I'm sure programs that worked on XP will work on Vista. Microsoft has already stated that this will not be the case. There are incompatibility problems between every release, and things will probably be worse this time around. On the bright side, similar to a recent poster, I was also able to launc...

Erpy, being a programmer, I can really appreciate that story about the bug... I can feel the pain of anyone trying to debug that... I'm going to join the "bug free at some point in the future" crowd, rather than the "buggy but definite release date" crowd. Frankly, anyone who's p...

First of all, I think both of you grossly misunderstood the bit about the silent hero... I never said that a silent hero makes for a better protaganist. All I'm saying is that when looking to "immerse" a player, silencing your hero is an effective way to help accomplsih that. If immersion ...

As a budding game programmer/game designer (more of the first initially, heh), I'm wondering what people here have to say in terms of basic tips for design. What sorts of decisions have you seen in games that made you say "It was smart of the designers to do this" ? A good example is the s...

Gronager, your system isn't quite the best example of the process, in my opinion, though generally the idea is correct. A game, any game, really, involves a loop that repeats (until the ESC key is hit or Exit menu button, whatever). One of these loops is a "game cycle" and during this cycl...