James Margaris's Forum Posts
| Thread | Post | Date Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Molyneaux On The Future of The Indies | There is some logic in using government money to create jobs, but I don't think funding game develop... read more | 03/15/2003 (1:57 am) |
| Molyneaux On The Future of The Indies | I will say that I have a lot more tolerance for paying for artistic endeavors. Paying a small stipen... read more | 03/15/2003 (12:52 am) |
| Molyneaux On The Future of The Indies | No offense but goverment grants to help make video games is a pretty moronic idea. Opportunity cost ... read more | 03/14/2003 (10:52 pm) |
| Sales Reports? | The problem with Multi-player only games is that if nobody else is online, well it's pretty boring. ... read more | 03/14/2003 (1:45 pm) |
| Initiating Explosions? | You can spawn an explosion in script, but it doesn't work properly. When you spawn an explosion ... read more | 03/14/2003 (12:00 am) |
| html links in published games? | The realm wars demo has html links under the credits, you might look there.... read more | 03/13/2003 (4:47 pm) |
| Where are the programmers? | "Essentially the problem is this: for no money, why work on someone elses idea instead of your own? ... read more | 03/10/2003 (1:32 am) |
| When game producers go too far... | Incorporation is pretty easy, but you can also form things like partnerships, LLCs or sole propriete... read more | 03/06/2003 (6:41 pm) |
| World War II | Two things: 1: Having a coded morale system for a game seems a bit heavy handed. In Warhammer a s... read more | 03/04/2003 (12:51 am) |
| Did you work for RealmWars anymore? | We are currently testing new win32 and Mac builds.... read more | 02/24/2003 (2:32 pm) |
| Atomic Mutant vs. Unreal 2 | Yeah, what he said! FPS is a pretty well-baked genre, and UT2k3 is a lot like every other FPS gam... read more | 02/23/2003 (11:21 pm) |
| Explosion - memory leak? | Have you tried running in debug mode? I've noticed when I get huge memory consumption that when I ru... read more | 02/23/2003 (11:07 pm) |
| Atomic Mutant vs. Unreal 2 | It really disturbs me that you see more and more things like pre-orders, "bundles" and those sorts o... read more | 02/22/2003 (4:47 pm) |
| Orcs_Household items | Nice, we should make the bowls breakable so that when they take damage they explode and hit you with... read more | 02/20/2003 (9:40 pm) |
| Suggestion: Different way to cast magic | Right now the differetn staffs are different weapons just because that was the easiest way to get it... read more | 02/19/2003 (11:59 am) |
| CVS login? | Doug do you have access to TGE? The Realm Wars CVS is only available to people with TGE CVS access, ... read more | 02/18/2003 (2:03 pm) |
| Real-Time Strategy Games | Here is the thing you have to remember about genre names: Genre names are made to describe certai... read more | 02/16/2003 (2:18 am) |
| Team Identification | "Personally, I think the best way to go is to just draw the health bar and name of your teammates on... read more | 02/15/2003 (9:20 pm) |
| Elf Woman runs like an Orc Grunt | Well, the foot sliding problem can only be fixed by changing the animations. I have tried slowing do... read more | 02/12/2003 (12:54 am) |
| real wars buildings | I'm not going to address Tim directly, but I do want to say something about the submission process i... read more | 02/10/2003 (12:52 pm) |
| Changeable skins/properties | In T2 it seems to me that each armor was a separate model. It would be possible to switch out differ... read more | 02/10/2003 (2:19 am) |
| GarageGames really needs to address this... | About the general relationship between the GG RW site and rwg.com. Basically we can't really update ... read more | 02/07/2003 (8:05 am) |
| Cloak for rw | The changes will be in the HEAD for RW, which you can access if you can access Torque. I don't know ... read more | 01/30/2003 (3:03 am) |
| Cloak for rw | Tony we are working on some changes to the player name stuff. For example, we are making it so th... read more | 01/29/2003 (2:53 pm) |
