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by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/20/2013, 10:53pm PDT |
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jeep wrote:
They used Unity for this which I thought had an entity system in it by default but I haven't cracked it open to look so I don't know that for sure. Basically they made a game whose target audience is adult software engineers and then told them some basic software shit can't be done. That it is not a trivial task means either someone is shitty at coding or...basically that's it. They made a shitty decision before or they are simply not competent to fix it now. Basically no matter what kind of excuse they come up with the game isn't big enough to make it insurmountable for a competent software engineer.
Now to me the feature of "save anywhere" is so critical you fucking solve it step one and it's worth any amount of effort to make it work perfectly, but I also know how to write data to and then read it back from a file, or even two separate files if I have to, so maybe I'm not the best judge of difficulty there.
The Wikipedia page for the game says that it is available for OSX and Linux as well as Windows. I don't care enough to see if it's actually available on those systems at the moment, but let's say that it is. I would hope that they made some sort of virtual machine so the game worked on those three platforms. If they got/get that from Unity, then great. I don't think Unity supports quicksaving by default because of threads like this.
I don't know how Unity works on those platforms and I also don't care enough to figure out how. But apparently, Unity does work on all three major platforms, but doesn't use a VM that would therefore be easier to save the entire state of? Good grief.
I agree 100% that they fucked up in making Shadowrun Returns. With the money this thing has made, it would be nice if they hired a contractor to implement saving.
This line bears a repeat:
Basically they made a game whose target audience is adult software engineers and then told them some basic software shit can't be done.
Haha.
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Berlin DLC delayed until 2014 by WITTGENSTEIN 08/20/2013, 7:40am PDT 
Maybe they'll throw a save system in NT by jeep 08/20/2013, 7:57am PDT
From the Kickstarter email list by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/20/2013, 10:53am PDT
it's probably something fundamental to the way they implemented it by jeep 08/20/2013, 10:32pm PDT
Re: it's probably something fundamental to the way they implemented it by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/20/2013, 10:53pm PDT
Re: it's probably something fundamental to the way they implemented it by motherfuckerfoodeater 08/21/2013, 9:53am PDT
Re: it's probably something fundamental to the way they implemented it by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/29/2013, 1:38pm PDT
from the same unity thread you linked by jeep 08/21/2013, 11:53pm PDT
Re: from the same unity thread you linked by Entropy Stew 08/29/2013, 2:55pm PDT
I didn't read the docs by jeep 08/30/2013, 1:24pm PDT
Is one of your goals to make a game? I'd love a jeep game. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/30/2013, 1:47pm PDT
Re: Is one of your goals to make a game? I'd love a jeep game. by jeep 08/31/2013, 11:59am PDT
I'm really enjoying Go by Entropy Stew 09/01/2013, 7:52am PDT
I understood about 80, 85% of that by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/21/2013, 1:40am PDT
Features that are actually in their pay grade have a 50% chance of making it in. NT by Worm 08/21/2013, 6:10am PDT
They're hemming and hawing about putting it in Berlin by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/29/2013, 6:30pm PDT
Re: They're hemming and hawing about putting it in Berlin by jeep 08/30/2013, 1:19pm PDT
I bet some of it is stupid programmer pride. by motherfuckerfoodeater 08/30/2013, 9:02pm PDT
if only they had this excuse by jeep 08/30/2013, 11:59pm PDT
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