Hi Claudio, Yes. We were converting all of our games over to Java 6 during the time of the last news letter, but about two weeks ago we ran into some major technical difficulties with them. One of the biggest issue is the games didn't operate correctly on all the systems we tested them on. I might run it on a Standard Windows XP system running Java 6, and it might run ok. The second I tried to run the same game under Linux with the Sun Java runtime or OpenJDK runtime environment the game would outright crash. Keyboard input might work ok on say Windows but act very sluggish on Mac and Linux. The second I fixed the problem with it running on Mac or Linux it then would begin acting weird under Windows. At one point I pretty much desided to just target Windows 2000, XP, and Vista and forget about Mac and Linux. So that did solve the problem with cross platform compatibility issues and it was becoming quite stable for the Windows release, but another technical difficulty soon popped up. What I found out the hard way is that Java is great for small games, but when you begin adding hundreds of sounds and speech files to it Java based games will take a massive proformence hit. I suppose given enough time I should be able to figure out how to manage game resources better so Java based games won't take such a big proformence hit. However, I don't have a lot of time at the moment. In the end the beta testers and i decided the best thing to do right now is finish the games using C# using the original .NET source code I have and leave a cross platform in Java, C++, Python, etc to maybe a version 2.0 release or something. Cheers.
On 10/23/08, Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Thomas! > Im a bit confused, are the new games whritten in c#? > As I read in the last newsletter, you whrite raceway and mota in java. > But now it seems to be again c#? > 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] > -- Sincerely: Thomas Ward President of USA Games Interactive http://www.usagames.us --- 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]
