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because I don't think it recognises scripts as a product and doesn't recognise that it is impossible to re-invent something. With all intellectual property, the first person get credit.
That comment from the review bothers me much more than the score. I thought maybe I had misunderstood Scratcher on what he meant by that but he is yet to correct me so I guess not.
I'm not sure. Do you consider your enemy shoot to be a modified version of Paul's enemy shoot? (or was it redink1 who did this first, I forget.) Because I don't, they barely resemble each other.
Another mouse-controlled dmod would only be MouseDink in the same sense, since it's the same concept (all enemy shoots need a projectile, a point of origin, and a target point). If you meant to establish MouseDink as a sort of general term for mouse-controlled dmods (in the same way I said "your enemy shoot" in the first paragraph), then sure I'd agree.
Another mouse controlled game with a fake brain 1 [fake Dink] would be 90% MouseDink ... Maybe Scratcher doesn't think that is the case but if he spent as much time thinking and coding as I did about these issues it would be obvious, and I don't think it's my responsibility to have to spend an enormous amount of time having to walk him through it.
This is just bullshoot. I'm not ignorant on the subject, and the more I think about it the more obvious it seems just how much another mouse-controlled dmod would differ from MouseDink. I doubt most authors would use self-made movement calculations for Dink for example, or the same manner of shoot calculation; both of which are a rather integral part of MouseDink.
Instead of writing an essay, you could just fill the following list with things that need to be identical in all mouse-controlled dmods.
Innovations that are difficult to imagine doing otherwise (for action/RPG type gameplay):
* using a giant button that covers the entire screen to detect clicks
* using wait_for_button() to detect keyboard strokes
* ?
And why are you also calling it a negative review? I mean, he did give you more than half of the possible scores. I think 6.0. isn't that bad at all.
Yes, I also wonder when I went from saying someone's favourite child isn't perfect in every way to hating it with passion.
That comment from the review bothers me much more than the score. I thought maybe I had misunderstood Scratcher on what he meant by that but he is yet to correct me so I guess not.
I'm not sure. Do you consider your enemy shoot to be a modified version of Paul's enemy shoot? (or was it redink1 who did this first, I forget.) Because I don't, they barely resemble each other.
Another mouse-controlled dmod would only be MouseDink in the same sense, since it's the same concept (all enemy shoots need a projectile, a point of origin, and a target point). If you meant to establish MouseDink as a sort of general term for mouse-controlled dmods (in the same way I said "your enemy shoot" in the first paragraph), then sure I'd agree.
Another mouse controlled game with a fake brain 1 [fake Dink] would be 90% MouseDink ... Maybe Scratcher doesn't think that is the case but if he spent as much time thinking and coding as I did about these issues it would be obvious, and I don't think it's my responsibility to have to spend an enormous amount of time having to walk him through it.
This is just bullshoot. I'm not ignorant on the subject, and the more I think about it the more obvious it seems just how much another mouse-controlled dmod would differ from MouseDink. I doubt most authors would use self-made movement calculations for Dink for example, or the same manner of shoot calculation; both of which are a rather integral part of MouseDink.
Instead of writing an essay, you could just fill the following list with things that need to be identical in all mouse-controlled dmods.
Innovations that are difficult to imagine doing otherwise (for action/RPG type gameplay):
* using a giant button that covers the entire screen to detect clicks
* using wait_for_button() to detect keyboard strokes
* ?
And why are you also calling it a negative review? I mean, he did give you more than half of the possible scores. I think 6.0. isn't that bad at all.
Yes, I also wonder when I went from saying someone's favourite child isn't perfect in every way to hating it with passion.
