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| 8297 | Pizza Business | games | -1 | Re: Games that try to teach economics | <p>Hi! I just noticed this site on a random google search and I noticed that you mentioned Pizza Business! I'd just like to say hello, as I'm one of the developers working on the game. In response to the first poster, yes, this games is very crappy in the graphics category (I'll be the first to tell you that!). During the development of this game, I, and the other developer, were trying to get a feel for how a tycoon-like game would work, and so we made the decision to simplify the work we would have by not stressing graphics and by also making the game turn-based. However, we do have plans to make a more modern 3d graphics version of Pizza Business after we get this game to version 1.0 (that is, if we can find a 3d graphics programmer as neither I, nor the other programmer working on the game currently, have no knowledge of 3d graphics programming). I would really appreciate any other feedback that you guys could give, in the sourceforge forums which you can access through our homepage: http://pizza-business.sourceforge.net</p> <p>As for the poster raving about the games "anti-free market" sentiment, I can assure you that I made no conscious decision to mold the game in any complex economic fashion. Indeed, as the coder of much of the "simulation," I can tell you that any "economics" in the game are simple and straightforward. I think that it's necessary to remind you that this is a game, not real-life, and it is not even intended to teach economics. At the most basic level, it's supposed to be fun and entertaining. It wouldn't be any fun if all your attempts at runing a pizza business failed, now would it?</p> | 2003-01-17 18:17:23 | 8246 |
| 8298 | 3337 | news | -1 | Re: Why no installer, you sissies? | <i> Why can there be an installer for Unreal Tournamant 2003 but not Neverwinter Nights? Does UT2003 not use InstallShield or something?</i><br> <br> Epic have their own setup app, and all of the files on the UT2003 CDs are viewable from linux (ie. not packaged in a CAB), that's why there is a linux CDROM installer. <br> <br> <br> <i>Is the InstallShield file format uncrackable?</i><br> <br> An Installshield CAB is not the same as a Microsoft CAB file, which is why cabextract will not work. i5comp/i6comp extract Installshield CABs fine, but must be either run in windows, or under wine as it's a windows app... or atleast it hasn't been ported to linux yet.<br> <br> <br> Even if someone made an installer to extract the CAB file, wtf are they going to do with the .bzf file on CD2??? | 2003-01-17 18:33:55 | 8294 |
| 8303 | Stellarium | games | -1 | Worth the download | It has been noted that this is not a game in the conventional term. However, it is phenominal, it is fun, it is the best program I have seen for stargazing. If you like looking up, I recomend this program. | 2003-01-17 23:22:57 | 0 |
| 8304 | AMOR | games | 4877 | Re: Very hard to build | It is clearly abandonware. I submitted it because it was missing from the database, and if anyone wanted to start building a Linux desktop agent it wouldn't be a bad place to go for code or inspiration. I didn't really expect anyone to try and install it. There are other backdrop animated characters, but as far as I know, none of them have an agenty theme. <p>With proper cultivation it could replace some of the annoying background process tokens that have been filling up the right side of my task bar of late. The Redhat Network Alert Notification Tool in particular would annoy me less as an agent than as a flashing icon in the lower right corner of my screen; but maybe that is just me. | 2003-01-17 23:38:17 | 8273 |
| 8305 | 3337 | news | 4 | From the NWN forums | <p>Derek French (Assistant Producer) just wrote regarding a Linux version of Bink (the movie player used in NWN):</p> <blockquote><i>Sorry for the confusion about Linux Bink. Linux Bink doesn't exist. That original update that was posted was actually the incorrect one and we changed and re-posted it after an hour. But in that time, Google had already grabbed and archived it, so there it not much we can do about that.</i></blockquote> | 2003-01-18 00:54:27 | 0 |
| 8307 | Stellarium | games | 3722 | Oh that's what the stars look like! | I've got this set up with the exact height, and location for where I live. I am sure if I could see past the city lights the stars would be there. 4 Stars! | 2003-01-18 03:26:17 | 0 |
| 8308 | Astro Battle | games | 3 | Re: sweet! | <i>It would be great to know if the betas are actually for the Linux version of a game, before it is posted here. The Astro_Battle beta was windows-only..</i><p> I'm afraid I'm not quite with you. The last update on happypenguin.org dealt with a Linux release called "Dot 9". The beta that Scott released after Dot 9 has never been mentioned here.<br> For a few hours, the download link to the Linux version of Astro Battle 1.0 pointed to an .exe file but Scott fixed it within hours after I sent him a note. Our news were posted after he had fixed it. | 2003-01-18 03:29:19 | 8292 |
| 8309 | Astro Battle | games | 3 | Oops, forgot to rate it... | 2003-01-18 03:30:06 | 0 | |
| 8310 | Construo | games | -1 | Very Cool! | Stick Death and simple gravity physics will never be the same for me again! Wish I had something this amusing when I was a kid. Physics always gets me giddy with destructive want, and those collider boxes provide a nice interactive touch to the scene (smashing the stick figures holding up the DIE sign was so amusing I burned up half an hour of my life on it alone!) Fun, interactive, physics. Doesn't need anything else! | 2003-01-18 04:05:30 | 0 |
| 8311 | Construo | games | -1 | Very Cool! | Stick Death and simple gravity physics will never be the same for me again! Wish I had something this amusing when I was a kid. Physics always gets me giddy with destructive want, and those collider boxes provide a nice interactive touch to the scene (smashing the stick figures holding up the DIE sign was so amusing I burned up half an hour of my life on it alone!) Fun, interactive, physics. Doesn't need anything else! | 2003-01-18 04:06:33 | 0 |