Game Development

TheMuffinCoder

1:00 AM

@Jon well i was :P

Ali.S

or that ask.com is part of the application you actually need

TheMuffinCoder

@Ali.S Sure :D

yep :D

lol but this monodevelop has the special unity logo

Ali.S

@TheMuffinCoder well they are not. those are just some other applications, bundling with the actual thing you need!

TheMuffinCoder

; - ; okay

Jon

TheMuffinCoder

1:01 AM

xD perfect

Ali.S

@TheMuffinCoder but it doesn't matter.... just because you need to install VS redistributable package a long side a game you wanna play, and it's shipped with that game, doesn't mean it's part of the game

TheMuffinCoder

okay :P

Jon

just because you shat in some guys pool, doesn't mean its part of the game

TheMuffinCoder

xD

Jon

learned that the hard way

Ali.S

1:03 AM

DX is not part of your graphics card driver either... it's a different program made by microsoft, which happens to have your card makers logo on it's installer!

Almo

@Jon u r right

Ali.S

do I have to continue with this list?

TheMuffinCoder

whoa Ali i think u made ur point already

Jon

great timing almo

lol

Almo

Board games are challenging to design because they have SOOO few timesteps. My game Linkage has no more than 24 steps

in video games you can tune shit really finely with the 60 FPS

Ali.S

1:03 AM

@TheMuffinCoder :D

TheMuffinCoder

; - ;

dum dum dum WAFFLE TIME #<("<) (>")>#

Jon

i almost puked laughing

TheMuffinCoder

xD

Ali.S

so in the end of the day, switch to VS and save your soul... unless you are stuck with mac

in that case, you are doomed till eternity

Jon

diarhea for life with a mac

TheMuffinCoder

1:05 AM

xD but unity on mac looks cool :P

Jon

i wish I had a mac... i could publish to ituners

fucken Almo

with his fucken mac

grrrrrrrr

Almo

maybe want me to publish mac versions for you?

TheMuffinCoder

the only reason we dislike macs are because we know we'll never be able to afford them

Jon

@Almo seriously though

you wanna publish picross touch on mac?

then possibly this new game I am doing

Almo

That's a definite possibility. almo2001@yahoo.com and we can discuss it :)

Jon

1:07 AM

email me.

yahoo pff I use aol

yahoo?

yeah

admin@jgallant.com

had this account since the mid 90s

Jon

1:08 AM

i will email you

because

this is really really important

Almo

ok

Jon

so

picross touch need a back button

on all the screens that need a back button

Almo

oh, and you get one on droid, but not iOS

so that would have to be added, right

Jon

i can do that

but yeah

that is all that is needed

afaik

never tested on ios

TheMuffinCoder

Opens C# script in VS I FEEL THE POWER

Jon

1:11 AM

would be so fucken cool to release on iOS man

Almo.

TheMuffinCoder

nah Jon make it a android exclusive

Almo

LoL

TheMuffinCoder

wait better idea

Jon

how much would you want?

TheMuffinCoder

Windows phone exclusive

Almo

1:12 AM

some small % of any revenue, probably since I'm not doing a ton of work for it

Jon

ok , i'll email you then

Almo

ok

Jon

:D

i am off for the next 2 weeks

Almo

mainly it would be nice to have more apps on the store with the maniac games logo, even if it's just as a publisher and not the developer.

Jon

maniac games is who exactly?

also, is maniac derived from maniac mansion?

Almo

1:15 AM

no

it refers to that I tend to make games for maniacs.

they're really hard on the toughest level

but the logo with its 1, 2, 3 blocks is easy normal hard

the red block tipped up is you losing your head when hard kicks your ass

oh and it's just me

Jon

lol, ok

Almo

not even incorporated

on the app store it says "Ethan W Larson"

Jon

well, i would really love to have someone publish the ios version of PT

i think it would sell

Almo

that would be pretty cool

Jon

it has been selling on the android store

not a lot

like, literally 1 sale per day

lol

doesn't even pay my coffee

Almo

1:18 AM

hahah

what you sell it for?

TheMuffinCoder

200$

Jon

99cents

the model is bad

should of been buy levels

in game purchases

i fucked up

TheMuffinCoder

can i see the link to playstore?

