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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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InfoQ Articles (Software Architecture)
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- Microfrontends at Vonage - Yoav Yanovski at Vue.JS Amsterdam 08-Jul-20 02:07 pm EDTYoav Yanovski, senior technical manager at Vonage, recently presented at Vue.js Amsterdam 2020 the rationale behind moving from a monolithic front-end towards a micro-front-end architecture. Yanovski also detailed micro-front-end’s architectural options, the tradeoffs involved in each option, and the choices made at Vonage. By Bruno Couriol
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- Article: Elm in Action - Book Review and Q&A with Richard Feldman 08-Jul-20 01:00 pm EDTThe book Elm in Action by Richard Feldman provides a gentle, thorough introduction to Elm for web developers, and walk them through the creation of a full-featured photo-browsing application. Elm is a purely functional language for creating web applications. Elm touts the absence of runtime errors, a sound type system with strong type inference and delightfu […]
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