Game Development

yy - yank current line to buffer
p - paste line to cursor

@hasherr it's slower

Yeah.

can't do stuff like w to move a word

I guess I just need practice.

1:21 AM

but it's fine while you're learning

I'm also trying to use my mouse less.

dd - delete current line

but vim commands take numbers

so y4y yanks 4 lines to buffer d4d deletes 4 lines

G is "to end of file"

so dG is delete to end of file

you start doing these things, and you'll start finding normal text editors annoying

sigh

This'll take me a year.

nah

lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html

keep that open, use vi however you want, and periodically look over the site for things that might help you. learn it bit by bit

If the site would load...

lol 'lagmonster'

1:23 AM

like I just learned that { } are paragraph forward and paragraph back

:q is quit

so if you vi filename and don't want to save it, hit :q

That site doesn't even load for me.

:(

will find another just a sec

bullium.com/support/vim.html

ok dinner time talk later :)

Thanks for the help

kanyezone.com

awwyeajumpattack

1:35 AM

Awwww yah

Looks sharp dude

thanks its getting there

So are my vim skills. ha

lol thats one of those things on my list

one day

@hasherr escape, then :wq

to write and quit

:D

Lol.

1:44 AM

@Joe :D

@hasherr I've used vim a bit, prefer nano but vim is good too

Yeah, it's pretty difficult to learn.

Yep

Did you see what I got done today?

4 hours ago, by Pip

DONE:
MAKE PATHFINDING FUCKING WORK
Make sure pathfinding works around obstacles
	- Create new mountain sprite
	- Make new map with mountian ranges
Complete reset of nodes during new path creation

TODO:
Display caravan sprites
Move caravans along routes
Display towns
	- Create new town sprite
	- Create new object
Town interactions?

Goddamiit, Sieve of Eratosthenes is difficult when you're on your own.

heheh

I wrote one of those recently

@SpartanDonut you playin lol?

yes

1:54 AM

need help?

@IcyDefiance we waiting for todders?

Icy Defiance

oh, hey, you're in league, lol

yeah :D

todders is close to done with a game

Icy Defiance

I wasn't paying attention. What is he doing that we have to wait for?

oh okay

sure I'll wait

@IcyDefiance ok he's out

@IcyDefiance come on man

Icy Defiance

I was busy gosh darn it!

John

2:03 AM

Yo, what's with the flag?

2:20 AM

@hasherr yes

:(

Progo

@hasherr what language?

Perl.

Progo

Cool

good luck with that

lol why Perl?

Progo

2:23 AM

Perl is a good server language

@hasherr rosettacode.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes#Perl

@Pip Learning it.

cool

for any particular language, or just because?

2:40 AM

@SpartanDonut you there?

@Pip Just cause. People like Perl. I need to learn a new language.

Cool

learn AWK

much more fun

What's your list atm?

>:)

2:45 AM

@Almo sh, you! :D

John

3:20 AM

@Lokkij That sounds like a lot of fun, but I don't think I know enough to help with it.

user92578

9:36 AM

Someone had left "taking the hobbits to eisengard" 10h edition running on one of the school lobby computers :D

user92578

Sums up fridays quite well :D

Chris

nice

10:42 AM

@John There's still some time to prepare! We're planning on using Python + libtcod; it's not that hard. Being able to code in Python is enough. :)

11:09 AM

Python <3

Still in love with that language, even after starting to use C# almost exclusively for projects

Coding in Python is very fun.

It also helps that PyCharm is a really solid IDE.

:D

People in my twitter feed are saying things like "I see white/gold". What the hell are they talking about?

Found it.

sigh

i dun goofed

HEH, today's XKCD makes wayyyy more sense now @Lokkij

12:19 PM

WS Response is successful, everything is good.. but I return a False in my IsSuccess property...

stupid bugs.

user92578

12:58 PM

good day!

Kevin van der Velden

G'day

user92578

1:11 PM

Today's goal: cage & prisoner system working

weird

open firefox

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#

Paste this in it... what is it?

user92578

wow, really weird

user92578

it's like a layout thingy, as most of the features are gone

Yeah, and it loads differently on my 2 pcs

one of them has a File Menu

the other doesn't... errr... different version of firefox, n/m

user92578

1:17 PM

this is what I get

you are using developer

man.. i got annoyed with firefox developer edition

user92578

yup

user92578

why?

way slower load time -- and everytime I launch it it installs a new version

like, literally every single day

user92578

that is annoying

1:18 PM

And adblockplus doesn't work on my install

it apparently works for others.. but I haven't been able to get it to work on my pc

user92578

and it's not even like "wait I wont start yet as I need to update", it's just "oh I started, but Im outdated! restart me!"

says it is installed, and everything is fine.. but ads still show

user92578

there are bad sides but the theme is cool

I love the theme

I can't stand ads

Popup ads are the worst

Anyone here play Trivia Crack?

user92578

yeah, adblock is one of those things that you don't value enough in your everyday life but once it's gone you really miss it

1:23 PM

Trivia Crack on android -- ads can be cancelled out , great

on IOs... oh man

full screen video ads, that can't be exited... you have to close the application entirely

1:44 PM

I'm using skippable interstitial image ads for my game

will put in unskippable video ads later, but on a voluntary basis. do it if you want for extra contest entries is the thought

2:01 PM

I was thinking... anyone here ever play turf wars on minecraft?

