tasks in order to make you a Renasance(sp) thinker.
I'm all for this girl, and Bill Gates, showing that college isn't necessary. At the same time, I think its highly important that people never stop their education. If you can't do lots of independent research, and learn on your own, you should definately keep up with college.
If you spent as much time and effort doing independent projects in computing and research as they have you doing off the wall homework and cookie cutter projects, you'd be well on your way to writing sentences this long.
I use yahoo mail, and I don't get much spam, even from the mailer I use to sign up for stuff on the web. Its actually sort of lonely to go weeks without recieving emails.
I'm stuck on some stupid quest that I need to do to become level 10. If you want a free automated player bot, email James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com It automatically targets and fights nearby non-aggro monsters. I wrote it in visual C 6.0
Just read Yahoo newsgroups once in a while. Its mostly teenage punks who think crass racial jokes are funny to mix with current events.
And neo-nazis became popular when working class people started losing their job. Blame another race.
Nice thing about Slashdot is there is sane moderation. In yahoo, the majority of posters are crass and moderate up drivel, especially politically motivated posters. Sane moderation leads positive conversations. Insane moderation means you need to trod through each of the 10,000 messages individually to see if anyone has something good to say. Of course, when most people are saying,"Bush is retarded" or just posting obscenities, it gets old.
Slashdot isn't the best forum system that could be created, but its what we got now, and I'm thankful for it.
Where the game is totally unplayable for the first month?
There is positives to be said for Funcom though, they later offered me all their expansion sets if I'd get back to playing with them. I declined, but its nice of them to be a good company.
Action MMOGs are way more fun than RPG style counterparts...
But since LucasArts already has an RPG thats already doing the space thing, I doubt they'll want to make an action style MMOG.
There is definately a market for an action paced space game, with leveling, and long term goals... I'm probably going to still write the design document for it though.
I have this idea, that if I write quality design documents, that maybe they'll be a boon to my portfolio. Even if the document doesn't get accepted, its helping me out.
Mine was PacMan. My parents lifted me up to the controls and the first thing I tried was to eat a ghost. When my guy made that sad sound and melted, I realized I wasn't supposed to eat the ghosts.
MMOG, galactic wide conflict. It could be SOOOOO easily written. And it would net over 25 billion dollars over 20 years. I'm writing a transformers MMOG design document. I think the next one I'll write is a galactic wide Xwing/TieFIghter style MMOG.
I liked the old game in the arcades. It was quite quality for its time, and shows what you can get if you invest time and money into a video game project.
Its on MARP:)
Well the 2nd half of Dracula got me, but that doesn't count:P
Dragon Warrior in under 20 minutes sounds like a feat. I spent many many hours to beat that.
I like the fact people can compete by posting their high scores on MARP. I like I can play games I couldn't afford back in the day. I like the fact theres a variety of games to pick from. I like the nostalgia, and the limits they had in making games for the time. I like alot about it. I got to go stretch my collection some more
Spam your resume out on job sites. You'll probably have a response rate of 1 in 300 resumes sent out.
If you have friends, see if they can pull strings for you. This is the easiest way to get a job.
Keep studying in stuff you're interested. You may not find a job out of college anymore, but you can become an intellectual who's still productive to society. Press the boundries of what's known and advance upon them. Theres so much in computers that hasn't been touched. Of course you don't often make money doing this, so its not for everyone.
Now shipping and navigation are crippled.
The terrorists only dream they could hit the US infrastructure like this.
I like sidewalks too
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I live in the country, and we have no sidewalks here. If you don't own a car, you might as well be living on a deserted island. Luckily computer games make that life bearable.
When something more complex than Pokemon runs the Pokemon marketing campaign:
Video games / Toys / Movies / Cartoons / Cereal/ Toilet Paper / Flamethrower
I currently have a badass MMOG FPS/RPG/RTS based on Transformers I'm trying to pitch to Hasbro, but their execs live in fortresses of solitude. The key to having a cultural phenomena isn't just sticking with one medium, but tagging the whole spectrum, and doing it well so you're not only selling a product, you're hyping your other products.
Instead of people focusing on fanlike structures to liquid cool the computer, it should be the case. Full of liquid, it'd dissipate heat fast by absorbing quickly, then the surface area of the case would dissipate heat. Not that I'm going to do it, but I could totally see people selling liquid filled cases.
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I remember growing up in the 1980s and buying into the philosophy that becoming elite in video games will make you elite in other facets of life. You had the Last Starfighter, where they selected a kid based on his video game skills. You had Robotech, where the ace fighter was also an ace video game player. There was a host of media that said if you spent enough time in simulators, you'd be good at real life tasks. I guess this is taken up with America's Army to an extent today. I really dedicated myself to video games, and as a result, I'm really good at video games :P When you beat your favorite video game, you have all sorts of ideas on how it could have been done better. So tons of people want to be game designers and programmers. Programming is a marketable skill. Also, you get skills in video games, and learn strategies for problem solving. In school, they feed you the information and you just have to 'accept' it. In video games, you're the one that gets to choose your strategies for gain. The strive to become better at a game is a good goal, and helps you strive to become better in life. I could go on forever about this stuff because its a philosophy I bought into for over 20 years.
You should be gathering intelligence from inside the terrorist circles. You do this by recruiting the proper archeotype to infiltrate and become a fake terrorist.
It shows a professional level idiocy to desire to listen to random people's conversations in order to gather information on terrorists. I wish the intelligence agencies would shut up and do their job instead of publically saying the equivalent of,"Well golly gee, we really don't know what we're doing so lets shut down GPS, the internet and telephones because terrorists use these."
