The irony is both not funny and not appreciated. If you’re a programmer you want to think pragmatically - why do you think no one makes a 3d MMORPG as their first project?
I stopped reading here and lol’d. :
all it needs is one person with jdk/vm knowledge and c++ and opengl knowledge, or maybe a small group and they need a PS4 devkit.
After some weeks or fiddling around and porting any great lwjgl game to this. It should be considered working.
Then you can either pitch it to Sony or keep absolutely quiet about it because you may as well simply submit games like that and Sony may not look that deeply into it and so they won’t specifically disallow it.
So yeah a “JDK & LWJGL @ PS4 Task Force” and a devkit.
I already tried for one, but they wont give one to someone completely unknown - I could either register as a developer @ SONY, which I only want to do when my bigger projects are more mature; Or by convincing a professor at my university to apply for one - which is possible but I don’t know if I will be doing that… I’m kinda done with those kinda projects already.
But the same applies for all of you who are either students or have enough fame / quality to register.
Then when there is devkit available we would form the “task force” and then we should know if it may work or not.
Well, i tried to make a point haha.
But Cero is right. Well, if you need me, i will be in my basement writing a book of ironies.
This got my attention, any student of any university (related to computer programming) can get a free DevKit if a professor applies for it? In any country?
I should just google for it :persecutioncomplex:
Let me quote from the email I have received from SCEE after asking them:
Why is that?
I’ve been working with a professor the last few years to get some old (but very interesting) scripting language to work nice with Java. He had students working on it too.
Sometimes a University project just needs to be a worthwhile and interesting learning experience. If you’re interested in this, why not just go for it and try to leverage whatever you can?
Don’t knock university projects… after all, Sun Microsystems stood originally for Stanford University Network. And don’t forget Facebook.
This is all definitely a worthwhile endeavour, but there remains the fly in the ointment of Sony just being… useless fuckwits.
Cas
Theoretically, wouldn’t the Oracle java binary work on the PS4 if x-windows was installed?
As far as I’m concerned, a PS4 JVM would be a ‘headless’ JVM, so (as far as I’m aware of) not depend on x-windows. We just want OpenGL through LWJGL & libgdx.
If using package_add to install xwin and java works then: we WIN. If you want a headless JVM you can write it after you’re sure it’ll work.
Let me quote from the email I have received from SCEE after asking them:
Why is that?
I’ve been working with a professor the last few years to get some old (but very interesting) scripting language to work nice with Java. He had students working on it too.
Sometimes a University project just needs to be a worthwhile and interesting learning experience. If you’re interested in this, why not just go for it and try to leverage whatever you can?
I didn’t mean it like IM DONE WITH THAT ;D
I meant Im literally finished, I only need a couple more classes and my thesis.
Projects are indeed the best thing about university, and 2 of our games were created during those.
But as far as the PS4 devkit would go: I am really not that type of programmer anyway. I dont know much C++, never done anything with it and stuff. I would be completely useless in the PS4 java task force ^^
Don’t knock university projects… after all, Sun Microsystems stood originally for Stanford University Network. And don’t forget Facebook.
This is all definitely a worthwhile endeavour, but there remains the fly in the ointment of Sony just being… useless fuckwits.
Cas
I say , start a new Topic, build PS4 Task Force and lets do this. LEEEEROY
JENKINS
Theoretically, wouldn’t the Oracle java binary work on the PS4 if x-windows was installed?
As far as I’m concerned, a PS4 JVM would be a ‘headless’ JVM, so (as far as I’m aware of) not depend on x-windows. We just want OpenGL through LWJGL & libgdx.