well, that's true. C++ has always been "let you do whatever you want" C# is more of the "try not to let people do things that other people will have a hard time understanding" route
especially with operators
in C#, you can only overload the standard operators
in C++, you can invent your own language basically
yeah, here's the doc on the String.Intern that made me think it always happens in C#: "The common language runtime conserves string storage by maintaining a table, called the intern pool, that contains a single reference to each unique literal string declared or created programmatically in your program. Consequently, an instance of a literal string with a particular value only exists once in the system."
Well, not exactly DLC. But, varying pre-order content at least.
No gamepad support, they may work but they are unsupported.
So, I'm already losing out on the voice commands and force feedback, but now (at least until I go get the demo) I don't even know how playable the game will be.
All because I wanted the free swag :p
And the only way to get all the goodies (at this point) is the PC edition because they are incapable of making any more collectors editions at this point.
Well, actually, I dunno if that's okay with humble bundle, but I could allow them to give away giftcards to the game. Like $50 worth of ingame currency if an account is created with a Humble Bundle giftcard or something.
yeah, in C++ and C#, the == operator is overloaded to compare the strings, but if you type-cast the strings to Object first, then == will compare the references/addresses
So for literals in C#, the addresses of the strings will be the same and doing if((object)a == (object)b) would work, but only for strings in the string pool (either compile-time literals or strings added using String.Intern at run-time)
@JohnMcDonald Are you sure that wont work? Objects do the most basic comparison which is reference, and those two strings would have the same reference in C# no? I guess I could just test.
heck, even the string class is something that was added later... prior to that you had to write your own comparisons to character to character (or use a strcmp() function, which returned an int)
Strings are a funny thing actually. It's treated as a basic type in a lot of languages, when it's actually a quite complex type compared to actual basic types.
byte, short, int and long: Little-endian or Big-endian encoding? string: null terminated, 1 byte size prefixed, 2 byte size prefixed, ascii, unicode, how much memory to allocated, how to resize, multibyte characters, unicode control characters, localized rules, operator overload logic?
...man, whenever i see someone asking about making some sort of graphics heavy game in java, and using JPanels and JComponants and stuff, I just shake my head and wonder wtf
@thedaian Hey! It didn't suck. :P Besides I know what the bug is now. :P It's one of those things you learn, but don't bother reading the side effects off. I typecast to int instead of Math.Floor'ing my floats. :P
That's fine when in positive euclidean space. Not when you're in any of the three negative quadrants. :P
@Jimmy, I still use your Remainder function in my code. :P
After three days of logging what I eat, I see why my body is in it's current state. I'm apparently starving myself. I'm eating roughly only 50% of my recommended daily intake of calories. So I have to force myself to eat more. That seems so akward, eating to lose weight. :s
I've been eating like I do now for well over three years, and kept the same weight, now I'm trying to lose some, so I have to eat more. Maybe it's because I'm also starting to exercise at the same time.
Only change in my life at the moment is a more active day. Once I have some better data on my current everyday diet, I'll start seeing where to improve.
My current change is the 1 mile brisk walk home from work every day. Not much, but I'm taking small steps from my previous exercise which was literally nothing but walking to a from the car. :P
i could feasibly bike to work during the summer, but it would require biking on heavy streets, and i sweat like crazy, so i'd smell horrible once i got to work
What about having a new feature here in GameDevelopment that track all the upcoming and to-be-announced game developers event/jam/competitions.
A interactive horizontal bar at the bottom of the page or a different page dedicated for tracking all these events.
Mockup :
This will show all the i...
@JohnMcDonald, I've played around with using sin / cos to control aesthetic things a bit today (we talked about this last night) and I've discovered that sin/cos and LERP is a very effective combination
@tylerrrr07 they are called mobs in MMOs because there are usually a few of them - it literally comes from the english word "mob" (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mob). I have never seen the MOB acronym (that author likely coined it) - but I guarantee an arrow (which is a movable object) is not a mob in MMO terms.
@JonathanDickinson That was actually always my thought in the back of my head which I figured was good enough! Hence my never looking it up. This article just got me thinking though.
Great news everyone! A Civ 5 expansion is bringing back espionage and religion! :D
A word about performance.
It is written:
Premature Optimization is the Root of All Evil.
I recall being a novice.
I wanted to have the best code ever.
I see you want the same thing.
However, worrying about things like this will not help you.
Just go write some games and gain some experienc...
I figured that out after you said that. I just knew far too many people that expressed extreme HATE towards Windows Vista and never actually used it. Vista was actually really good IMO if you had hardware that ran it.
hi all, please can you recommend me some project hosting with svn, CLOSED source, downloads awailable for binaries, bug reporting and maybe with pages about project (wiki or other) that could be free? :)
yes what i found were all paid, so maybe my excpectations are too big... i tried to find something like sourceforge or codeplex, bud with closed source
@JonathanDickinson svn is only what i have experience, but will try others... thanks, will look at it, @TreDubZedd thanks too, thats too much for me :) not that skilled
@Zavael I think they had paid options - I can't remember what they were for: I think you have a contributor limit. Also if you are new to DVCS start with HG (Mercurial), it's much simpler.
@TreDubZedd setting up a server is straightforward - but you need a server somewhere: back to square one - where to get a free server (answer: you don't :)).
thanks again, bitbucket looks great and userfriendly... redmine looked too good, I was a bit confused in the page, but they suprised me with partial localization in my lang (slovak) :) but im gettin for bitbucket
this chat really rocks :D maybe you could recommend any active c# forum where i could create my WIP topic for my project and discuss it? i found codeGuru forums that looks good but maybe you know better
I am currently building a cloud (federated) network library + server for a game my friends are writing. I am not allowed to talk about the game itself though :).
@thedaian looks interesting, did not played tower build sims yet, just city sims anf sport manager sims :) @JonathanDickinson what type of game is ti at least? ;)
the networking side of it is pretty cool. mutual authentication, offline (LAN) authentication, federation across 3rd party servers and ours, instancing, sharding, you name it. unfortunately we all work at the same place and stuff is BUSY at the moment
the gfx guy is working until 10PM on his real job every night.
@Talon876 I'm controlling effects such as making the score text "throb" when the player gains score, and similar with the health meter when he takes damage.
You know, before the whole Triple Town thing, I'd have said that there's no risk to letting people know about your ideas, no one is actually going to just beat you to the punch on it
@Jimmy there isn't a single dungeon. to be honest we have so many ideas we are going to have to do this iteratively - but the server need to (architecturally) support them from day 1. round 1 is "my dungeon on that server over there" and not us actually providing the hosting - but our emphasis is on people hosting servers for us: so the tools need to be there from day 1 as well (sharding). instancing won't be used just yet - but it's related to sharding
The pictures were taking before this, but it took like <10 lines to code to add a rule to the tower system that said "if a solid block is at ground level or there is a ledge you can walk out outside the block, add a space for a door.
What about having a new feature here in GameDevelopment that track all the upcoming and to-be-announced game developers event/jam/competitions.
A interactive horizontal bar at the bottom of the page or a different page dedicated for tracking all these events.
Mockup :
This will show all the i...
A word about performance.
It is written:
Premature Optimization is the Root of All Evil.
I recall being a novice.
I wanted to have the best code ever.
I see you want the same thing.
However, worrying about things like this will not help you.
Just go write some games and gain some experienc...
