Hi Shaun, Well, I don't worry too much about Draconis Entertainment. Josh has already started porting his games to iOS, Mac, and Windows using the new Draconis Engine and I'm sure over the next couple of years or so more games will follow. As for the rest of the companies on your list we have to wait and see. I don't think it will kill the audio gaming industry though.
For one thing a number of devs have already switched to modern languages like C# .NET. We have Entombed, 3D Velocity, and Tactical Battles all being written in C# .NET. Rail Racer I believe is written in VB .NET and is being upgraded as we speak. Philip Bennefall has written and developed BGT as well as Q9 and Perilous Hearts which run fine on Windows 8 without issue. Point being you are being too negative, and the audio games industry wouldn't just die if all the VB 6 games stopped working tomorrow. It would take a bite out of our over all list of games, but wouldn't kill everything. Cheers! On 4/18/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > you are right about blindsoftware games may not work after win8. > this thing will effect a fair number of companies that still use vb6 > however in their games. > jim kitchen, pcs, gma, lworks, aprone all those are still vb6. > all of those well a few are core companies. > draconis maybe to. > so everyone will have to get their act together if they are > not going at it already. > it could stop the gaming industry fully if we don't. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
