A question about game development

How much time would it take you to make a game from planning to the final testing?
And for those of you that will say that it depends on the game, here is a more specific example: How much would it take you to develop a backgammon game, with computer AI included?

Well, it still is dependant on many other things..
For one, how much people are working on it. what are their skills, what are the exact specs of the game...
We can't look into a glass marble and tell you how long it will take ;)

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At my company we have evaluated this very handy tool, and we have only three questions...
* Will the autocomplete feature be more intelligent. For example pl/sql developer recognize partially written table names and suggest a full name.
* How to debug and step through the procedures?? This is a MUST!!!!
* Is it possible to add source control integration (source safe) for the packages/procedures?
With these features, it will be super!!
/henrik

When I was at the VSLive in San Francisco back in February, I spent some time at the Oracle booth and I asked for Source Control also.
I was told to my happy suprise that lots of other developers had been asking for that also but I was shocked when the Oracle reps told me that they didn't understand why people would want this feature or how they would use it. They tried to convince me that "Generate Create Script" was what I wanted.
Btw, "Generate Create Script" ticks me off. It always sticks the package owner in the create script and when I check it back in VSS I have to go in and edit it back out!!!
It seems to me that the mindset behind many Oracle tools is to work "on the database". I will admit that I don't use many Oracle tools. I used Procedure builder a few times but thats about it. To me it seemed pretty clunky, but it was nice to be able to debug a stored procedure. Or it was until you crashed the SP and it became locked in the database and un-updatable without a bounce ;)
Most developers that I know, prefer to work "on their hard-drives" and publish to the database or some variation on that.
I would love to see a tool for editing SPs and Packages where I could check out my code, make a change, compile it on the DB, and check my changes back into the source control. One more catch, we use VSS's ability to update the version number in a source code file on check-in so the version that ends up in the DB should have the "new" version number in the comment header.
Also, the "Auto Code Generation" tool is not geared towards the type of code I write. I thought we were supposed to get away from writing data access code in our forms? Yet, this tool throws all kinds of stuff in for doing just that and no tools to make it easier (that I could find) to create a data acces layer for wrapping my stored procedures and packages. Where are these tools, Oracle? Help us write better code, not worse.
The autocomplete is nice, but I have trouble with it. For example, if I type a table name and "." it will bring up all the columns in the table. If I type "R" it scrolls to the first column that starts with "R". But if I type "S" next, instead of scrolling to the first column that starts with "RS" it spits out the currently selected column and sticks an "S" on the end. Other times it doesn't work at all.
The "Query" window is next to useless. It should work more like a SQL Plus (DOS) window. Or at the very least more like a SQL Server Query Analyzer Query window. I'll keep my SQL Plus until this is way better.
Hopefully the next version (or 2 or 3) will be better. I hope Oracle is listening. They did acknowledge that other developers were asking for some of the same improvements.

Question about Game Center games...

I have a 1st gen ipod so i can get 4.0 but i have 3.1. What im curious about is can i buy games that are from game center but require atleast 3.0 to play? i know if its a game center game and needs 4.0 i cant play it obviously, but if its a game center game and needs 3.0 i can play it right? Just asking because since you can only get the game center (with the folders or w/e) with 4.0. just making sure.
i really want to get angry birds and fragger.

Try launching each game individually(games that have been updated to support game center) so it connects to game center and from that point on it should be added to your game center list.

OK I have a question about "game center" Is it possible to log into the game center with a different apple ID, just within the game center and not anywhere else in the phone?

I have 2 Iphones, 1 is a personal phone and the other is a work phone, i will be using my work phone only right away, I have an appointed Apple ID on my work phone and i want to transfer my Clash of clans Village with out having to attach my other apple ID to the phone? So basically can my Game center have 1 Apple ID and my phone use another? Hopefully that makes sense.

