Saturday, July 18, 2009
Scribd - Excellent resource for programming texts
I am probably way behind on the times on this one but for those like me who don't always read all the tech blogs every day since I have a real job. One that keeps me busy, unlike some other tech jobs held by people I know. Here is a web site that I just found the other day that is like the YouTube of the written world. Scribd.com lets users upload documents in a variety of formats from PDF to DOC. The best part is that I have been able to find full length tech books on topics ranging from iPhone development to software testing practices, and I was only searching for a little while. Now I don't know the legalities of all the texts that are up, but one thing is for sure, I'm going to take advantage of it while I can.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Why No Subtitiling In Games???
It has occurred to me that there is a missing area of game development that has yet to truly be tapped. Subtitling, yes I know what your thinking. "What do you mean, there is almost always dialog text in cut scenes and anytime a character is running through their dialog." This is not what I am referring to, true this is where subtitling would go, and the text wouldn't change, however, what I want to change is the language of the characters.
I am a big fan of anime, and the biggest pet peeve of mine is not being able to watch the anime in its natural language. Sorry American voice actors, you suck. The Japanese have been doing it for much longer, get paid better for it, and are overall better at it. Why do game developers think that American audiences do not want the choice of what language to play a game in?
I realize that originally it was a space concern, game media just didn't have enough space to store multiple audio tracks. However, in this new age of high capacity media such as Blue Ray, there is really no reason to not include multiple audio tracks. They do the different language tracks for the different regional encoding anyways, thus it requires no additional voice acting to create.
In this new age marketplace, people want choices, and I personally would rather choose the bad ass sounding Japanese guy voicing my hero's dialog than some pansy who does voice overs for Saturday morning cartoons.
I am a big fan of anime, and the biggest pet peeve of mine is not being able to watch the anime in its natural language. Sorry American voice actors, you suck. The Japanese have been doing it for much longer, get paid better for it, and are overall better at it. Why do game developers think that American audiences do not want the choice of what language to play a game in?
I realize that originally it was a space concern, game media just didn't have enough space to store multiple audio tracks. However, in this new age of high capacity media such as Blue Ray, there is really no reason to not include multiple audio tracks. They do the different language tracks for the different regional encoding anyways, thus it requires no additional voice acting to create.
In this new age marketplace, people want choices, and I personally would rather choose the bad ass sounding Japanese guy voicing my hero's dialog than some pansy who does voice overs for Saturday morning cartoons.
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