This game will probably never happen, but I wrote up a MMOFPS based on the cartoon Transformers. It has heavier RPG aspects than PlanetSide, so your character can take longer to level, and more personalized team work. I've always found that I can have a maxxed out character within a few short hours on PlanetSide. I kicked some tail on PlanetSide, but it had no long term character development to hold my interest. Design Document
If you give every object in the game a name, and you relate distance and time, you can quite easily turn a MMORPG into a text adventure that can be read. This is a primitive step towards artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will have every real noun and verb in its dictionary, and create a virtual 3d world. Artificial Intelligence is a long way off, but wiring up a MMORPG to play in text mode could be done now if funded.
More on AI
Sorry. I meant to say that you can really do something in software. The sentence wasn't that long. Came off flat retarded. It just seemed to me that College was incredibly difficult and in specialized areas I'd never use in order to "round off the education".
I would have been much better off doing independent projects that forked over the $100,000 I paid to do a bunch of hoop jumping.
It feels so much nicer to focus on work and drive research than it does to do all sorts of random tasks in order to make you a Renasance(sp) thinker.
I'm all for this girl, and Bill Gates, showing that college isn't necessary. At the same time, I think its highly important that people never stop their education. If you can't do lots of independent research, and learn on your own, you should definately keep up with college.
If you spent as much time and effort doing independent projects in computing and research as they have you doing off the wall homework and cookie cutter projects, you'd be well on your way to writing sentences this long.
I use yahoo mail, and I don't get much spam, even from the mailer I use to sign up for stuff on the web. Its actually sort of lonely to go weeks without recieving emails.
I'm stuck on some stupid quest that I need to do to become level 10. If you want a free automated player bot, email James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com It automatically targets and fights nearby non-aggro monsters. I wrote it in visual C 6.0
Ice Cube brand storage bricks? A rap star's patented way of stacking weed.
Just read Yahoo newsgroups once in a while. Its mostly teenage punks who think crass racial jokes are funny to mix with current events.
And neo-nazis became popular when working class people started losing their job. Blame another race.
Nice thing about Slashdot is there is sane moderation. In yahoo, the majority of posters are crass and moderate up drivel, especially politically motivated posters. Sane moderation leads positive conversations. Insane moderation means you need to trod through each of the 10,000 messages individually to see if anyone has something good to say. Of course, when most people are saying,"Bush is retarded" or just posting obscenities, it gets old.
Slashdot isn't the best forum system that could be created, but its what we got now, and I'm thankful for it.
Someone who writes some sort of comedic adventure game like Sam and Max should go for the I rating.
Where the game is totally unplayable for the first month?
There is positives to be said for Funcom though, they later offered me all their expansion sets if I'd get back to playing with them. I declined, but its nice of them to be a good company.
I think one guy logged 48 straight hours in a Net Cafe before falling dead in a bathroom. I think he forgot to eat or something.
Action MMOGs are way more fun than RPG style counterparts...
But since LucasArts already has an RPG thats already doing the space thing, I doubt they'll want to make an action style MMOG.
There is definately a market for an action paced space game, with leveling, and long term goals... I'm probably going to still write the design document for it though.
I have this idea, that if I write quality design documents, that maybe they'll be a boon to my portfolio. Even if the document doesn't get accepted, its helping me out.
Mine was PacMan. My parents lifted me up to the controls and the first thing I tried was to eat a ghost. When my guy made that sad sound and melted, I realized I wasn't supposed to eat the ghosts.
MMOG, galactic wide conflict. It could be SOOOOO easily written. And it would net over 25 billion dollars over 20 years. I'm writing a transformers MMOG design document. I think the next one I'll write is a galactic wide Xwing/TieFIghter style MMOG.
Thanks for giving me a great idea.
I liked the old game in the arcades. It was quite quality for its time, and shows what you can get if you invest time and money into a video game project.
Its on MARP :) :P
Well the 2nd half of Dracula got me, but that doesn't count
Dragon Warrior in under 20 minutes sounds like a feat. I spent many many hours to beat that.
I like the fact people can compete by posting their high scores on MARP. I like I can play games I couldn't afford back in the day. I like the fact theres a variety of games to pick from. I like the nostalgia, and the limits they had in making games for the time. I like alot about it. I got to go stretch my collection some more
Not the poster. The old game Pigskin was fun.
Spam your resume out on job sites. You'll probably have a response rate of 1 in 300 resumes sent out. If you have friends, see if they can pull strings for you. This is the easiest way to get a job. Keep studying in stuff you're interested. You may not find a job out of college anymore, but you can become an intellectual who's still productive to society. Press the boundries of what's known and advance upon them. Theres so much in computers that hasn't been touched. Of course you don't often make money doing this, so its not for everyone.
If so that will be cool, just like on rollercoasters. People will get to see the reaction on their face they get from buying stamps to the extreme.
Now shipping and navigation are crippled. The terrorists only dream they could hit the US infrastructure like this.
I live in the country, and we have no sidewalks here. If you don't own a car, you might as well be living on a deserted island. Luckily computer games make that life bearable.
When something more complex than Pokemon runs the Pokemon marketing campaign:
Video games / Toys / Movies / Cartoons / Cereal/ Toilet Paper / Flamethrower
I currently have a badass MMOG FPS/RPG/RTS based on Transformers I'm trying to pitch to Hasbro, but their execs live in fortresses of solitude. The key to having a cultural phenomena isn't just sticking with one medium, but tagging the whole spectrum, and doing it well so you're not only selling a product, you're hyping your other products.
Instead of people focusing on fanlike structures to liquid cool the computer, it should be the case. Full of liquid, it'd dissipate heat fast by absorbing quickly, then the surface area of the case would dissipate heat. Not that I'm going to do it, but I could totally see people selling liquid filled cases.