Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nathan Miller" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Is anyone still here???????? Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:12:56 +0200 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 68 Message-ID: <77n0ob$hoo1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.235.149.237 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 To all SCEA members and staff, Do any of you still check the newsgroups? Has anyone looked at their Yaroze in the last 6 months? Do you remember where your library reference is? Did you loose your key card? Did you forget how to program C? Did your computer explode? Did you give your Yaroze to a friend? Really, I am in Bosnia right now running missions for the Army everyday and I find time to program and develop and should have a good game out in the next couple of months (because I have to get back to the states to setup my webpage, the game should be done in a few weeks). You have all of these tools, such as RSDAnim 1.6 and file packers and all of that to facilitate your programming and everyone at SCEA decides that they do not want to participate?! Did you ever think that if we kept the SCEA site as busy as the SCEE site that we might be getting job offers from game programming companies? It is sad that I am a member of SCEA, but I would rather check the SCEE stuff because I know that the SCEA site will have less updates. The SCEA community needs to pull together and get working on some games. We all invested quite a bit of money in that little black box, it is a shame that we would pass up such a good programming platform because we don't feel like programming for it or because it can't produce the level of graphics that our 3d accelerated cards can. The Yaroze has one of the best support libraries that we could ever ask for, it is straight forward and not bogged down like the DirectX libs. We are the people who will make our programming experience great. We are the ones who have to program and get eachother excited about programming for the Yaroze. SCEA is not going to do that for us, we have to. We do not have the game competitions that SCEE does, so we are going to have to dig up some other drive to program our games. What about the possibility that we could be noticed and our dream come true of being a game programmer for a good development house? I can't believe that we would let our community fall like this. When I get back to the states in a few months, I will put my web page up and start some form of competition so that HOPEFULLY a couple of SCEA members realize that they have something to gain from contributing to our community. And to SCEA, I cannot believe that you would allow the program to continue going down the way it has. I know that its success is more in our hands than yours and that you have more important things to think about (like Playstation 2 or whatever), but you offered a service to the consumer (us) that extended past the time that we exchanged our money for the Yaroze. You did something so great that no other hardware maker in the world has ever done, but then you allowed that great achievment to disappear by not doing competitions and not supporting and updating the libraries and the programs and the web page that was given to us as a SERVICE that came with our 700 dollar price tag. If it sounds like I am ranting it is because I am. There are so many good things that can come about because of this program and no one has the initiative to make it happen! If you need someone to run the porgram then hire me and I will find you new talent by doing competitions and getting the SCEA Yarozers together at E3 and for prgramming weeekends and things like that. These are the things WE need from SCEA to get inspired and to program that next great demo that shows them we have talent and that we are a marketable product. There is a wealth of talent out here that has nowhere to go because SCEA decided to let us go and to not help us on our way. So to SCEA- get something started to get us started!!!! And to all SCEA members, program something that will be noticed, get recognized, and live your dream of being a game programmer!!!!!!!!!!! Nathan Miller SCEA member