Comments on: Project Yellow?

By: Cheap Custom Built Computers

Cheap Custom Built Computers — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:44:32 +0000

Cheap Custom Built Computers

I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting

By: Mady

Mady — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:05:08 +0000

Goo idea the only rule is a strong and innovative game play ! and not a technical demo !

By: TLC

TLC — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:50:47 +0000

What you need are programmers. Since the blender program is soley meant for animation, there is a slim chance of project yellow starting anytime soon. Instead, someone should start working on the project themselves. Most of you have some really good ideas, so if you know any programming, then you should start the project now.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:55:11 +0000

"Right, this was not news, it's an 'editorial'. I'll add a new category for that. I think articles such as these have a place on this site."

I'd love to see editorials at blenderNation. Well stated by whom they are written, so we, the readers can easely read or skip them knowing they are based on jornalism or poppulism, just as in paper newspapers. I never read an editorial as NEWS HEADLINE (ever seen the blender.org homepage?) in my paper, but then again I don't read the HilversumsDagblad, maybe that's more like the Story? I don't know.

@david:
I'm not going to (further) repond to your post, as you will probably only feel more hurt and I wouldn't want that to be the purpose of my reply. And yes, I have Bart's email, and I already replied to the emotional mail he send me.
I can say that a project Yellow is worth a far bigger news article or editorial then that we see here.

By: M0rbidAngel

M0rbidAngel — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:01:17 +0000

Good morning, excuse the poverty and faultsof my language, i don't excel in english language.
I enjoy the idea that Blender users look at the possibility of making a game. I'am working for several months (about 2 years, in reallity) on the gamedesign of a rpg/mrpg/mmorpg. This concept try to have a new approach of rpg games : no character leveling, gameplay based on Tekken (play with a pad to make combo hits) with a new esthetic to leave the classiacal races like elvel, orcs and dwarves and a real new scenario.
A big part of this concept is that that project MUST be create with Opensource tools. For now, I am alone and start to interest people at this concept. Probably one of the most ambitious created by a non-professionnal, so surely one of the most longer and harder to realize.
I enjoy the idea of people who would discover this project, so dont hesitate to contact me.
Obviously, this project is free but is not transalted in english yet.
morbidangel@lilive.net

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:17:54 +0000

Right, this was not news, it's an 'editorial'. I'll add a new category for that. I think articles such as these have a place on this site.

By: David Millet

David Millet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:23:34 +0000

@Joeri,

The idea that there should be a "Project Orange" for the Game Engine has been floating around IRC for months (maybe even a year now) and there's nothing I can do to track it down to the original person that originally came up with the idea. Sorry about that. I hope you'll get over it. Perhaps the news is that this great idea is floating around IRC wating for someone to do something about it? I don't care how you decide to interpret it.

Three more points:

One: BlenderNation is what Bart wants it to be, and since he read this article and he is the one that actually pushed the publish button (I authored the article and did not publish it, despite the fact that it says "Published by David Millet"), I'm guessing he was supportive of this article. If you really have a problem with how Bart runs his site, I suggest you take it up with him. He's in your neck of the woods anyways, while I'm way off in the western United States. Who knows? Maybe he'd be kind enough sit down with you and treat you to a pint while he listens to your rants.

Two: Obviously there is a lot of interest in the idea, as you can tell by the general responses to the post. If this idea had first been posted in forums, received a huge response, and then written about here, would you still be complaining? It would still be nothing more than an idea. Even just an idea can be newsworthy, and I guess the community's generally favorable response should indicate to you that Bart was right on the money when he published this.

Three: Would you consider this an opinion piece? Newspapers, newscasts, and news sites are full of published opinion, and most newspapers have an opinions section.

I'm just an author; if you have any other complaints, I'll be sure to forward those over to Bart, or do it yourself here: http://www.blendernation.com/submit-news/

David

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:03:32 +0000

This is a fantastic idea. I've been gearing up to make a (free/open) game of my own, and have played with the Blender->Ogre export tools, and got some little tech demos running. I stand to benefit quite a bit from such a project.

So many features and enhancements came out of Project Orange's development that I'm still drinking it all in. If a similar explosion were to happen in the game area, particularly the Python bindings, I'd be a very happy camper.

Where do I pre-order the DVD? ;^)

By: epat

epat — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:01:04 +0000

I wanna see it happen man – it sounds great – I like to think the game engine could get an overhaul – still, that will rest on the amount of coders you can muster – I'm busy at the moment (as always) so I'm in no state to volunteer (plus there's the fact that so far, I've never even commited a single patch to the patch tracker lol) but anyhow, if you can attract enough developer attention then something pretty amazing could come out of it!

-epat. :)

By: Joeri

Joeri — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:58:32 +0000

@BenA: "What if…?" is gossip, "What if the queen is gay"… Well the queen is not gay, so it's no news.
I would think (hope) that blenderNation would stick to news, not gossip. At first I thought it was just my (mis)interpretetion. But then Rich got called a troll and the hairs in my neck started to raise.

There are nummerous posts on ba and b.org that cover this subject, on a forum, where speculation belongs. But maybe David knows something more then we do…? If not, then I agree with Rich: He is sure to get more attention here than at a forum.

If you want to I can get into more detail as to why this news item is bad journalism.
You can take a look at for example his research: "However, there is one other idea that has floated around, and I believe that it is worthy of your attention (I do not know to whom the credit for this idea belongs, but it is most certainly not myself) ". No he does not know it. How interesting, a simple google could have brought him very far, or maybe do some investigating and ask people who might know. Project Green for example was mentioned at the bconf by Ton and some few people know about it.
Ofcourse googling project Yellow now will lead to blenderNation, good job David.
"many wonder what the result would be " Many? Really? From what source is this reliable information?

"At some point someone had to come up with the idea of making a short which became Project Orange and look what happened when people did get involved. That's the point of the post for a possible Yellow."
Look what misinformation can do. That's totally not what happend. Stop spreading lies. Get your facts right on a news site or go to a forum. Ton came up with the "idea" to make a short. He raised funding. He hired 6+ professional artists to take on this monster task. Organised housing, workspace, machines, software, marketing, pre-sale and after party. That's a little more than posting an idea… The Orange idea was posted after the deal was done for about 90%… So, I wonder what David knows that I don't.

"Published by David Millet on April 7th, 2007 in Orange, 3D News"
I think it should be filed in Heavy Speculation and I'm dreaming of Genie, not Orange and 3D News.