I think there is a lot of ground to be gained by treating input as an expression of the users desires, instead of a direct input to game values. That's a key concept. I found that presential playtesting and easily tweakeable control code are good tools to improve that field. ...
When I have doubts about if something is a game or not I refer to it as electronic entertainment . So I have no problem about calling Fallout, Fa ade, The Path, or even toys like Pleo, all electronic entertainment. Maybe is a little too wide term, but I'm used ...
Percival is right. Being very very optimistic: sending lag 50ms game processing lag 60ms compressing and decompressing they say 1ms receiving lag 50ms time receiving image 100ms 261ms Even 200ms gives a bad feeling for most games, and I think I'm being very optimistic with the times and forgetting some ...
If you give a designer more and more control over the game systems he becomes an hybrid between designer and programmer. If a designer is less and less specific about design implementation and leaves more decisions about the game, the programmer becomes also a designer/programmer hybrid. And the more complex ...
