Hi William, Yeah, I realise Raceway has been on the waiting list for an extremely long time. Do remember most of that is the fault of Raceway's previous owner. It has only been in my custity for a year, and for most of that year I have been hopping between three different game projects: STFC, Monty, and Raceway. You asked if I should give Raceway the highest priority here. It is a fair question that deserves a fair and honest answer. When I took over RW STFC was nearest to completion so I decided right off to finish that project before attending to the new projects.That was one less project i had to deal with once it was completed in December. Next, I looked over RW and Monty deciding which game to work on first. The reason I chose Monty was that in general arcade type games are much simpler to design and complete. I do hope to have Monty completed by this year which is my goal. Once Monty is done Raceway will be my soul consern. That allows me time to work on the game and get into very complex programming which will take more time and attention than did STFC or Monty. Bottom line I know Raceway is a much harder program to create than Monty or STFC ever was, and the physics engine alone would take a while to work on. If I chose to do Raceway first I would end up producing RW, but two other projects would still be shelved today with USA Games having nothing to show yet. I am certain no one here wants RW to be rushed in to a premature production release because most realise by doing so in order to speed up production I'd have to cut corners, spend less time on the game, etc just to make everyone happy to get it out right away. Then, the screaming would come because it isn't the game they were hoping for. I won't do that. When I do Raceway I want to devote my entire attention to it. Now, I am sure you are about to ask how far was Raceway along after six years of production? Well, James north had it to a early beta stage in VB 6, but eventually chose to go to VB.NET. The VB.NET engine was not very far along by the time I took it over. Should I use the VB 6 version to sped up production? No because VB 6 is now considered by most developers to be outdated, and in 2008 Microsoft is dropping support for VB 6 applications, and has already dropped support for DirectX 8 for VB 6. Should I continue with the VB.NET version? No because VB.NET doesn't have the proper support for force feedbackdevices that other languages do. As a result I have been building the RW engine from the ground up which takes allot of time, and work that most out here probably don't realise. william lomas wrote: > hi > > while i am not meaning to be rude here, shouldnt raceway be given > more development time. we've been waiting four, five maybe six years > for that, it is getting long in the tooth. ok, money was promised, > monty i mean a year or so ago but i doubt to be fair we will see > raceway this year so there's another year added to the calendar >
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