Game Development

Much better graphics than I'm at for now...

12:20 AM

Nice wow

12:42 AM

how do you get to 750 revisions?

bots?

stackoverflow.com/posts/4673436/revisions?page=1

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:52 AM

Or edit war..

1:09 AM

raw tide ro(e)

1:33 AM

Wow...

Pip

2:32 AM

Progress!

My refactor (which took about a million years longer than anticipated) is almost complete

Just have to re-add sprites and text drawing, which should be mostly a copy from my old code

OOH You can now use Visual Studio in UE as well!

Also, fullscreen in my framework/engine/whatever works perfectly

nice

When you alt-tab back to it, it maximizes

And it minimizes when you alt-tab away

I'm going to add an option to change that behavior

Aidan Mueller

7:09 AM

Goodnight.

Lokkij

9:33 AM

Would people expect the (optional) command-line argument to an anagram checker to be used like -max-sentence-length=50 or -max-sentence-length 50?

10:16 AM

@Jon He sent me another design

I get what he's going for, he wants them to look more like people

I like this one more to a certain extent.

What do you think?

Chris

10:45 AM

I like the layout of the second one

the notes are off-centered though

the burning question is: did you get your money's worth :D?

Still something weird about it..

Also.. does SONG have more significance than FRIEND?

Better than the last one though

Agreed

Should I ask him to change it?

just not sure what to say

if he could somehow make the notes bottom part be the head

it would make more sense

As it stands now... he just added a circle and some wavy arms on a musical note

It just seems kinda weird to me

Here is an idea

i dunno

something like this

lol

i like the two notes though -- since it symbolizes a friend

11:08 AM

lol Jon

When I was making mockups for the design (before I decided to hire someone)

That was like the exact design I came up with

Maybe I'll just ask for a revision and say 'I want a penguin.'

lol

ehh? not bad ehhh?

lol it ain't bad

I could see a fortune 500 company with this logo

What is this for btw?

11:12 AM

It's for an app I'm working on

mobile?

Song writing app

Android (for now)

k cool

yeah, so you want it to be very legible in an icon

Yeah

I think that latest revision is getting there

11:14 AM

Same

I'm just not sure what to ask for

I love that they look like people

maybe just drop the arms

But I like the arms D:

Maybe if he made the arms more symmetrical?

or both the same size

@Jon

ah yeah

that one is nicer

I like that one

11:19 AM

@Jon Which is better/

I think the first one is

same

looks like they are dancing more than the second one

I might just send him the first one and tell him to fix that up and then I'll use that

What do you think?

I think it looks pretty solid

Go for it

Cool.

Unless you wanna push him to make it even better haha

did you do this on one of those sites where people submit designs?

11:26 AM

Nah, it's just some dude on Fiverr

So I expected to have to give it a few tries

But for $5.50 I'm pretty happy

@Jon what if I dial 991?

probably don't get you anywhere

"The number you have dialed, is not in service. Please check the number, and try again."

11:44 AM

@Jon Thanks for the help btw

Not sure how helpful it was :P

but np

@Jon 111? 999?

heh.. if you hit that 1 you might slice your finger wide open, and then have to call 911

12:11 PM

If you want Unity on iOS/Android do you need additional software like Xamarin?

no

Xamarin is for Monogame

It is also a standalone app framework -- if you don't need the gpu acceleration shit

Also, free if you keep your appsize small

Alright. Just picking options for our project. :) Need to be C#. Atm we have MonoGame, Unity and SDL.NET.

It's a college project, so I feel like Unity might have too much premade. I think the resto f the group would ll learn more from MonoGame. But MonoGame is more work getting to the other platforms.

If you are going for mobile -- yeah Monogame is not recommended

Unless you want to learn Xamarin and Monogame at the same time -- while paying for it

If you are sticking to PC though -- it would be fine

Pip

College students can get Xamarin for free

Business-class license for $0

I'd take it to a vote

Whatever the group would rather learn

user92578

12:55 PM

hello there

1:15 PM

hey guys... it's the last day of registration today, and teams should be of three people: aichallenge.sharif.edu:2016

if anyone wanted to test some AI contest

technically registration ends in less about 7 hours

@Jon We're trying to target mobile apps. We got a few schools lined up where we can test the things we're making. But they have either iPad or Chromebooks. Not sure how we're going to target the Chromebooks. Haven't looked into what OS they run.

