I must say my whole point again is not that I want something that indeed will never exist... it's that game developers in general won't feel attracted by this console (unless for promoting stuff with ad full apps).
To see my games are being indeed downloaded for free just click on statistics on the video below to see how many hits the video got from cracked app pages. There is a few thousands already (the game currently is on the 100 - 150 downloads on google play). This is obviously only the people who cared to play the video and only from sites that put the video link... (could be that people played and not downloaded too... but even if you consider only 50% of the people downloading it is still a much higher number than the people who bought the game) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnWI-7NMLw
Because in my opinion it's the easiest start point for an indie developer. There is a 25 dollars fee and it is easy to publish and sell stuff. I admit I had this idea that people would mostly get cracked games because they were expensive. This fell to the ground since my games cost only 1 dollar and were cracked anyway. The only thing keeping me making these games today is because I really like making them... If I depended on it to buy food I would have starved a long time ago.
I would love to... but there is a lot of complications for a small developer to work on those platforms. My main point though, is I don't feel attracted by a hackable console as a developer. A mix of freedom to port to any device (like Steam has) and a closed controlled environment (like a Playstatino 3... sort of) would be ideal for me.
That's my current situation. I'm THIS close to quitting so I will be able to sleep 8 hours per day again. I have to work on the job that pay my bills at day.
I posted as AC by mistake... but yes I am an independent game developer (not hard to find these days with mobile devices). And I am not trolling or stupid... I just need to Google my games to know they are available for free and being copied. I have data from my transactions and number of what countries buy or download my games. I can tell that although Americans buy a lot but this is not true for other countries. For instance, one of my games has sold almost less copies than there are download sites with cracked versions of it. The fact some people don't do it don't mean it won't be the main attractive for most people (specially outside us)
Google+ is not about friends. It's about following people. You can add people and pages and follow their posts (the other guy doesn't need to accept). In the poster side, you can post public posts that people who follow you can read or posts directed to members of specific circles (allowing you to post in privacy). It's a whole different paradigm... it's perfect to follow interesting stuff and filter (or not... your call) the lame posts like those most people post on Facebook.
Video can be handled by the gpu if the gpu has video player acceleration (nvidia chipsets usually do have that) and it has usually a lot of cores too (tegra 2 has 8 cores). It's been a while since video decompression can be split into many cores... a lot of desktop players do that already (using the appropriate decoders). Smartphones are computers with mobile network ability. I can't wait for them to evolve and give me the ability to plug it into a monitor and keyboard and do the work I currently still need my desktop for.
I totally agree. I am very happy with the current user base. I find Facebook a bit stupid (and by Facebook a mean the content created by my friends) while in g+ plus I have much more useful information (since I'm an android game developer). I love the way it introduced better control of the content you have with the circles. Instead of bashing G+ people should be happy about being able to have an alternative choice, with alternative type of content (G+ is a better geek world in my opinion).
Are you aware that the android OS runs on a modified Linux kernel? Android multitasks all the time. The fact that it simplifies the UI and gives the impression of a single task being executed does not mean it does not take advantage of multiple cores. Do you really think that the app needs to be smart to use a second core? It's as simple as creating a thread or drawing a graphic component.
Also, video is a great example of a situation where multiple cores are very welcome and would immediately prove 4 cores is better. It's funny you mentioned since tablet users watch video all the time.
I don't get people saying that core count is an obsession... stop saying that tablets and smart phones don't need more than 512k of ram.
Have you ever checked the android market? There are hundreds of thousands APPs there for users to download and they will run on tablets as long as they announce they support large screens (most people announce any size).
I make games for android, and they were all readily available on all tablets as soon as they were released on the market... no refactoring was needed.
The tablet apps you are referring too are probably the Tablet ONLY apps those are just a few indeed (assuming you chacked the android market and know what you are talking about... and not only mumbling some rumor you heard from some apple fanboy)...
This caused a lot of confusion I guess... kind of back fired on Google.
It might be natural evolution a lion eating you... but that doesn't mean we should let it happen.
Lets say people want to go to a park. And lets say people are getting robbed on the park. What is your advice? Don't go to the park? Watch pictures online of it from the safety of your home. I agree it's the easiest way to deal with the problem. It's easy to say that walking on the streets doesn't cope with our modern world anymore.