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General questions about mobile development

Hello all,
We need to choose a multi-targeting development platform for mobile devices and need some expert views before deciding. Our options are going ahead with HTML 5 and CSS (which limits us in some ways, especially file uploading and downloading limitations with mobile Safari) and of course Adobe Air.
I have some questions and appreciate if you answer them.
What do you think? Is mobile development with Adobe Air is mature enough?
Is there a need to install Adobe Air runtime before running mobile applications or the runtime is embedded to the application in some way?
Is it possible to access file system of mobile devices?
Is it possible to use SQLite on iOS or is there an alternative?
In a comment to a blog post, someone said that Apple doesn't allow Flash to communicate with web, is that true? (I don't think it's true but needed to confirm)
This is it for now, thanks in advance.

Lots of questions! Here are answers in the order you said things:
Amongst HTML5 limitations is the ability to play sound. If you look at Google's version of Angry Birds, it uses Flash to play the sound. That wouldn't be possible in iOS.
Adobe AIR is very nearly mature enough. Lots of people already have apps in the stores with the current version, but one of these days it will get better still.
The runtime is part of the app package on iOS. With Android the device may come with AIR installed, but if not, only the first AIR based app the user installs will trigger an automatic install of AIR, or an update of that if need be.
You can't roam around the file system of mobile devices, but you can save and load data.
I don't know if you can have SQLite in AIR based apps. If that becomes the most important feature, and if AIR doesn't do it, you could look at LiveCode, it supports SQL. http://www.runrev.com/
Flash cannot load in anything from the web that includes executable code. That isn't a Flash limitation, it's an iOS restriction. It can use images, sounds, video, and Flash animations from the web. And it can read from or write to web services.

Question about HSL Develop Controls vs. Photoshop Selective Color

Im an advanced Photoshop user and I enjoy shooting landscapes, macros and abstracts. Ive just started to experiment with Lightroom and have used it to process several hundred shots from a recent trip to the California Coast.
Even though my usage of the next Develop controls in Lightroom is still pretty limited, I find the new Basic Develop and Tone Controls to be very intuitive to use and Im getting better results than I could from Adobe Camera Raw 3.7 and earlier. Therefore, kudos to the Lightroom team.
But, I also have some questions regarding the HSL controls and what seems to be an omission of some useful functionality. To help with framing my question lets assume that we have shot of a waterfall in the forest. The waterfall is in partial shade and the rest of the scene is in partial to full sun. Also the histogram for image indicates that a blend of several bracketed images isnt needed to deal with the overall dynamic range within the scene.
If I was processing this shot in Photoshop, I would likely adjust the overall White Balance / Exposure / Black Clip / Contrast / Brightness in Camera Raw and then finish the image within Photoshop. Since the water of the waterfall described above is in the shade, it will likely have a color cast relative to the White Balance that I set for the rest of the image that is full sun.
With Photoshop, I would often set a couple of sample points and then use a Selective Color layer to correct for the color cast in the whites of the water and to neutralize the blacks in the shade. I would also sometimes increase the amount of black in the Selective Color Blacks tab to enhance the image contrast. These adjustments could have layer masks associated with them but for this example lets assume that the dont need any mask. Thus, I would hope that I could accomplish the same type of globally based whites and blacks color cast removal within Lightroom but I cant seem to find a way to accomplish this.
With Lightroom, I see that there are a set of HSL controls that should be able to handle much of what Selective Color could handle on a global level within Photoshop but I dont see any controls to deal with the Whites or Blacks. Am I missing something? Is there a way to accomplish the type of correction that I described above with Lightroom or am I going to have to take the image out to Photoshop and use Curves and/or Selective Color?
Dave

Fred, Richard - Thanks for responding.
I've tried the TAT tool but it only controls the colors controlled by the sliders in the HSL palette. Therefore, it doesn't seem to have any affect on the hue of the whites or blacks in a picture.
Regarding selective editing, I realize the the controls within Lightroom are global but unless I use a Layer Mask the Selective Color functionality within Photoshop is also global. That is, if I change the hue of the blacks then all blacks are affected. Hence, it seems to me that the HSL controls within Lightroom and the CYMK controls within Selective color can be used to do much the same thing. The big difference is that the Selective Color control set include the ability to adjust blacks and whites but this isn't included within Lightroom.
I also posted my message in the ACR forum as ACR 4.0 is going to include the same set of controls that the Develop module in Lightroom contains. Someone there suggested that I might be able to use the split toning controls to warm up the shadows and I will give this a try. I also plan to post in the Feature Requests Forum.
Thanks again for your help.
Dave

Questions about Oracle Developer

Hi,
Can anyone provide me with information regarding the difference between Oracle Developer 6.0 and Oracle Developer Server 6.0? I need to use the Developer tools to connect to a remote server for development purpose and would like to know which software I have to use.
Thanks!