Almo

IAP is a major hassle to implement

:)

Jon

yeah but ... my game was perfect for it

Almo

1:19 AM

agreed

Jon

and it can be for the iphone if we are smart

Almo

I've done IAP before on iOS

TheMuffinCoder

@Jon whats the name :D

Jon

and quite frankly, I think we can profit from it

TheMuffinCoder

i wanna see it on the playstore

Almo

1:19 AM

LoL game starting talk later :)

Blue Bug

League of Legends

Jon

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgallant.picrosstouch

TheMuffinCoder

whoa
Installs
100 - 500

Blue Bug

you made it?

Jon

lol, check out the free version

a lot of bad reviews for the free version, i think it was too easy

should of made it 4 easy/ 4medium/4hard for each level

Pip

1:22 AM

Hey guys, can I have some help?

Jon

@Pip no

Pip

I'm trying to advertise the FIRST Robotics proposal across SE

I made a community ad and I need some people to help me upvote on a few sites

Jon

cool

Pip

could I have some help with that?

Jon

yeah man do it up

Pip

1:23 AM

Cool

that's the ad at the moment

any improvements I should make before I post?

Blue Bug

Portal Stories: Mel - Launch Trailer

►

Jon

i like it

Blue Bug

This look so dang polished for a mod.

Pip

@Jon thanks

Jon

link the proposal when you submit

Blue Bug

1:25 AM

What's robotics proposal? Mind enlightening me of the topic?

Jon

robotics SE :D

Blue Bug

There is one?

Jon

there will be

thanks to Pip

Blue Bug

cool. But robotic sounds so awesome but distant... Me no has any robot. Does it also include "bots"?

Pip

There's a robotics.SE already

we're creating a thing specifically for FIRST teams

Jon

1:27 AM

oh....

Pip

Which there are a shit ton of members

Blue Bug

I can't even begin to imagine what are questions like regarding robotics.

Pip

that's like.... the majority of robotics high-school level and under

I went to worlds last year

fucking amazing

Jon

lol

"can you provide close ups of the wiring to the 555 chip?"

Blue Bug

hardware engineering? shivers

Jon

1:29 AM

ahhhh,..... your solder joint is weak, and is causing your 4th bit to stutter on the 4th cycles

Blue Bug

lol

Pip

That's just the electrical side, too

There's programming, mechanical, marketing (for fundraising), community and industry outreach

CAD

more that I'm forgetting, I'm sure

Jon

the ladies

Pip

There are a few of those.... a few

Jon

nice.

Pip

1:31 AM

So, here's the list of sites I'm going to post the ad on:

SO
Electronics
GameDev
Ask Ubuntu
Code Review
Programming Puzzles

Can you please help me grab the links for the community ads posts for those sites?

I have electronics and game dev

I fixed the size btw

there we go

Blue Bug

much work. Good luck Pip! Hope people respond positively.

Jon

how many votes do you need?

Pip

6 :/

Jon

well shit

we got 6

Pip

I'll ping a bunch of people when I get these posted

Jon

1:33 AM

i'll fucken call my mom if i have to

Pip

Almo, Icy, you, Blue, etc

But I need those links first

SO only has an "Open Source Advertising Sidebar" post

Uh... I guess no SO ad. Damn, that's a lot of traffic

Alright, got Ask Ubuntu

I need... Programming Puzzles, Code Review, and any others that could be good

oh and Programmers and Theoretical CS

Alright, just Code Review left

Jon

@Almo how do you source control your unity code>?

Almo

At BHVR, we use Perforce

at home, I don't use unity

but I use Perforce

Jon

k k

Joe

Git / GitHub / BitBucket here

Almo

1:44 AM

I don't have a full unity license, so your iOS game will have the unity splash

not that this is a problem

Pip

Yeah, I use git as well

Jon

man...

i'm thinking the ios version

give 50 free levels

99 cents per 100

3$ per client max

unless we produce more levels

Pip

Alright. Time for some posts. I'm going to link them all here in one message.

