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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2010, 11:29:09 am »
While personally I would love to get featured, that's not why I make games.
It's cause I can. And as long as I have ideas, I'll do my best to make them a reality.

But I do think to some point we are feature-driven, which isn't necessarily bad. Because only the really good programs get featured, it makes us strive to make our programs better, which positively affects the community and user base as a whole.

That's my opinion.

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It's a nice little motivational booster, and it's also a symbol of some higher power (namely, ticalc.org staff) recognizing your work. However, I just code for the fun of it, and the knowledge that somewhere someone is enjoying my games :)
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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2010, 01:27:59 pm »
If we were feature driven, we would not be Texas Calculators Programmers, that's for sure

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2010, 05:24:14 pm »
What I like a lot is seeing hardcore stuff being done with a limited platform. Most people don't expect such things to be possible on a calculator, then you manage to do it.

btw, has anyone noticed how none of us have said that we are feature driven, but rather want Omni to get featured a lot?  :P
That's because about 60% of the entire community activity is on Omnimaga now. :P Almost the whole other 40% is Cemetech. Cemetech only had one feature this year but that feature, IMHO, is the equivalent of 8 or 10, considering 4000 hours of work were put in it in the past 10 years.

I suggested ticalc a lot of non Omni programs too, but unfortunately, they were all released years ago so it doesn't count as new stuff as much.
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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2010, 06:47:29 pm »
lol, but yeah, I'm certain we can get at least one other POTY this year.  (The other one for sure being Illusiat 81  :P)
and wow, DCS is great.  :o

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2010, 10:24:56 pm »
for some reasons, I believe this year will be a battle between Axe and DCS due to the innovation, unless one of the games released were loved even more by everyone. I see Cuberunner still gets a lot of downloads, for example. I could be wrong, though. As for Illusiat 81, it depends, because it would be competing with a tool that enables ASM programming for the TI-81. :P

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2010, 10:29:39 pm »
I hope Axe wins. Doors CS7 is a great program and it's probably the most used app on my calc, but it's not an entire language. Axe just opens up the calculator in a way Doors doesn't. For example, someone could probably write DCS7 in Axe ;)

By the way, I AM feature related when it comes to programming. All of my programs have more features than they should have till I eliminate them for file size.
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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2010, 10:57:41 pm »
Oh here we're talking about ticalc.org feature (programs making front page), not actual in-program features as in options. :P

And Yeah sadly for DCS I think I'll probably go with Axe. Since the past two weeks I've been debatting in my head which one to choose, because I wanted something like Axe for almost 10 years, but I also loved Doors CS features. However, Axe truly changed TI programming for me as it is the only calc language I could understand after TI-83+ BASIC, so my vote will most likely go for Axe.

If Axe was like BBC Basic in terms of user-friendliness or required a massive 5 pages APP to run any game, I would probably have went with Doors, though, then if it wasn't for Doors, it would be Cuberunner.

By the way this will be the second largest TI-83+/84+ POTY survey ever, behind 2004.

TI-81 TI-82 TI-83 series TI-86 68K TI-Nspire ComputerTOTAL
20030081170632
200401205470376
20050070240435
2006008150216
2007005030210
200800002002
2009107040517
20102118085135
Note that during certain years, some old programs were featured. Also this list excludes Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator. That said, notice how in overall we're back to the 2003/2005 level. It's funny to see an increase for the TI-81, though. :P
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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2010, 11:07:16 pm »
Oh here we're talking about ticalc.org feature (programs making front page), not actual in-program features as in options. :P


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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2010, 06:32:11 am »
I'd say no, Omni isn't feature driven. However there has been alot of quality work coming from here. As a result many feature-worthy items are being produced. =)

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2010, 08:56:42 am »
Yeah, but no one has actually done much with the asm thing

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2010, 02:37:39 pm »
Yea, although I notice a growing amount of ASM coders. For a while the ASM section got more activity than the TI-BASIC one, even though in 2009 there were like 100 ASM posts.

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2010, 03:16:47 pm »
Yea, although I notice a growing amount of ASM coders. For a while the ASM section got more activity than the TI-BASIC one, even though in 2009 there were like 100 ASM posts.

Most Asm( programmers have topics for their projects and post their Asm( doubts and questions there, maybe?

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2010, 03:21:41 pm »
Well Omnimaga used to mostly be TI-BASIC, but it kinda changed as the forums got more active, then Hot Dog released his guide to learn ASM and Axe helped some people transition to ASM.

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2010, 03:22:26 pm »
Well Omnimaga used to mostly be TI-BASIC, but it kinda changed as the forums got more active, then Hot Dog released his guide to learn ASM and Axe helped some people transition to ASM.

In the beginning people used to program more TI Basic because Axe didn't exist yet :S

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Re: Are we Feature Driven?
« Reply #29 on: November 21, 2010, 03:24:20 pm »
But what I mean is that most ASM programmers were only on other forums. Now we got ASM coders too. The forums mostly attracted BASIC users because this is what most people around here did.