sportd wrote: On completion of theGym, I fired up my laptop which was a clean Windows install with all the updates(reduced the speed dramatically) and the game ground to a halt trying to play. The bottleneck was the js. I released early downloads (unfinsihed) for people here to play and some of the feedback was the same. laggy because of the js.
That feed back must be hidden because none of the posts I saw on The Gym's thread complain about performance problems. Unfortunately I didn't keep the older versions so I can't check what could possibly be making a game of this kind run slow.
You're right that javascript isn't at fault here. You keep hammering on this idea that performance is a problem, it isn't. You even proved it by making The Gym work without any crazy optimization.
sportd wrote:The speed difference may be small but it seemed to be good practice and it made game development a lot quicker.
No surprise there, you really like using arrays in javascript.
Greyelf wrote:No explanation explaining to us why it is wrong?
It follows the principles you state you believe in!
You said your assertion that artists would have difficulty making a living without copyright laws is likely wrong. I can't explain your lack of confidence in your assertions. I've said already why the future isn't so grim as you make it seem.
Greyelf wrote:What they are actually doing is controlling some of the data stored on the HDD through copyrights, not the physical object it self which you have do with as you like.
You say "what they are actually doing" as if I'm not aware that's what they're actually doing. I'm aware.
They can't control that data without seizing the HDD or forcing me to change it. Either way my ownership of it is undermined because there's a pattern on it that matches the pattern someone magically "owns".
Greyelf wrote:Contract laws and the ability to sue someone are built upon the ownership/rights conveyed by Copyright.
No they're not. You write into the contract promises and terms that make it work as copyright between you and whoever signs. That's the difference, according to the concept of intellectual property your ownership can magically expand over anyone's actual property without permission.
Greyelf wrote:Unless your idea is directly derived (a copy) from theirs at which point what you do with you idea can affect the use of theirs.
You'll have to tell me how that's possible. An example please.