I'm looking for some other open source games out there that I can port (easily or not) to Android. I know that it's possible to port Wolfenstein and Doom and was wondering if there are any others out there. I was thinking of Civilization (I remember a linux port some time back) and a few others...
anyone here a HTML/CSS guru? trying to come up with a CSS fix to the header-size problem, in meta, at the moment. Got a CSS file that almost works, but not quite.
Possible fix - adding custom stylesheet?
This should potentially work, unfortunately my HTML/CSS skills were not up to the task - specifically, I could not figure out which element needed to be made invisible/shrunk to get the large logo field to disappear.
If someone who is a HTML/CSS guru (fo...
basically people would like a smaller header to gamedev, and I'm trying to make it go away with CSS
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I never realized that AS3 and C# were similar, I'm thinking about starting a game project in flash in the new year, and I'm pretty familiar with C# so hopefully it'll be an easy jump
I know there is Unity, and XNA that both use C#, but I am don't know what else I could use.
The reason I say C# is that the syntax and style is similar to AS3, which I am familiar with, and I want to choose the correct framework to start learning with.
What should I use to be able to do the mos...
@FirasAssaad open notepad and flail wildly/randomly at the keyboard with your arms and face for 3 years straight. You should now have a game that is like WoW but better in every way, that can run on a Pentium 2 with 128 megs of ram.
This is really annoying. I ask a question for specifically what will allow me to have the most bit-blit operations per second in C#, and some guy comes and posts an answer to just use anything because speed doesn't matter. WTF since when does speed not matter when creating intensive games?!
This is just my opinion, but performance-wise, it shouldn't matter. Pick the framework most comfortable to you. It will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Not only that, but any decent framework should be performant enough for your needs. If you try one framework and it can't reach 60 fps, t...
I have some pretty fast stuff in as3, but I think c# can get me better performances at higher resolutions, and generally I can expect more free RAM for a stand alone game
@jeff, thats not the res............... The res is going to be native to the screen size, I was just saying a grouping of enemies 10 wide and 20 deep is 200 enemies, and is not a lot for a SHMUP
@FirasAssaad I don't care that its not HW accelerated, I made it go fast. This is just a stress test with 2 assets from a game I am making dl.dropbox.com/u/132671/SWW/index.html
Z fires bullets
20 bullets a frame @ 60 FPS = 1,200 shots per second = 72,000 shots per minute
And that is running on my game engine which when done, is looking to be the fastest flash game engine available, I have spent a lot of time in order to make it work so nicely, If you tried to do something natively with movieclips or sprites or any other display objects you would not be able to get 1/10 that many clips, and my engine supports having unlimited detail on vectors for the art without slowing down the game during runtime
You generally don't worry about performance that much for most 2D games. But it makes sense if you're drawing tons of sprites.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm wondering how this adds to the gameplay. Many games talk about their awesome engines capable of rendering the most complex scenes, but most of the time the gameplay is just the same old but with more stuff on screen at once.
This is particularly true for Bullet Hell SHMUPS. Although I guess for the average bullet hell fan more stuff on screen = more awesome game
@FirasAssaad It itself does not add to the gameplay, but it allows me to target slower computers, and if I use bit-blitting I can target people with a lower powered video card. And the more objects I can have the more particles and stuff for eyecandy I can have. And it allows the game to be more flexable in designing, and add additional features that would be impossible with a lower sprite count.
@FirasAssaad oh, and when it runs adobe air, I can do hardware accelerated fullscreen with smooth upscaling that uses no additional CPU resources, meaning it runs the same speed as windowed mode.
@AttackingHobo: Fair enough. I was afraid you're going down the "GONNA MAKE BEST ENGINE EVER" path without actually making a good game with it (see Doom 3).
It's a personal problem of mine, tending to add more stuff to my engine to make it more flexible and faster but forgetting to consider if this will be used in the game at all.
Why do some apps, like Angry Birds, dominate the market while other cool/fun/addicting apps are never heard of?
I'm trying to figure out the best marketing strategy, or best way to sell an app to mass market.
Does anybody have any ideas or things they noticed about the marketing of major blockb...
I agree with Joe, but so far I've been pretty lucky at getting the people behind technology to come and answer questions on the site. This question may be worth it if I can get someone from Rovio to chime in.
I'm looking for some other open source games out there that I can port (easily or not) to Android. I know that it's possible to port Wolfenstein and Doom and was wondering if there are any others out there. I was thinking of Civilization (I remember a linux port some time back) and a few others...
Possible fix - adding custom stylesheet?
This should potentially work, unfortunately my HTML/CSS skills were not up to the task - specifically, I could not figure out which element needed to be made invisible/shrunk to get the large logo field to disappear.
If someone who is a HTML/CSS guru (fo...
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I know there is Unity, and XNA that both use C#, but I am don't know what else I could use.
The reason I say C# is that the syntax and style is similar to AS3, which I am familiar with, and I want to choose the correct framework to start learning with.
What should I use to be able to do the mos...
Why do some apps, like Angry Birds, dominate the market while other cool/fun/addicting apps are never heard of?
I'm trying to figure out the best marketing strategy, or best way to sell an app to mass market.
Does anybody have any ideas or things they noticed about the marketing of major blockb...
