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Comment Re:Why remake just FPS titles? (Score 1) 518

I'm reprogramming Below the Root from the ground up to run on modern computers. It's an as-is clone: same graphics, same sound, using the Commodore 64 version as my baseline. I've extracted all the sound and music, most of the graphic blocks, and I've re-created the sprite sheets. It's taken me longer than I'd have liked, but I'll get there (my sig strikes home).

The author of the books gave me license to clone the game. Years ago someone bought the rights to make a movie and possible new game, so the author couldn't give me permission to redo the game with new graphics and sound. Alas, whoever bought the rights has apparently done nothing, or at least not that the author knows of.

Comment Re:Poor metropolitan area (Score 1) 168

I grew up in Prince George's county Maryland and now live in Kent county Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. The entire county has less that 20,000 people (the smallest population in the state) and it's almost all farmland and waterways. Yet Kent County had its roads cleared very quickly after the big snow this year and our power went out for maybe 2 hours. Kent county has the most efficient emergency crews I've ever seen and I'm willing to bet they only have a fraction of Montgomery County's budget.

Comment Re:Writing For Video Games (Score 1) 85

Quirkz, I think a thoughtful, moving story could be created off of the roadmap you've provided. A skilled writer could make the "worry about the peace" absolutely gripping.

And perhaps the "ugly damsel" is the most beautiful woman in the world to the main character...Niafer from "Figures of Earth" by James Branch Cabell springs to mind.

Comment Wishful (Score 1) 324

There are many folks on here saying a variation of "Don't Do It".

- If you really want to be a game developer, you'll ignore their advice.

- If you listen to their advice, then you didn't really want to be a game developer.

Walking away from a creative passion because someone tells you that you should is a fairly good sign that it wasn't really a passion.

Comment Book List (Score 1) 517

"Lions' Commentary on Unix" by John Lions and Peter H. Salus

"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter

"Linux Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein

Any of the Feynman physics lecture series ... or "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and other such titles

Any of Raymond Smullyan's puzzle books

Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 715

canUbeleiveIT:

I too was in the UFCW and came away from the experience with the opinion that bad employees need unions more than good employees.

stoolpigeon:

But it was a time and place when the employers really didn't care if they kept you or not and didn't want to give us decent insurance and the union helped that to happen

So one could argue that bad employers need unions more than good employers.

Google

Submission + - Korean Developers Wary of Google's SDK Intentions (koreatimes.co.kr)

frost_knight writes: "South Korea hosts one of the largest pools of mobile software engineers. Samsung and LG Electronics, major partners of the Android project, have teams working on new applications for Google phones. These developers are worried that the release of the SDK along with Google's cash prizes for open source projects will erode any of their own potential profits. From the article: "I think Google is playing with us, and their slogan Don't Be Evil is just words.""

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