Is the potential for making patches or new editions of the game that will keep up with changing technology an option? In that way, those who want to make the change and have a game that can do more, or is up-to-date can do so, and those who don't have current technology on their computers can have a game that will work with what they have. After book 7 comes out, an addition to the game could be produced that would include stuff from book 7. Freedom Scientific does this with JAWS. If you currently use JAWS 5.0, and it works fine, you don't have to upgrade to JAWS 8. If you want to, you can do so. As far as the cost to the consumer, that's up to the developer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Vlasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Future USA Games product designs.
> Hi Tom, > I thought it over again and I think you should stay with the dot NET > Framework for some additional reasons. > `. Since it is a new and evolving language, the features you miss may be > created by someone else and could be used by you. > I thought DirectX controls the force feedback to some extent so a search > for DirectX FF code could be helpful. > > One example for not finishing a game is my work with the GMA game engine > which I have been using for the past five years. > Every few months, David adds new features and capabilities to it. > And I have learned to do things better. > A few times I have stopped developing Sarah to add these capabilities but > although the game is better, this delayed the release of the game by > months. > I think it is better to stop making changes and say the project is over > and > go on to a new one. > Of course I have been working on Sarah for three years so I should have > taken my own advice. > An important lesson is to know when a project is finished for you can > always > tweak it a bit to improve it but at the cost of people not being able to > enjoy the game. > For example I could wait until book seven comes out and make changes in > the > castle to match things in that book, but then it would be Christmas 2007 > before my Sarah game is finished! > > Smiles, > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
