Oh, that's why I keep saying that programmers should be forced to do a content developer's job once in a while... say, every last week per month I'd be forced to switch the hat and eat the dogfood: e.g. set up lighting on a level, make props, animations and whatnot. ...
Just Cause 2 holds 85-ish at Metacritics, so it's not that underrated. I do agree that it deserved more public attention, though. The game is deeply intelligent in its dumbness.
I am surprised that there are so few people here suggesting that such a rich medium could indeed be effectively used for educational purposes. Playing the games and learning are driven by the same psychological devices remember Raph Koster .. Why not exploiting that in a socially useful way There ...
He seems to contradict himself in two consecutive paragraphs: The solution is ... to sacrifice ... research projects , and then next: ...not penalizing for experimentation is essential . Overall, while there is a lot of wisdom in the certain things he is saying, for some reason I still can ...
It's sad to see refactoring as one of the negative things here, especially since the described situation taking apart the engine and putting it back together in such a way that it became unplayable for the duration has actually nothing to do with the refactoring in the classical understanding. The ...
