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WTF "gaming apps"? Can't you say "games"?
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Right - and then I'd get the complaints about "where's the board game option? Where's the crossword option? Where's the choose-your-own-adventure option?".
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, most people would say "computer games" then.
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It is one of the immutable laws of the universe that no matter what you write someone will complain about it. 
IMO, "gaming applications" is a good general term.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: I had thought that once. Then I did some Beta game testing 
Same here. I was talked into beta testing the 5th major release of TOAW[^] (yes I know it says III; it's complicated) when Matrix Games acquired the property and invited a number of prominent members of the online community to test their initial release.
Matrix made out like a bandit on the initial update. They hired a programmer who was a fan of the game on a fixed price contract to fix a few priority bugs and swap DRM systems; but he kept going fixing lesser issues, making it harder to get away with replaying the same cheating in PBEM games, making the AI significantly less stupid (if the scenario designer set things up for it), and getting an order of magnitude speedup out of the slowest part of turn processing. Near the end of the cycle he admitted to having done so much work his effective hourly rate had fallen below minimum wage. All the fixes and updates were a great boon to the community; but I was so burned out that nearly 7 years later I've been unable to go back to the game. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks and Regards,
RK_PRABAKAR
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rk_prabakar wrote: I'd love to play game
I have always thought that working as a software developer in general was like getting paid to play.
I am always amazed that they pay me to do what I do.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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Don't ever say that in a place where management can read/listen to you.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford
Emmanuel Medina Lopez
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I wrote a program in VB6 once... 
It was about a power cucumber which had to reach the right side of the screen without colliding with some knives...
It was terrible, ugly as hell and enough to pass the test on programming... I still feel myself dirty...
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Haha. Wrote something in that direction too (also with vb6)
it was some sort of snake, but just a ball which didn't get bigger 
1 Forms timer, lots of repeated code, and collision detection was a complete failure (sometimes you were able to "jump" through walls)... ah good memories. one of my very first applications I every wrote 
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I used to write games in COBOL and Fortran on TI-990s and Prime minis - but that's about it.
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I coded up a couple of cute bits on a Wang wordprocessor once, does that count - old farts unite!!!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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They all count
I did a Dig Dug clone on Emacs
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Since ever I've only been working on business management and banking/financial apps.
Either windows or web based, but no gaming experience on this side.
cheers!
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Same here. Would love to have a stab at games but it just gets left at the bottom of my "list of things to do". Normally due to my kids demanding that they want to bundle me or work demanding I creat the next cost saving application!!
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Yeah same here. I've been programming on wall street for 25 years. Always thought it would be neat to write a game, but just never quite got around to it.
Over on Google+ there's a "one game a month" community that's an awful lot of fun to watch. But I've got too much else to do with my time to be writing games.
Bad enough I play them.
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Yeah too true, too true.
The financial down turn this last year or so has really made companies look at "cost saving". So all those little modules of excellence developed to help with that have kept me really busy. I have had the oppertunatiy to turn my xbox on a couple of times but to be frank, time just evaporates.
How is life on the street? maybe we could team up and develop a financial game that users use to save as much money off-shore whilst dodging taxation missiles and audit bullets..... oh, sorry, got mistaken for real life. 
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heh. Programmer job market on Wall is never TOO bad. There are so many people who have NO idea what they're doing that a reasonable programmer with some experience and the ability to find their arse at dinnertime after a burrito lunch can get hired.
Just know C++, Unix scripting (incl perl or python, but preferably perl) and SQL really well.
And for the love of God, go w2 contracting, not full time.
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I selected all but console, and it doesn't look like all my selections were counted.
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Try restarting you computer and make sure it's plugged in
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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"No" trumps everything.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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