Hi! Please post this question in the Forms6i or Oracle Reports forums. Forms and Reports were previously parts of Oracle Developer.
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A question about games

Hey, Ive ordered the 24" 2.8GHZ with the 2GB of RAM and the ATI X2600 PRO and a 500GB HDD. I'm wondering how will this be for playing games, I'll be installing vista ultimate in a 100GB partition (is this a good size do you think, just for games?) and I want to know how it'll handle things on native res. I want to be playing new games like Oblivion and Crysis. I don't expect to run em on max (well not Crysis at least) but I would like to run em on at least med. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks -

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Sorry to bring this up again, exept I found this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbY1kTP79vc on youtube showing a 24
That's quite surprising to say the least, considering the lacklustre benchmark scores for the 2600 Pro in reviews.
I obviously can't say from that low quality YouTube video how high the graphics settings are cranked up in the game, but it definately looks like at least advanced shader effects are turned on.
Shadows were the real killer on my PC in Bioshock (Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, Geforce 7900 GTO as I think I might have mentioned further up, played at 1680x1050) - I had to turn character shadows off if I recall correctly, otherwise there would be occasions where framerates would drop down to low to mid 20s, and this game didn't really feel properly smooth to me below around 35-40, and I didn't really feel like having to drop in and out of the settings menu all the time.
I just did some digging around, and I found a few reports indicating that the graphics card/chip in the iMacs isn't actually a Radeon 2600 Pro, but a slightly underclocked 2600 XT mobility. And at least the regular XT was significantly faster than the Pro in the reviews I linked to the other day.
Since I'm still waiting for the store to call and say my Mac has arrived (eight days and counting now, I hadn't expected it to take this long), I obviously have no way of confirming that. And it also sounds like it may only show up as an XT in Windows.
I also found a very informative article that specifically deals with BioShock performance on "budget cards" - there are a lot of pages, but here is the link to benchmark results for high graphics settings (including 1920x1200), which indicates that the 2600 XT might actually be just about able to pull that off at playable framerates if you run it in DX9 mode.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bioshockmainstream_gpuperformance/page6.asp
The 2600 Pro isn't included, but you would imagine it would perform significantly worse, though might still manage at medium graphics settings.
This also looks like BioShock is one of those games that is a bit better optimized for ATI than nVidia - if I recall correctly the nVidia 8600 range otherwise usually comes out on top.
Impressed as I am, I still wouldn't expect the iMacs to handle Crysis or many other upcoming games though.

Question about games

In the iPod nano 3g manual it says games are available for download from the iTunes store.
"When I go to the iTunes store, in the iPod Games section it says "iPod Games are compatible with fifth generation iPods (with video) only. They cannot be played in iTunes or on the iPhone."
What about the 3g nano?
doug

I think the only ones that are currently compatible are the ones that came on the nano. If you go to the games section on the iTunes store, it says that Ms. Pacman, Sudoku and Tetris are coming soon for nano. So hopefully that will be sooner than later.

A simple question about games

Hello people
Ok so i got an 80GB iPod and apparently it has a pre-loaded game on it :O
So how do i download the game to my itunes library for backup?