The fact that people can break DRM easily doesn't mean that every piece of software should be given away for free and that there should be no punishment for people illegally profiting from other people work. (I for one like the old business model of paying for an application... you will find out that free applications nowadays are very, very annoying).
basically... there should be ways to punish these "smart S's" who earn money from sharing other people works for free. (again... not saying SOPA is the solution).
Well... my comment that you quoted already says I don't agree with SOPA. I just think that it should be changed by people that actually understand how the internet works instead of just ignoring the whole problem.
I never said it it would (the 50k would have been sales). My concern is that I made a game and although it does not mean it is giving me the revenue of 50000 apps sold it is giving some russian pirate guy the revenue of 50000 downloads. My work 1 year hard work is feeding a guy that probably spent an hour to crack the game.
My point is piracy is real and although SOPA and PIPA are bad we need something else to fight it.
Well.. I report links to file share sites with DMCA notices so they take the links down. I'm just blocking the pirates from making money with my game. This is how it works... the guy cracks a game and put on a file share site. He then earns from money files that are downloaded many times. Basically the guy spends 30 minutes to crack my game and earn money from my year long work.
Also... I have charts showing selling reports by date. I can see a decrease after the game was made available online.
And finally... I'm pretty sure I can go around this issue like a lot of people do. But this does not mean people should be able to share my work freely. I mean... if you could go not noticed would it be okay to steal food from a supermarket?
Piracy is a real problem. I find it interesting that people want to kill PIPA and SOPA, and not change it to allow protection against piracy while still allowing people freedom to use the web.
I have a game on the Android market. It has sold around 1000 copies... (it cost just 1 dollar so it's not a matter of cost). Some russian guy cracked my game and by looking on download counters I can tell the game was already illegaly downloaded more than 50000 times. The only thing I can currently do is report every link I found to file share sites... I tried that for a week and noticed that I wasn't being able to work anymore... I wasn't doing anything else but sending DMCA notices. Therefore, I find the current law very flawed. I woudn't care if there was some improved SOPA that would deal with file share sites for instance (Let's face it... they are 95% of the time used for piracy anyway)
It is a hardware issue (although the article says it otherwise). New versions have minimum memory specs for instance. It would be like trying to run Windows 7 on a 10 year old machine.
Every new releases have minimum requirements. These requirements end up limiting which devices can be updated or not. ICS for instance will require 256MB memory and some fancy harware acceleration. It's usually wise to respect this although you will probably be able to update your device using some custom ROM (Just don't get surprised when app Xyz fail to run on your gingerbread cyanogen mod on your 4 year old device).
We could obviously discuss whether this is good or not... as a developer I like this actually. The android fragmentation can be reduced by this minimum specs... you can release your software knowing that you will have a minimum ammount of memory to run and deal with.
Android didn't change much gui wise (aside from cosmetic changes)... Technically, the first pic is almost exactly like the second, but with the icons removed. I would post a picture of my Galaxy S2 looking almost the same as the first picture if I wasn't so lazy.
Well.. Writen in romanji "ii" is the japanese word for "good" as in good beer. Japanese people could eventually read and pronounce the name as We-e. As parent said it's also would be somehow normal to contract the name to just "ii".
The only true advantage I see to this is that Google gives you a LOT more disk space for free, wheras you have to pay for more with G&A... but perhaps that's why we're seeing "Sorry, we are unable to offer new accounts today. We appreciate your interest and invite you to add your Gmail address to our wait list. We'll let you know when we've enabled your account."
Google gives more than 1Gb of space for every GMail acount. Why sould it have any problems with a few extra Mbytes? Google Pages is just in an early testing phase and they don't need a lot of dummy users (users that don't know what alpha or beta software means) flaming about software bugs or bad performance.
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A PC is much more interesting and has a much more interesting user base than a hackable 99 dollar box.
I must say my whole point again is not that I want something that indeed will never exist... it's that game developers in general won't feel attracted by this console (unless for promoting stuff with ad full apps).
