Ok, here's two reasons why i'm probably not going to enter into the competition anymore....
1) This isn't a big reason but on the Dark Physics site it says
Quote: "If you don't own Dark Physics then you can download a special trial version of DarkBASIC Professional 6.2 + Dark Physics. This version will expire at the end of November 2006"
The link it provides goes to a download page with only a version that expires at the end of October and is majorly features limited, which brings me to my main reason.
2) I tried to set up a vehicle today since that's a major part of my game idea (there's plenty more than vehicles but that's what the player uses) but i get this error when trying to use any of the vehicle commands in Dark Physics
"This command is not supported in the trial version of Dark Physics"
fine, i understand it's a trial and you want people to buy the real thing... but it doesn't make sense to tout it as a way to compete in the competition (especially since there are more areas removed, i'm not certain which ones but you say on the dark physics site
"we have purposely removed several key areas of the physics DLL"
of course we could control vehicles and whatever else has been removed with our own code or some other physics system but that defeats the purpose of showing off your fancy physics... also alternatively, you could accept provided physics in the trial and leave out whatever was left out, but that would hardly result in a game that is amazing in the physics department.
So in reality this competition is just for those who own Dark Physics or those who wish to mix DarkPhysics and other stuff... which is fine but it was flaunted as "TGC Competition 2006"
unless of course ya'll really do provide a true competition version trial... but pretty soon it will be too late.
--Peter
"We make the worst games in the universe..."
