Hi Josh, Exactly. I think a lot of people got frustrated and upset with me because when I wrote the initial version of Mysteries of the Ancients it was being used as a sample application for the engine. /At the time I wasn't seriously involved in developing the game itself and was testing various things like audio, input, speech, building up the usable classes for game objects etc. All or most of it was behind the scenes. Now, that the engine is ready I am getting a lot of flack to the effect people are tired of several false starts and stops when those starts and stops had nothing to do with the game itself. They don't seem to realize those rewrites etc were done because the game engine was under active development and was evolving, and I played around with the game some while testing the engine. that's why there was something like 22 betas when a real project might only have a couple of betas to work out any bugs before releasing the final version.
Cheers! On 5/2/13, Draconis <i...@dracoent.com> wrote: > > I can empathize. Unfortunately, with this community, you're damned if you > do, and damned if you don't. While Draconis worked on our new game engine, I > kept pretty quiet about what we were doing. So everyone thought we were > dead. A decision I still get flack for from time to time. But if you do all > or much of your development publicly, as you have, people get frustrated > with the unpredictable nature of the development process. It's very much > getting caught between a rock and a hard place. > > For me, personally, keeping quiet about future plans is the only way I can > stay sane and focussed on what I need to do, and not get distracted by the > obnoxious minority. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
