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From: "Matt Verran" <mverran@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Yaroze dev continuing
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:57:06 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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The sort of games I enjoy are all about control and interaction. To write
games like this you need to be sure that the player experiences what you
designed exactly as it was intended. The event-interupt DirectX/PC way of
coding games rather than using a program loop just never worked for me. I
know you can lock the game to scan the input or update the screen at a set
rate but it's all so much hassle getting something to work consistently I've
never persevered.

For me producing a game is working within set limits to come up with a
finished 'block' that everyone can see and interact with in the same way.
The fun comes from stretching what you are capable of within those limits,
the satisfaction comes from other people enjoying your work. Doing games on
a PC watered both of those things down for me.

Matt