Coding Projects and Duga Heaven :)

skiwi

06:41

Monking

skiwi

12:20

Remonking

bazola

13:48

heya @skiwi

skiwi

hey @bazola

Marc-Andre

Hey guys! How the project is going ?

bazola

its going good in the sense that online games are working :) otherwise it is a bit on hold I suppose until we implement deck building

skiwi

@Marc-Andre We could use more people!

Marc-Andre

Well I'm still looking into diving in the code, but I don't really know what I could do. This would be my first git contribution to a real public repo.

skiwi

13:58

We should check what you could do... apart from writing unit tests

Simon André Forsberg

17:32

Monking

skiwi

Monking @SimonAndréForsberg!

bazola

hey @SimonAndréForsberg

skiwi

So this is where I am working on now...

Simon André Forsberg

Monking monking

skiwi

Business Information Systems assignment

Simon André Forsberg

17:45

And this is where I worked today:

(crappy image, I know. My phone camera sucks)

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Wow, you getting free drugs where you work?!

It looks so... spacey

In all honesty, it looks nice

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi nope, no drugs.

@skiwi it's huuuuuuuuge

bazola

looks like free magazines on the table though?

skiwi

I think you moved your camera here... cannot imagine the camera being that bad?

Simon André Forsberg

or well, big...

skiwi

17:48

@bazola Now guess why the image is all blurred...

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi yeah probably. my hands tend to shake whenever I'm supposed to take a picture

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Ah well, it still shows the contours etc., no need for sharp in here :)

But I"m glad you are liking the place

bazola

18:01

if anyone wants to try to play a game of cardshifters I have a client up waiting for opponent :)

skiwi

@bazola I'll try it! With the vanilla 2.0 client

> darftowers.com

wondering why it didn't work

bazola

hehe

skiwi

I'm supposed to play tactical now, right?

bazola

I'd play the best that you can :)

skiwi

Oh crap...

I think the mana increases too quickly btw

And cards should remain in place if a another monster dies

And I accidentally scrapped a card...

bazola

18:09

so many enchants, so little scrap

2

i guess I need to put the cards in some kind of scroll box

skiwi

The moment that your hand merged to become a single lane...

bazola

what do you mean by cards should remain in place? you mean empty space where the last monster died?

skiwi

@bazola Exactly that yes

BOOM!

Duga

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] bazola opened issue #40: Cards should be discarded when drawn into a full hand

> If the player has a full hand, when they draw a card that card should be destroyed.

bazola

gg skiwi

Duga

18:15

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] bazola added label gameplay to issue #40: Cards should be discarded when drawn into a full hand

skiwi

@bazola :)

bazola

one nice thing about the way the server works is that version changes will not necessarily break the client

skiwi

I closed it :P

Gotta go afk a bit now

It's good to do such sessions every now and then

bazola

I will try to make the client able to handle the full hand size of 10

and I agree that much more play testing will be needed!

skiwi

The end was more or less King of the Hell :P

King of the Hill, not Hell

And I think we still want to implement spell cards? Or was that not in the game's design?

bazola

18:19

they were not in the initial prototype but they are definitely necessary for the game to be fun

but first we need to decide how cards will be saved (and implement deck building)

Duga

18:47

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] bazola pushed commit d5b43a58 to javafx

> Added a scroll box to the UI to support the full 10 card hand limit

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] build #210 for commit d5b43a58 on branch javafx passed

skiwi

@bazola Yeah... there's still some stuff to do ;)

bazola

i hate that i didn't do the scroll box before 0.2

skiwi

Now it has to wait allt he way :)

I'm still trying to get my hands down onto separating modding

But homework first

bazola

19:07

homework is something I definitely do not miss :)

skiwi

Hehe

How long since you've finished school (university?)?

bazola

its been about 7 years I guess

since I got my bachelors in english (what a waste of a degree)

skiwi

Ah... I keep forgetting how old you all are ;-)

bazola

ouch lol

skiwi

I'm quite ashamed that I made my ecs-module-support branch and have not pushed a single own commit to it.

I do really have a problem remembering details of people whom I have never met in reallife

bazola

19:34

well I just made my first bezier curve animation in sprite kit:

-(void) itemSpawnAnimation:(DTItem *)item sprite:(SKSpriteNode *)sprite {
    [_sceneMovingObjects addChild:sprite];
    item.animState = ItemAnimStateStateMoving;
    CGPoint startPosition = CGPointMake(item.blockPosition.x, item.blockPosition.y);
    CGMutablePathRef path = CGPathCreateMutable();
    CGPathMoveToPoint(path, NULL, startPosition.x, startPosition.y);
    CGPathAddArc(path, NULL, startPosition.x, startPosition.y, _initialScreenSize.height/20, 1.1, 0, YES);
    SKAction *moveOnPath = [SKAction followPath:path asOffset:NO orientToPath:YES duration:0.5];

skiwi

Interesting ^

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi I'm having as much problems remembering details of people I have met in real life

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Ouch... that can be annoying

Simon André Forsberg

well, it doesn't happen very often

from time to time, I just seem to meet too many people :)

skiwi

Does this look legit?

