A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game

Post by SixSigma » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #67

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Are you sure about the book title? That one is a guide to post ww2 combat whereas this one: The Complete Wargames Handbook http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm Is about how to make computer war games.

This one: http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Fourth-Edition-Comprehensive/... Called "How to Make War" and it describes the mechanics, the theory, and the variables that impact the prosecution of warfare. The Wargames book was, in my opinion of course, a derivative which attempted to re-contextualize the information from HtMW into something more directly 'wargame like' but, again in my opinion, it left out too much to be…

Post by wtetzner » Sat, Jun 21, 2014, 5:15 AM UTC

alphapapa wrote: post #95

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What exactly does that mean?

Maybe he means that, when he wants to be told a story, he reads a book or watches a movie, and when he wants to play a game, he plays a game. I feel mostly this way myself: when I want to do something interactive, I want to do something interactive, not watch cutscenes or listen to or read dialogue. I guess this is why singleplayer story-driven games have never interested me very much, and why I prefer multiplayer ga…

Post by Torn » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #93

Torn wrote: post #91

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Considered a ground-up rewrite using something like Unity? They have some kickass 2D tooling now, plus you get physics for free

Unity is closed-source; I'll bet in ten years we'll see the same thing happening again, with people trying desperately to find some way to run these old games that were developed on the no-longer-supported Unity platform.