Spring RTS Engine

why do you take the time to add -name after your post when it's blatantly obvious who is posting. It's not usenet anymore. It's a good usability practice to put you name at the end so the user doesn't need to scroll back up on a long post. Being redundant isn't a bad thing. Also, it keeps it consis...

I thought this article on Slashdot had some interesting crossover questions for Spring.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/03/1547256

- nXain

nXain, I've been wondering about your motives for several days now, because in terms of time=money, you've spent a considerable amount (and I don't think it has been fruitless in the least). That's pretty much on target - I'm actually nearly out of time to mess with the Spring community (sometimes ...

You're surely misinformed to be a business professional, such cases are handled by the Free Software Fundation , and currently all open source projects rely on it for legal cases regardless they have a project society or not. Not to mention if you want to be listened, the last thing you should do i...

but I won't promise not to do it sometime in the future why is it that i'm not in the least bit concerned? No reason to be concerned - the license is such that every change to the engine had to be open source, too, which could then be pulled back into the core spring - if only the two trees wouldn'...

I think you will have see this come aswell. you want spring to be all that competitive and succesfull. what pleasure besides the fact your "new" ideas will come to an realisation is ther in it for u? Nothing. I'm not sure what more I can say about that. I've already told you what I would ...

A few notes about my motivations. I believe games are THE media of the 21st century, but the medium is still in it's infancy and largely driven by the retail shelf. Games are also incredibly hard to make (as you know). Games are also probably the best tool for education ever created and the potentia...

but I won't promise not to do it sometime in the future why is it that i'm not in the least bit concerned? Do you actually know anything at all about what bidding for those grants entails? As a matter of fact I do and I've used quite a bit of grant money on projects in the past for various governme...

so by reading all this you come to the community be soul reason only to make our project world wide known. i am impressed of the way you can motivate yourself. or you have other reasons why you want all this. I was wondering when someone was going to ask that. I do not currently have any goals conc...

Below is an a short article that I hope helps to explain where money for a Spring Foundation would come from and how it would be used. Keep in mind this in NON-PROFIT grant money and is only one example of one organization. How many people on this board can say they'd rather see researchers waste mo...

Yes a games company could pay but I strongly suspect the serious RTS genre is a guaranteed bomb on mouse-less, action-oriented platforms (Spring on Wii might be fun though). I agree. Making or porting over any project that behaves like a conventional PC RTS to either the console or portable arena w...

Linux is realistic, and so is Spring. They're all perfectly 'realistic'. Just because you come from an environment of getting paid for your coding doesn't mean that there aren't coders out there who do it for fun, in their FREE time. And Spring is far to graphically advanced for any mobile device t...

Here's another way to think about it... a Spring Foundation would be the VC for Spring based projects. It would find funds by trying to find common agendas with sources of funds that could be used to better the engine with no strings attached. Probably the most important thing it could do is help to...

@ Hobo Joe As of right now I really don't think there's a realistic answer. I'd love to see something like the Blender foundation for Spring, but as mentioned there's nothing for it to sell except downloadable content which goes against what I just said. It's a vicious circle. Linux has never been ...

I think you're getting WAY ahead of yourself. . Go back and read my post again. I think you'll find that I said that it was unlikely that you could make money with Spring selling games but I wanted to address that first because the Part B will be stuff largely unfamiliar to the Spring community. In...

I have a 2 ghz machine running a Radeon 9600 that Spring positively crawls on when I play anything other than a small, tactical game with no Lua. I have a hard time believing that a handheld platform can do better without a lot of work. It would be a lot of work, but this is where you have to forge...

Plus no keyboard shortcuts. It could be done, but our games would have to be simplified quite a bit to make it work, but it could be done. The best approach would be to design a game for the target platform based on how you think a user will use the app (even if it's 50% the same as an existing pro...

This paragraph is pretty revealing as to exactly how much you know specifically about Spring. No offense, but I think you really are underqualified to be making these suggestions and expecting serious and respectful responses. Maybe you need to get out of the PC box a little. If Spring works on a L...

Appendum for Part A Two places that might work for selling Spring based games is the iPhone Shop and Android Shop. Of course, I suppose the big question is if anyone has tried to get Spring working on a mobile platform and designing a game specifically for those platforms. Mmmm... now that I'm think...

Here's my current POV about investment into Spring (and Spring based projects...). This is part A, focused on the issues with selling a Spring based game. -- I don't think that anyone expecting to make money would invest money via a game into a Spring project. It would be a very high-risk investment...