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Re: Do you remember Beyond Virtual (BV)?
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06/06/07 01:46
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The short answer: for minimum risk, only buy a development environment that will do everything you need right now.
Never buy software on promises and "upcoming features".
Now the real trick is know what features your upcoming game will need (this is where design is key) and what features an development environment actually has.
The problem is that when you buy a development environment that are suppost to do something (it already have that features that you need implemented), but then it doesn't do it. Those features doesn't work right!
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Re: Do you remember Beyond Virtual (BV)?
[Re: XNASorcerer]
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06/06/07 16:44
06/06/07 16:44
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The problem is that when you buy a development environment that are suppost to do something (it already have that features that you need implemented), but then it doesn't do it. Those features doesn't work right!
Correct. That is where testing is key. If you can't get a key feature you need to work in the demo (or they don't have a demo), then you should probably look else ware.
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Re: Do you remember Beyond Virtual (BV)?
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06/06/07 18:43
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Yep, fully agree as that seems to be the only way I can ever find what I'm looking for, Demo, test, reject or keep - no demo, no interest for me. ..and then again..its really good if the business stays in business too (was really dissapointed when GameBench sunk without a trace). Having said all that, what the heck is wrong with GStudio, the first to offer a complete dev environment (now someone else is claiming the honour of that spiel)and more than capable of delivering what we are after...if only we knew how to leverage it to our own advantage (youknow..scripting, programming scripting,,,did I say scripting again?) After 5 years of looking, nothing yet has come even close to GStudio for an average user bloke like me.
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