Jonathan

Goodnight

Pip

http://meta.electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4057/community-promotion-ads-2015/5283#5283
http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1849/community-promotion-ads-2015/1967#1967
http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/12379/community-promotion-ads-2015/14121#14121
http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/7070/community-promotion-ads-2015/7458#7458
http://meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/2875/community-promotion-ads-2015/2900#2900
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/281524/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2015/298273#298273

Can I get six upvotes on each? @Jon @Almo @IcyDefiance @BlueBug @Ali.S @Joe @Wardy @Lokkij @Lasse @Chris

Almo

1:49 AM

@Jon that sounds reasonable

Jon

or 2$ for all

Blue Bug

R u.... R u trying to use ur networks in your favor of getting vote? Of course, YES! HAVE MY VOTE! @Pip lol

Jon

fair?

Blue Bug

clicekd upvote, then also clicks other ones as well

Icy Defiance

I refuse to participate in the purely corrupt practice that is vote brigading

. youtube.com/watch?v=xgiLRYhQmFU (slight GoT spoiler, but you probably won't be able to figure out what is spoiled unless you've seen it already)

Pip

1:51 AM

@BlueBug thanks mucho

Jon

fair enough

HOWEVER

Joe

I have assessed the situation and I will vote for you along with other things that interest me because yours is a legit event that fits on a few of those sites

Blue Bug

shame shame shame shame... I can hear the bell ringing

Jon

SHAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYMEEEEEEEeeeeeeee on me

Pip

@IcyDefiance Please? It isn't earning any rep and it's helping to support a new SE site

Almo

1:52 AM

I think it would be weird to have 99 cents for 1 ,2 ,3, and $2 for all three, since it's not that easy to disable buying 1 2 3 seperately once they've bought all three

across devices

Pip

@Joe thank you!

Almo

unless you did a currency, and you buy currency to trade for puzzles, then you could do discounts on the currency

Jon

@Almo good point

Almo

but honestly I don't think that suits your game well

I think $1 packs makes a lot of sense

you can add packs if they're successful

Icy Defiance

@Pip tbh that kind of site seems far too specific for SE. just Q&A for people who participate in a single competition? why?

Pip

1:53 AM

It's a huge competition

>
400,000+ students
38,700+ teams
34,000+ robots
90,000+ Mentors/adult supporter roles filled
90,000+ other Volunteer roles filled (e.g. event Volunteers, Affiliate Partners, VISTAs)

Icy Defiance

not as huge as the entire field of robotics, which would make a good SE site

Pip

There is a Robotics.SE site already

This is much more specific

Icy Defiance

exactly

instally MyBB on some free web host and using that would probably be more fitting.

Pip

Tbh it's more about having a platform for Q&A for this that's better than a forum. SE provides this much better than I could

Icy Defiance

well with 40k teams, you might need a non-free host, but still

maybe install some Q&A software on a server instead of MyBB. there's a few of them out there: quora.com/What-is-the-best-open-source-Q-A-software

just my opinion, I don't think your proposal fits SE's purpose, but I'm not an SE rep or anything

Pip

1:58 AM

Thanks for the opinion :)

Pip

2:08 AM

Alright, night all. I'm heading to bed

Cya

Noctrine

Oh cool, FIRST

Man, this has to be a cool time for it.

Joe

3:45 AM

handle input on Fixed Update? bad idea?

Almo

@Joe doesn't sound bad to me

consistent input is a good though

Vincent Williams

hi

Joe

@Almo seems my touch ended from fixed update doesnt always fire

maybe because the fixed update isnt every frame? is that accurate / possible

yea that worked

Vincent Williams

4:03 AM

I made my own chat room for just libgdx :D

now i can post all the questions I want there

i just hope some people actually join my chat room

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/25393/libgdx

Almo

@Joe fixed update is say 30 FPS. if your game can render 60 fps, fixed update is only every other frame

Joe

so if you detect touch end in fixed... with those #s have a 50% chance to miss the event

haha

makes sense now...

Almo

if you have game logic in your frames, then yes

Joe

well I wanted touch to do physics... I think thats a fairly common request

just didnt know I have to do touch in one place to trigger a "shouldPhysicsHappenNextFrame" variable

then look for that in fixed

Vincent Williams

4:25 AM

Is there an easier way to set static Box2d body positions in your game?

without having to manually check the position of every vertice you need to place

user92578

6:47 AM

Good Morning

user92578

7:11 AM

I can't figure out who should own the enum class EDifficulty enum

user92578

Maybe I should add a CDifficultyManager class, that has methods for entities to query correct health & damage amounts, with the result depending on the current difficulty

user92578

But then I need a way to refresh the damage/health values when the difficulty changes... and I really don't want to couple the entities & the config manager the way I currently notify settings changes to classes

snake5

7:55 AM

@Tyyppi_77 wat

why should anyone own it? want to write some extra namespaces?

user92578

Like where to put it I meant

snake5

before usage code or with other enums

Hjorthenify

Tyypi what does the increased difficulty do exactly?

