Comments on: Civilization in Python? http://blog.dowski.com/2004/06/16/civilization-in-python/ Unfortunately, Christian had a Thwart, and the Magpie stayed in play. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: christian http://blog.dowski.com/2004/06/16/civilization-in-python/#comment-87 christian Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:31:06 +0000 http://blog.dowski.com/?p=60#comment-87 I don't plan on improving it other than getting it working on Windows. I am really excited about looking at the code though, and figuring out how they made different stuff work. I have already picked up some good stuff.<br /> <br /> Thanks for the heads up about your computer game programmer buddies. I think I need to get some sort of core put together before I get others involved too much. What I currently have is laughable at best.<br /> <br /> BTW, I have voted for the deserving Tribe players that you mentioned. You know that Cleveland is going to get shafted again though. We'll be lucky if one of our position players makes it.<br /> <br /> cw I don’t plan on improving it other than getting it working on Windows. I am really excited about looking at the code though, and figuring out how they made different stuff work. I have already picked up some good stuff.

Thanks for the heads up about your computer game programmer buddies. I think I need to get some sort of core put together before I get others involved too much. What I currently have is laughable at best.

BTW, I have voted for the deserving Tribe players that you mentioned. You know that Cleveland is going to get shafted again though. We’ll be lucky if one of our position players makes it.

cw

]]> By: ashby http://blog.dowski.com/2004/06/16/civilization-in-python/#comment-76 ashby Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:26:53 +0000 http://blog.dowski.com/?p=60#comment-76 Oh yeah...one more thing. Get on mlb.com and fill all 25 of those all-star ballots with votes for Vic Martinez, Matt Lawton, Ron Belliard, and any other Tribe member you can vote for in good conscience. Oh yeah…one more thing. Get on mlb.com and fill all 25 of those all-star ballots with votes for Vic Martinez, Matt Lawton, Ron Belliard, and any other Tribe member you can vote for in good conscience.

]]> By: ashby http://blog.dowski.com/2004/06/16/civilization-in-python/#comment-75 ashby Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:25:02 +0000 http://blog.dowski.com/?p=60#comment-75 There is no kind of cool quite like that special kind of 'secret decoder ring' kind of cool.<br /> <br /> The OpenCiv game sounds cool. Are you really aiming to improve the gameplay, or are you intending to 'improve' it by porting it to XP?<br /> <br /> If you really are thinking about writing a completely new game, I have a friend here in K-town who fresh off a design internship with a game maker...the name escapes me now. He's cool, though, and he's into lame hobbies...not that making up computer games is an almost completely unrewarding enterprise, financially.<br /> <br /> For serious, though. If you get a kernel, so to speak, of an idea that you want to go with, I know a couple of guys who would be into it. There is no kind of cool quite like that special kind of ’secret decoder ring’ kind of cool.

The OpenCiv game sounds cool. Are you really aiming to improve the gameplay, or are you intending to ‘improve’ it by porting it to XP?

If you really are thinking about writing a completely new game, I have a friend here in K-town who fresh off a design internship with a game maker…the name escapes me now. He’s cool, though, and he’s into lame hobbies…not that making up computer games is an almost completely unrewarding enterprise, financially.

For serious, though. If you get a kernel, so to speak, of an idea that you want to go with, I know a couple of guys who would be into it.

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