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A compulsive coder/designer spews forth his bizarre and unpalatable ideas upon an all-too-suspecting world
September 2006 - Posts
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Other useful phrases might include "Run for your life!" This comes via The Register and Google Earth . Their day has come! Read More...
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And a face. And a body. Character creation is one of the most appealing things in many online games for many people. And i think i've just come up with a way to truly exploit that. Read More...
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I wrote the Edgeworks UDP layer as probably the second component of this project, after the first pass on the AI business logic. I posted it up here for our team to go through and arse about with, and i failed to properly secure it. It was downloaded Read More...
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When you've consciously decided to make a world and not a game, AI models need some serious tinkering with. I'm good at human AI, it's been my job for the past 6 years. I can give you multiple personalities, interesting behavioural quirks, phobias, ambitions, Read More...
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A member of the usergroup on this site has recently been in correspondance with John Smedley , CEO of Sony Online Entertainment. At least, i think that's his job title. I'll be happy to correct this if it's not. This member of our group recently emailed Read More...
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There are two approaches in modern MMOs about punishing your players. The first is exemplified by SWG and WoW. That approach is "do not hurt your players ever even a little bit". No penalties for death. No looting of other players. No loss of items. Just Read More...
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First off, i'd appreciate your thoughts here . This is actually a fairly vital aspect of gameplay, so think carefully before posting. I reserve the right to verbally savage anyone who isn't thinking ;) Secondly, yeah, i admit it, the whole AGC thing was Read More...
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Go read Brian Green's latest blog post . You'll like it. Alas, i do actually fall into the single catagory that can't benefit from it. The Extroverted Misanthrope type is hard to help. Read More...
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Not exactly a topic close to my heart. I'm a leftie. However, MS have not made any secret of the fact that the XNA framework (currently in Beta and lacking in features but remarkably stable) switches from the left-handed DX programming model to a right-handed Read More...
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Fire escapes good, lifts bad. Books about goats are more interesting than death and destruction Dick Cheney applies Shock&Awe to everything, especially lawyers Saddam's trailers were full of poor people, not weaponry Taliban fighters are a hardy perennial Read More...
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I tried, i paid, i got my plane tickets, i can't go, i'm not there, it pisses me off. With the usual lunatic over-compensatory tactics of US and UK Airport Security in full force, i was refused a boarding card for my flight to Houston (connecting to Austin) Read More...
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There is no balance in exactly the same way that MMOs and CRPGs are not RPGs. Balance, in gaming, does not exist. Read More...
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