Re: Proposal - PBM Writing System

From: tim@antsnest.demon.co.uk (Tim Lomas)

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 10:56:04 +0000

In article <1994Feb3.182622.3327@cs.tcd.ie>
           rwallace@cs.tcd.ie "Russell Wallace" writes:

> We do indeed lack creative ideas, so surely a system which makes it
> easier for nonprogrammers to implement their creative ideas would help
> here?
>
> We do *not* lack looks, on the contrary; most of the commercial PBMs
> I've seen have fallen victim to an obsession with slick packaging at the
> expense of the game itself.  (There are, of course, exceptions.)
>
>

I'd agree that there are a number of games around which look good and play
very badly, that's fault in design naturally.

Everyone has their own abilities and it's often the case that those with the
bright design ideas don't have the programming skills to implement things
properly. A generic tool isn't going to help this, all it is likely to lead
to is non programmers producing bad games from good ideas, even a generic tool
requires programming skills to implement an idea properly, it may be a
different programming language but it's still programming.

The real solution is for the designers and programmers to get together and
work together, that way you get both skills and hopefully ewnd up with a game
which is both well designed and well programmed.

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References

Proposal - PBM Writing System
rwallace@cs.tcd.ie (Russell Wallace)
Wed, 02 Feb 1994 18:16:47 +0000
Re: Proposal - PBM Writing System
ratt@Castle_Chaos.com (The RATT)
Wed, 02 Feb 1994 21:07:08 +0000
Re: Proposal - PBM Writing System
rwallace@cs.tcd.ie (Russell Wallace)
Thu, 03 Feb 1994 18:26:22 +0000