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Jonathan Connell
Jonathan Connell
9:37 AM
What do you guys think of these questions :
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/15490/playstation-vita-programming-language
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/15457/what-would-come-with-nintendos-ds-sdk
Neither of them are really relevant in my opinion
 
 
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thedaian
thedaian
1:14 PM
@JonathanConnell the nintendo sdk one, while being kind of a bad question, at least has some good answers from it. the playstation vita question is pretty much entirely useless
since it's unlikely that anyone is going to answer it (and if someone does, it'd be a one or two word answer)
 
 
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Jonathan Connell
Jonathan Connell
2:18 PM
It's just that the knowledge seems useless; the only time you should need to know this stuff is if you have the specific Kit in front of you... In which case... :)
 
thedaian
thedaian
ah, good point
 
Jonathan Connell
Jonathan Connell
A question about what generally DevKits etc. are all about and how the console industry works could be very useful though
Which makes me come to the conclusion that the site could benefit from a dedicated wiki questions section. But that's just me :)
 
user4704
2:48 PM
I dislike devkit questions.
 
user4704
Mostly because I believe the motivation for asking them is usually wrong. As you say, they are of little practical purposes unless you have the kit (and then you have better resources for questions available to you).
 
user4704
Most of the time I feel people ask because they want to "copy the pros" feeling that that is useful, but not understanding that professionals and hobbyists have wildly different needs. Or they want to "eventually port" their games.
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user4704
(this subject is a good candidate for a meta question)
 
Maik Semder
Maik Semder
5:19 PM
same here, they come with NDAs anyway, so its either asking for breaching an NDA or for wild guesses
 
 
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CiscoIPPhone
CiscoIPPhone
9:34 PM
Maybe we should answer with wild guesses, like...Haskell or Perl maybe? :P
I'm learning Python so I took the opportunity to use it and wrote a long answer:
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A: Solving maze without return ability

CiscoIPPhoneI recognise that you've probably got the gist from other answers, but it was a fun question and I felt like doing a little Python coding. This is my object-oriented approach. Indentation defines scope. Graph Representation The graph can easily be stored as a key, value dictionary where the key ...

 

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