RE: Okej, here is GameX idea.

["Jason Brunson" <jason@teamair.com>]

IMO, email would be a better medium as many that would be interested in
following, including myself, may not have the time to tune in to the
conferences.

Jason Brunson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com
> [mailto:gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com]On Behalf Of Rob Quill
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:24 PM
> To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> Subject: Re: Okej, here is GameX idea.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> how about a different mailing list bacause i presume that not everyone on
> this list will want to help make this game or games (i may be
> wrong). If we
> are to do this i suggest a list bot one. We need to asses how
> many of us are
> going to be working on this all at once. If there are only a few it may be
> better to try and discuss thing real-time ie. msn messenger, icq,
> netmeeting
> etc as this is quicker than email but if there are lots of us it may be
> better just to do it by email. If we were to discuss anything real-time it
> would be quite a challenge because we could and probably are in all
> different countries around the world so perhaps it would be best
> just to use
> email now i look at it.
>
> Cya,
> Rob.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harri Hynynen <harri.hynynen@swipnet.se>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Okej, here is GameX idea.
>
>
> Exactly, simple and easy todo is what i want us to start with.
>
> Not as simple as a "hello world". I think we all have gone pass that
> stage in our programming. And we can't jump inte next Quake IV
> experience, because we will drown the project befor we started it.
>
> And defenitivt not a game that Mads suggests. A swat game can be
> fun to play, but a  hell to program. And we are not sitting in a game-
> house having meetings every monday morning where we decide our
> goals for the week. I think that most of us agree when i say that some
> or all of us have a dream to make a certain game, just like they fancy.
> I myself want to be able to make a 1 person view action/RPG with
> some roleplaying and monsterbashing parts in it.
>   But Hey, i am no star programmer, i donät have hundred thousand
> dollar in my back and programhouse experince. I will never be able to
> make my dream game.
>   I do know that i can learn how to make it, and that is bit by bit. Not
> jumping into making the best 3D engine i can imagine.Hell, i can't even
> draw graphics for the skins.
>
> We should do a spaceinvader, pacman or pong. These are the holy
> games we all should be able to say "I have made my own pacman,
> and it is better than the originale". The graphic gaming industy started
> with these games, according to me :). Sure there was others before that.
> Some text based adventuregames, simpel CGA 16 color graphics games
> that harldy could be called a game. more like shuffling data from one part
> of memory to another memory segment.
>
> Ok, lets goto the issue again. T be able to somewhat coordinate
> the efforts
> we do, i think we need a website that we can save our work and
> allows others
> to download files along our progress.
>   We shoul send in well documented sourcecodes, graphics and sound for
> the game(s). If gameprogrammer allow us to extract the specific
> topic about
> the game and use it like a diary on that site would be neat to. Otherwice
> the
> webmaster could simply extract the text from the e-mails and make a diary
> of it.
>
> As i told you all befor i am the worst candidate to be the pack leader.
> Consider
> me the sponge you squese for ideas :)
>
> /Harri
>
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