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Re: On Game Development

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Post by 10098 »

Dewie wrote: post #24
null_ptr wrote: post #3

Don't forget the stress relief video games can give. Society managed to make even sheltered 1st world lives stressful thanks to unrealistic expectations imposed on a personal and professional level. We're all apes though, despite all that's expected of us. And these apes love to wonder about their world and explore its every corner. Video games satiate this desire somewhat - and that will do, on a fucking Monday nigh…

Some games can be really stressful though - real time strategy games for my part. But I prefer games that are more explorative and adventourus, like RPGs.

Hah! Real time strategy. Try playing Dead Space without stressing out. Constant deficit of ammo and horrifying monsters ready to jump out at you when you think it's safe.

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Post by angersock »

girvo wrote: post #35
CmonDev wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which geek did not play for 12 hours one day?

Man... Half-Life 1 and the OG Unreal Tournament. The former was more playing with Visual C++ 6.0 with the SDK, mind you. The latter was just hours and hours of team death match and CTF. So good.

Modding HL was how I got my first real introduction to C/C++; I follow a bunch of tutorials off of Wavelength/Radium (I think?) and managed to change a few things.

It seems like the mod scene for a lot of games has kind of died out, at least for shooters.

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Post by Macsenour »

unwind wrote: post #20
Macsenour wrote: post #16

I made games for 30+ years and I had this exact question about year 4. I was sitting at home, writing some 6502 I think, and my cousin called. She had to call to tell me about a Commodore 64 game she bought from FisherPrice. She started to describe it to me, an educational game where you controlled a penguin who dropped letters down a chute to form words. I had to interrupt her to explain, I had written that game. Sh…

That sounds like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhUiYMek2c ("Alpha Build"). I've never played it, but I loved your story so I had to dig a little. Very cool. :)

Yep! That's the game. Side note: my mother wrote the theme music.

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Post by pippy »

I started making games when I was 5, and I love doing it. From flash to 3D applications I've probably given it stab.

I've came to the conclusion that making games is far more constructive than watching TV or playing games, but untimely you're wasting your players time. Creating content now isn't novel, you're competing for users time which is already saturated with other games (plus other mediums such as TV).

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Post by girvo »

angersock wrote: post #52
girvo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man... Half-Life 1 and the OG Unreal Tournament. The former was more playing with Visual C++ 6.0 with the SDK, mind you. The latter was just hours and hours of team death match and CTF. So good.

Modding HL was how I got my first real introduction to C/C++; I follow a bunch of tutorials off of Wavelength/Radium (I think?) and managed to change a few things. It seems like the mod scene for a lot of games has kind of died out, at least for shooters.

> It seems like the mod scene for a lot of games has kind of died out, at least for shooters.

Yeah, definitely. Although the Doom engine releases are neat to play with. If I was creating a total conversion these days, I'd probably do it with the Doom 3 engine... which is sad, because that thing is old. Still looks great though, and beats using Darkplaces!

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Post by LukeWalsh »

jdk wrote: post #39

I used to make MMOs and we'd often question why we were doing it when we'd read stories about people's relationships falling apart, kids flunking out of school, or other really negative things that happened when people played too much and didn't keep a handle on their life. Then one day we got a letter. It was from a man who suffered a host of physical ailments, including quadriplegia, and could barely leave his bed,…

I'm curious about your experience developing MMOs. Would you mind emailing me[at]lukewal[dot]sh? I am a student right now and interested in hearing from someone who knows the full landscape.
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