Puta madre
Putin is really losing it. Putin has been put there by disgruntled people who think he's terrific. At the same time, inequality in the opposing super-power is growing fast. What happens when Americans cast their vote for someone to stand up to the Russian Bear? Seriously, does anybody see this ending well within ten years?
Post mortem: NSAgent
Last night I came home from val d'Isere. 3.5 days of downhill was a good workout, as I've been having some periostitis trouble while running. I need to get going with the jogging though, if I am to beat my personal 10 year old record on the half marathon within one month. I ran a 10 km seeding race a month ago with lower average speed than my last marathon record, and 185 bpm average heart rate for 48.5 minutes. Not nice.
Something else that's not nice is my last game. Here's the post mortem.
Something else that's not nice is my last game. Here's the post mortem.
| What went wrong | What went right | |
| Highly repetitive No variation at all. | Best game so far I strongly disagree, but in this case I trust my family members more than I trust myself. | |
| Custom built
Stated I would re-use tech from previous
games, instead I custom-built the background uvst texturing. I
generally don't like wasting days on building a feature that nobody
appreciates.
| Controls Extremely simplistic controls. Only time is a factor between tap and rocket impact. (Next game I'll largely eliminate time too.) | |
| Aesthetics Ugly-looking vehicles that doesn't go with the static but detailed photos. A texture on the body wouldn't hurt, nor would a bump map on the tires. Some detail to make the body meshes' env map shine. Pixel shaders. And so on. | Balanced difficulty If you can throw a ball, you pretty much understand the concept of a parable. And time. Difficulty proportional to level. | |
| No mayhem Had to reduce the time that the broken vehicles stays on the road, as they otherwise blocked the road too often (resulting in a game too difficult). On the other hand: less debris on the road equals less mayhem equals less fun. | Simple Anybody could understand and play. Guess that's not always a good thing. But it might be. | |
| Dumb dumber Had to remove “communist” as an enemy. Too bad I think, as Americans would have loved to shoot 'em, and the rest of the world would have loved to see how much Americans love to shoot commies. | Easter egg Tiny wee thingies inside. Shhh! Our secret. |
The truth is out there
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nsagent/id844759516?mt=8
I'll have to post-mortem another day. I'm off to the Alps for some skiing with a friend - YEY! (Btw: don't download/buy the game, it sucks ass!)
I'll have to post-mortem another day. I'm off to the Alps for some skiing with a friend - YEY! (Btw: don't download/buy the game, it sucks ass!)
Decided
I'm going to roll with the Int Karate+ idea, and I'm going to make it awesome. Lessons learned so far has taught me:
I think I can create this type of great game. I know for a fact it's going to take me a long time to do it, and I'm not going to work as intensively throughout the project, so it's going to require a big effort to not get tired of the whole thing and just dumping it on the App Store before it's done.
Sure I hope it's going to sell, but more importantly: do I want to play my own game? If I manage all the bullets above and want to play it; well to me that would signify that I have achieved Mastery of Game Development... Or perhaps I just have more bullets to learn in upcoming lessons. But after 5-6 games on the App Store, I'm pretty sure I'm finally starting to get it.
Pig-headedness can get you as far as cleverness, it just takes you 7 times as long.
- Controls are everything. Not just steering, but feeling, timing, the bigger picture.
- An opponent a is powerful thing and multiplayer in the right way is awesome. Badminton by yourself sucks.
- Aesthetics is crucial for getting spread, as opposed to getting noticed and forgotten.
- Minute attention to detail goes a long way. Don't design by refinement, use exploration.
- Sports (or similar) generally outperform games that are more of toys or survival games.
- Originality done right is well rewarded.
I think I can create this type of great game. I know for a fact it's going to take me a long time to do it, and I'm not going to work as intensively throughout the project, so it's going to require a big effort to not get tired of the whole thing and just dumping it on the App Store before it's done.
Sure I hope it's going to sell, but more importantly: do I want to play my own game? If I manage all the bullets above and want to play it; well to me that would signify that I have achieved Mastery of Game Development... Or perhaps I just have more bullets to learn in upcoming lessons. But after 5-6 games on the App Store, I'm pretty sure I'm finally starting to get it.
