Am I exiting the demographic?

SGreth

Shared on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 08:24
I dunno...call it a slump, disinterest, or what have you. I'm really not too interested in playing games these days. They're time-consuming, unproductive, and none of the current games really makes me want to sit down and play all that long. I guess the only ones I'm looking forward to are Supreme Commander and Team Fortress 2 (along with Portal). Perhaps I'm just exiting the realm of the 'hardcore' and slipping into the masses...

I'm in a constant tail-chasing game with myself trying to find a 'side project' to work on and I can never stay focused long enough to reach completion. As mention in a previous blog, I've all but abandoned game development. I consider myself a pretty damn slick coder, but I've struck out trying to come up with a unique game idea.

That being said, I'm having lots of fun working on Splatter. So far I can:

Load an Image (the following formats are supported) (*.BMP;*.CUT;*.DCX;*.DDS;*.ICO;*.GIF;*.JPG;*.LBM;*.LIF;*.MDL;*.PCD;*.PCX;*.PIC;*.PNG;*.PNM;*.PSD;*.PSP;*.RAW;*.SGI;*.TGA;*.TIF;*.WAL;*.ACT;*.PAL;)|*.BMP;*.CUT;*.DCX;*.DDS;*.ICO;*.GIF;*.JPG;*.LBM;*.LIF;*.MDL;*.PCD;*.PCX;*.PIC;*.PNG;*.PNM;*.PSD;*.PSP;*.RAW;*.SGI;*.TGA;*.TIF;*.WAL;*.ACT;*.PAL)

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Paint little red dots all over the image (testing out using brushes)

I'm currently researching image scaling techniques so that you can resize an image (scale it larger or smaller). There are tons of ways to sample the image to minimize detail loss and aliasing. I'll probably just code up a few methods to get started and then move on.



By the way: In the event you have a good media collection at home that you'd love to listen to anywhere, try out Orb. DSmooth got me into using the software. I wasn't too impressed with the initial version, but the 2.0 beta is pretty damn slick.



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CapnHun's picture
Submitted by CapnHun on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 12:58
I think the next 'thing' for all this game technology is putting it to work in an education format. I am all for regular classroom instruction, even though the quality differs drastically...but to have my kid learning something with as much enthusiasm is he has for his Pokemon game; now there is an untapped market. If all that time he spent learning Pokemon was put into classifying real animals and plants people would consider him a genius! All it would take is a way to make it interesting...and its developers like you, realizing that we could redeem all that time that is not doing anything constructive, that are going to make it happen!
SGreth's picture
Submitted by SGreth on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 13:09
Funny you should mention that. I actually was trying to think of something educational too. My son is coming up on 4 and I figured some type of edu-tainment title would be cool.
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Submitted by Rhysode on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 16:07
For about 2 years I didn't buy a single game. Sold my N64, played a little on other peoples PS1/N64's, PC couldn't run anything new but would play older games, rarely. Just had other priorities I guess. There was no sense in fighting that when the interest truly wasn't there.

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