... Unfortunately the level of the competition keeps marching relentlessly onwards. Here's a clip of motion capture stuntmen for the upcoming Empire: Total...
... I just played a demo of the Warhammer 40K soulstorm game and unfortunately for people like me that like to think about how to win a battle they have opted...
Richard James
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Jun 1, 2008 12:01 pm
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... Only die-hard wargamers would touch that, it would seem too restrictive to most people. ... A large set of scenarios would get a bigger market. But my...
Gerry Quinn
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Jun 1, 2008 2:33 pm
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... Well, the venerable Waterloo did it in 1990. http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Waterloo It attempted to model Waterloo as it occurred in actual...
... Well that may be what everyone says, but blockbuster movies like Gladiator are based on not much more than that. Hollywood doesn't deal with battle after...
... I think the idea in a RTS is to abstract some of the nitty gritty details of warfare so that the player does not have to deal with them. I believe there is...
Richard James
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Jun 2, 2008 1:30 pm
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... From: "Brandon Van Every" <bvanevery@...> To: <gamedesign-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [gamedesign-l] Re:...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jun 2, 2008 2:32 pm
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... My experience of both Shogun and Medieval II is that unit command & control isn't good enough to really take advantage of terrain. I do remember occupying...
... What's your evidence for that? I know several people who have seen Gladiator multiple times. It also comes on TV and people watch it then. Of course...
When I was trying to remember the actual name of "Age of Wonders," I went Googling around for RPGs to figure it out. I stumbled upon AdventureQuest, a free...
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I read a Gamasutra article, http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3715/not_everyone_feels_the_crunch.php It is often said that professionals eventually abandon...
I think it just took me 1.5 hours to make it through Gamasutra + write that 1 e-mail about 1 article. I didn't leave comments about any articles, and I only...
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well, as far as new original ideas go, one should start by thinking of a game that's not based on the basic game model. you know, a database, graphics/sound...
... From: "Linda Carpenter" <lindadsl@...> ... This concept is usually called fuzzy logic. ... Sounds like a neuronal network. ... I'm not sure what you...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jul 5, 2008 2:38 pm
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yeah something like a neural network actually if you set one of these 3d arrays of cells in operation then it would act like a crystal. as every cell learns...
I think the trinary logic idea is great but right now I don't see it presented as anything other than a second stage binary logic. Forgive me for simplyfing to...
... From: "Linda Carpenter" <lindadsl@...> ... [-] ... Sounds like a nice coding project... try to make a map generator that works on this basis. In...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jul 6, 2008 11:50 am
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This is interesting to think about, but... ... So what you have is semi-dynamic terrain. In the same way that the human body is composed of cells, that start...
... From: "Brandon Van Every" <bvanevery@...> To: <gamedesign-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [gamedesign-l] maturity...
Gerry Quinn
gerryq@...
Jul 7, 2008 12:59 pm
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well, any time a brain thinks something, it's physical structure has changed slightly. with a neural network, just some of it's variables have changed. think...
... How will the player deduce these effects, if the world is chaotic / capricious? There's a good chance the phenomena will appear to the player as noise, or...
stability of the nueral network is determined by persistance. persistance is how strongly a cell resists change. and as for wands, wands will do anything the...