[QUOTE=Protocol7;40692934]Winner of the least visited E3 booth goes to...[/QUOTE]
Least visited? They're in the parking lot, everyone parks there, [I]right[/I]?
[QUOTE=Elspin;40694361]I find the concept of them claiming they'd need days to map new controls/change the main menu layout highly worrying. I mean they are an indie team but plenty of indie teams have talented programmers on board.[/QUOTE]
Being a programmer, and having written a UI engine, it's harder than you think.
It's fine if you make the UI engine with the idea that it'd be used by a controller, but it's very different to have to change a touch UI to a controller one.
[QUOTE=The golden;40694516]Every single person I've explained the OUYA to just raises an eyebrow and laughs.
Followed by "but I can just use my phone?"[/QUOTE]
exactly, this sums up my thoughts
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ImRC10AGHo[/media]
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40694326]Are you dense? They were too lazy to develop a console ui for their game, i have 0 issue with ouya requiring a ui that's usable with a controller in games.[/QUOTE]
I wish all android games, aside from the ones that blatantly DO need touch features, worked with a controller
[QUOTE=Yellow3^2;40694461]Being a programmer, and having written a UI engine, it's harder than you think.
It's fine if you make the UI engine with the idea that it'd be used by a controller, but it's very different to have to change a touch UI to a controller one.[/QUOTE]
Uhh... I wasn't speaking from assumptions, I'm a programmer as well and have been for about 10 years. I disagree pretty heavily with your statement, if your UI system is well designed changing it's form should be easy as long as you know what you want to change it to. Either way I was more concerned about the idea that they'd need days to change the input method but the UI comment struck me as odd as well.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40694326]Are you dense? They were too lazy to develop a console ui for their game, i have 0 issue with ouya requiring a ui that's usable with a controller in games.[/QUOTE]
Are [I]you[/I] dense? What developer is going to go out of their way to develop Ouya specific things for a tiny market on underpowered hardware?
[QUOTE=Protocol7;40694816]Are [I]you[/I] dense? What developer is going to go out of their way to develop Ouya specific things for a tiny market on underpowered hardware?[/QUOTE]
All they have to change is their UI interaction. Even if that'd take days to do, that's nothing. They're plain and simply lazy.
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I love this picture
taken from lmao pics
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[editline]19th May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;40697744]-img-
I love this picture[/QUOTE]
fffffff
[QUOTE=MIPS;40692941]This sounds really fucking desperate.
It's like selling T-shirts out of your car at a Metallica concert.[/QUOTE]
This was actually a really good way to get money in Poland about 30 years ago for a teen with a motorcycle.
This is actually pretty sad sounding
Like they could have had their own little event in some hotel in a couple weeks or something nice like that, but they're having it in the parking lot of wherever E3 is happening, while E3 happens, because "omg we're so indie and open"
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40698065]This is actually pretty sad sounding
Like they could have had their own little event in some hotel in a couple weeks or something nice like that, but they're having it in the parking lot of wherever E3 is happening, while E3 happens, because "omg we're so indie and open"[/QUOTE]
I'm sure they could've gotten an E3 stand had they wanted to.
[IMG]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/317/4/f/Dark_Alley_and_a_Bad_Idea_by_BST123.jpg[/IMG]
"Psst, hey kids. You wanna try out the ouya?"
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40698157]I'm sure they could've gotten an E3 stand had they wanted to.[/QUOTE]
I understand that, and it only makes the situation worse. Why not both, really? Have a couple people at an E3 stand for the press, and the rest of the team at the parking lot where the public can try out the OUYA.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40698184]I understand that, and it only makes the situation worse. Why not both, really? Have a couple people at an E3 stand for the press, and the rest of the team at the parking lot where the public can try out the OUYA.[/QUOTE]
I don't know. Ask them on twitter?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40698184]I understand that, and it only makes the situation worse. Why not both, really? Have a couple people at an E3 stand for the press, and the rest of the team at the parking lot where the public can try out the OUYA.[/QUOTE]
Don't think you're allowed to have people inside advertising something that's going on outside.
If you're saying that they have a permit to have a booth inside, then what's the point of having one outside?
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40698223]Don't think you're allowed to have people inside advertising something that's going on outside.
If you're saying that they have a permit to have a booth inside, then what's the point of having one outside?[/QUOTE]
The point is to let the general public look at their product first-hand, instead of through streams and livebloggers.
And Nintendo's new E3 games will be available to test at Best Buy stores across the country during E3 [URL="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/17/play-nintendos-e3-games-at-best-buy-next-month"](link)[/URL], does that not count as advertising?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40698241]The point is to let the general public look at their product first-hand, instead of through streams and livebloggers.
And Nintendo's new E3 games will be available to test at Best Buy stores across the country during E3 [URL="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/17/play-nintendos-e3-games-at-best-buy-next-month"](link)[/URL], does that not count as advertising?[/QUOTE]
yeeeeeeaaah, i guess. but, i can't really see people wanting to travel [I]near[/I] e3 just to look at some console in the middle of a parking lot. would make more sense for them to settle for just the online press they'd get from having a booth at E3.
[editline]19th May 2013[/editline]
also that nintendo stuff is really cool, but it sucks that it's only in like 100 best buys across the us AND canada
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40697671]All they have to change is their UI interaction. Even if that'd take days to do, that's nothing. They're plain and simply lazy.[/QUOTE]
Depending on how the UI is made, remaking the UI to work with a controller isn't all that fast. Days or not, it's still time you have to pay the developers. It's not lazy, it's just not worth it.
Here was the booth they had,
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/25nq.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Tudd;40999027]Here was the booth they had,
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/25nq.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The fuck? Did they clone a guy to get more customers?
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40697671]All they have to change is their UI interaction. Even if that'd take days to do, that's nothing. They're plain and simply lazy.[/QUOTE]
The version they sent out was only the developer version, really. It hasn't launched officially yet, and you can't even get one right now (you [I]can[/I] PRE-order) if you weren't a backer from the start. The fact that Engadget and TheVerge reviewed a (officially!) beta product is fucking disgraceful as well.
I haven't backed the OUYA. I don't care for it. I won't buy it. But slacking on a product while being severely misinformed is stupid.
It launches June 25. The reviews are from 2.5 months ago, that's enough time to iron the UI out.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/El7OEn7.png[/IMG]
What.
Those plastic chairs and huge crowds are awfully intimidating
The booth kinda reminded me about those poor, asian homebrew consoles
I bet most of those people are involved with the booth somehow and they're all just hanging out so it doesn't look completely empty.
[QUOTE=Tudd;40999027]Here was the booth they had,
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/25nq.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
wow that's just pathetic
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z2GQ5Bv.png[/IMG]
i found the ouya
[QUOTE=meppers;41000148][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z2GQ5Bv.png[/IMG]
i found the ouya[/QUOTE]
In it's natural habitat, too.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;40999198]The version they sent out was only the developer version, really. It hasn't launched officially yet, and you can't even get one right now (you [I]can[/I] PRE-order) if you weren't a backer from the start. The fact that Engadget and TheVerge reviewed a (officially!) beta product is fucking disgraceful as well.
I haven't backed the OUYA. I don't care for it. I won't buy it. But slacking on a product while being severely misinformed is stupid.
It launches June 25. The reviews are from 2.5 months ago, that's enough time to iron the UI out.[/QUOTE]
but on the other hand, if your ui is shit, don't send it out to people and not expect shit to get thrown at you
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