@WilliamMariager MonoGame is pretty easy to use with Xamarin, and you can get a Xamarin subscription for free: xamarin.com/student

@Ali.S I live far away from Tehran :/ And besides, I don't have anyone to team up with otherwise I'd definitely take part!

@EvilTak well you can participate in online competition, and team up with guys in this room

@Ali.S will you pay for my ticket and stay in Tehran if you're willing to team up?

Well, participating in the online competition wouldn't hurt :P

a) I already have a team...
b) why should I pay?

1:25 PM

@Ali.S Because I can't afford such a holiday right now

Both in terms of time and money

@EvilTak me neither :P

@EvilTak That's good to know. We're 7 people doing this, so I guess someone could dedicate their time to porting.

I feel MonoGame is a nice middle ground to ensure people actually learn some programming as well.

An interesting exercise: vindinium.org

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@WilliamMariager I do too. Its pretty simple to write simple graphics programs (like my 2D physics engine's demo)

The only problem I see is that there's no way to build native Linux applications like Xamarin does. Would be great if there was a Xamarin.Unix... Using mono just seems like a bit of a drudge for the user.

Huge improvement in my A* C# implementation. github.com/kd7uiy/AStar

It now is easier to use, and follows more standard heuristics implementation.

@PearsonArtPhoto rename TilePathfinderInterface to ITilePathfinder (C# coding style :))

1:36 PM

Fair point.

And all those who are students here, GET RESHARPER FOR FREE!!!!

LIKE, NOW

hook em while they are young

Then make em pay, muwahahaha

Done.

Thanks for that. I should have done that, but... Well, naming conventions never were my thing.

Of course, considering that various C# functions have Length, Count, and I think Size that all basically do the same thing...

private IEnumerator PlaySound(AudioSource source, MainMenuButton button)
{
    source.Play();
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(source.clip.length);
    button.Submit();
}

Is there a better way to do this ?

Button is clicked -- I want to play a sound, and then change scenes

fuck it, this is fine.

1:53 PM

@Jon completely fine.

I was trying to find a more flexible way as the action performed can differ

And this particular project doesn't have any base button class I could share .. and i'm not going to be refactoring as I am nearly done here

Or you could do

`while(source.isPlaying)

i actually did this earlier, and it hung

How did you post those multiple lines of code?

essentially, you need to add some kind of idle(time) in there

Its just bad code

I pasted it, already formatted

1:58 PM

while(source.isPlaying) yield return null;

You can also do SHIFT+ENTER

class Foo : MonoBehaviour {

I think i'll have to paste the code itself

Should I try installing OSX on my Windows laptop?

no

On second thought

I shouldn't

The only reason I wanted to do that was to code and build a Xamarin.iOS app for a friend

But I have a (shitty) iMac which will do the job, albeit shittily

x86?

2:09 PM

No, its a 64 bit Mac

But looking at the large pixelated screen just makes me go UGH

2:36 PM

@jon 0.9.4 is available on test flight

yeah, next version will be final

"final" I will make some adjustments to the boot sequence on iOS

A recommendation: for the sake of our logos on the "About" page, I recommend not using the user's color preference there

for the sake of your logo

my changes color based on the palette

user92578

shots fired

But yeah, that is not changing, that would just look weird if the about page didn't match the rest of the layout

2:56 PM

for example, if you pick sea green, the red of your j looks bad

what would you rather?

I think it is fine

I'm imagining keepingtheir color pref on the game name, perhaps tthe about bar and back button, but gray or white for the background

since both our logos are red and black, they're served better by being on a white background. long term, keeping your brand image strong is important. this was one of my wife's comments

She also said something about one of the fonts for the numbers being easier to read if it were changed, will have to reask since i can't remember the details.

ok

I also added a bunch of precomipiler statements

works with mouse too again

good deal, makes testing little things easier. I played some more, it's much more playable now on my small screen.

I like the level-end sound

3:11 PM

looks good to me

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Morning!

hai

Kevin van der Velden

@Jon one thing that might be a good idea is to have the contact info be picross@jgallant.com or something. That way for a next game you won't have people talking about different games to the same email address

Yeah, I'm currently flooded with emails

Kevin van der Velden

3:24 PM

Totally =p But still

One of those things that takes very little time to change now but can't really be changed later

Might be worth it I guess, thanks, I will do that

Kevin van der Velden

Plus it's just an email alias to admin@jgallant, but getting it to a clearly marked different address you can change stuff around later