mrcharles

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by mrcharles 14y ago
People said that about Diablo 3, and it went on to be one of the best selling PC games ever made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_3#Sales
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by mrcharles 14y ago
You know, as much as I would like to love this game, I simply don't understand the ridiculous amount of grind and repetition with respect to trying to collect resources. Especially when it's attempting, on some level, to be a reality-analog
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The Pirate Hacks of Africa(gameological.com)
2 points by mrcharles 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrcharles 14y ago
I'll stick with Lua. I wouldn't give up the dynamic aspects of a language like Lua just for a bit more speed. LuaJIT is more than enough, and if you are doing the hard number crunching that makes speed an issue there's a good chance it's no
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Commercialize up front. Have your pro version ready as soon as the service is out of beta. Otherwise you are just asking for trouble.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Okay, how about, it's an exact string match, it's wildly popular, and it's from a well known and long time developer whose apps have always been wildly popular? Is that enough yet, to make search not suck? PS, Google Maps is now the third s
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Does that hold true when the exact string match is already #1 on the Free Apps list? Because to me, if it's an exact string match, AND it's wildly popular...
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by mrcharles 14y ago
But it was in the search results. This isn't a case of "not there yet."
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by mrcharles 14y ago
So, I find this out, I go directly to the App Store on my phone, and I do a search for "Google Maps". First five results:"Google Earth", "My Places for Google Maps", "My Maps Editor", "Road Tripper", and then finally "Google Maps" Seriously
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Using a tile or node based A* map, there's no additional cost for altering heuristics on the fly. All paths are always dynamically generated on the fly. The only reason early AI had 'pre-calculated paths' (an assertion I am dubious about, t
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by mrcharles 14y ago
I call bullshit on your pathfinding AI excuses. A* is A*, it doesn't matter if you dynamically modify the terrain, and it's easy enough to check if a path would end at walls or impassable terrain, and have the AI deal with that accordingly.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
That's cool but for me it's also just as likely that I sign up for a trial and then use it once and forget about it, so having to go in and find out how to prevent billing and such is extra steps that simply shouldn't exist. Frankly I don't
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by mrcharles 14y ago
No, and no. The issue here is: 1. I have never used this kind of service before. 2. I am not sure I would be willing to pay for it. 3. I am exactly the kind of person who would pay $5 a month for the convenience factor. 4. I am also the kin
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by mrcharles 14y ago
This seems like a great idea, but I am absolutely not going to give credit card info at the beginning of a trial. Shame, I would have liked to try it out.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
I can only view it as So-Chlorine.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Front page already has pages dedicated to porn stars and is borderline NSFW, if you were looking to check it out.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Despite being wrong, I always interpreted Eulogy to being mostly positive, with an undercurrent of anger that was aimed mostly at his untimely death than anything else.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Yeah I know, but 'failure' as a mechanic is something that's a weak hold-out from a time when games weren't as good. Thus, the requirement for three hearts is largely negated. Plus it's not like most AAA games nowadays punish you for anythi
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Yeah. I was only pointing out that there's a massively wide variety of electronic music these days, and saying that it sucks now is ignoring the history of electronic music where a lot of it started out as extremely boring stuff that appeal
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Interesting, I had always thought that since the album was dedicated to him, that Eulogy was also related. It works either way, really.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Link electronic music that wasn't repetitive and wasn't released on Warp Records. Oh, and then go back and play The Legend of Zelda all the way to the end, and then come back here and say it was good. Also, you have a lawn? Lucky bastard.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Does the game make you feel? Then it has artistic value. I felt something playing this game. It has surprisingly good ambiance and seeing a bunch of pixel characters who have accepted their fate and were waiting for death, to me, gave it a
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by mrcharles 14y ago
As a long time game developer, the most impressive part of this game is that when you get to the end, and you don't have all the keys, you can simple break all the locks . That's the kind of game design that the game industry needs to lear
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by mrcharles 14y ago
This is probably one of the best algorithmic music generators I've heard. It has a lot more feel of composition to it than most I've heard.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
I can't speak for the others, but one of the guys in the office was playing S&S on a Galaxy S III so at least that one works.
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Author respectfully offers would-be pirate a free ebook.(perusingtheshelves.com)
1 points by mrcharles 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Yes, it's the sense of accomplishment, of finishing something that is the primary benefit of building these little models. You get to do it, it's relaxing, and you can say "I built that" at the end.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
They really are. You don't even need glue to put them together (though some parts will fall off easily if not). But in terms of reward for effort they can't really be beat.
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by mrcharles 14y ago
Find a hobby. Something that is completely mindless, and won't use any of the centers of your brain that you use for programming. If you do love programming, you may just be burnt out; if you are like me, you spend long stretches coding for
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by mrcharles 14y ago
I'm doubtful you'll get an Ouya to begin with. But the point is that they have to have something to show; the Ouya itself should have had some hardware/software going. As is they were funded without even proper prototypes or software and pe

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