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The Future of Elite Dangerous: The Great In-Game Debate
MDRs IronJaguar and SoapyKnight joined me in an unarranged VoiceComms chat session this evening to discuss wing options.
Or so I thought. Suddenly, we were talking about VR gaming and the collective disappointment with how long new features were taking to be rolled into the Elite: Dangerous universe. As a software developer myself, I’m acutely familiar with how it’s produced. Prior experience with the world’s largest software production company, Microsoft, has helped that education and acquaint me with the most modern practices involved with the full software development lifecycle. I thought I’d bring this view to a pair of gaming consumers; one from New York and another a fellow Canadian who lives relatively close, geographically (which is not a given in the world’s second-largest country). CMDR IronJaguar, in particular, laid the heaviest expectations on Frontier (the producer of the Elite game series). Could he be convinced to be more understanding of the issues involved in producing Elite: Dangerous? And what about Frontier’s competitors? Where is Star Citizen? What about EndSpace and From Other Suns? Could they pose a threat to Elite’s dominance in the VR flight sim market at some point?
Watch today’s gaming session here to find out!
The Birds Strike Back….
r perhaps “The Pork Strikes Back” would be a better title. But whatever you call it, what self-(dis)respecting parody to Star Wars could you have without a sequel even more hilarious than the one before it? In that spirit, here’s hoping the following brings a bit of Christmas cheer thanks to folks at Rovio:
On Joining the “Pork Side”…
n celebration of the Christmas shopping season, might I share with you fine folks something I found especially entertaining this year under the heading of “game software” for the Android, iPhone and PC (which still seems to have some of the gaming audience despite devices taking over everything last year): Angry Birds.
Reminds one of the forthcoming epic movies finishing off the 9-movie Star Wars saga, now projected to open in last 2015. But next year promises to be another blockbuster for the Star Wars franchise leading up to this next watershed event (simply titled “Episode VII” at the moment. Stay tuned for more info about all that and more here!
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CBC News Alerts
- 'How dare you': At UN climate summit, Greta Thunberg slams world leaders in emotional address 23-Sep-19 02:10 pm EDT
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InfoQ Articles (Software Architecture)
- Podcast: Judy Rees on Effective Remote Meetings 23-Sep-19 05:00 pm EDTIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Judy Rees about making remote meetings effective, clean language, the series of articles she is curating for InfoQ and the upcoming remote meeting that our listeners/readers are invited to participate in. By Judy Rees
- Presentation: Modern WAF Bypass Scripting Techniques for Autonomous Attacks 23-Sep-19 04:58 pm EDTJohnny Xmas talks how the various forms of “bot detection” out there work, and the philosophies behind how to modify/spoof the necessary client environments to bypass nearly all of them using anything from Python and JavaScript to Selenium, Puppeteer and beyond. By Johnny Xmas
- Article: Q&A on the Book Level Up Agile With Toyota Kata 23-Sep-19 03:00 pm EDTIn the book Level Up Agile With Toyota Kata, Jesper Boeg explores how to apply Toyota Kata to drive improvement in organizations that are using or striving to use agile ways of working. He shares his experience from combining agile with Toyota Kata to enable organizations to keep improving towards their goals. By Ben Linders, Jesper Boeg
- Highlights from JAFAC 2019 Day 2 Leadership, Cultural Readiness, Self Care and Growth Mindset 23-Sep-19 03:00 pm EDTContinuing the coverage of JAFAC 2019 (Just Another F&#k!ng Agile Conference), the conference brings different voices to the fore and highlighting ways that agile ideas are being applied in a wide variety of contexts. Important themes that emerged on day two included cultural readiness for change, the importance of self care, and the need for a growth mi […]
- Presentation: The Trouble with Memory 23-Sep-19 02:51 pm EDTKirk Pepperdine takes a look at the telltale signs that a JVM based application is in the 60% memory inefficiency area, and demonstrates the steps one can take to attack this problem. By Kirk Pepperdine
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