Game Development

PearsonArtPhoto

1:27 AM

Well, it's far from perfect, but it's good enough for now...

Rahul2001

8:15 AM

@BillyS I'm the developer

It's been activated in beta for ages...

try it out!

@Adi I'm 15, started coding when I was about 12

arda

8:37 AM

@ChrisMcFarland tallowmere uses so little battery that it is the perfect Android game. Great game 👍

Chris McFarland

9:37 AM

@arda Oh nice, glad to hear :)

Jon

12:44 PM

Perfect. No. It wasn't originally designed for Android.

user92578

lol yup

Jon

Perfect Android game to me would have been conceptualized from start to finish to be on Android.

user92578

I've not played Tallowmere on Android, but I bet Chris has done a pretty darn good job there anyways

Jon

You need three thumbs

user92578

lol sure but who doesn't have three thumbs?

user92578

12:48 PM

how's gorb jon?

Chris McFarland

1:51 PM

haha, now now
the only major change for the touchscreen controls was that the Shield button is toggleable. On the desktop you have to hold the shield button or key to keep it up, but for touchscreen you tap the button to raise or lower your shield

cuz otherwise it was impossible to jump with your shield raised

with only one thumb

user92578

2:07 PM

if (offset.X + 8.0f != 0.0f) offset.X -= 1.0f / CRenderer::GetRendererRenderScale().X;
if (offset.Y + 8.0f != 0.0f) offset.Y -= 1.0f / CRenderer::GetRendererRenderScale().Y;

user92578

Patching rendering artifacts in a sustainable manner 101

NaCl

2:56 PM

cool magic numbers

Kevin van der Velden

@Tyyppi_77 "!= 0.0f" will most likely not occur due to floating point magic

user92578

3:15 PM

I'm pretty sure that it does occur

Kevin van der Velden

3:36 PM

Hence most likely =p

Of course it depends on how offset is calculated

user92578

yeah there are cases where the values end up being exactly -8.0f, that's why it works

user92578

(and in those cases the rendering works fine :P)

user92578

which indicates that the actual problem comes from decimal points

Jon

@Tyyppi_77 not working on it lately

PearsonArtPhoto

8:14 PM

Between higher app sales than normal and higher amazon reference purchases than normal, I'm actually going to make a relatively high amount of cash this month online...

Still nothing compared to my day job, mind you, but...

arda

@Jon it has to be fun. I didn't play a fun mobile game yet. Except terraria (and tallowmere), but that is a game that wasn't designed for touchscreen either.

Sie

8:31 PM

@Tyyppi_77 Is everything alright?

Leggy7

@PearsonArtPhoto wow, what do you sell?

maybe I missed aomething

PearsonArtPhoto

Most of what I make online is from my Android app related to Amateur Radio, called Ham Finder.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kd7uiy.hamfinder

Sie

Could you live off of it? I've thought about app development in the past.

Leggy7

if it is nothing compared to dayjob, I guess not

PearsonArtPhoto

Not even close.

I think in the average year, with all of my income combined from all things online, I might make as much as I do in a day at my day job.

Leggy7

8:36 PM

lol

PearsonArtPhoto

Still, it's the money I'm using to further fund my learning in to the field.

Leggy7

so why you said "a big amount of cash this month"?

PearsonArtPhoto

It's relative.

I think I made about $50 this month

Leggy7

well, still better than nothing

or even better than 25$

PearsonArtPhoto

I have been making more like $15 a month recently, so it was a pleasant surprise.

Leggy7

8:40 PM

how does revenue come out that app? what does it do?

looks free

PearsonArtPhoto

There's in app purchases.

Ads vary, the most I made in a month was around $40, but these days $10 a month is more common.

It's a tool to let amateur radio operators know where they are, in amateur radio speak.

Sie

I think bare minimum I could live off 20k/year.

PearsonArtPhoto

My mortgage is more than that, actually.

Sie

Child free is the way for me.

Why people my age (early to mod 20s) are so eager to is beyond me.

Leggy7

that's more or less what I live with :)

I want to increase

Leggy7

9:07 PM

please guys, look at this

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=735231842

Sie

Oh jeese.

More Greenlight Garbage.

arda

@Leggy7 #MakeGreenlightGreatAgain

@Leggy7 ouch, all his greenlight submissions are terrible

Ali.S

9:29 PM

@Leggy7 it's actually fun... not to play, just to have a look

Sie

Just throwing this out there in case anyone has worked with anyone (after my luck with Almo) or knows anyone. Anyone worked with anyone or even on any of Humongous Entertainment works?

2001 Sony GV-D800 Digital8 Video Walkman

►

arda

@Sie devs of putt-putt?

Sie

@arda They worked on that. They are most well-known for games such as Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish and Spy Fox.

Humongous Entertainment

Humongous Entertainment Inc. is an American video game developer. The company is known for its line of educational games for children. The Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam and Spy Fox franchises combined together sold over 15 million copies and earned more than 400 awards of excellence. The company is currently owned by Tommo Inc. == History == === Formation === Humongous Entertainment was formed in 1992 by Shelley Day and Ron Gilbert. The name Humongous Entertainment was suggested by Gilbert's ex-LucasArts colleague, Tim Schafer. It became known for point-and-click adventure games intended for ...

Ali.S

@Sie i can't even parse that sentence!

Sie

Seriously though that didn't come out right. What I am asking is, has anyone worked at Humongous Entertainment or know anyone who has? Just would be cool to get some insight from them.

Ali.S

9:39 PM

this is way better... not me

arda

@Sie ugh, why are youtube's right sidebar recommends so bad?

