I see your point. as always, great ideas! Keep up the great work
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Mouse Support
Hi Corry and all,
Letting the end user remap the mouse, keyboard, change all kinds of game
settings might be nice, but it isn't realistically feasible from a
programming point of view. What many non-developers fail to recognize is
that there are some very strict guidelines professional developers try to
follow when developing software. These guidelines are there to hopefully
produce a better product.
First, keep the design simple. Keeping the code and over all design as
simple as possible makes it easier to maintain the program, perform
upgrades, fix bugs, and prevent bugs in the program. Adding lots of user
choices and options only complicates the program and makes testing,
debugging, and maintaining the program more difficult in the long run.
That is one reason why I don't include a lot of end user options.
Second, use only as many system resources as absolutely necessary. Even in
todays computing environment where we have plenty of processor power,
memory, and faster disk drives, etc it is no excuse to waist system
resources unnecessarily. Cutting down the amount of memory, processor
power, etc required by the application will in turn result in a faster,
lighter, smoother running application. When a developer adds all kinds of
user options all that ends up doing is waisting more memory and cuts down
on over all program execution time. Even if it is a few KB of memory and a
few milliseconds of time it is still a bad habit to get into, and is a
poorly designed program.
AS it happens Beta 5 is fairly resource intensive right now, and I am
trying to work on the engine to cut down the amount of resources it uses.
On systems with lots of speed and memory the system resources aren't that
bad. However, I've tried it on a couple of older machines here and the
game constantly crashes with memory errors. It seams anything less than
512 MB of ram won't cut it for this game right now, and I want to fix that
if I can. Make the game use less memory, processor power, and run smoother
on both older and newer systems. If I were to add all kinds of user
options such as personal configurations for the mouse I will no doubt
increase the memory and speed problems instead of resolve them. So I am
reluctant to add too many end user settings and configurations.
Smile.
Cory Kadlik wrote:
think we should be able to choose
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