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The biggest thing J.J. Abrams could of done with the franchise was to make Luke fall to the Dark side. That would certainly shake things up. And I hope that will happen as the new films unfold. I know Mark Hammil was asked once what he would like Luke to become. He basically said it would be ...

So I take it most people think Rey is Luke's daughter? Because...

-The force is strong in this one.
-Luke's saber called to her.
-Luke's theme played under her fight with Ren (so I'm told)

If so he's a bit of a git dumping his daughter in the same way he hated to be dumped!

That is just too ...

Wow, TxK looks great in the rift! That's looking fantastic.

But I would like to bring up the offending article of Gary programming in his underpants ;)

http://www.twitch.tv/gyratory/c/5544044

It's weird looking at the private moments of a programmer in the domain of the home. I dread to think ...

Edit: Posted in the wrong thread. Pretty tired at 4.21 am.

mawkish pop songs
I was surprised about the use of pop songs actually. It was a bit cliche. Given that they had a soundtrack specially made for the film (to be released on CD) by various VGM composers, I'd have thought that music would have been a better fit.

I actually liked the pop songs for ...

When is the release date for this? I wasn't going to buy a Vita but because of TxK I will be banging some cash down. If it's anyway as good as Tempest 2000 then I can justify the purchase I haven't look forward to a game for years and boy I'm looking forward to this!

I'm really stoked for this... Tempest been updated on modern hardware and what better people to do it :)

Also, I'm really glad that Yak is in a much better place and seems to be happy again and enjoying the working process. Hopefully this project will lead onto better things for Llamasoft and ...

There is a 5th one to consider.

5. Become a porting house.

I'm actually making quite a bit of money porting games for other companies.

What's the % revenue split of Android Vs IoS?

My understanding is that rife piracy is the reason the only games that make real money on Android are ones given away free and based around IAP

The freemium model is the best route with IAP and Ads - which Llamasoft have problems with after reading ...

I forgot to mention about different GPUs. Make sure you have a device for every different GPU make and make sure your code tests for GL functionality. That way you can implement different pipelines and to actually test them... never ever presume anything and test, test, test on devices. In my case I ...

I found porting to Android pretty easy... The first game I ported took around a week to do - but thank God for the internet for searching for problems. But see below on testing which added about 3 more weeks onto the project.

The only downside is device testing... be prepared to buy lots of ...

As I mentioned before the problem is something with GC itself. I have achievements and LBs defined in ITC but they don't show up in the app summary. I tried deleting then recreating them but it's still in the same state. Nothing to do with the actual app so resubmitting it wouldnt do any good.

In ...

Lightly out of topic someone ( well informed and into that ) told me that fundamentally it's "impossible" NOT to find any cracked version of any SW on Android "all you need is to google for it".

That's pretty much true... The best model for selling for Android is to release free, then have an IAP ...

To lock to a particular view you would add this to your manifest file:

android:screenOrientation="landscape" or android:screenOrientation="portrait" depending on what you want.

As for which way is up, there is a problem with all that because it depends on what the real default orientation of the ...

The thing about C++ is you have constructers and de-constructer functions. What I normally do is set all the variables that need setting in the constructer - that's what it's there for. Then allocate and resources. In the de-constructer I get rid of the allocated resources.

This is how c++ was ...