2010-12-06, 08:26 PM
What I like best about Som games is they actually require very little time to slap together, even compared to extremely simplistic games with nowhere near the epic scope a Som game can have. I'd even consider using Som to rapid prototype a big budget game (to get an idea if it would even work on a visceral level or not)
There really aren't that many "game maker" suites out there that let you do sophisticated stuff without giving you too much freedom or tying your hands. Just looking for discussion about technical stuff on the web now and then leads me to the odd forum postings about popular platforms novices use to make games like Blitz3D which seem (from what I am able to gather from the discussion) so limited in terms of functionality but overly complicated for actually making games.
This reminds me of a game that was released on the US PSN the other day which I meant to look into (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezaemon_3D) ... only the PSN version is a PSone game, and probably not 3D from the sounds of it. There was apparently even a Super Famicom version.
Anyway, I hope at some point people will start seriously requesting specific feats from Ex so to make there games stand out. That would be the best way for it to evolve anyway. Especially after I get the memory side of things rolling. Right now I admit, I'm just really focused on getting the presentation level as top notch as possible. It will be more fun after all the serious stuff is in the clear.
There really aren't that many "game maker" suites out there that let you do sophisticated stuff without giving you too much freedom or tying your hands. Just looking for discussion about technical stuff on the web now and then leads me to the odd forum postings about popular platforms novices use to make games like Blitz3D which seem (from what I am able to gather from the discussion) so limited in terms of functionality but overly complicated for actually making games.
This reminds me of a game that was released on the US PSN the other day which I meant to look into (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezaemon_3D) ... only the PSN version is a PSone game, and probably not 3D from the sounds of it. There was apparently even a Super Famicom version.
Anyway, I hope at some point people will start seriously requesting specific feats from Ex so to make there games stand out. That would be the best way for it to evolve anyway. Especially after I get the memory side of things rolling. Right now I admit, I'm just really focused on getting the presentation level as top notch as possible. It will be more fun after all the serious stuff is in the clear.