Hi Shaun, That doesnt' particularly bother me. If they want to joke and poke fun at what I'm doing it just goes to show their own ignorance. I'm pretty certain most of those doing the joking and poking fun wouldn't know how to write their own name in C++ let alone a complex game engine like Genesis 3D or a game as complex as Mysteries of the Ancients. Given the fact they are ignorant of how much time and energy it takes for a project of any size why would I bother giving their words any weight. That's kind of like the patient telling the doctor how to perform surgery when he himself has never gone to med school.
As to the matter of waiting for v1.0 I could certainly do that, but there are a number of things I'm testing. I might be testing changes in the engine, changes in the game itself, and of course something like switching from the fixed jump system in beta 17 and earlier to a true analog jump system in beta 18 and later requires a bit of public testing to see if it works right and if the majority of the customers can handle it. Again this is something they don't probably have any idea about what I'm doing so they aren't exactly an authority on how a developer, in particular, how I go about testing various changes in the product. Finally, as to how many betas there are I'm not the only developer on earth who has had several betas. I can't remember the exact number but I seem to recall Che released sevral betas for Rail Racer before it went gold. It was something like 35 or 36 that I recall. Most of them were just small patches that fixed one or two things in the prior beta. However, I don't recall anyone poking fun at Che for releasing several betas on the Rail Racer list. In either case this is the developers own decision to release 35 betas or space them out and only release two or three major betas. The community at large shouldn't have anything to say about it. Cheers! On 8/1/11, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > On that note all the cross platform stuff is a good idea but maybe > not for v1, though saying that all these new concepts that are going > in are going to generate loads of headakes for users. > And I have no problems waiting, its more that people that have > preeorders in may be a bit angry which is understandable but usually > if this was a standard project you wouldn't have this if it was your own. > I aggree that we should probably just wait for v1 on the forum on > audiogames many joke and complain about there being to many betas etc. > Ok some of them are just mean and want to be flamed but yeah I wasn't > going to say it but we probably should just wait for v1 then release then. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
