Do you have a name for #1 as cool as for #4? If not I'd have to vote for Stonewolf.
Peter M Sent from my iPod On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 -- +----------------------------------------------------------- + Bob Pendleton: writer and programmer + email: Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx + web: www.TheGrumpyProgrammer.com --------------------- To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html
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