tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post7496157248254356894..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: If I had world enough and time (My videogame company)chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-10717247811691484252015-04-16T06:41:18.060-04:002015-04-16T06:41:18.060-04:00The difficulty I see is that a faithful model of t...The difficulty I see is that a faithful model of the real place won't be perfect for every game. There are lots of places where there simply aren't rooftops to flip over and run along, and if you want a rooftop-flipping game you need to change that. So you still need some per-game environment design, not just selection of which bits of the pre-existing model to use.<br /><br />What I'd really like to see is date-tagging of environmental entities. To take the obvious example, the World Trade Center towers are present in 2000 but not in 2002. Picture this being used in a time-travel game...<br /><br />(I wanted it in flight simulators. But I'm weird.)<br /><br />(Incidentally if anyone else is seeing an advert for "Zip Opener", don't touch it; it's a trojan.)Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-64550998248600626572015-04-12T00:30:04.190-04:002015-04-12T00:30:04.190-04:00They've begun to have a little bit of the kind...They've begun to have a little bit of the kind of cross-disciplinary game development you've spoken of with physics engines - devs discovered that their buildings were falling down and hired architects - but I like it.<br /><br />A project I've been mulling over for a while was a real-life Random Encounter Table-style description of various U.S. populations: <em>these</em> percentages male, female, other; <em>those</em> percentages L, G, B, and/or T; <em>that</em> percentage unemployed; etc., etc., etc.Packbathttp://packbat.net/w/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-78569019747229091342015-04-11T11:04:51.871-04:002015-04-11T11:04:51.871-04:00Also I feel like your idea could be helpful for mo...Also I feel like your idea could be helpful for movie makers and authors too.Lonesparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278753827545905559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-79670572426408517442015-04-11T11:04:01.675-04:002015-04-11T11:04:01.675-04:00Oh, no, wait, I think it was TV shows. But they c...Oh, no, wait, I think it was TV shows. But they could have tie-in games, too. I wrote it down on paper at work, so I can dig it up later.Lonesparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278753827545905559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-81506071579155004412015-04-11T11:01:16.582-04:002015-04-11T11:01:16.582-04:00Hey, I was just thinking we should have an open th...Hey, I was just thinking we should have an open thread about lots of money. But I forget what brilliant project I wanted to talk about.Lonesparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278753827545905559noreply@blogger.com