Pig-headedness can get you as far as cleverness, it just takes you 7 times as long.
Just made the world a better place
Eradicated Nazis and Fascists. Submitted to App Store. This time over the game is really going to get scrutinized; on my second attempt I got a remark that the game contains "intense realistic violence", so now it's getting rated 12+. Hehe. I replaced the Nazi and Fascists with Sith and Illuminati. Next time it's going to be something new. Perhaps design? Perhaps the "Sith" organization may exist in the future, or in a Galaxy Far Far Away... Or it might be that Apple's employees know that the secret Illuminati actually exists. If not, next time I'm going to write the NSAgent postmortem. 60/40 in my favor?
Spritual
Over the last few months I've come to a profound conclusion: there is an afterlife! That is, during the last three months I've become 99% convinced that
our spirits continue to "live" after our bodies die! To me, who's always been a bit of a sceptic, this is mind-blowing and turns my view of fact/fiction
on its head.
Sure, I've always hoped that whatever it is that is "I" wouldn't simply vanish within fifty years, but while I was hoping for such a thing, I felt it was ridiculous. (Instead I tried to formulate some personal theory around jojoing branes in an Ekpyrotic Universe and infinite time, after which everything would repeat itself.) Despite hard evidence of other paranormal phenomenon, such as anomalous cognition, and somewhat-less-hard evidence in things such as Global Conciousness, the leap to an afterlife is long to say the least. And sure I knew modern research is much more open to the spirit world, but openness is just another word for hope.
Ok so anyway, I won't detail the reason I now know of the sprit world (that's part of a much longer post some time in the future, and it's not as you might think that I've experienced something paranormal), but instead I'll try to explain some of the implications for a grown, white, western man whom have only been fed western science all his life.
Btw: Cartesian dualism, as introduced by Descartes in the 17th century, helped us make fantastic strides in the materialistic world (for instance, the last famine to hit Sweden was 150 years ago), but left the unmeasurable realm of mind and spirit dangling.
Sure, I've always hoped that whatever it is that is "I" wouldn't simply vanish within fifty years, but while I was hoping for such a thing, I felt it was ridiculous. (Instead I tried to formulate some personal theory around jojoing branes in an Ekpyrotic Universe and infinite time, after which everything would repeat itself.) Despite hard evidence of other paranormal phenomenon, such as anomalous cognition, and somewhat-less-hard evidence in things such as Global Conciousness, the leap to an afterlife is long to say the least. And sure I knew modern research is much more open to the spirit world, but openness is just another word for hope.
Ok so anyway, I won't detail the reason I now know of the sprit world (that's part of a much longer post some time in the future, and it's not as you might think that I've experienced something paranormal), but instead I'll try to explain some of the implications for a grown, white, western man whom have only been fed western science all his life.
Btw: Cartesian dualism, as introduced by Descartes in the 17th century, helped us make fantastic strides in the materialistic world (for instance, the last famine to hit Sweden was 150 years ago), but left the unmeasurable realm of mind and spirit dangling.
Questions:
- Is there a God? I'm not talking about the bearded, Christian guy up in the clouds, but seriously. If there are spirits, God all of a sudden came a hell of a lot closer to reality. And angels? If there are such, they could be Einsteins of the spirit world. I suddenly feel a bit ashamed about my inner sniggering when I heard people talking about their God; they may well be more right that I ever was.
- What about the not accepted parts in Gaia theory, the parts about all living things interlinked? Since/if there is a spirit world, it would almost surprise me more if that is not the case.
- Flying saucers. Astronauts Gordon Cooper (Mercury, Gemeni), Ed Mitchell (Apollo), Deke Slayton (Apollo, NASA Manager), General James McDivitt (Gemeni, Apollo, NASA Manager), Dr. Story Musgrave (Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour, Columbia) Buzz Aldrin (Gemeni, Apollo); and USAF pilots Robert White and Joseph Walker; and Canadian ex-defense minister Paul Hellyer all seem to think there's something to it. NASA videos from space missions STS-114, STS-96 ("boogey at ten ó clock, high"), photo of a triangle in space, look at this strange object (top right) also seem to show something. Either they employ totally nutty people in the USAF, or there's more out there than we could ever have imagined.
- Who knows whatever other paranormal fenomenon there might be out there.
