Elysian Shadows

Then why are the big game companies not flocking to Java? Because they're too brainlessly attached to C++? What're you trying to prove? The bottom line is Java lacks control afforded in C++. Many big game companies are flocking to iOS, Flash and other managed runtimes but you're oversimplifying thi...

I know I've subjected you to a huge wall of text already but JavaOS is an operating system (legacy as of 2006) that is written in Java (including device drivers): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS Also, I happen to know that AMD and Intel have been specifically optimising their hardware performanc...

Thanks for your detailed response. I can see you've put a lot of thought into it. Unfortunately I won't be able to address all your points. Many of which I'm not interested in disagreeing with. Arguing that static compilation will not ever be completely replaced by dynamic compilation is like saying...

I don't know of people saying the GC is slow in Java. The problem about GC (which I wasn't talking about but hey) is that the decision of when to do the collection is automated and some programmers believe they can do a better job of deciding when to free memory. For games and other near real time a...

it's generally accepted in computer science that hand written assembly is almost always worse, and further, that it in fact we will reach a point where it cannot possibly be done better than machine optimised code. What you're arguing about is current generation technology. Anything that can be done...

gimp plugin?

Do you guys have tools that show you the tesellated (tiled) version of your tile as you edit it? The problem with tiles I used to find is you don't really know the effect you'll get if you tile it until you actually tile it. I used to have a tool that would show me the tiled version while I edited t...

I have read a lot of programming books and bought even more. I think there are book people and non-book people. I'm a book person. The benefit of a good book is obvious to most people. The problem with books is twofold: 1. There are a LOT of bad programming books. I think most of the programming boo...

instanceof is like casting, it should be avoided and usually can be unless there is a bigger design problem you can't solve now (think legacy code). First, just to be clear, when I say "type" I mean "class or interface or primitive" in java. The basic reasoning here is that type ...

I don't think casting is good form. It means you have a design problem and you are fumbling your type information. Of course it may get you over the line. Java has static type checking which means that if you declare your dancer to be of type Dancer (which you do) then you can only call methods decl...

Hey Everyone, Has anyone used or seen open sonic? http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/ It's an open source game engine capable of supporting Sonic the Hedgehog style platform games. According to the FAQ it uses Allegro. There are plenty of ripped-sprite running demos on youtube, e.g. Q7us7wM14As And so t...

hello world I'm new to ES and having watched the youtube backlog my interest is piqued by this "rag tag" bunch as the recent interview described you. My programming experience is quite significant and yet I'm always learning. I don't really know much about modern video game stacks or conso...