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by ijk 13y ago
The problem being, AAA game development is hit driven enough that a common publishing strategy is blockbuster tentpole or bust. Many of the games produced are fine games, and some even sell well, but may not match the (possibly extremely ov
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by ijk 13y ago
Note that number 6 on that list is Tomb Raider, which Square Enix publicly declared to be a flop: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-26-tomb-raider-has...
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by ijk 13y ago
Have a link or a video?
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by ijk 13y ago
Please, tell that to some of my clients.
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by ijk 13y ago
It'd also have to be compatible with all browsers (including primitive versions of IE) to cover the other reason people use gifs.
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by ijk 13y ago
Someone has already set up a game of Tetris using the command inputs from the Pokemon stream: http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
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For Interns, All Work and No Payoff(nytimes.com)
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by ijk 13y ago
I'm no expert, but shouldn't he have requested a lawyer? That would seem to be the legal system's prescribed defense against this. It may not have worked any better, but it seems like an oversight.
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by ijk 13y ago
Answer appears to be no, unless "stephenhuey" is secretly Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlmend, or Jimmy Hinson [1], which is unlikely. Not really surprising, though: there's a very good reason why Threes is currently the top paid ap
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by ijk 13y ago
It does require broader similarities than green pipes. And Nintendo is on record that Flappy Bird does not violate their IP.[1] [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/10/no-complaints-about-f...
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by ijk 13y ago
This is unlikely, especially as its fairly easily demonstrated that they are, pixel-for-pixel, quite different. There have been a lot of non-Nintendo green pipes, internet commentators with small reference pools notwithstanding.
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by ijk 13y ago
The Flappy Bird dev was getting death/suicide threats on Twitter after he announced he was taking it down. https://twitter.com/EliLanger/timelines/432588181611892736 I hope these people aren't the majori
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by ijk 13y ago
I can sort of see storing the score as an unsigned char, since that's larger than the largest real-world score. I have no idea what's going on with the 266 value, though.
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by ijk 13y ago
There are a couple of articles you might find interesting, that build on some of the links between the film, the book, and the games: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/01/zone-cherno...
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by ijk 13y ago
They're also going after The Banner Saga for the use of the term "Saga": http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-91214235-OPP-1.pdf http://kotaku.com/candy-crush-saga-makers-go-after-the
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by ijk 13y ago
Did you start an Instarepl? That's where you get the most obvious realtime feedback.
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by ijk 13y ago
Yes, I was referring to the second link there, based on the more recent data: "The number of employed software developers, the largest IT occupation segment, increased by only 1.75%, to 1.1 million, a gain of 19,000. The unemployment r
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by ijk 13y ago
According to the BLS, the outlook for chemical engineers is only 4%, way below the average [1]. Other STEM fields, such as electrical engineering, are also in decline [2]. Software developers only increased by 19,000 jobs total. Students ar
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by ijk 13y ago
> Also, the best thing you can do to recover from stumbling is to just keep going. It can take a little practice and some preparation, but figuring out how to do this is really what leveled up my public speaking skills and mostly eli
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by ijk 13y ago
I believe the same one was available for DOS, though my memories of the details were vague. It was for either Works or Lotus 1-2-3 and was the culmination of a series of spreadsheet training scenarios.
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by ijk 13y ago
> A nice post whose essential point is that you should eschew formulaic methods of writing that force you to fit your thoughts into a rigid format and thus hamper your ability to express them in a way that best suits the subject. Cavea
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by ijk 13y ago
The big reason, in my opinion, for there being few successful FOSS games is that the only thing bringing the team together is a shared vision. This makes it much harder to succeed at a large project unless the project is inspired by/a
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by ijk 13y ago
Alternately, though this may be stretching the point, you could say that '60s AI-as-human was at the _end_ of its curve, shortly to be replaced by the more practical actual AI. While specific writers have different biases--and some end
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by ijk 13y ago
In general, futurists tends to overestimate trends from technologies that are at the middle of an s-curve and underestimate technologies at the beginning of the s-curve. I expect future predictions to shift along the same trends, overestima
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by ijk 13y ago
The irony is that the 10 post-1923 stories are mostly sub-par and include some of the most out-of-character moments. In my mind not using them is an improvement, though I doubt that my opinion is authoritative enough to influence the case.
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by ijk 13y ago
Because it's already public domain in Britain, and has been since 2000. Since copyright is per-country, that didn't matter for an American case. Past that, America is a big enough chunk of the English-speaking audience that its Am
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by ijk 13y ago
Entity based design goes back to at _least_ late-90's Looking Glass; for example, Thief: The Dark Project (1998) used "a set of appropriately abstract reusable game components designed for creating object-rich, data-driven games&q
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I sincerely doubt that long-term maintainability was a factor unless Notch has said that it was. For a game jam you generally want to get something running as fast as possible. Of course, Notch has done it often enough that may have been mo
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Ludum Dare #27 had about 2200 games, from both the Compo and the Jam.
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by ijk 13y ago
Not to mention shipping a new feature on a codebase you are, by definition, not familiar with. I'd at least want to budget time for testing the thing. Not to mention I have severe doubts in the competence of someone who lets random i

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