Bálint

@arda Meh, you can always say that. Check what gets trough tgreenlight

arda

I never watch clickbait stuff, but google still shows those stuff as recommended

@Bálint gaben sim got through

store.steampowered.com/app/403740

Sie

@arda I think it's based on your video watching habits at least partially. I find that sometimes when I watch videos on Reddit the recommendations get progressively worse. You can wipe it though in your settings somewhere though.

Bálint

@arda Movie maker is strong in this one

arda

9:42 PM

@Sie It'll reset to classic turkish clickbait which is even worse

@Bálint did you mean rpg maker?

Bálint

@arda I mean the portfolio video

arda

@Bálint oh

Bálint

Google follows you everywhere. It's kind of creepy what it knows of you actually.

I published a security bug report to facebook

If they accept the report, then can I say I worked for facebook some time ago?

Sie

history.google.com/history/audio?pageId=103882102473338421074

arda

@Bálint say that you hacked facebook. that is even better

Bálint

9:46 PM

@arda Thank you

Sie

Gotta love the people saying "I DO NOT CONSENT TO YOU USING MY DATA FACEBOOK!!!". That'll show them but too bad they apparently failed to read that TOS they accepted when they signed up and continue to agree to by using the platform. Herp derp.

arda

@Sie that is pcool

Sie

Cool or did you mean something else?

Bálint

Can you guys help me lock the latest question? It's another "game idea" question

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Q: Techniques for building out a game idea and mechanics

I've been finding that many of my projects fall into the abyss of my "game mechanic tests". That is, they aren't really "games", but rather sandboxes where I try out various things and find some mechanics that would be fun. Now, I'd like to actually create a game out of some these ideas. Since s...

arda

@Sie pretty cool

BAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Sie

9:49 PM

It is cool to an extent but kind of creepy.

arda

@Sie *very f-ing creepy

also I told my sister to switch to her own account but she apparently didn't. sigh.

Bálint

@arda How old is she?

arda

@Bálint 9

Bálint

Then I understand the Selena Gomez one

arda

top one is mine

in The Bridge, yesterday, by arda

I think that it caused JPY to go up a bit too

Bálint

9:53 PM

There are 2 cases when you search for selena gomez, 1 is when you're a young girl, the other one is when you're a teenager boy

arda

(by "her own account", I mean account owned by me for her to use. COPPA is a PITA)

@Bálint yeah I remember that stage in my life

Bálint

@arda You remember or you live that stage of your life?

Hmm, did the USD go down recently?

arda

@Bálint I remember the part where I was materializing women. Thankfully I left that stage behind.

Bálint

Or is my country actually doing well?

arda

The whole teenager thingy is still going on

Sie

9:56 PM

I don't know. I'm 21 and still am madly in love with old games and companies. So much so I make videos on them lol.

arda

@Bálint IDK, USD is going down in turkey, but it had a spike after coup

one hell of a spike

Bálint

@Sie Are you in a different converstation than us? I'm 90% sure we're not speaking about games.

arda

Maybe USD is losing value, maybe your country is doing well

Bálint

@arda "Doing well" is a bad term for it

Sie

@Bálint I was kind of responding to this...

4 mins ago, by Bálint

There are 2 cases when you search for selena gomez, 1 is when you're a young girl, the other one is when you're a teenager boy

Bálint

9:58 PM

1 USD still costs 270 HUF

arda

I still dont get it

Bálint

@arda Everyone has a different fetish, you need to accept that

Jon

1 fart = 0.00001 USD

arda

@Bálint average monthly wage in your country? In turkey, it is around 1500try, so around 500usd

Sie

@Bálint Troll Status: Confirmed

Bálint

10:00 PM

@arda 570

Little below Turkey

arda

@Bálint I was going to say that, but due to 1) risk of flag 2) risk of sounding rude, I didn't.

Sie

@Jon You need to make more fart jokes. The room is dying.

#MakeGDSEGreatAgain

Jon

1 USD fart == 14 French farts

Sie

Meh. I think that Trump meme is getting old.

Or perhaps it never was new.

Jon

Density is so high in the US it just doesn't really compare with the rest of the world's farts

arda

10:04 PM

@Jon 1 USD fart == 100 GBP farts

Sie

@Jon What is the conversion rate from memes to farts?

arda

@Sie 1 meme == 10 farts

farts lost a lot of value though, they aren't as funny as dank memes now.

Jon

Spontaneous combustion only happens in the US

arda

*sigh*

Jon

10:20 PM

Lmao

Sie

@arda Some people are just so entitled.

Jon

What if my hobby was making tables

What if my hobby was killing deer.

What if my hobby was collecting antique cans

Sie

What if my hobby was not a hobby but widely considered a hobby by hobbyists who do not participate in hobby lobby protests?

arda

Every hobby is ok, except being a game developer. Being an indie developer is a taboo these days.

Jon

He's obviously trolling lol

arda

10:32 PM

yeah I detached

EPIC PLS

Someone forked Unreal, and now I get mails for every comment or commit that gets

and I was NOT following unreal.

Leggy7

11:24 PM

@arda being an hobbist is fine also in game dev. Trying to sell garbage is totally another matter

arda

@Leggy7 I was sarcastic. I'm also blaming those people for making indie games look bad.

Leggy7

I am an hobbist, since my job is (unfortuanately ) another. But I didnt put on steam the first shit I came out with after toying with unity. I want my game to be appealing

yeah, I'm browsing greenlight since tyyppi put gunhero into it

there are interesting project

but also a huge and heavy ton of garbage, lol

arda

@Leggy7 yeah, at least you need to donate $100 to Child's Play to be able to send stuff to greenlight.

PearsonArtPhoto

11:56 PM

The first few games I worked with I never even released, but they were more proof of concept.

I did release a bowling game to the Android store, but it isn't that good...

The one I'm working on now, well, I've spent quite a bit of time on, and to release it to Steam is my plan.

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