I aggree. At any rate why are we bothering with the agm as it is I was never impressed with the output products. Ok the concept yes good concept. But klango is emulating this nicely better in fact. At 06:39 p.m. 1/08/2008, you wrote: >Personally I agree with Claudio. Given the total lack of user support toward >the AGM I can't see what their problem is. Anyone who visits the AGM forum >can see how dead it is. Most people have given it up because A. the manual >doesn't explain things well because it's not current and B. Nobody is >willing to help them figure out how to get things to work properly. I gave >it up because I couldn't get item sounds to stop playing after the character >picked up the object, or monsters to disappear after they died as they would >in an ordinary game. And again, the developers were absolutely no help. As >far as I'm concerned that's not a good way to go if you wanted more funding >for the project. I get the impression they really don't care if anyone uses >it anymore. They seem to feel that because the program was free its users >can't be called customers and therefore don't need to be helped when they >have issues with the product. So while I can understand not making it open >source, I agree that it should be turned over to someone who'll actually pay >attention to the feedback from users. >Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:33 PM >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] my oppinion to the game marked > > >> Hi Claudio, >> While I really enjoy open source software myself I am also a realist. >> Fact of the matter is there are some very good reasons why they wouldn't >> want to make AGM open source or turn it over to another developer. The >> minute they release it as open source or turn it over to a new developer >> they lose all copyrights to the source code, ideas, and an anything else >> associated with the product. >> As a software developer myself I work hard at what I do, and I >> personally wouldn't like someone I don't really know mettling with the >> source code. We programmers have our own ways of doing things, and it >> can get very annoying to see someone else write a piece of code totally >> different from how you would have done it. Also if I work many many >> hours on a product I would be upset if someone took my source code, made >> a couple changes, and suddenly marketed it under his/her name. >> >> Claudio wrote: >>> Hi Thomas! >>> To say one word about the AGM: >>> My friend, is a good computer man. >>> He has sended an e-mail to the developers and he has asked them for the >>> surce code of AGM because he's interested to continiuing the work. >>> But the people have sayed "no, we don't do that!" >>> The developers have bringed a product sorry for saying that, we couldn't >>> use! >>> And here comes a friendly guy who wants to continiuing the work! >>> Why dear developers you don't give him the surce code? >>> Best regards, >>> Claudio. >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> 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] >>> >>> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> 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] >> > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >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]
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