28-07-2009, 07:28 PM
Wow someone is bitter. Next time I'm 13 and I break the mould and do something for the first time, I'll be sure to make it perfect before releasing it - just for you.
As for benefitting people, the thousands of people at eclipse, the hundreds who found elysium, you think the introduction to coding and game design hasn't made a difference to a few of those peoples career decisions? MS going open source made a pretty big fucking difference to mine, everyone that has discovered a love for coding through any hybrid of the Konfuze Source (that encapsulates the vast majority of every engine these days that has an audience) is someone it has benefitted.
They might be noobs, but if they take something away from experiencing first hand, first time, fun development they think is cool - I win.
Anything that introduces kids to coding is great, we have all learnt interface design, coding, game design, testing, web development... god knows how many skills through finding Mirage - who are you to say the same thing hasn't happened to thousands of people since the release of the Konfuze Source.
Stop being so bloody closed minded, a visual basic 6 game is never going to go commercial so start treating it like what it is - a fantastic hobbiest opportunity to get your teeth into a first real development project.
I'm not saying everything should go open source, not at all, but saying the release of the Konfuze source ruined everything and benefitted no-one is a massively uneducated overstatement and it caters for the opinion of maybe 10 people in a tiny community. There are active communities in their thousands thriving because I released that source, whereas suprisingly MS still remains a wasteland governed by a few closed-minded individuals bitter they haven't actually achieved anything for themselves yet.
Oh, when I say by a few, I mean you.
As for benefitting people, the thousands of people at eclipse, the hundreds who found elysium, you think the introduction to coding and game design hasn't made a difference to a few of those peoples career decisions? MS going open source made a pretty big fucking difference to mine, everyone that has discovered a love for coding through any hybrid of the Konfuze Source (that encapsulates the vast majority of every engine these days that has an audience) is someone it has benefitted.
They might be noobs, but if they take something away from experiencing first hand, first time, fun development they think is cool - I win.
Anything that introduces kids to coding is great, we have all learnt interface design, coding, game design, testing, web development... god knows how many skills through finding Mirage - who are you to say the same thing hasn't happened to thousands of people since the release of the Konfuze Source.
Stop being so bloody closed minded, a visual basic 6 game is never going to go commercial so start treating it like what it is - a fantastic hobbiest opportunity to get your teeth into a first real development project.
I'm not saying everything should go open source, not at all, but saying the release of the Konfuze source ruined everything and benefitted no-one is a massively uneducated overstatement and it caters for the opinion of maybe 10 people in a tiny community. There are active communities in their thousands thriving because I released that source, whereas suprisingly MS still remains a wasteland governed by a few closed-minded individuals bitter they haven't actually achieved anything for themselves yet.
Oh, when I say by a few, I mean you.