I'd say that most popular first person shooter games that support user created conten
Take Paintball 2 [1], a Quake based shooter comes with some maps created by the designers. Some of these maps are rarely played online because they're not good maps. Instead players have created maps and these have entered global distribution due to good gameplay. Players are the best judge of fun!
'Crowdsourcing' is here to stay. Knowing what makes a game fun and implementing games are different things and this is why players see that they can do better.
If games accept content contributions, the situation will be no different. Since the game is not mature enough, content will be produced afterward by players who feel they can make better maps with better gameplay.
Crowdsourcing will always exist but only after release. I think the best thing studios can do is give credit and recognition to good map creators by including it in the distribution and publicly congratulate them.
I imagine fingerprints are just the way the cells happen to divide and the unique pattern is just the result of random growth.
It's like if you look at the back of your had, you see slight lines everywhere, that makes your skin look like scales. It serves no purpose; it is an artefact of growth.
That doesn't make it inherently bad. My project is good couple thousand lines of code spread out over many files, no libraries. I can manage it and return to it many times a year just fine.
If you code cleanly then you won't have a problem with JS.
I've finished Bioshock a few days ago and it is a good game. The characters, the voices, the audio diaries and the environments were compelling. When you find a diary, you want to listen to it and find out what happened.
You walk into a room wondering what happened there and you *want* to know! The game is scary too. The game made me jump. Some scenes and areas are priceless. My only problem with the game was the research camera which was a little pointless way to increase damage.
I don't get Radiohead. His voice grates the mind. When he gets high pitched, it ruins the song for me. I prefer Death Cab For Cutie, Lemon Demon or Kristin Hersh.
Anyone know where I might find some instrumental Radiohead songs? I've instrumentals of MUSE for the same reason.
I don't update Opera because loading 100 tabs is always a chore.
There is also the problem that my profile is stored in a non-default location and updating always requires me to change shortcuts to use this folder which is annoying.
Perhaps if loading a session with this many tabs was less laggy, I'd do it more often.
No one company has the resources to be aware of every virus. The standard advice is to run more than one.
In Windows, if you wanna run more than one, you can only have the real time protection of a single anti-virus enabled or you get conflicts.
Meaning you rely on the on-demand protection of every other anti-virus and have to manually run them regularly OR set up schedules. What kind of user will do that?
XFN, the XHTML Friends aims to identify relationships with links.
Imagine if everybody had a blog that used OpenID. This could be decentralized. Friends could then login with OpenId and be identified what relationship they are with the OpenID URL from XFN.
Some of them actually use 3D graphics for all of the visuals, but keep the gameplay in a 2D perspective.
I find it odd that there are 3D games locked in 2D perspective. Baldur's gate, Dark Alliance on playstation was is in 3D but locked into a perspective where it's cool graphics had no justice.
As for real 2D games: A while back I got NetHack to see what the fuss was about. I was confused at first, the appeal was lost to me. I've tried playing again since and enjoying it. The game isn't about the graphics.
Another brilliant 2D game is The Ur Quan Masters, an open source version derived from Star Control II. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Also do not forget the Pokemon series.
This is not an old person speaking and I think that shows that 2D games are here for stay.
lot of people like to say "performance" just because it's a longer word and it makes them sound smart.
I see where you are coming from but I don't like this quote. Performance was a decent term to use since this covers a lot of ground. A fast performing website 'performs' well for the user. All your examples are factors of a well performing website:
memory utilization [browser uses less memory] low error rate [user doesn't make so many mistakes, doesn't misclick something due to lag, doesn't forget what they are doing due to loading times] user productivity [user gets more done] user satisfaction [pages load fast! no waiting, no technology related hassles] throughput [download speed]
The title of the book should be "High Speed Web Sites" or just "Fast Web Sites."
I disagree. A web site's purpose is to be downloaded and consumed. Performance includes speed and refers to allowing users to perform 'higher' not just achieve faster download speeds. Speed doesn't cover that. I would expect Fast Websites or High Speed Websites to cover something to do with network configuration and the like. Perform makes me think theatrical and therefore, users.
Music tracks are files to me. I want to put the files onto the iPod. Other MP3 players expose the space as a removable drive. Like a CD player or a casette player or a VCR. iTunes wants me to import it into its SOFTWARE to put files onto the player. My library is a music folder on my audio partition. I do not need another library.
It's like people who prefer manual gearboxes to automatic. You have your way, I have mine. It's like having a tape that wants to you to 'install' your tapes to your VCR before you can play them. It's absurd. I'd rather store tapes on a bookshelf. Manually.
There is no PEBKAC. In short, you do not understand.
Seriously, why people choose Linux or BSD is beyond me. He didn't say that. You people try to find ways to put words in peoples mouths they did not say. That is not the correct way to argue. If you cannot take his criticism of your browser, don't reply. Reply on equal grounds. Explain why Opera is not superior to Firefox.
there goes another point about installation time and effort. Nor does that refute his point. You cannot knock down points as you please by changing them because you think it makes the argument easier, that's a straw man argument.
His point still stands, it's faster for HIM.
His point is that Opera is the superior product in itself. This point still stands. He isn't referring to the political aspect of being closed source.
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I wonder if they found the buried space ship.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading your comments, regardless of article!
I'd say that most popular first person shooter games that support user created conten
Take Paintball 2 [1], a Quake based shooter comes with some maps created by the designers. Some of these maps are rarely played online because they're not good maps. Instead players have created maps and these have entered global distribution due to good gameplay. Players are the best judge of fun!