To see my games are being indeed downloaded for free just click on statistics on the video below to see how many hits the video got from cracked app pages. There is a few thousands already (the game currently is on the 100 - 150 downloads on google play). This is obviously only the people who cared to play the video and only from sites that put the video link... (could be that people played and not downloaded too... but even if you consider only 50% of the people downloading it is still a much higher number than the people who bought the game)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnWI-7NMLw
Because in my opinion it's the easiest start point for an indie developer. There is a 25 dollars fee and it is easy to publish and sell stuff. I admit I had this idea that people would mostly get cracked games because they were expensive. This fell to the ground since my games cost only 1 dollar and were cracked anyway. The only thing keeping me making these games today is because I really like making them... If I depended on it to buy food I would have starved a long time ago.
I would love to... but there is a lot of complications for a small developer to work on those platforms. My main point though, is I don't feel attracted by a hackable console as a developer. A mix of freedom to port to any device (like Steam has) and a closed controlled environment (like a Playstatino 3... sort of) would be ideal for me.
That's my current situation. I'm THIS close to quitting so I will be able to sleep 8 hours per day again. I have to work on the job that pay my bills at day.
I obviously agree with that... but achieving it is harder than it sounds. I was just moaning and ranting on my first post anyway.
I posted the game link on another reply
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2972173&cid=40615803
Well... you cna get it and judge for yourself
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttr
There is a free demo version with you don't have a dollar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttrdemo
I posted as AC by mistake... but yes I am an independent game developer (not hard to find these days with mobile devices).
And I am not trolling or stupid... I just need to Google my games to know they are available for free and being copied. I have data from my transactions and number of what countries buy or download my games. I can tell that although Americans buy a lot but this is not true for other countries. For instance, one of my games has sold almost less copies than there are download sites with cracked versions of it. The fact some people don't do it don't mean it won't be the main attractive for most people (specially outside us)
Google+ is not about friends. It's about following people. You can add people and pages and follow their posts (the other guy doesn't need to accept). In the poster side, you can post public posts that people who follow you can read or posts directed to members of specific circles (allowing you to post in privacy). It's a whole different paradigm... it's perfect to follow interesting stuff and filter (or not... your call) the lame posts like those most people post on Facebook.
Video can be handled by the gpu if the gpu has video player acceleration (nvidia chipsets usually do have that) and it has usually a lot of cores too (tegra 2 has 8 cores).
It's been a while since video decompression can be split into many cores... a lot of desktop players do that already (using the appropriate decoders).
Smartphones are computers with mobile network ability. I can't wait for them to evolve and give me the ability to plug it into a monitor and keyboard and do the work I currently still need my desktop for.
I totally agree. I am very happy with the current user base. I find Facebook a bit stupid (and by Facebook a mean the content created by my friends) while in g+ plus I have much more useful information (since I'm an android game developer). I love the way it introduced better control of the content you have with the circles.
Instead of bashing G+ people should be happy about being able to have an alternative choice, with alternative type of content (G+ is a better geek world in my opinion).
Are you aware that the android OS runs on a modified Linux kernel? Android multitasks all the time. The fact that it simplifies the UI and gives the impression of a single task being executed does not mean it does not take advantage of multiple cores. Do you really think that the app needs to be smart to use a second core? It's as simple as creating a thread or drawing a graphic component.
Also, video is a great example of a situation where multiple cores are very welcome and would immediately prove 4 cores is better. It's funny you mentioned since tablet users watch video all the time.
I don't get people saying that core count is an obsession... stop saying that tablets and smart phones don't need more than 512k of ram.
Have you ever checked the android market? There are hundreds of thousands APPs there for users to download and they will run on tablets as long as they announce they support large screens (most people announce any size). I make games for android, and they were all readily available on all tablets as soon as they were released on the market... no refactoring was needed. The tablet apps you are referring too are probably the Tablet ONLY apps those are just a few indeed (assuming you chacked the android market and know what you are talking about... and not only mumbling some rumor you heard from some apple fanboy)... This caused a lot of confusion I guess... kind of back fired on Google.
