Recent content by Darkness665

Just as parens bound the value of an expression, statements reduce a list of statements into a brace bounded block. Although statements do not return a value (or they return 1, IIRC). If x then printf("X is non-zero\n); else printf("X is zero\n"); "if x" is the same as "if ( x != 0 )"...

It's just you. ;-) Except that the article actually covers applying randomness appropriately. That works in either single or multi user games.

I like your fine tuning of trust in EVE. Very accurate and quite funny. While Dust514 offered a lot and promised much more it did fail to deliver on nearly all of it, even less to the EVE side of it. The entire PS3 decision would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall while it was being...

The commenters didn't fall for the misleading (or was possibly misunderstood by the author) line from the article. While they made a very small mention of Project Legion CCP actually is, as stated, starting over - completely. They are throwing everything out and trying it one more time, only on...

Well put,Shamus. I will refrain from guessing the outcome but EA has shown zero understanding of the gaming community, its actual business or the possibility that they might ever make a mistake. I do not buy EA products anymore. While that might not be too huge a loss for them it also means none...

Consider the solution for the Xbox driving game that uses 'ghosts' of your friends to race against (Forsa?). IF that could be a basis (in thought only) then a solution might be possible. I suspect we are confusing trying to find a hat with the quite different goal of stomping a player's...

You state quite clearly you don't know what you are talking about then ramble on about how Shamus is ... what exactly? More wrong than you and your admitted less than knowledgeable spewing? Write a blog, save us the bandwidth.

Ah, the ever loyal Mirror's Edge fan surfaces. If only! If only they had dropped the entire story. If only they had stuck to the best thing about the game - parkour. Okay, parkour message delivering. And stopped shooting at unarmed messengers! Gads, what a stupid premise, poor execution and...

Thanks for the heads up. I might look into a mod that blanks the audio of the main character. Unless the female is voiced by Jennifer Hale and then I am duty bound to listen to her. And since you explain so many things in gaming; Why can't/won't they allow individual voices to be muted? The...

There is no real debate here. You were right, we agreed and the AAA game business is a huge time/money/resource sink that has failed to produce anything of significance recently, possibly ever. There are absolutely zero signs that the situation will get better. Better as in making some progress...

Wow, you really went off the rails there. Valve is making SteamOS just what it wants it to be with exactly the amount of investment they are comfortable with. There has been no billions invested thus wall street isn't clamoring for billions in returns and profits. Gabe wanted an alternative to...

Well put, Shamus. I worked in corporate America and it was an educational experience. Often one company would buy a smaller one, to gain access to that pool of talent only to shutter the whole mess a few years later (5 was the longest). The one fact that was true for most is there was never any...

At lest they have escaped the fumbling fingers of Crazy Clown Programming. Which should mean they will be able to work on their game and not be thrown repeatedly at a myriad of other problems. Hopefully. Good Luck to them.

FEAR and its descendants were mostly boring to me. A failed promise from the very beginning. Dead Space used jump scare tactics, a little too much but it was effective personally. I still jumped and I played the silly thing three times. I suspect where you, Shamus, are noticing is the...