Kennar's Blog

Indeed, many here have the skill to capitalize on that often hidden market.

 

I think the problem is most of us are gamers and we are here to make games and don't really want to go into that hidden market because it's not of interest.

 

We are wanting to capitalize on something that we love, and not just something that's waiting to be capitalized on.

Rick: Makes sense however the research/simulation world is a blend where individual projects as defined stand a greater chance of completion. With respect to school children or the military applications the constructed scenarios are effectively game-like, minus the full story.

 

Let's rephrase and suggest that skills could be "leveraged" while still working games. These worlds are not mutually exclusive. My assumption is that most here would like to remain in the gaming marketplace knowing that income must be supplemented.

 

I wasn't really suggesting that folks switch streams rather the key point was that a product like LE serves multiple overlapping markets consequently design choices must take these into consideration.

I find myself perfectly capable of making a full-blown game that could rock some socks; however, I keep finding myself having to go back and code up frameworks and things lower level, thus never completing anything that you would ever actually see, play, or otherwise be demonstrated.

 

Loads of tech demos in code sitting on my hard drive, completed; yet, I would never publish them because they are aimless on their own.

 

In due time...

On the contrary, I do whish to pulish my projects to the game market. It just doesnt make sense too publish any games that have not the standard features like so many shooters and RPG's have. You either have to come up with something more unique, good gameplay, a good story line or a game with superb graphics.