If you wouldn't mind having your program done by people in a lower-wage country, post your project at www.rentacoder.com . There are Indian developer studio's there that would do it all (and quite nice as well) for under $5000 I'd guess (which sucks if you are an european developer like me, there is no way to compete really).
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$10,000 game budget.
Started by Mogus, Aug 24 2004 10:15 PM
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Posted 31 October 2004 - 01:31 PM
A good poker game = Meaby a 3 day's and a hav.. but to make it 3D and you want it with a Multiplayer... i think that kill a lott of time.. :glare:
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Posted 01 November 2004 - 12:33 AM
"Let's work the problem, people."
-- Apollo 13 --
What is required of the game?
3D Graphics
Not really. Use the graphics "core" from Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX and camera facing billboards - a simple script is all that is needed to get a card to "move" across the background (i.e., the table). Craft a good front and back of the cards, paste them to the billboards - DirectX can do the perspective transformations. Again the other "players" are billboards placed about the virtual table. For a game of six people, the maximum number of polygons is ... 52 before chips; 66 with chips in play.
Network Capable
Again use the network "core" from the same book. Limitation - all connected computers need to be PC's. Given the tight timetable and budget, accept the limitation for now.
Scripting
And ... the same above book comes with a simple scripting system that is powerful enough to handle poker.
Gee... that leaves two months to get the game play to run "smoothly." And the book costs $59.99 US without Amazon.com discount and before shipping.
-- Apollo 13 --
What is required of the game?
3D Graphics
Not really. Use the graphics "core" from Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX and camera facing billboards - a simple script is all that is needed to get a card to "move" across the background (i.e., the table). Craft a good front and back of the cards, paste them to the billboards - DirectX can do the perspective transformations. Again the other "players" are billboards placed about the virtual table. For a game of six people, the maximum number of polygons is ... 52 before chips; 66 with chips in play.
Network Capable
Again use the network "core" from the same book. Limitation - all connected computers need to be PC's. Given the tight timetable and budget, accept the limitation for now.
Scripting
And ... the same above book comes with a simple scripting system that is powerful enough to handle poker.
Gee... that leaves two months to get the game play to run "smoothly." And the book costs $59.99 US without Amazon.com discount and before shipping.
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