This guy is right. If you want to make video games, you can either work for someone else and make their video games, (boring!) or you can make your own. Problem is, it's not easy to go out and make your own game and try to make money from it. In fact, it's very hard. I would know; I'm doing it right now. When I say it's very hard, this is really an understatement, because there's no way to accurately verbalize how hard it really is. The above post makes it sound straightforward, but it's not. So, when reading advice like what is given above, take it with a grain of salt, because this kind of advice is not for the overwhelming majority of people.
If he continues only to harvest lumber with his orcs, I'm afraid he will find himself short on gold and food rather soon. If the humans attack then all would be forfeit!
Funny how those things happen to be blurred out, but the SCIF at Misawa Air Base Japan, a classified military facility for intercepting and decrypting enemy transmissions, and its accompanied flare 9 radio antenna, both highly sensitive and top secret and which would be very bad news if they ever were to fall into the hands of an enemy, are in clear view and high detail along with every other military base that I've ever looked at. These same military bases often refuse visitors to their website a map of the base for "security reasons," and yet you can get on Google Maps and print out a full roadmap of the base, get directions through the base, and view all the buildings on the base, even the ones that aren't supposed to officially exist. Personally I would prefer if things like this were pixelated as well.
YOU WILL KILL GEORGE LUCAS.
Don't get it? Read the Thrawn trilogy.
I've been reading awesome books like "I, Jedi" and the Thrawn trilogy and they are indeed awesome works of art. However, despite the fact that they predate episodes 1 2 and 3, they have many glaring inconsistencies. For example, at one point in the book, Mara Jade tells about how the Emperor's wrath at losing the first Death Star cost Vader his right hand, and almost cost him his life. However, in Episode 2 Anakin's right arm is removed by Count Dooku! Yeah, good job there Palpatine, you really taught Vader a lesson by removing an arm that he hadn't posessed for two decades. Timothy Zahn came first, and wrote that part of Vader's history, and Lucas screwed it up.
I'll swallow what George Lucas has to say about Star Wars these days, but not if it contradicts with what's previously been written. The Thrawn trilogy or "I, Jedi" made into movies would greatly eclipse anything Lucas has done with episodes 1-3.
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This guy is right. If you want to make video games, you can either work for someone else and make their video games, (boring!) or you can make your own. Problem is, it's not easy to go out and make your own game and try to make money from it. In fact, it's very hard. I would know; I'm doing it right now. When I say it's very hard, this is really an understatement, because there's no way to accurately verbalize how hard it really is. The above post makes it sound straightforward, but it's not. So, when reading advice like what is given above, take it with a grain of salt, because this kind of advice is not for the overwhelming majority of people.
If he continues only to harvest lumber with his orcs, I'm afraid he will find himself short on gold and food rather soon. If the humans attack then all would be forfeit!
Oops, forgot the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=40.721901, 141.326677&spn=0.005928,0.009828&t=k&om=1
Funny how those things happen to be blurred out, but the SCIF at Misawa Air Base Japan, a classified military facility for intercepting and decrypting enemy transmissions, and its accompanied flare 9 radio antenna, both highly sensitive and top secret and which would be very bad news if they ever were to fall into the hands of an enemy, are in clear view and high detail along with every other military base that I've ever looked at. These same military bases often refuse visitors to their website a map of the base for "security reasons," and yet you can get on Google Maps and print out a full roadmap of the base, get directions through the base, and view all the buildings on the base, even the ones that aren't supposed to officially exist. Personally I would prefer if things like this were pixelated as well.
YOU WILL KILL GEORGE LUCAS. Don't get it? Read the Thrawn trilogy. I've been reading awesome books like "I, Jedi" and the Thrawn trilogy and they are indeed awesome works of art. However, despite the fact that they predate episodes 1 2 and 3, they have many glaring inconsistencies. For example, at one point in the book, Mara Jade tells about how the Emperor's wrath at losing the first Death Star cost Vader his right hand, and almost cost him his life. However, in Episode 2 Anakin's right arm is removed by Count Dooku! Yeah, good job there Palpatine, you really taught Vader a lesson by removing an arm that he hadn't posessed for two decades. Timothy Zahn came first, and wrote that part of Vader's history, and Lucas screwed it up. I'll swallow what George Lucas has to say about Star Wars these days, but not if it contradicts with what's previously been written. The Thrawn trilogy or "I, Jedi" made into movies would greatly eclipse anything Lucas has done with episodes 1-3.