From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-28 23:35:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:29:35 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-42-4.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1017387041 18993 128.83.111.212 (29 Mar 2002 07:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:30:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "Enrico A." Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21817 Date: 2002-03-29T01:29:35-06:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:10:15 -0600, Enrico A. wrote: > Ciao! > in your opinion what kind of game can show the power of Ada ? > a sport game (soccer, nhl), strategic game (like command&conquer), > flight (Ace combat,Ms flight simulator), rps (Doom, Quake, Halo), > Adventure (Zak McKracken:))), Day of the tentacle), rpg (Baldur's > gate) etc ? IMO Ada would be useful for a wide variety of games (for exactly the same reason it's useful for other stuff), and games are probably the best domain for "advocacy" projects if you are trying to get people interested in Ada, OSS, or whatever. Probably picking a genre on the basis of what game *you* would like to have is the best strategy for answering your question. Think of a game you've played and liked but always found yourself saying "this would be lots better if you could do XYZ", and implement a version with XYZ. That will help motivate you to keep perfecting the game even after you've got the basic system working. Good luck, Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas