Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nigel Critten" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Virtual Fish Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:59:22 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 61 Message-ID: <91m1f6$b92@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.187.166.217 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Well I've not said much for a while so time to pop out of my box marked lurk and into my box marked flame proof :) First it's great to see activity in here again even made me go check out my yaroze HomePage Wow that needs work, I started to change it sometime this year and never really finished so all the links have the wrong backgrounds and stuff... never mind... and the intro well that's just a tad out of date now don't you think... might get round to updating it... must do my GAMEWARE homepage first that's been waiting since August :( right first I wanted to share an idea with you all and a possible project for someone to work with me one, I mentioned this way back in '98 or '99 it was a while ago anyway... it was for a virtual fish tank, the first time you run it a fish is generated for you and saved out, then you can interact with your fish however you want feed it let it starve, give it a castle or mermaid to swim round whatever, it was a shock when the Sega game came out, there must be a bug in my brain... because Nintendo have started work on another of my ideas that I've told no one about :-) Anyway this fish thing is only a test project for the true idea I was going to create but seem to struggle to get down in code... it's a virtual world, a bit like the old Little Computer People crossed with the Nintendo game Animal Forest (that's what I mean about then stealing my brain :) it's a world with various houses, shops, places to visit, when you first play you get your own character, that is saved to memory card, you can take them with you to another persons or play over a network where you can all join up and chat. or you can go off and play it on your own just with your virtual person and the people who live in the world... I don't have what it takes to write these ( I can knock up a quick platform game or shooter but this is a bit harder - I could do it given time but that I don't have ), obviously the above is a brief outline, I have more on these... Now that these ideas are out there anyone can have a go and maybe something will come of it... maybe you all think these are just a load of toss... let me know... I'd rather spend my time writing something I know people will want rather than...well rather than something nobody is interested in... PS2 would be nice for the 3D world which takes me onto my third point... PS2... now I've not got one of these yet so bare with me but is there even a twinkle of a plan to get a Yaroze 2 going... I seen YaBasic as a great start but I can see that it might be limited (again I don't have it so I don't know) but there seems a large number of problems that it has to overcome, but then not so many that it couldn't be great... If there is a Yaroze 2 twinkling in homebodies eye somewhere I hope the include much better manuals that has been my biggest bug bear with the Yaroze and a better way of communicating with the machine, even if it's pushing the code down a USB connection it would be better than serial... I know it has to be limited to stop developers complaining. Whatever you lot think and if you made it this far down the post congratulations have a house point/ Gold Star (only people over 25 need worry about that last bit) and above all have a great Christmas and a spanking new year... TIA Nigel ~ncritten