When a game developer gets surprised by his own creation, it is often the A.I. doing things that the developer did not see coming. When this happens, we call it Emergent Behaviour. Other surprises will come from flesh-and-blood opponents though.
For me giving away the first levels, and a one-time sale for all the other levels has worked really well. r nI 'm seeing good conversion rates, and can keep a clean conscience. r nNothing sneaky, and still making a nice living out of it.
If i were to port my game, i would like to have opengl. r nI think the only way to have opengl in hardware for dos was to get a voodoo2 card. r nAnd then use the Glide library. r nI loved the 3d dedicated voodoo device approach. r nIt ...
I wish Vine would release an API that would let you encode and publish a movie. r nIt would be very useful so that players can upload short footage from their gameplay. r nI guess I will have to use youtube instead.
Impressive stuff, and great article. r nAmazing that you could get Computer Aided Game Balancing working in just 2 weeks. r nWriting a system like Evolver sounds like more fun than tediously going through manual iterations of game balance.