Reject
Apple rejected my app, stating the following reason:
Ok. Not much of I surprise there, I guess. Perhaps apart from "Al Queda" explicitly mentioned as one of the entities which cannot be targeted. Sure, it's a real organization, but I thought it would be acceptable as it's classified as a terrorist group by Australia, Canada, EU, India, Iran, Russia, UK, UN and the US. So I'll remove "al-Quaeda" and "Communist" and try again.
I won't start working on it for some time yet, but as I've stated in some earlier post I'm now going to leave the crappy games behind and make a great one next time. I spent some time pondering what that game might be. It's going to have to be a game that I enjoy playing. And not just a couple of minutes, but really play. It's going to have to be iPad-compatible, which means lousy controls. And it's going to have to include humanoids, as that's the only type of game that I really like.
So one of my first thoughts was to make an agent-style game, seen from the side with 2D controls. I saw a web game more than ten years ago, which was a bit like what I want to make. Think C64 Barbarian, but agents with guns... something like that.
I'll probably intermix with some vehicle styff, like one 3D offroad monster truck thingie and one 3D helicopter run (inspired by the 3D vehicle part of Mass Effect). And it will be single player. Something like that. It will be a huge undertaking for me, but I won't let it go until it's great!
This would perhaps be biting off more than I could chew, so I'm thinking about taking one step at a time, as I've never done any editor, indoor environments, generated terrain, skinning, nor humaniods. So perhaps I could do an intermediate Tekken style game to get the skinning+humanoids in place. Or perhaps more like Int Karate+. Multiplayer. That should also be a great game, if I'm able to pull it off properly.
There are certainly some technical aspects that are crucial to get right, such as human motion. Stand, crouch, run, jump, ragdoll. Hitting different body parts. Perhaps I'll use a capsule for collision detection when moving. Then I'll have to have different sizes of the capsule for walking and crouching. And the limbs should be used for collision detection as well to some extent when fighting (and hitting a limb). Exactly how I'll pull this off along with multiplayer latencies I don't know. Hm. I'm not finished thinking about this yet.
One main thing that would be very different between these two games outlined above and the previous six is that I think that I would like to maintain them, upgrade with new features and so forth. My logic goes as long as I like to play them, I'd also like to improve and upgrade.
But first I have a terrorist organization to wipe out.
15.3: "Enemies" within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity
I won't start working on it for some time yet, but as I've stated in some earlier post I'm now going to leave the crappy games behind and make a great one next time. I spent some time pondering what that game might be. It's going to have to be a game that I enjoy playing. And not just a couple of minutes, but really play. It's going to have to be iPad-compatible, which means lousy controls. And it's going to have to include humanoids, as that's the only type of game that I really like.
So one of my first thoughts was to make an agent-style game, seen from the side with 2D controls. I saw a web game more than ten years ago, which was a bit like what I want to make. Think C64 Barbarian, but agents with guns... something like that.
I'll probably intermix with some vehicle styff, like one 3D offroad monster truck thingie and one 3D helicopter run (inspired by the 3D vehicle part of Mass Effect). And it will be single player. Something like that. It will be a huge undertaking for me, but I won't let it go until it's great!
This would perhaps be biting off more than I could chew, so I'm thinking about taking one step at a time, as I've never done any editor, indoor environments, generated terrain, skinning, nor humaniods. So perhaps I could do an intermediate Tekken style game to get the skinning+humanoids in place. Or perhaps more like Int Karate+. Multiplayer. That should also be a great game, if I'm able to pull it off properly.
There are certainly some technical aspects that are crucial to get right, such as human motion. Stand, crouch, run, jump, ragdoll. Hitting different body parts. Perhaps I'll use a capsule for collision detection when moving. Then I'll have to have different sizes of the capsule for walking and crouching. And the limbs should be used for collision detection as well to some extent when fighting (and hitting a limb). Exactly how I'll pull this off along with multiplayer latencies I don't know. Hm. I'm not finished thinking about this yet.
One main thing that would be very different between these two games outlined above and the previous six is that I think that I would like to maintain them, upgrade with new features and so forth. My logic goes as long as I like to play them, I'd also like to improve and upgrade.
But first I have a terrorist organization to wipe out.
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