Game Development

MickLH

12:00 AM

3 mins ago, by MickLH

@SpartanDonut lol "Dear Spartan, We got that fucking fucker. You're awesome bro. --Rito"

I posted that as a reply instead of an edit, chaos follows

OMGtechy

ahh

MickLH

I would actually be really mad if that guy got banned from TED

Because seriously, how???

I often resort to things like ( stuff :] ) when I want that perfection, or just rearrange the sentence to get the point out of the parenthesis

Basically all options are compromises

OMGtechy

I just don't do things (like this :) ) because it never works out

sometimes I do it (like this) :)

I stuck something one the office door at work today

"We at SQA take great pride in making your life both more difficult and easier at the same time"

one of the managers requested it written in helvetica 72

but I did it in sergo UI 60 because I'm that kinda rebel

Ali.S

12:25 AM

@MickLH it's quite a surprise, that mods didn't remove that one :P

MickLH

lol well it's too accurate, it would be like censoring the truth

jk

Icy Defiance

shouldn't be a surprise. nothing wrong with swearing.

the fact that it is a surprise kind of pisses me off

Chris

@BlueBug yes

Pip

1:02 AM

YES

Content loading fixed, tiles are pooled

good day for me

TheMuffinCoder

Me looking at my game : ... no enough particles

Pip

:D

TheMuffinCoder

i got the reference!!!!!! xkcd.com/556

Pip

1:22 AM

God damn what the fuck is the issue

Any ideas @Chris @Jon @MickLH ?

Chris

dunno

Pip

public bool OnScreen(Vector2 point)
{
    Rectangle rect = this.Rectangle;
    return ((((rect.X <= point.X) && (point.X < (rect.X + rect.Width))) && (rect.Y <= point.Y)) && (point.Y < (rect.Y + rect.Height)));
}

public bool OnScreen(Vector2 point, Vector2 size)
{
    // Check if each corner is inside of the camera rectangle
    return (
        OnScreen(point) // Top-left
        || OnScreen(point + new Vector2(0, size.Y)) // Bottom-left
        || OnScreen(point + new Vector2(size.X, 0)) // Top-right

that's my on-screen check

Ali.S

@Pip what's the problem?

Pip

Something makes me suspicious of my pool, but that doesn't make sense because it's the same tile over and over again

@Ali.S the flickering tiles on the edges

Ali.S

as far as i can tell that could be the intention

Pip

1:27 AM

It's not

Ali.S

well, reading your onscrean function, it doesn't seem to have any problems

Pip

Yeah, I don't think that's it

can't think of another issue though

It works fine in most camera positions

Ali.S

what's your camera setting?

maybe that's caused by floating point error?

Pip

I'll print it out and see

I SHOULD only be incrementing by 1 at a time, so no floats IIRC

uh

I have absolutely no idea

Icy Defiance

gah white theme

my eyes

Pip

1:40 AM

Other than that, any ideas on why that could happen?

Icy Defiance

mm, not from what you've said so far

camera isn't moving?

Pip

yep

Icy Defiance

then your OnScreen() functions should return the same thing every time

yeah that's odd

Pip

yeah, can't figure it out

Icy Defiance

1:57 AM

btw pip, you said you started doing some RoR stuff, right?

what editor do you use for that?

Pip

I'm using Vim with some plugins

Aptana and the IntelliJ thing are both good IDEs however

Icy Defiance

aptana requires java and rubymine isn't free...could install aptana if I have to...

Pip

mhm

Aptanta is pretty dang nice

Icy Defiance

tried vim with a plugin but the code completion couldn't decide if it wanted to work or not

Pip

Lol

Code completion is for losers XD

jk

Intellisense is amazing

Icy Defiance

2:01 AM

I need completion

I go insane without it

Icy Defiance

3:25 AM

$ ->
  $('#file-upload').on 'change', ->
    $('#filelist').html ($.map this.files, (x) ->
      x.name
    ).join("<br>")

coffeescript with jquery, not even once

MickLH

god I hate coffeescript so much

I don't know who decided it's a good idea, but they were wrong lol

Icy Defiance

lol yeah I might just go with normal javascript instead

I mean, it's kind of cool, but completely unreadable

MickLH

I used to be neutral about coffeescript until I actually tried it lol

Then I realized it's somebody's toy project that they were too over-confident to throw away when the time came.

So instead they indulged in their narcissism and tried to push their half baked horror on the world

Icy Defiance

odd, $.map(this.files, ...) works, but this.files.map(...) says "undefined is not a function"

MickLH

And I just googled for a good a case for coffeescript, and found no good cases, only some guy ranting that he disagrees with someone who made good points against it lol

This ranter is also one of "those guys" evidenced by his usage of words here: My response to this, in the immortal words of Dwight Schrute, “false!”

Icy Defiance

3:37 AM

lol

MickLH

As soon as you start talking like that, please die

() is the effing function call operator... don't take away the function call operator and replace it with something implicit....

or go ahead and do that, but don't effing tell me that's more readable

it's taking AWAY the landmark

Icy Defiance

I like the -> thing though. if it was all exactly like javascript, just with -> added, I'd use it.

MickLH

Lol now I read the guy's article against coffeescript. He's biased too

But he does have a description of the problem with it, in one picture

I literally can't read this: wash plate, brush, sink for key, plate of dishes when plate.dirty if meal.status is 'done'

but apparently this is what it means:

if (meal.status !== 'done')
  return

for (var plate in dishes)
  if (dishes[plate].dirty)
    wash(dishes[plate], brush, sink);

MLM

@IcyDefiance es6 has arrow functions. You can use a transpiler to get that functionality today

MickLH

Also there is this: jsil.org

Which runs the monogame platformer demo

And also I've never heard of this one, but they say it's based on Microsoft Roslyn: duoco.de

Icy Defiance

3:50 AM

mm, transpiler for es6 sounds cool, but setting up to work automatically with my workflow might be a pain

not really sure how rails works yet either

MLM

I don't think so. So many ways to set it up easily. Gulp, webpack, jspm

Icy Defiance

there's a ruby gem called sprockets-es6. installing it now. gonna break everything. :'(

I've forgotten how to not know what I'm doing

well that was easy. need an es6 extension for brackets though...

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