4th August 2006, 12:37 PM
They should show their games occasionally to groups before it is "ready". The idea being that they can get criticized and perhaps change some things about the game.
Imagine if science worked like some of these artists think their business should work. "ALL the evidence isn't in yet. We should never have published our results because they just looked at it and criticized parts of it. We should only show them when it's completely finished." Of course, science is NEVER finished. It just keeps going and going, every now and then new tests are replicated with minor adjustments, all to constantly refine our knowledge. There is no such thing as "all the evidence", in the same way it is silly to say "let's wait until ALL the humans are born, all of them".
It's always good to show your work of art to a crowd so you can get some sort of opinion on what you are doing to see if you need to change something.
At any rate, e3 itself was really just a big burst of news. I liked it but at the same time, I could wait.
Imagine if science worked like some of these artists think their business should work. "ALL the evidence isn't in yet. We should never have published our results because they just looked at it and criticized parts of it. We should only show them when it's completely finished." Of course, science is NEVER finished. It just keeps going and going, every now and then new tests are replicated with minor adjustments, all to constantly refine our knowledge. There is no such thing as "all the evidence", in the same way it is silly to say "let's wait until ALL the humans are born, all of them".
It's always good to show your work of art to a crowd so you can get some sort of opinion on what you are doing to see if you need to change something.
At any rate, e3 itself was really just a big burst of news. I liked it but at the same time, I could wait.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)