The 10 commandments of PC games

[Dygear]

The Tech Report has an intresting article about The 10 commandments of PC games (http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21105). It's ten things that a PC game company should never do. So let's see how LFS fairs shall we?


Thou shalt not shun thine player's mouse.
LFS get's more then full marks for this one. Using the mouse to control the car's steering, and doing it well at this was a stroke of genius!
Thou shalt not accelerate mouse input.
And it does not.
Thou shalt not make a mockery of third-party controllers.
I think LFS has the best 3rd party controller support I've ever seen.
Thou shalt not mix thine bindings.
No mixed bindeds found, in fact I don't think LFS allow it at all.
Remember thine user-interface conventions and keep them holy.
Even going so far as to recommend them to InSim devs with buttons.
Keep thine configurations options exposed.
Top marks for LFS on this one.
Thou shalt allow players to host dedicated servers.
And LFS does.
Enough with the save points already!
Not a problem.
Thou shalt not worship false gaming services.
Not a problem here
Honor thine modders and mod communities.
This one, needs some discussion.

[Krammeh]

I'm not sure I like the idea of modders.

in a way, InSim allows for modding of the multiplayer experience.

[Dygear]

I want access to every engine event. I want what AMX Mod had in 2002, I want what AMX Mod X had in 2004, I want what Source Mod had in 2006 and that is access to the engine. I will learn C++ just to take proper advantage of it too!

[Bmxtwins]

8. means safety rating?

[pik_d]

I think a lot of us like that LFS isn't rFactor in that everything is so fragmented. I'd rather have fewer, good quality, choices then a few thousand bad ones and a few diamonds in the rough.

Luckily for me this won't change in a long long time (if ever) for LFS. :)

[Bean0]

Fails on 5 a little.

Alt+Enter should toggle windowed/full screen, not Shift+F4.