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Noctrine

Nov 19, 2010 20:43

It was pretty much a PC, awesome out of the gate (especially after indies found out that since it was basically like Windows CE they could make games for the platform) had some awesome titles that were faar ahead of its time (I still want another Shemue) Hand nice low entry price making it very accessible it was great.

Noctrine

Nov 19, 2010 20:37

Sega never needs to make new hardware ever again.

Firas Assaad

Nov 19, 2010 19:34

Oblivion. I tell everyone that I hate Bethesda games but I got pretty far in that. I felt the game was pointless but the sheer scale of it kept drawing me in. It is addicting in a way.

Firas Assaad

Nov 19, 2010 19:20

Civilization series has really really good games but I end up hating them when I've been playing for 8 hours, not having much fun anymore, but still think "well, one more turn". What I mean is that I can tell the addicting aspect apart from the fun aspect, not that it's the game's fault in this case.

AttackingHobo

Nov 18, 2010 22:17

Its kind of like, "I am going to put this box of gold unguarded, and to unlock it, all a person has to do is to solve a maze on paper with a pen, how can I make my maze really hard to solve"

Noctrine

Nov 17, 2010 17:10

@TreDubZedd Though development has slowed down due to school, full time work, client contracting and some other stuff. I've been working on a platform kind of like steam to push games out on. And for people who operate around me, I am able to get people access to some of the resources that they may need for completing their project. Not currently able to give them a physical location but I'm working on it.

Ivo Wetzel

Nov 17, 2010 15:36

@WillihamTotland So you write your code in english? Which compiler are you using? Also if you run into problem, do you ask over at english.stackexchange.com? :P

Tetrad

Nov 17, 2010 00:16

Another bullet point does help but voting down with a reason does help discourage behavior that people in the community don't like

lathomas64

Nov 15, 2010 22:23

imo punishment, not difficulty would be your problem with young kids

TreDubZedd

Nov 15, 2010 17:22

The key is to understand how each works.

Tetrad

Nov 12, 2010 00:45

The “expert” part of that mission is important, otherwise we’re just building another place for the same questions that every other Q&A site has. We want the law Stack Exchange to attract lawyers, the movie Stack Exchange to attract filmmakers, and the aviation Stack Exchange to attract pilots. What makes a community great is great people... that is, real experts. And the experts want to hang out with other experts.

lathomas64

Nov 11, 2010 19:23

I'm reminded of the old spice guy. Look at your question now look at my answer. This is the answer to the question your question should look like...

Williham Totland

Nov 9, 2010 10:32

@AriPatrick: The damned badges were misaligned!

Ari Patrick

Nov 6, 2010 01:57

Apparently @WillihamTotland tricked my eyes in to thinking the badges were misaligned

Firas Assaad

Nov 5, 2010 15:12

Yes it is

Mike Strobel

Nov 4, 2010 20:45

Nah, it is, but it's one of those ripoffs that will end up being much better than the title being ripped off. At least I hope it will.

CiscoIPPhone

Nov 3, 2010 14:59

It's in closed beta for android: droidgamers.com/index.php/game-news/android-game-news/…

CiscoIPPhone

Nov 3, 2010 13:13

Not long, a couple of months. Learning Objective-C wasn't hard. Learning my way around Apple's API, and learning the release process was a bit harder...

Mark LeMoine

Nov 1, 2010 20:43

Lounging on the couch, wireless keyboard on lap, code on the smartboard

AttackingHobo

Oct 31, 2010 19:29

With "many short term projects" flash would be your best bet

lathomas64

Aug 12, 2010 21:51

well that proves it then

Tetrad

Aug 9, 2010 20:57

Flyweight pattern

Flyweight is a software design pattern. A flyweight is an object that minimizes memory use by sharing as much data as possible with other similar objects; it is a way to use objects in large numbers when a simple repeated representation would use an unacceptable amount of memory. The term is named after the boxing weight class. Often some parts of the object state can be shared and it's common to put them in external data structures and pass them to the flyweight objects temporarily when they are used. A classic example usage of the flyweight pattern is the data structures for graphical r...