... I used to be a member of the World Builders Guild for Colony City/Cybertown. While it was enjoyable enough as a social setting, I never found any deeper...
"Cheating Is Good For You," or so the title of this article claims. http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/10/video-games-cheating-tech-cz_mc_games06_1212consalvo.html ...
... Some kinds of merchandise need to be physically interacted with, or the customer won't buy it. For instance, I'm not sure how many people would buy an...
... There was a time when i would have gave the same response, only after working in shopping.com, i was exposed to the kind of shopping people do like, shoes,...
... From: "Daniel Granatshtain" <daniel.granat@...> ... I can just imagine people at home unwrapping their new clothes: "It fits my avatar! WHY DOESN'T...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jan 5, 2007 10:02 am
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... Good point Gerry, but that was already solved, by a company i don't remember the name. What they do is take a person foot size, the real one ...;-), and...
... If you buy the same brand of jeans, and you know your size, that's pretty trivial. You might want a return guarantee from the merchant, if it's not...
... Because your avatar is a dishonest facsimile. You wanted to be more buff, more slender, etc. Change of personal identity seems to be one of the more...
... A significant amount of Second Life is exactly that, from what I've heard. And not just due to the inhuman avatars, either - though some of the Goreans are...
High-level discussion of programming topics is condoned on gamedesign-l. Where "high level" probably means something like "strategic in a business sense" or...
This is long, and I suppose is just fodder for social engineering issues. Pick points of departure as you may. ... So, that's sort of the problem of humanity....
I do shopping in Second Life and it I must say that having to walk down aisles rather than using a search engine is quite annoying. A 3D shopping environment...
I'm not sure how different linux on a retail PS3 is from having the dev kit, but in game development practice you have a host PC that talks to the console,...
... I'm not certain yet. I am so bogged down in the basics of getting Linux set up, that I haven't made much progress on what I will actually do. I'm...
Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE) creates, develops and provides industry leading entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless...
Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE) creates, develops and provides industry leading entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless...
... What about doing a game based on a sphere with a free coordinate system - i.e. objects have coordinates instead of being tied to a particular hex. If this...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jan 12, 2007 11:04 am
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... I suppose crowd combat is also applicable. Melee is limited to whatever is in your immediate vicinity. This works if your dominant expectation is chaos...
... A god of weather? Make local changes to humidity and direction of wind etc. and see if your worshippers get what they prayed for? That would also require...
From: "Ismo Kärkkäinen" <ismo.karkkainen@...> ... If you can figure out how to do that, the real-world applications would be more interesting! The...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jan 13, 2007 11:39 am
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... Well, crap, nothing about big datasets or or hierarchical games is inspiring me at all. I'm thinking about throwing all of the resources of the Cell BE at...
Perhaps you should just jump in and take a shot at making any old game. As you get more familiar with the CBE, PS3 and the development tools, you might find...
That's good advice, Pravin. And if you want to do something that's a good fit for the Cell, I think a "strong AI" game, such as chess or some other board game...
Something simulation - but with tangible (visual) results (even though the player may not know the exact relationships of all the factors that lead to those...
Playing around with various chaotic systems simulations is very cool, and one that requires allot of computational power, if it didn't it wouldn't be a chaos,...
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