Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: george_bain@playstation.sony.com (George Bain) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: URGENT! OPM Games Date: 26 Jul 1999 08:14:53 GMT Organization: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Lines: 74 Message-ID: <7nh5dt$i4m27@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7n7n4f$6tn6@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7ne3k2$i4m11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) In article , ARoss@trsoft.demon.co.uk says... >I'm not struggling....I just can't keep interest in a project which may >not see the light of day before the PSX falls into a historical >category. I'm not forcing anyone to do a OPM game.... The point I was trying to get across was that I was running dry of NY games to put on OPM. If I have no games then we have to stop OPM...it's rather logical. >A bit more effort on SONY's part would go a long way to sorting out most >of my gripes. (I just spent 5 days of my holiday messing around in >3DStudio, then over to photoshop, then back to the yaroze, then back to >photoshop etc. It's very annoying to feel that a project is going so >slowly because of graphics problems) >Perhaps there should have been a route for graphics and sound people to >come into Yaroze instead of just programmers. We did have the dxf2rsd and rsd2tmd converters but yes, I know people wanted more. But we did have the file formats documentation that any NY member could have made their own tools. In fact many members did. Even check free 3D packages that members post on the newsgroups. Some magazine every month is giving something away for free.... >What about some freeware graphics and sound on the website? You have the NY cd that came bundled with your NY. Their are lots of models and textues to use. Look through some members pages and you can find lots that are free. Or do a simple two second search on the Internet.. >What about some articles? Same as above. Or look at previous newsgroup postings. >SONY could ask for donations from the mainstream developers. We did, in fact their were some posting on the newsgroups and in the news section of people wanting to work with NY members. >What about the multitap libs? It's never going to happen. Surly all the other controllers are more then enough to support in your games? What's wrong with a good two player game? Besides 99% of members use one player not two! >What about new initiatives within the Yaroze project? We have the OPM cover disc! You can have your game in the hands of nearly 600,000 OPM magazine buyers in Europe in a single month. How many professional developers can claim that their FULL game (not a demo,or illegal copy) is in the hands of that many gamers? Not very many...it even took the mighty Quake II several months to hit a million. >Is there even somebody who you can raise these issues with? Yes, me. >P.S. Thanks for your efforts with the support (it really is >appreciated). Not a problem. I try my best to help NY members....even DenNIS :) >The only time I ever had a coding query you sorted me out very quickly >(unfortunately the reply was that there was a bug in the library)...No >jokes about Rentokil please! >Anthony Ross