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Ok so i got an 80GB iPod and apparently it has a pre-loaded game on it :O
So how do i download the game to my itunes library for backup?
You don't. They are part of the firmware. If you need to restore your iPod to factory settings they will be recreated as part of the process.
My tv episodes are not syncing right... They are all out of order. *not even in alphabetical order.
They appear correctly in the itunes window *and under the tv shows tab in the ipod tab.
Bt when looking at the episodes on the iPod the episodes are all jumbled up how do i fix thiis?
You're not alone here. From other posts it appears that they should sort correctly if the release date is present, however there is no easy way to adjust this. Failing this, they seem to be ordered with most recently added to the libray first, but it's not really clear what the basis is.
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Question about Tutorial: Developing RIA Web Applications with Oracle ADF

I'm learning about ADF and JDeveloper:
According to the tutorial, after I've bound the data controls for the top right panel and bottom right panel, the bottom panel should always show the employee selected from the collection above.
However when I do the instructions, the employee information in the bottom right employee area never changes regardless if I select a different employee in the top panel collection.
I can't figure out why the top and bottom panels don't link together. I'm using the same View in both panels....
I'm using Build JDEVADF_11.1.1.1.0_GENERIC_090615.0017.5407
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Rob

The mechanism that synch the two section of the page is called partial page rendering.
It should work if you follow the instructions in the tutorial, but if it doesn't it is quite easy to fix:
In the structure pane, select the Form component that surrounds the employees update section
Then look at the properties inspector for a property call partial trigger
Click the arrow on the right of it to select edit - and navigate your page hierarchy to choose the table component.
An example is here:
http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2008/05/master_with_two_details_on_the.html

Questions about the Apple Developer Enterprise Program

Hi there,
i got some questions about the Apple Developer Enterprise Program:
- is there a way a company can create their own "AppStore" with only the APPs the employees should use?
- when I developed the enterprise app are the install files on a apple hosted server or do i need my own infrastructure to distribute my app?
Thanks in advance for answers!

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HT5262 Hi, I have a question about iCloud. I have an ipod 4th generation and im getting a 5th generation. i have lots of games such as subway surfers and temple run 2. I worked and played really hard on earning stuff and have also made in app purchases. D

Hi, I have a question about iCloud. I have an ipod 4th generation and im getting a 5th generation. i have lots of games such as subway surfers and temple run 2. I worked and played really hard on earning stuff and have also made in app purchases. Does iCloud save that kind of stuff?

See:
iOS: Transferring information from your current iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device
However, not all in-app purchases will transfer to another device. For which ones ill not see:
iTunes Store: About In-App Purchases

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM... I've read some other questions about this and I realized... Why do I not have 560mb of VRAM since I have 8GB of RAM? Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM...
I've read some other questions about this and I realized... Why do I not have 560mb of VRAM since I have 8GB of RAM?
Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?
I've learned by reading other topics that I can't upgrade my graphics card on my Macbook Pro because it's soldered into the motherboard or somthing like that, but please tell me if there is any way to get more video ram by chaning some setting or upgrading something else. I'd also like to know why I only have 256MB of VRAM when I have 8GB of RAM, since I have 8GB of RAM I thought I was supposed to have 560mb of VRAM...
So the two questions are...
Is there any way to upgrade my VRAM, so that I can play games on steam?
Why do I only have 256MB VRAM when I have 8GB total RAM?
Other Info:
I have a quad core i7 Processor.
My graphcics card is the AMD Radeon HD 6490M.
I am also trying to play games on my BOOTCAMPed side of my mac, or my Windows 7 Professional side.
THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN REPLY,
Dylan

The only two items that a user can change on a MBP are the RAM and HDD (Retinas not included). You have what the unit came with and the only way you will be able to change that is to purchase a MBP with superior graphics
If you are very much into gaming, the I suggest A PC. They are far superior for that type of application to a MBP.
Ciao.

Hello , how r u, can i ask 1 question about xcode, i have mac os x 10.7.5 , n xcode version 4.6.3 i want build apps for ios 7.1 n mac os 1.9 ,, , but my macbook is old late 2008 macbook 4,1, so can i develop apps for ios7 n 1.9 using xcode 4.6.3, bcz my

hello , how r u,
can i ask 1 question about xcode, i have mac os x 10.7.5 , n xcode version 4.6.3 i want build apps for ios 7.1 n mac os 1.9 ,, , but my macbook is old late 2008 macbook 4,1, so can i develop apps for ios7 n 1.9 using xcode 4.6.3, bcz my machine cant upadte on 1.8 n 10.9,, ihave 2gb ram . core 2 duo pr, plz rely asap,
thnxs

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