I'm aware that you may not understand much about it.

But it's a process model

Only there's some horrible bug in it and now people can never check in.

This is so bad, a person can only check in currently if someone else is checking out, and in that process, the person checking out simply disappears.

bazola

20:14

that doesn't sound right :)

skiwi

The cool thing is, that once we obtain some statistics, we could use process modeling to gather data about it

For example you can save the times of when players are queuing up say over the last week

And then create the current server model (average times) it takes to queue people up, etc.

And then create new models to test alternative matching algorithms, without actually running code

bazola

that is pretty interesting

Duga

21:54

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis commented on issue #40: Cards should be discarded when drawn into a full hand

> This is already implemented. It doesn't seem like the JavaFX client cares about the EntityRemoveEvent that is being sent though. It needs to check if the entity is in a deck, and if so decrease the counter.

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis added label bug to issue #40: Cards should be discarded when drawn into a full hand

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis assigned bazola to issue #40: Cards should be discarded when drawn into a full hand

Simon André Forsberg

@bazola ^^

btw, what do you folks (@skiwi, @bazola) think about the waffle.io thing? Should we use it?

bazola

@SimonAndréForsberg I will see if I can fix it on my end, thanks for looking at it

@SimonAndréForsberg I am okay with using waffle if you think it will help productivity, looks cool to me

Simon André Forsberg

I just want to make sure that @skiwi agrees there :)

bazola

@SimonAndréForsberg the client does not have a list of all the ids in the deck, so getEntity() from the EntityRemoveMessage won't be helpful for removing it?

right now as far as the deck size counter, I start it at 52 because I know that that will be the total # of cards currently, but the server does not give that info (deck size). I decrement the counter with this logic (which is a hack):

		if (sourceZoneId == opponentDeckId && destinationZoneId == opponentHandId) {
			this.opponentDeckSize--;
			this.addCardToOpponentHand();
			this.repaintDeckLabels();
		} else if (sourceZoneId == playerDeckId && destinationZoneId == playerHandId) {
			this.playerDeckSize--;
			this.repaintDeckLabels();
		}

Simon André Forsberg

@bazola good point about not being able to tell the zone from EntityRemoveMessage. I'll look into that.

@bazola the size of the zone is sent in ZoneMessage

it's possible to configure waffle a bit btw, so we could use the config we'd like for it...

although the only thing we might want to configure is turning off 'Close issues' in 'Done'. Although I prefer that issues are closed when they are fixed, not when they are merged into master.

although we can add more columns as well, but not sure what columns they would be

Duga

22:14

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis opened issue #41: EntityRemovedMessage and removing entities in an unknown zone

> Currently the EntityRemovedMessage only sends id. Somehow though it needs to be able to tell if the zone for that entity was a deck. Perhaps a good option would be to send a list of all ids that exist in a zone in the ZoneMessage.

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis assigned Zomis to issue #41: EntityRemovedMessage and removing entities in an unknown zone

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] Zomis commented on issue #41: EntityRemovedMessage and removing entities in an unknown zone

> This is required to get #40 to work properly in the JavaFX client

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] bazola pushed commit 660cdc4b to javafx

> Deck size is now properly set at the start

bazola

good tip on ZoneMessage size :) got that fixed

Duga

[skiwi2/GithubHookSEChatService] Zomis opened issue #40: Convert #number to an issue link

> When using git and github, it is possible to refer to an issue in a commit message, an issue description/comment, etc. by writing #number, it would be nice if the bot could convert these numbers to links, just like github does.

Simon André Forsberg

@bazola excellent :)

Duga

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] build #211 for commit 660cdc4b on branch javafx passed

bazola

22:30

@SimonAndréForsberg not sure if you read the answer to my JSON question from nhgrif, but do you understand what he is talking about with regards to just sending bytes of information instead of JSON commands?

Simon André Forsberg

@bazola nope, I haven't read his answer. Although I can imagine what he means by just sending bytes

bazola

myself I don't mind JSON for the ease it provides with Jackson on the Java side

for Objective-C there is nothing so easy as Jackson but it is still not very hard to parse the strings and create messages

Simon André Forsberg

Remind me to take a look at it tomorrow, way too tired now

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