'Crowdsourcing' is here to stay. Knowing what makes a game fun and implementing games are different things and this is why players see that they can do better.
If games accept content contributions, the situation will be no different. Since the game is not mature enough, content will be produced afterward by players who feel they can make better maps with better gameplay.
Crowdsourcing will always exist but only after release. I think the best thing studios can do is give credit and recognition to good map creators by including it in the distribution and publicly congratulate them.
1] http://digitalpaint.planetquake.gamespy.com/
I imagine fingerprints are just the way the cells happen to divide and the unique pattern is just the result of random growth.
It's like if you look at the back of your had, you see slight lines everywhere, that makes your skin look like scales. It serves no purpose; it is an artefact of growth.
This is an armchair theory though.
I hope not because the Syreen live there and you know, what's not to love about scantily clad blue space women?
What are you doing in Javascript that is 60,000 lines of code?
Mine is like 9000 lines of code and it's a video game.
That doesn't make it inherently bad. My project is good couple thousand lines of code spread out over many files, no libraries. I can manage it and return to it many times a year just fine.
If you code cleanly then you won't have a problem with JS.
I've finished Bioshock a few days ago and it is a good game. The characters, the voices, the audio diaries and the environments were compelling. When you find a diary, you want to listen to it and find out what happened.
You walk into a room wondering what happened there and you *want* to know! The game is scary too. The game made me jump. Some scenes and areas are priceless. My only problem with the game was the research camera which was a little pointless way to increase damage.
Would you kindly fetch me a sequel?
I don't get Radiohead. His voice grates the mind. When he gets high pitched, it ruins the song for me. I prefer Death Cab For Cutie, Lemon Demon or Kristin Hersh.
Anyone know where I might find some instrumental Radiohead songs? I've instrumentals of MUSE for the same reason.
I don't update Opera because loading 100 tabs is always a chore.
There is also the problem that my profile is stored in a non-default location and updating always requires me to change shortcuts to use this folder which is annoying.
Perhaps if loading a session with this many tabs was less laggy, I'd do it more often.
No one company has the resources to be aware of every virus. The standard advice is to run more than one.
In Windows, if you wanna run more than one, you can only have the real time protection of a single anti-virus enabled or you get conflicts.
Meaning you rely on the on-demand protection of every other anti-virus and have to manually run them regularly OR set up schedules. What kind of user will do that?
N is just like any lame platformer, I don't get how you can compare it to the beauty of Knytt Stories.
You misread the 'within tabs themselves' part and went on a tangent.
It means each tab should get its own thread. 'Tab sessions' refers to a group of tabs in a process.
I didn't think that humans could generate this much stable and continuous power.
It reminds me of this idea I submitted to the Global Ideas bank.
Your taskbar is the same size as mine and Quick Launch has PSP it is uncanny!
Sounds like they did this because of the paedophiles:
Broken by abuse?
XFN, the XHTML Friends aims to identify relationships with links.
Imagine if everybody had a blog that used OpenID. This could be decentralized. Friends could then login with OpenId and be identified what relationship they are with the OpenID URL from XFN.
http://gmpg.org/xfn/
Unless it falls ontop of him.
So this is how we get homebrew sputnik into space!
As for real 2D games: A while back I got NetHack to see what the fuss was about. I was confused at first, the appeal was lost to me. I've tried playing again since and enjoying it. The game isn't about the graphics.
Another brilliant 2D game is The Ur Quan Masters, an open source version derived from Star Control II. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Also do not forget the Pokemon series.
This is not an old person speaking and I think that shows that 2D games are here for stay.
memory utilization [browser uses less memory]
low error rate [user doesn't make so many mistakes, doesn't misclick something due to lag, doesn't forget what they are doing due to loading times]
user productivity [user gets more done]
user satisfaction [pages load fast! no waiting, no technology related hassles]
throughput [download speed]I disagree. A web site's purpose is to be downloaded and consumed. Performance includes speed and refers to allowing users to perform 'higher' not just achieve faster download speeds. Speed doesn't cover that.
I would expect Fast Websites or High Speed Websites to cover something to do with network configuration and the like. Perform makes me think theatrical and therefore, users.
Cars here have dual transmission so we can choose. I shouldn't have to pass many hoops to turn on manual.
You're calling me a tard? You spelt car wrong.
You uncultured assclown.
In short, you fail at trolling.
What the hell?
Music tracks are files to me. I want to put the files onto the iPod. Other MP3 players expose the space as a removable drive. Like a CD player or a casette player or a VCR. iTunes wants me to import it into its SOFTWARE to put files onto the player. My library is a music folder on my audio partition. I do not need another library.
It's like people who prefer manual gearboxes to automatic. You have your way, I have mine. It's like having a tape that wants to you to 'install' your tapes to your VCR before you can play them. It's absurd. I'd rather store tapes on a bookshelf. Manually.
There is no PEBKAC. In short, you do not understand.
Seriously, why people choose Linux or BSD is beyond me.
He didn't say that. You people try to find ways to put words in peoples mouths they did not say. That is not the correct way to argue. If you cannot take his criticism of your browser, don't reply. Reply on equal grounds. Explain why Opera is not superior to Firefox.
there goes another point about installation time and effort.
Nor does that refute his point. You cannot knock down points as you please by changing them because you think it makes the argument easier, that's a straw man argument.
His point still stands, it's faster for HIM.
His point is that Opera is the superior product in itself. This point still stands. He isn't referring to the political aspect of being closed source.
After exhausting those serial numbers they should try using the remaining permutations!
Free Windows for everyone!