D vs Java

[Unknown W. Brackets]

Well, what you can do is wait for the game to get old, and then release 
the source.  You won't lose much doing that, but others will gain from 
the source and that will feed back to you.

I'm not saying anything about your coding skills!  I just mean it as a 
warning: some people these days are not good coders, and they get 
completely shown up when they try to do open source.  A lot of 
closed-source programmers could never make it in open source.

But, then, there's always people who will use crappy code, because they 
don't know or don't care.  But it causes problems.

But as I said, as long as you know what you're getting into, it's cool. 
  Forum software, which I did a lot of, is rough because security and 
functionality constantly fight each other.  XSS is really a hard thing 
to master.  Games don't have to worry about these things as much.

Hopefully my comments are of some help to you :).

Thanks,
-[Unknown]


> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> You provide a framework with which people can make games (except, 
>> let's assume you actually make it so the games can be unique and of 
>> some quality, not something useless.)  This isn't far from what big 
>> game companies do, by the way.  Then, you open source/free this.  You 
>> provide support for it, services again.
> 
> Yeah, this is how I'm thinking of doing it (games that is). I'm all for 
> open source for the framework as it will allow others making games to 
> contribute useful additions and fixes as well. I even think it would be 
> nice to give away the source for the game for those that buy it. But 
> obviously this can be a problem.
> 
>> The only problem is, if you suck as a programmer, you're gonna have 
>> problems.
> 
> Hmm, what are you trying to say about my coding skills? :)
> 
> Well I learned Pascal in high school and college and taught myself C, 
> C++, and a whole bunch of other languages. I guess I'll just have to 
> work twice as hard so that I don't make a fool of myself. I just wish I 
> could retain all of the information I've read in books and websites...