That game is fun as balls... I was thinking of making a game based on it

@Almo I'm such a good support adc depresses me lol

had some amazing support games last night when I didn't get adc

Vlad

2:24 PM

hello

@SpartanDonut @Almo either of you tried Vain Glory vainglorygame.com

No sir

its... weird having your fingers in front of the screen

I was surprised at the quality for a mobile app

2:44 PM

@SpartanDonut :D It might help if you learned ADC with an easier one, but I don't mind who you play.

Draven's just tricky to play well. :)

Draven isn't so hard. I just have this horrible tendency to zone out during team fights xD

hehehe

When I tell my veteran friends I have a pal learning adc with draven they say "oooh that's tough"

but if you LIKE playing him, that's really what matters.

Yeah I've been playing him and Graves the most

Might try Jinx sometime soon

But I do like Draven. Hits like a truck

graves was one of the recommendations

Jinx is fun

I like the range switch

Urgh what race should I play? Choices include (but are not limited to): deep dwarf, centaur, demonspawn, naga, deep/high elf.

2:51 PM

human

theres a four legged race there and you are asking this question

Boooring

but human first time around means you don't get crippled by some weird racial oddity

second time, go weird

@Joe There's also an eight legged race (octopode) but I refuse to play them.

@Almo I'm pretty experienced already and the game has permadeath (it's DCSS)

So that's not a factor

Fuck it, I'm a deep dwarf.

no!

elf!

2:55 PM

Too late! I am now a deep dwarf necromancer.

The 26 races and 26 classes in this game can occasionally overwhelm me a bit.

Deep dwarves are cool. I'm resistant to damage and can recharge magical devices with mana, but I don't heal naturally.

almo: fighting level 11
braveplatypus: hello
almo: hi!
braveplatypus: should it be bigger??
almo: hahah no idea
almo: never played

Haha what?

chatting with someone else who's playing

Ah

You could also spectate me, but I'm only a few levels in so that's pretty boring.

actually pretty slick

3:07 PM

you died man

Yeah D:

Sigmund is a real newbie killer

whatcha playing;/

oh i see now

that is fucken cool

how u create acc?

crawl.akrasiac.org:8080

By the way, if anyone actually wants to play the game, the offline version has a tutorial and mouse support

what the fuck is this?

It looks cool

A nice roguelike

I've been playing it for ages

3:19 PM

cool

looks like multiple roguelikes

Hmm?

dcss-git

dcss-git 0.15

Different versions

It's constantly updated

zot defense?

3:22 PM

It's a silly towerdefense-like gamemode

Sprint is premade (extra difficult) levels

Fixed it and now it works with multiple types.

oh man, looks awesome

It's a bit silly though. :P For some reason some of the "dirt" I add is turned to sand. :P

well show us a gif for dang sakes

@William'MindWorX'Mariager I was thinking about this yesterday... those slow falling tall pillars

you could try and do some spread diameter increase based on the amount of unsettled sand above

3:26 PM

Well, that's the hard part about this. It has to work on GPU. :P It's pretty difficulty to make everything work.

2

ahh yea I have no idea what that entails

that is awesome

The hardest part is you don't know the result of the cells nearby.

"These are activities that have low risk, take a lot of time, and
bring some reward. This is bad for a game's design because it encourages
players to bore themselves. Even worse, it may be optimal to do so. We try
to avoid this! "

I really dislike it when I find this in games.

like harvesting red orbs in Devil May Cry

@Joe Right now I analyze in 2x2. A pass in even coords and a pass in odd coords.

3:30 PM

What the hell is wrong with this level. Encountered hordes of zombies, a hill giant and a shadow (way too strong for me) and some pretty tough orcs.

@Joe You can see the principle here: schuelaw.whitman.edu/JavaApplets/SandPileApplet

those guys have some really solid understanding of good game design

I may play this

@Almo It takes a while to get into it (and I'm happy to assist you if you want to) but when you're finally able to defeat adders it's so much fun.

It's challenging as hell though.

how do you exit a game you started?

Ctrl-Q

3:33 PM

I'm in one, but wanted to get back to the main page with the list of people playing

I think

Ohh

Erm

The back button in your browser :P

heheh

@Almo wheres this quote from?

Also I'm pretty sure someone set up that level specifically to torture me. Holy shit that was full of nasty mosnters.

it's from the "philosophy" section of the help in the game Lokkij is playing

3:35 PM

this is "Stone Soup"?

yes

ill add it tomy list

Also the wiki can be a tremendous help.

but one of their design goals is no need to resort to such references

I'll try it cold a few times

Sure. Just make sure to do the tutorial or hints mode. :)

Else you're going to miss a lot.

3:51 PM

ooo I grabbed an android git client and a sale on a crummy blue tooth handheld "keyboard controller" will be trying some on train mobile phone coding next week

By the way @Joe here's that philosophy section where that quote's from.