I'm not a linux zealot, but one advantage is that it gives the user much more control over what consumes system resources, and it can be as streamlined as you want it to be. The problem is that the game industry and consumers haven't embraced it as a mainstream gaming ...
As another alternative business model: Someone suggested that you could have an ad just before the game starts that lasts 10-15 seconds. If the user purchases the game then the ad goes away. How about using the business model of The Truman Show . For those of you that haven't ...
I wonder what of 360 owners also own a PS3 and what of PS3 owners also own a 360. It could be that we are talking about a rather small of the overall market for these platforms. If only 5 of 360 owners also own a PS3 and 1 of ...
20 years ago it was declared that the CD would be the death blow to vinyl release but fast-forward to 2009 and vinyl is still going strong. 20 years ago vinyl was the industry standard for physical music media tapes gained popularity because they could be played in the car, ...
One thing that I've noticed with more modern shooters, like CoD4, for instance, is that there are certain instances where the game cheats and just keeps spawning more bad guys endlessly. The idea is that you aren't supposed to kill everyone on the map. Attempting to do so is futile ...
He said shooters rather than first person shooters . The third person shooters like Gears of War are equally popular. It's not about the view perspective, it's about the gunplay.
@David, I agree with your overall idea, but I also think Tim would have a point if you used the movie industry instead of the music industry. When a movie is being made, the director is basically the mastermind behind the whole thing. Everyone else just does what they are ...
The real problem is that garage developers don't want to have to pay up front fees in order to BEGIN developing on a particular platform. They want to develop their game for free, and then if they wind up with something they are proud of, they can get more serious ...
A particular Lucasarts adventure game also changed my outlook on what is possible with a game, and made me realize that you can tell a great story with a game and actually become attached to game characters. For me, the game was Full Throttle.
This is interesting because it seems like it's allowing the caller to determine the const-ness of the class members. If the caller declares the container as const and then calls strictLookup, the method will return a const object. If the caller declares the container as non-const and then calls the ...
