I deffinately understand that Tom.
My friend during his masters in I/t was actually required to program several
games as exercises, including pingpong and the 23 sticks game.
I completely understand when developers have to do this sort of thing as
practice, ---- that's whyy i try to be encouraging with feedback of such
things.
At the same time though, finding ways to make that type of game interesting
isn't hard.
Take Lighttech interactive for example. Their first two games were a guess
the number game, and the turn based horse racing game, ---- both of which
are symple, but were produced for them to get the idea of how things worked.
Nevertheless, they tried to make the games appealing, as well as being
exercises, including interesting sounds, and some random obstacles in the
horse racing game, ---- pluss they later went back and modified it to be
more interesting.
There is also the possibility of programming games, ----- even symple ones,
which we currently don't have access to.
I can think of a number of card games with very symple rules which would
probably be no harder to program than black jack or poker, ---- 31s (also
called stop the buss), rummy or prediction whist, ---- which would also be
good games to play in themselves.
Then of course, there's producing arcade style games which do not boyle down
to glorified boppit, but at the same time aren't precisely complex either.
Look at Liam's egg hunt games as an example (though I know he's sinse
modified those too).
all this being said, if someone programmed a blackjack game, stated it was
an exercise as asked people to test it, ---- that would be fine with me.
My problem is specifically with those developers who try and make
money, ---- or palm off games which are essentially the same as what we
already have.
I admit, there fortunately aren't many of these.
Then again, ----- maybe it's just that i have a more wide ranging
perspective on accessible games in general given my involvement with
audiogames.net.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Developer time was: My Opinion of Q9
Hi Dark,
Oh, reading you loud and clear. I understood what you were getting at the
first time. I just wanted to point out that both as a developer and gamer
the only reason I can see to come up with another Uno, Solitaire,
Blackjack, Monopoly, or Space Invader type game is for the purposes of
creating cross platform versions. The Windows market is flooded with such
games already as far as I am concerned.
However, I will say this in defense of the guys who put out the Space
Invader and Boppit type games even though there are several around.
Programming is a difficult field for some people to get into. Everyone
wants to be able to create something they can share. Simple card and board
games and even a Space Invader type clone is fairly easy to create.
Creating a game as complex as Mysteries of the Ancients takes some skill,
practice, and programming knowledge beyond a beginner level. A full FPS
game engine like the GMA engine takes considerably more skill yet. Many of
these newby programmers would give up long before they reach that skill
level, and they litterally have to start somewhere. Even if it means
putting out another game like Boppit or Blackjack.
I confess when I began programming around 97 or 98 the first games I
created for myself were Blackjack, Draw Poker, Checkers, and games like
that. However, unlike several others when I started USA Games I knew Jim
Kichen already had games like this so I elected not to release my own Dos
games that were basically the same thing. Still I needed to start
somewhere and I started with the most basic and easy games I could create.
dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
by "original" in this case I mean original to the community. It afterall
does Vi gamers no good to say there are hundreds of side scrollers, ----
if none are accessible without vision, ---- this is why, though I myself
stil have enough vision to play games liek turrican, Mega man and
Metroid, I'd stil love to see something similar in audio.
I admit I didn't considder the cross platform issue, ---- which is fair
enough, and I would say that a company like 7-128 who are able to make
Windows and mac versions of their accessible games are indeed doing a
very good job.
However, the cases I can think of are those where developers, ----
(once again, I won't accuse or name names), create windows self-voicing
card games which they then try to claime as original despite the fact
there are many others around, ---- or spend their time making a windows
arcade game which just plays like another version of boppit.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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