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[PATV] Monday, February 11, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 35: A Door Closed, a Windows Open
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Right now, the options are "Allow purchases" or "Block purchases and require a password." This would basically give the option of "Allow $X worth of purchases without password."
...It's still not the best idea, though.
Guys, that already exists. It's called Unity. Seriously, Unity 4 does ... well, almost all of those things. They're still working on Windows Phone support. But it's already begun! http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/10/30/unity-windows-phone-8-demonstrated-at-microsoft-build-conference/
From my perspective, as a .NET dev, it seems as tho Microsoft's new approach to development tools is to stop reinventing the goddamn wheel all the time. Hence jQuery and Knockout coming with the now open-source ASP.NET. Hence Visual Studio now natively being able to handle outside testing/source control engines within the existing UI. Microsoft is fully embracing not just the idea of open source, but the idea of actually using someone else's product.
So it's like, oh hey, what if they made an inexpensive, but powerful, game engine that used C# and was cross platform will all of their products? Oh and could also be pushed to iOS and Android and the web? Well then, that would make 2 of such engines in existence, so why the hell should they bother?
Instead of them making something new, I'd watch for Microsoft cementing a partnership with Unity Technologies for Microsoft's next-gen indie platform. The smartest thing Microsoft could do here is to have their Creator Club or whatever cost the same ($100 a year) but come with a free license for the Xbox plugin for Unity. (Or some kind of discount. Preferably free to avoid indie pain.) The second smartest thing Microsoft could do is help Unity Technologies upgrade their engine to C# 5, taking full advantage of the built in parallelism features such as TPL and async/await.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't think Microsoft is turning their back on indies either. I just think that "not turning their back" isn't going to translate to Microsoft attempting to re-solve a problem that's already been solved.
"a map " i mouthed as my lemon tea steeped thoughtfully
"wrong " Graham barked "a MAP"
i was nonplussed but the lemon tea became visibly agitated, nearly unseating itself in a spasm
"AND NOT A SNIPER SCOPE AS THIS..." my lemon tea could take no more of this indignity,
you see despite being brewed mere minutes ago it was quite enamoured with Phantom Hourglass on DS and Splinter Cell and felt that a secondary map was great addition of the overall scope of the game. Your comments set it, shall we say... off, and it upended itself in a fit of passion.
rest assured that lemon tea will be suing your pants off for gross endangerment, very soon
...the instant I'm done suing it out of MY slacks
"a map " i mouthed as my lemon tea steeped thoughtfully
"wrong " Graham barked "a MAP"
i was nonplussed but the lemon tea became visibly agitated, nearly unseating itself in a spasm
"AND NOT A SNIPER SCOPE AS THIS..." my lemon tea could take no more of this indignity,
you see despite being brewed mere minutes ago it was quite enamoured with Phantom Hourglass on DS and Splinter Cell and felt that a secondary map was great addition of the overall scope of the game. Your comments set it, shall we say... off, and it upended itself in a fit of passion.
rest assured that lemon tea will be suing your pants off for gross endangerment, very soon
...the instant I'm done suing it out of MY slacks
http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/
.. i bet they googled for augmented reality and found a pic of layar, a dutch 'augmented reality' service/company..
still thrilling to see Amsterdam in a checkpoint video :-)
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Maybe it is a reference to something I'm missing, but it seems an odd representation.
That is all.
You a robot?
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Yes, but as Kathleen notes further below, Microsoft does not own it. Therefore, it is unacceptable.
You think that MS would proceed with a devkit they don't utterly control?
There are currently many businesses perusing online gambling "game" development, which could allow amazon to essentially become a casino, which becomes especially advantageous for them if they "print" their own money/coins; this isn't currently legal to do, but there is lots of money going towards changing that.... not saying I agree with this fact, but yea, its happening.
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And now they want me to give them all of it upfront and covert it to Amazon FunBucks so they lock me into spending it with them and they save fees. So I assume anything bought with Amazon Coins will cost less since they're benefiting from me. :rotate:
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