| I can't download RealmWars | Are you downloading from www.realmwarsgame.com ?... read more | 01/29/2003 (2:50 pm) |
| CVS locked? | Ok, should be fixed now. I will verify when I get home.... read more | 01/29/2003 (2:49 pm) |
| Please Help | I have a Ti4600, works fine on mine. One possibility is that your drivers are too new or too old.... read more | 01/29/2003 (1:41 am) |
| CVS locked? | In the meantime you can get all the CVS files if you get all the folders except for the "example" fo... read more | 01/29/2003 (12:53 am) |
| Cloak for rw | Tony you should check out guiShapeNameHud if you can do C++ programming, that is the code that handl... read more | 01/28/2003 (11:51 pm) |
| Cloak for rw | If you have a trigger that triggers the cloak, you should put the cloak logic in that trigger code r... read more | 01/28/2003 (3:34 pm) |
| CVS locked? | Yes, the problem is still there, I will look at it tonight and send mail to everyone with CVS commit... read more | 01/28/2003 (3:31 pm) |
| CVS locked? | I was getting the same thing last night at around the same time. I just tried now and am getting it ... read more | 01/27/2003 (12:20 pm) |
| lates build make problems | Michael we are looking into it.... read more | 01/26/2003 (1:07 pm) |
| Cloak for rw | Oops you don't have an email address. I will just paste teh relevant parts here (with some added com... read more | 01/25/2003 (1:59 pm) |
| Bugs Bugs Bugs you gotta fix some stuff !!! | Thanks for the feedback Stephan. This build of Realm Wars is not even really a beta, just a work in ... read more | 01/24/2003 (6:35 pm) |
| Cloak for rw | Michael I will mail it to you over the weekend.... read more | 01/24/2003 (2:29 pm) |
| torque_logo.jpg? | It would be fine to use that file. In the old version of Realm Wars there were two splash screens be... read more | 01/24/2003 (12:54 pm) |
| Cloak for rw | Michael, if you get the latest build from www.realmwars.com there is a cloak staff that the elf uses... read more | 01/23/2003 (3:16 pm) |
| Open art free game media | Actually I was the one who insulted Tim anyway, not Joe, and I have nothing to do with Bravetree.... read more | 01/22/2003 (8:05 pm) |
| Open art free game media | Everyone is being way too combatitive. Tim, it is great that you are willing to offer things for ... read more | 01/22/2003 (6:32 pm) |
| realmwars cvs? | For your CVS root just replace "torque" with "realmwars". So instead of /cvs/torque it become /cvs/r... read more | 01/22/2003 (1:29 pm) |
| Music playlists in Realm Wars and TGE | Holy...Daniel that looks amazing! Very thorough from what I can tell. I would love to get my hand... read more | 01/20/2003 (1:57 pm) |
| Content Packs - What Would You Like To See ? | The problem with things like people and vehicles is that they are main characters they will be on th... read more | 01/20/2003 (1:19 pm) |
| Music playlists in Realm Wars and TGE | Yep Tim that is what I am doing as well. I have a profile called InGameMusic, and when you hit a ... read more | 01/20/2003 (1:09 pm) |
| WireFrame Prob | My guess would be that D3D renders quads as 2 triangles whereas in OGL quads are just quads. Somethi... read more | 01/20/2003 (1:37 am) |
| Team Identification | Eli the new build will have the team member names in different colors over their heads depending on ... read more | 01/19/2003 (3:09 pm) |
| Creative Give and Take, Multiple Project Juggling | It really has nothing to do with Realm Wars, just my observations from talking to people, looking at... read more | 01/18/2003 (8:54 pm) |
| Creative Give and Take, Multiple Project Juggling | Yeah, I wasn't really trying to call attention to RW, just using it as a personal example. One pr... read more | 01/17/2003 (2:31 am) |
| An Alternative Xp System | I think the "kill stuff to get XP" paradigm is horribly flawed if you want games with character dive... read more | 01/16/2003 (12:21 am) |
| Rethinking Consoles? | Consoles are a golden goose that will quickly be killed. All the companies that make mediocre PC ... read more | 01/09/2003 (7:55 pm) |
