Although I agree that saving time by using the same base game code for different platforms is a good thing. As a user, I don't like it when games don't use the native dialogs/ui whenever possible. A lot of games use their own baked-in widgets that don't function nearly as well as the Android SDK ones. Furthermore, I don't like it when games don't even support rotating the phone.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Fred Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL! > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Brian Conrad <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 07:31 AM, Tim Mensch wrote: >> >>> On 6/6/2011 7:32 AM, Fred Howe wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Aaron - do you know of any good android developers who also have >>>> at least 3 yrs of java? I know of a start-up company doing some cool >>>> gaming projects. Pay is good. Let me know. >>>> >>> It looks like you didn't mean to send this to the list, but I can't help >>> myself -- why would they be looking at three years of Java for an >>> Android developer? Most game developers I know have years of C/C++ >>> experience, and I would be far more confident hiring an experienced game >>> developer than hiring an experienced Java developer. >>> >>> Frankly, making the C/C++ to Java transition is pretty easy -- a few >>> weeks at most to get to 95%. But making the transition from non-game >>> programmer to game programmer can take months or years. And some >>> programmers never really figure out game development (I've encountered >>> several in that category with years of experience). >>> >>> Tim >>> >> >> Back during the 1990s it was hard to find people who could do game >> programming or more particularly deal with hard deadlines that execs cook up >> to tell the analysts. DOD programmers were particularly difficult to get >> make something come in on schedule. Tim did some good contract work for my >> company too. I tend to agree that Java is fairly easy for a experienced >> C/C++ programmer. I am often moving code back and forth between those two >> languages and often it is just changing the function call or how a pointer >> works. Inside the function it may be the exact same code. >> >> We also hired some young programmers who weren't happy because we didn't >> immediately let the become a game designer. So we started a little program >> where anyone in the company could submit a game proposal. What people >> learned from that was they weren't game designers. :-D >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://solrpg.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
