Screensaver

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:01 pm

Um, so this was apparently released 3 years ago, but I only just ran across it, heh. Anyway, a Mac screensaver based on GLTron. Kinda cool, plus it allows you to get in and mess with the config file, so's you can customize it more. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17208

Made me think, though—and I've thought this before (and I wouldn't be surprised if there's a post somewheres about it that I've missed)—it might be cool for someone to develop AA screensavers, with fancier AI and whatnot. Side project kind of deal.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:35 pm

It'd be cool if the screensaver actually logged into a random server as a spectator. (Of course, the server should have players on it)

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:54 pm

That would probably count as fancy AI

Aren't there screensaver dummies that can start an arbitrary program? Then, all we'd need to do is add command line options for running without user input.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:01 am

But people may not like having their screensaver launch a whole separate program just to run.* I figure something self-contained would be best. And of course all the usual screensaver qualifications, such as being light on CPU usage and easily configurable.

Edit: Oh, and Mac screensavers are self-contained packages which are selected from the "Screen Effects" Preference pane. But I suppose there'd be a Mac person making one for Mac, and Windoze for Windoze, and Linux for Linux, so each would know what is needed for that particular OS, anyway. So...blahblah.

* Do you like my cross-terminology there? Launch...program.