It might be natural evolution a lion eating you... but that doesn't mean we should let it happen. Lets say people want to go to a park. And lets say people are getting robbed on the park. What is your advice? Don't go to the park? Watch pictures online of it from the safety of your home. I agree it's the easiest way to deal with the problem. It's easy to say that walking on the streets doesn't cope with our modern world anymore. The fact that people can break DRM easily doesn't mean that every piece of software should be given away for free and that there should be no punishment for people illegally profiting from other people work. (I for one like the old business model of paying for an application... you will find out that free applications nowadays are very, very annoying). basically... there should be ways to punish these "smart S's" who earn money from sharing other people works for free. (again... not saying SOPA is the solution).
Well... my comment that you quoted already says I don't agree with SOPA. I just think that it should be changed by people that actually understand how the internet works instead of just ignoring the whole problem.
I never said it it would (the 50k would have been sales). My concern is that I made a game and although it does not mean it is giving me the revenue of 50000 apps sold it is giving some russian pirate guy the revenue of 50000 downloads. My work 1 year hard work is feeding a guy that probably spent an hour to crack the game. My point is piracy is real and although SOPA and PIPA are bad we need something else to fight it.
Well.. I report links to file share sites with DMCA notices so they take the links down. I'm just blocking the pirates from making money with my game. This is how it works... the guy cracks a game and put on a file share site. He then earns from money files that are downloaded many times. Basically the guy spends 30 minutes to crack my game and earn money from my year long work. Also... I have charts showing selling reports by date. I can see a decrease after the game was made available online. And finally... I'm pretty sure I can go around this issue like a lot of people do. But this does not mean people should be able to share my work freely. I mean... if you could go not noticed would it be okay to steal food from a supermarket?
Piracy is a real problem. I find it interesting that people want to kill PIPA and SOPA, and not change it to allow protection against piracy while still allowing people freedom to use the web. I have a game on the Android market. It has sold around 1000 copies... (it cost just 1 dollar so it's not a matter of cost). Some russian guy cracked my game and by looking on download counters I can tell the game was already illegaly downloaded more than 50000 times. The only thing I can currently do is report every link I found to file share sites... I tried that for a week and noticed that I wasn't being able to work anymore... I wasn't doing anything else but sending DMCA notices. Therefore, I find the current law very flawed. I woudn't care if there was some improved SOPA that would deal with file share sites for instance (Let's face it... they are 95% of the time used for piracy anyway)
It is a hardware issue (although the article says it otherwise). New versions have minimum memory specs for instance. It would be like trying to run Windows 7 on a 10 year old machine.
Every new releases have minimum requirements. These requirements end up limiting which devices can be updated or not. ICS for instance will require 256MB memory and some fancy harware acceleration. It's usually wise to respect this although you will probably be able to update your device using some custom ROM (Just don't get surprised when app Xyz fail to run on your gingerbread cyanogen mod on your 4 year old device).
We could obviously discuss whether this is good or not... as a developer I like this actually. The android fragmentation can be reduced by this minimum specs... you can release your software knowing that you will have a minimum ammount of memory to run and deal with.
Android didn't change much gui wise (aside from cosmetic changes)...
Technically, the first pic is almost exactly like the second, but with the icons removed. I would post a picture of my Galaxy S2 looking almost the same as the first picture if I wasn't so lazy.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rapidshare+fu ll+album
I found a 50 cents album in a few clicks from this query.
ops... sorry... Think they will now sue slashdot also.
Well.. Writen in romanji "ii" is the japanese word for "good" as in good beer. Japanese people could eventually read and pronounce the name as We-e. As parent said it's also would be somehow normal to contract the name to just "ii".
Firefox is worse than IE. It's just safer. If it wasn't safer I would not even have it installed. Sad but true.
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The only true advantage I see to this is that Google gives you a LOT more disk space for free, wheras you have to pay for more with G&A... but perhaps that's why we're seeing "Sorry, we are unable to offer new accounts today. We appreciate your interest and invite you to add your Gmail address to our wait list. We'll let you know when we've enabled your account."
Google gives more than 1Gb of space for every GMail acount. Why sould it have any problems with a few extra Mbytes? Google Pages is just in an early testing phase and they don't need a lot of dummy users (users that don't know what alpha or beta software means) flaming about software bugs or bad performance.