[gameprogrammer] Re: Current game projects...
- From: jeremy hoistion <nerkel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:52:15 -0500
oh i see, kinda like pop cap games. do that, and you could be fmaous..
but it would be very hard..
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:58:11 -0000, Adrian Brown <enliten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The idea behind the site I am launching is to give people like yourself a
> reason to take these half finished projects to completion. As I say, we can
> help with various aspects of development. While working on various aspects
> of games and then carrying the theories/code forward to new projects is a
> great way to learn things, working in the industry we do see a lot of people
> who have never tried to finish a project and when it comes down to it
> actually struggle to do it. Finishing a project is just another part of the
> development, unfortunately one that a lot of people just say - well ive done
> the hard bit getting this on screen, I could finish it if I wanted but I
> want to do something else.
>
> Saying that - I don't mean everything people start should be turned into a
> finished project. A lot of times you get half way through something and
> realise that you should have gone in a different direction. This process
> itself has given great information regarding which ideas work / don't work
> etc so next time it is easier. But a lot of people have a game idea or two
> that could work very well, but never seem to finish the project off.
>
> Is it that you cant be bothered to finish the games or you don't feel they
> are worth finishing or you are just not sure how to finish them? Just
> interested what the main reason is behind so many peoples half finished
> stuff - Personally I tend to find that it hasn't gone to plan and I needed
> to do it a different way so I start afresh reworking the same problem until
> it works better.
>
> Adrian
>
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> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Current game projects...
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> i also generate a couple of half finished games every month or 2. as i
> am relatively new to some things i like to spend time doing something
> in the context o a game; and once i finish i can't bear to touch the
> rest and finish it. generally each program i work on has something
> unique and when i've done that i carry it forward into new projects,
> as such the quality of my work ( although poor in realtion to
> porfessional) incereases and i can do more in the same timespan and
> code is more effiecent.
>
> seems like lots of people here are interested in commercialisation.
> you could set up a website between you ( or for all interested members
> ) and between the profits pay for a general site pay system and a nice
> site
>
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