[gameprogrammer] Re: Daydreaming, questioning....

  • From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:28:38 -0700

i say 1,3,4 and to get some balance, spend some time on 5 lol....

it sounds like the stuff you are most interested in vs doing out of "duty"
:P

You mentioned 1 and 3 are compatible, maybe you could make #4 compatible too
by using it as a scripting language or something? although that might be too
much work to lump together :/

meh, my 2 cents
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Vince <uberneen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> #2 and #4 get my vote.
> I've ran into similar difficulties with 3D layout software and I'm not far
> from rolling my own content creation package, but I'd rather use yours :P
>
> Vince~
>
> --- On Thu, 9/17/09, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [gameprogrammer] Daydreaming, questioning....
> > To: "Gameprogrammer" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 5:00 PM
>  > Ok, so I'm sitting here thinking
> > about what I am going to work on
> > next. Right now I am finishing up work on atomic ops for
> > SDL 1.3 and I
> > have promised to work on multiple device handling for SDL
> > 1.3 on
> > Linux. (it is sort of messed up right now.) But, that won't
> > take a lot
> > of time, I hope, so I'm thinking about new projects. So, I
> > thought I
> > would ask what you folks thought about some ideas and see
> > if maybe
> > y'all could make some suggestions?
> >
> > In no particular order....
> >
> > 1) Write the space war game I always wanted to write. Yeah,
> > that one,
> > or is it three? No, I think there are least 20 games in
> > that bag.
> >
> > 2) Write yet another 3D drawing/layout program. This would
> > be the kind
> > of program you need for drawing 3D items and doing level
> > layout and
> > design. Trouble is there are a million of these. Reason for
> > doing it:
> > I've never seen one that took less than *months* to learn
> > to use. Or,
> > they only run on Windows or Mac so I've never tried them
> > :-).
> >
> > 3) Build a planet sim so you can create game worlds without
> > having to
> > do it by hand. This one popped out while I was thinking
> > about #1. I
> > spent a lot of time learning just how hard it is to
> > subdivide a
> > sphere. Spheres are really nasty.
> >
> > 4) Stonewolf, the programming language:  I have
> > started at least 8
> > times to develop a language designed for multimedia apps
> > whose design
> > is aimed at the future, not the past. Designed for 64 bit
> > address
> > spaces, terabyte disks, and hundreds of cores. I have
> > settled on the
> > name, Stonewolf. Two things that a language needs are a
> > cool name and
> > a developer with a beard. Seriously, look it up. All the
> > cool
> > languages were developed by people with beards. The name is
> > important
> > too. Consider that three of the greatest languages in the
> > history of
> > computing, Lisp, Scheme, and Smalltalk, were all pretty
> > much killed by
> > their names. No real programmer wants to spend all day
> > lisping,
> > scheming, or making smalltalk.
> >
> > 5) Spend the time meditating, reading sutras, and
> > practicing Kung Fu.
> > At least I would feel a lot better :-)
> >
> > Except for #5, I would, of course, blog writing and
> > otherwise make
> > lots of noise about what I was doing.
> >
> > Comments? Flames?
> >
> > Bob Pendleton
> >
> >
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