Hi Ken, With the ut most respect here let me say that I personally never intended to be disrespectful to you, Geremy, or Jim over the issue of what programming language you use. However, I can't help but feel that if you would head over to Book Share and grab a couple books on Visual Basic .Net and learn the language your games would be better off for it in the long run. While I don't currently have the time to write a game in VB .Net for demonstration purposes I could send you books on the language if you were interested in looking at VB .Net. Besides that, you really should read a few books on .Net anyway, because no single open source application can teach you all the ins and outs of the .Net API. There are thousands of classes that wrap the Win32 API and to write anything you should probably have a decent understanding of what libraries are available, what they do, and what classes are available to you as a new .Net developer. Handing you a simple application like Chopper Patrol written in VB .Net will only scratch the surface of what is available to you. Please, consider that as constructive criticism rather than merely grinding your nose into the fact VB 6 is old, outdated, etc.
As for myself I don't really care what you guys do any more. Since I've pretty much replaced all my computers here at home with Linux rather than Windows what language you guys use doesn't effect me personally. I'm working on getting all of the current Windows games I have to work using Wine 1.3 for Linux, and if a Windows game won't run on Wine I'm probably not going to play it or buy it. As it happens Wine works pretty decently with VB 6 applications and as long as that is the case I can't complain too much about the games being written in VB 6. As for giving up and quitting that's definitely not the way to handle the situation. Especially, if you like what you are doing personally. People have complained about some of the things I have done as well like spending time writing MOTA and the G3D Engine in C# .Net and then changing to C++ mid way through the development process. Recently I switched over to FMOD 4.34 for audio output and people are complaining about the fact it doesn't sound like DirectSound. they may have some valid points, but I no longer let their complaints bother me. I'm doing what I'm doing for personal reasons, and people can either like it or lump it. I'm moving towards a cross-platform design so I can play my games on Ubuntu Linux, which I use 90% of the time, and if FMOD doesn't pan exactly like Directsound that's just too bad I'm not going back to Windows. So I do understand why and how you feel upset about having your nose being constantly ground into the fact you are using VB 6 rather than VB .Net. Its not easy doing something that goes against popular opinion. On 6/9/11, The Addictor <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't funny how many people want to jump down our throats for using vb6, > when our games are free? When somebody makes a game, or games, there should > be a hundred times as much gratitude and constructive criticism than there > is complaining and negative criticism, but it's the other way round most of > the time. I have been brought to the edge of simply stopping programming, > just because people here are so gung-ho against vb6. We devs--most of us > anyway, are very well aware how out-dated vb6 is, that Microsoft doesn't > support it, (as if that matters much since they're constantly disarranging > their software to make it "better,") and so on. Found a bug? Great--tell > us about it. Got a way for the game to work better? That's great, but stop > grinding our noses into the fact that vb6 is so old. Jim Kitchen, Jeremy > and I use it, and it's what we know. Sorry if this causes discomfort and > inconvenience. For my part, if a great open-source audio game comes out in > vb.net, I'll look at it and eventually switch over, since I know how > versatile .net is and so on. Until then, I'm happy to use vb6, and I'm not > in a hurry to rush around and change up everything right away, especially > since I make my games mainly for my own enjoyment, as do my colleagues. If > I were trying to sell these games, the complaints about using outdated > software would be relevant, but I'm not. (The exception, of course, is > Phrase Madness, but that's written in Basic4PPC and uses .net framework, so > it's up to spec--relatively.) > Also, since I'm venting, there is one other thing I have to point out, and > that is this. Even if a game is abandonware, it's not cool to just modify > it without the programmer's concent. Damage Extreme is an attempt to make > Enemy Attack even funner to play, and I would have gladly concented to the > rewriting of it, but I wasn't asked, nor was the work I did on Enemy Attack > even mentioned anywhere in the game. I'm not one who cares about such > things in general, but this is different. It's not about feeling ticked > because my name wasn't on the credits page--this is different. It's about > respect due to game makers. It's about simply stealing a person's game, > tweaking it here and there, and releasing it as completely your own idea. > I've tried to let this go, tried to just swallow my pride or whatever, and > all I've done is found my convictions on this more deeply. I'm not asking > that the game be taken down, or even for my name to appear on a credits > page, only that devs are respected more in future. If you're going to rip > on sighted games, who cares--but audio games are developed by one person and > take months if not years to put together, So please, let's have a little > more respect for the game devs, okay? > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > 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 __ [email protected] 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. 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