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Mind=Blown - equation to calculate intersection of an ellipsoid where the origin is not centered http://tinyurl.com/m5co6kt
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It's been 15 days since the official launch of my first software and so far it has been an incredible learning experience. You can't predict the future, but you can learn from your mistakes, and with that I'd like to share my number one discovery. When your product releases it reaches a number of unique people who each have a unique age, position and disposition of your product. There will always be a myriad number of reasons a person might want your game or product but it's rare that this has been their dream product or something they've been following for awhile. What I've discovered is that the users who have purchased and taken their time to understand the product are the users that have always wanted a product like this or dreamed of the results they could create through using this product. There is an educational curve that, unfortunately, surpasses the attention span of the average downloader curious about the product. The lack of instant gratification deters a trial user from moving any further into discovering the products capabilities. It's a lost opportunity. What's obviously essential in creating games is finding that perfect combination that keeps players interested and hooked. They play for hours on end and can't help but tell their friends about it. Then you have a game that's becoming viral. I never thought to truly apply this concept to software. To me, software development has always been about creating a useful tool to solve a particular problem. Designing a software in terms of instant user gratification has always been an afterthought. The lesson: Most users want a magic bullet that gives them instant gratification, do you best to give it to them. -Ben
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RTS Creator has officially launched
Thank you all for the support! http://store.steampowered.com/app/327490 -
Is Mac actually worth developing for? http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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If I remember correctly a game is only registered once per customer. So anyone who bought a game and used Wine to first play it would count as a Windows user for that game even if it later got released on Linux and they've now put 90% of their playtime under Linux.
Having said that even on games released for Windows/Mac/Linux from day#1 the Mac and Linux numbers are still pretty small.
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Does Anyone Still use UU3D?
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Welcoming any constructive feedback! Tell me what you think! http://www.rtscreator.net/
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Also, I personally would put context around the download button because it kind of looks like one of the advertisement fake download buttons, so I can see some users be a little less willing to click it. Other than that though, I love the scrolling images, and I like all the other pages, especially the videos page. Good job!
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In the midst of my late night insomnia set on by inspiration and excitement, I read the talk “AI is possible .. but AI won't happen: The future of Artificial Intelligence” by Mark Humphrys. http://computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/newsci.html This is a great read for someone interested in the current state of AI. It’s far less impressive than someone might hope, but far more realistic. In summary, when computers were invented people generally believed we had the tools to create brilliant artificial intelligence. What we misperceived was that the simpler things, such as walking and spatial navigation, have proven more difficult to create then an unbeatable chess AI. If we can create AI that has the ability to perform fundamental tasks, like that of a toddler, it may provide the foundation for the advanced AI we so often imagine in movies. Why I believe this is such a great read for game and software developers as well as technologist is that it also identifies the large gap between where we are today and where we’re going to be when we have true AI, which the author believes will be another one to two centuries. If you take the time to creatively imagine what technology might need to be in place to produce true AI you could see there’s a huge opportunity for innovation. New software’s are abstracting and automating processes that were once difficult, Leadwerks is an example of a tool that now makes tens of thousands of lines of code easily usable and accessible. As we continue to abstract and automate more complex things, we become that much closer to creating a learning machine. The point I’m ultimately trying to make, is there’s a lot of opportunity for innovation if you can see the sky, and one of the highest goals we can hope to achieve is true AI.
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3 Weeks until I leave my job and pursuit my own endeavor. I, can't, wait....
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It's a lot more than just a hobby to me, I've been planning this for the last 4 years - here's the project http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=223060487
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A focus that's received a lot of attention in the world of productivity has been motivation. What motivates people and how people are motivated in turn results in all of the worlds output. By boiling down motivation we can separate all types of motivation into 2 separate and opposing psychological sources. "Away from" motivation are ideas and situations a person is trying to avoid. For example, you don't have a job, you're running out of money and you're unsure how you're going to continue to put food on the table. The fear of not surviving motivates you to get a job and ensure your survival. You're trying to get away from the idea of not being able to survive. "Toward" motivation consist of ideas and situations you're trying to attain. If you have a game or software, and distinct vision that inspires your motivation, every time you work to attain this vision you're working towards an idea. What I've found fundamentally instructive about these distinctions is the quality of output based upon the inspiration for our motivation. Another word choice for these opposing forces could be "Fear" versus "Inspiration." RTS Creator was founded on Inspiration from day 1. Every day before I put code into the machine, I take the time to recognize what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. What's the vision for this software, why is this vision great? How do I want people to feel when they're using this software? The feelings and ideas I get from asking these questions fuels excitement, and motivation. I want to enable people to bring their ideas to life, to get excited about the new possibilities that are now at their finger tips; to experience the awesomeness of making a world of war that consists of factions and armies of their own imagination. This is the inspiration RTS Creator was founded upon and I hope to inspire that same inspiration in the users of RTS Creator.
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Any support is greatly appreciated!
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This is great news! I haven't used Noesis, but based on everything I've seen it looks like you guys are on your way to becoming the Gold standard in game UI. Great work and wish the best for you guys!
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Don't play by the rules, use the rules to play a different game.
