Re: OT: Demo suggestions
"Stephen J Baker" <[email protected]>
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Gregor Brunmar wrote: > -Do you have any tips and tricks for demos and applications to show? Any > area that is extra interesting? Personally (and I'm not in the games industry - just an amateur tinkerer with games) - a flashy demo doesn't impress me much. The thing about writing a demo is that you get to put in the things that are flashy and easy - but anything that's actually difficult can just be left out - you aren't forced into making these flashy effects work with the rest of a large and complex system. IMHO, a complete, playable game would be more impressive than a demo of a few very fancy-looking canned effects. If you are looking for a way to stand out in the crowd, I would concentrate on being really good at Physics, Networking and Shaders because those are the hard parts right now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The second law of Frisbee throwing states: "Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!"...it turns out that this also applies to writing Fragment Shaders. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail) L3Com/Link Simulation & Training (817)619-2466 (Fax) Work: [email protected] http://www.link.com Home: [email protected] http://www.sjbaker.org ----- FAQ and OpenGL Resources at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9956/OpenGL -- Author: Stephen J Baker INET: [email protected] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [email protected] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB OPENGL-GAMEDEV-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).