Just increasing dmg/hp?

user92578

Currently, Yes

Hjorthenify

What else do you have planned?

user92578

8:09 AM

Nothing really yet

user92578

Could make the bullets slower on easier difficulties

Hjorthenify

In that case i wouldn't update health and damage

but instead increase the resistance towards the player in the fumctiom where you calculate the samage sealt

That way you can control damage dealt and therefore the health amount indirectly in one place

user92578

8:24 AM

True, I could just add a m_Health -= (damageAmount * modifier); and modify modifier depending on the difficulty

Hjorthenify

Exactly and you could differ them on a class basic as well and difference them from enemy and player

Also sorry about the typos. Im in Greece, typing this on my phone :P

user92578

cool, how's the atmosphere in there?

Hjorthenify

Hot and humid :P

Spending my time by the pool while reading game design patterns onlibe

Quite good

Oh if you were refering to the crisis then we don't see much to it here. They are following the news closely

user92578

Yeah that was what I was referrning to

user92578

8:41 AM

/*
Returns a damage modifier for the player.
*/
float CGameDifficultyManager::GetPlayerDamageModifier()
{
	// Returns a different value based on the game difficulty.
	switch (m_Difficulty)
	{
		// On easy mode, player takes less damage.
		case EDifficulty::EASY: return 0.5f;
		// On intermediate mode, player takes the default damage.
		case EDifficulty::INTERMEDIATE: return 1.0f;
		// On hard mode, player takes more damage.
		case EDifficulty::HARD: return 1.5f;
	}

	return 1.0f;
}

user92578

So now I have this

user92578

(sorry for the chat spam)

user92578

And of course, the actual modifiers won't be that big

user92578

+-0.5 is a lot

Hjorthenify

I would use an array instead b of switch

user92578

8:46 AM

yeah I could do that

Martin Sojka

I'd use a Dictionary/Map.

Hjorthenify

Why?

Martin Sojka

To have any amount of difficulty settings, including "debugging" (not for release) and "custom".

Hjorthenify

Older games were carefully coded to do just enough work each frame so that the game ran at the speed the developers wanted. But if you tried to play that same game on a faster or slower machine, then the game itself would speed up or slow down.

This is why old PCs used to have “turbo” buttons. New PCs were faster and couldn’t play old games because the games would run too fast. Turning the turbo button off would slow the machine down and make old games playable.

I had no idea

snake5

9:02 AM

@MartinSojka jeez

sledgehammers for nails?

I don't see a problem with enum + switch/array and "any amount of difficulty settings"

Martin Sojka

What can I say? I like sledgehammers.

snake5

those amounts obviously do not get defined at runtime

Martin Sojka

Nah, I just define them in some resource (text) file, usually something hierarchical, like JSON.

snake5

point being?

Martin Sojka

That said, difficulty setting defined at runtime are also a nice touch (see for example advanced game settings in something like Paradox' grand strategy games).

snake5

9:07 AM

as in "defining presets at runtime" or "moving sliders for various things"?

Martin Sojka

The point being that I just prefer to have

Map<DifficultyID, DifficultySettings> difficulties;´ (with DifficultyID being a straight int or string most of the time) and querying something like damage multiplier to player via

difficulties.get(currentDifficulty).damageMultiplier();` to switch/case statements.

user92578

Oh that looks really good

user92578

Thanks a lot

Martin Sojka

And offloading the precise values for those settings into a text file is just good for the later tweaking and balancing jobs.

user92578

I did not think about wrapping that in another class, but that seems like an awesome idea

Martin Sojka

9:11 AM

Well, it's more of a structure (so if your language of choice has properties, use those).

user92578

I think I'm just gonna go with public members

Martin Sojka

Sure, in 99% of cases that'll work too.

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