ENIGMA Development Environment

What is "Monopoly abuse"? One of the qualifying factors of a Free Market company that has become large or otherwise a monopoly is that it has a high reputation and reliability and "trustability" for doing a good job. That it has such a position is a demonstration that people trust it. If people had a hesitation about trusting the company, they might go with a competitor who has a higher reliability/trustability.

But supposing that a company does, for some odd reason, do a total and random flip-flop - the moment a large company does something not in the favor of its customers, it either A) loses its customers to a competitor, or B) becomes a government (such as any company that starts violating negative/property rights).

In the case of A, it was mostly the customer's wrong for trusting it in the first place. If I trust a tiger to not eat me, I'd hardly place the blame on the tiger for the outcome.

The only harm I'm seeing here is governmental harm and minor inconveniences for people who have trust issues. Besides, when you regulate the shit out of everything to make it safer, you're basically telling customers "Ok guys, you can be more forgiving with your trust now. Go ahead and trust everything, because we've made it safe." It's no surprise government spirals out of control and starts regulating every tiny aspect of our lives as a result.

If competition can't be trusted to solve problems, legal monopoly (e.g. government, regulations, etc) should be trusted even less.

Not quite true. A monopoly can exist independent of government. Two examples are first-to-market, and a company that does its job so well that competition isn't needed, First-to-market is the case in which it's a monopoly only until a competitor figures out how to reproduce the product/service. The second example is practically impossible unless the product/service it's offering only effects a very small user base. A large user base would subject the company to the calculation problem (namely that it can't know all its customers needs, so it couldn't possibly make a product good enough to meet all of their needs that a competitor wouldn't beat them at one aspect). But assuming that such a situation does exist, there's nothing wrong with it. Competition doesn't exist because there's no need for competition - the company is doing its job that well.

EDIT: Can we put me on moderator preview, so someone approves everything that comes out of my mouth before I make a fool of myself? Or do I just provide comic relief for this community?

Believe me, makefiles is at the top of josh's priorities.

This is Catch the Clown, except that you don't have to "click" the clown, you just need to mouse-over him.

Catch the Clown.
The objective of the game is simple: To move your mouse over the moving clown as many times as possible, and thus increase your score. Yes, there is score. If there wasn't a score, it wouldn't really be a game. Each time you successfully catch the clown, he moves faster.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9975312/Games/Catch_the_Clown.gmk
~5 KB
Working since ENIGMA SVN Revision 244. Still working great since the move to GIT and since revision 4900aa6.
Coded entirely in LGM. Sprites stolen from the original.

Can you beat my highscore (in the screenshot)?



Features:
Sprites, Movement, Increasing difficulty, random redirection, changing background colors, bouncing off walls, able to be caught my mouse-over, score, displaying score in title bar
Lacking (due to limitations of Enigma at this time):
Clicking, Backgrounds, Sounds/Music


Version 1, which was created prior to sprite support (by showing a circle, without movement) is still available for reference.
http://www.IsmAvatar.com/other/mouse_to_ball.gm6

Not unlikely. This is a relatively fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 with only g++ installed. I have taken no extra steps to install any OpenGL/mesa related libraries.

Edit: I'm an idiot. "Dependencies... Linux... libgl1-mesa-dev (or similar)".

I found the error message "Unable to load plugin: jna.jar: null: Missing plugin entry point (LGM-Plugin)" a bit mystic - clearer messages would be nice, but not necessary at the moment

What would you advise?

(during the search, I found something that may be a bug: should the string at line 283 in LGM.java ("Plugins") really be capitalized? It checks for "plugins", and the folder is named "plugins".)

No. If you look on the line before, you see that I check for the "plugins" folder first. If it's not found, I then check for the "Plugins" folder. This is simply a hack to appease the people who like to use a capital first letter for folder names.