Sounds like you got a good road to work down. making the changes in you have suggested will extend release, but after the six years i think it can hang in there a bit more. At least you give reports on progress and fall backs. They may not be liked sometimes, but do show how your doing on projects. The biggest thing I see coming from you is the fact that you want all three games your working on to be good not just hacks. What was only ripped off the people getting nothing. Now in time and they can wait for the game to come. i can wait and will just to try it on my rumble pad.
At 11:09 AM 3/23/2007, you wrote: >Hi William, >Yeah, I realise Raceway has been on the waiting list for an extremely >long time. Do remember most of that is the fault of Raceway's previous >owner. It has only been in my custity for a year, and for most of that >year I have been hopping between three different game projects: STFC, >Monty, and Raceway. >You asked if I should give Raceway the highest priority here. It is a >fair question that deserves a fair and honest answer. >When I took over RW STFC was nearest to completion so I decided right >off to finish that project before attending to the new projects.That was >one less project i had to deal with once it was completed in December. >Next, I looked over RW and Monty deciding which game to work on first. >The reason I chose Monty was that in general arcade type games are much >simpler to design and complete. I do hope to have Monty completed by >this year which is my goal. > Once Monty is done Raceway will be my soul consern. That allows me time >to work on the >game and get into very complex programming which will take more time and >attention than did STFC or Monty. >Bottom line I know Raceway is a much harder program to create than Monty >or STFC ever was, and the physics engine alone would take a while to >work on. If I chose to do Raceway first I would end up producing RW, but >two other projects would still be shelved today with USA Games having >nothing to show yet. >I am certain no one here wants RW to be rushed in to a premature >production release because >most realise by doing so in order to speed up production I'd have to cut >corners, spend less time on the game, etc just to make everyone happy to >get it out right away. Then, the screaming would come because it isn't >the game they were hoping for. I won't do that. When I do Raceway I want >to devote my entire attention to it. >Now, I am sure you are about to ask how far was Raceway along after six >years of production? Well, James north had it to a early beta stage in >VB 6, but eventually chose to go to VB.NET. The VB.NET engine was not >very far along by the time I took it over. >Should I use the VB 6 version to sped up production? No because VB 6 is >now considered by most developers to be outdated, and in 2008 Microsoft >is dropping support for VB 6 applications, and has already dropped >support for DirectX 8 for VB 6. >Should I continue with the VB.NET version? No because VB.NET doesn't >have the proper support for force feedbackdevices that other languages do. >As a result I have been building the RW engine from the ground up which >takes allot of time, and work that most out here probably don't realise. > >william lomas wrote: > > hi > > > > while i am not meaning to be rude here, shouldnt raceway be given > > more development time. we've been waiting four, five maybe six years > > for that, it is getting long in the tooth. ok, money was promised, > > monty i mean a year or so ago but i doubt to be fair we will see > > raceway this year so there's another year added to the calendar > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. Tim trouble "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown Blindeudora list owner. To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
