[casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)

[Austin Haas]

This is a good discussion! I was wondering myself what the merits of 
.NET were.

One thing I'd like to point out, though...

"It is no different a ‘barrier’ than Flash,
 > and I imagine the exact same sorts of discussions went on when it was
 > only a couple years old. "

When Flash 4 came out, it was only a 200kb download. I've heard a lot of 
people say that it's tiny size was one of the main reasons it was so 
successful. Directory was already out, and much more powerful, but I 
think the download for it was upwards of 700kb. Of course, I'm sure 
there were many factors, and broadband penetration was very low at that 
time.

-austin

Austin Haas
Pet Tomato, Inc.
http://www.pettomato.com

Joe Pantuso wrote:
> As has been said, from an end-user point of view the nature of .NET is 
> completely beside the point.  It is no different a ‘barrier’ than Flash, 
> and I imagine the exact same sorts of discussions went on when it was 
> only a couple years old.  The reasons to pick it up are similar, 
> compelling improvements to development capabilities and results.
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> “that product must confer spectacular benefits to get me to use it” 
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> It clearly does.  Half as much code in some cases.
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> The biggest reason not to use it for me would be if I had some 
> self-built libraries that I was already using for game development.  If 
> I had a bunch of great stuff that I was deeply familiar with or had 
> written myself that I had already used previously to create games, I’d 
> be nuts to dump it as part of the price to move to a new 
> language/environment at this stage.
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> But, if you are starting from a mostly clean slate, and/or looking for 
> new tech, new engines, there are a lot of cool things built on top of 
> .NET that you can leverage already.  3D, game graphics, multi-player 
> hosting, simplified distribution, automatic updating, etc. etc.  It is a 
> modern platform and you get with it all the costs and benefits that come 
> with it.
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> Viewing .NET as an enterprise thing is missing the point.  And there is 
> a lot of game development going on with .NET.
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> No right or wrong here in this thread, just lots of great opinions and 
> options.
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