Re: Newton, James Cook and the Archi.

In message <4f2d91761cjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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          John Cartmell <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <07e98e2d4f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>    <newpostcentral@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Personally I think BASIC is a brilliant way of an amateur writing a
>> freeware game and the only wall anybody will come up against is the
>> graphics. If there could be an investigation into how this could be
>> addressed *that* would make for an excellent Qercus article!
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> In many cases a good start would be with vector graphics - and we're
starting
> a new series based around ArtWorks. Richard Ashbery's article on simple
> animation (Qercus 281) could be used as basic ideas - and of course it
depends
> upon what you mean by games. Levels for platform games could very well
be
> designed in ArtWorks. Anyone want to produce a couple of articles as
part of
> that series?
> 
It would be a good start for somebody yes but it would have to have a 
cartoon-like 2D style I'd think no matter how good they were. A game 
like Flashback is over, what, 12 years old? Even that had 3D style 
graphics and realism.

Andrew


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