Game Development

Gajet

7:00 PM

@CodeAssasssin are you free? so we can build a game just tonight? (at least it's night for me)

Code Assasssin

Hmm

I dont know =-= I have lots of schoolwork to do D:

Gajet

then I won't be bothering

tylerrrr07

If only I didn't have a day job D:

Code Assasssin

School is kind of like a job in a sense

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

My job rocks.

Out of the 14 hour shifts I have, I spend on average 10 of them at home. :P

Gajet

7:07 PM

since no one is going to participate I'll go play dota2

Code Assasssin

Someone help Gajet make a TD >_>

Gajet

but I like the idea of creating a game over one night.

:D

I think we should create such a games more than this...

call me if anyone was available for a one night game creation marathon.

Code Assasssin

o-o

BluFire

too bad I don't know much code and stuff :(

tylerrrr07

I'd like to but my night begins in 4-6 hoursish

@Gajet needless to say you and I likely won't be working together :P

Gajet

7:13 PM

@BluFire every game needs artistic stuff too.

@tylerrrr07 it doesn't really matter if it's my night or your night.

besides we can work trough the day too!

tylerrrr07

Again - I have a day job :P

Gajet

if it's not worktime or workday.

tylerrrr07

I could probably do a Friday / Saturday thing sometime though not this week. I'll keep ya posted

BluFire

@gajet true but you can always find some stuff online and just change the pic(i.e color shape size)

Gajet

me2

Gamer

7:25 PM

Hi all, can any one tell me how i retrieve image from iphone photo gallery to customised photo frame and that image will break after 3 second in different parts, its a puzzel game

i am doing this puzzel game in cocos2d

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Sounds like you want us to explain how to make the whole game?

Gamer

no

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Yes it does.

Gamer

i am nt getting idea how to break image

Gajet

I'm with william on this

Gamer

7:27 PM

after certain time

TreDubZedd

@Gamer What do you mean by "break image"? Split it into four equal-sized rectangles?

Gamer

no in different size 7 peices

like we play puzzel game to arrange photo

TreDubZedd

Like a jigsaw puzzle?

Gamer

sorry i didnt play jigsaw puzzel

so i dnt know how it is

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

vacates the building

TreDubZedd

7:30 PM

Jigsaw puzzle

:For the Rolling Stones song, see "Jigsaw Puzzle (song)" A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture. In some cases more advanced types have appeared on the market, such as spherical jigsaws and puzzles showing optical illusions. Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a ...

Gamer

@TreDubZedd yes like that, in my game player will select image and that image will break in 6 different parts and then player have to arrange that parts to make it original shape, i am not getting idea how to break the images

BluFire

well GL on your game.

just split the image by making columns and rows

then arrange those images in a random order

Gajet

@gamer you can also use this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino

Gamer

yes after breaking we have to arrange but the breaking of image is nt in column and row the shape of breaking parts is zig-zag

@Gajet my main issue is how to break the image in cocos2d?

Gajet

7:45 PM

do it jsut like pentomino

create textures of 1x1 tiles, then attach those textures into some nodes and you'll get pentomino shapes

Gustavo - Gtoknu

8:10 PM

@Gajet From now on, i have like 12 hours of free time :o Or even more, that's just the time im planning to go to sleep.

Gamer

@Gajet i am nt using tiles i have predefined break image boundary i have to break the image in that that shape only and i have to use cocos2d only.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Gajet, You around kiddo?

Gajet

not really,

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Too bad, you need to test something.

Gajet

I've just started a game

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

8:13 PM

So drop what you're doing.

Gajet

I think I can

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Good boy.

Gajet

:D

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

;)

Gajet

should I download your latest build from legeria?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

8:14 PM

Nah.

But create an account here first: legeria.net/registration.php

Remember to use a unique password and all that yadda.

Gajet

it's not unique.

TreDubZedd

@Gamer: Usually, you'll do something like a pixel-by-pixel copy from the source image into each of your six destination images, using some sort of mask data or image to determine whether to leave the destination pixel blank.

Gajet

but it doesn't match most of my accounts

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Doesn't really matter, it's md5 + salted.

Alright, @Gajet, can you download the latest debug?

Gajet

i guess

but later

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

8:19 PM

Whaa?

You can't just leave now!

BAD IRANIAN YOU!

Or is it Iraq?

I don't remember.

Gajet

iran

now let's see what you've got there

:d

@william dropbox, filtered!

Code Assasssin

XD

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Damn you!

Just a sec then...

Alright, @Gajet, does this work: legeria.net/legeria-latest-debug.zip

Gajet

yep downloaded

Code Assasssin

:3 Clicks

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

8:28 PM

Alright.

It's very badly networked.

Just want to see your reaction. :P

Right now all it does is WASD to move the camera around.

Gajet

how can I change the username and password?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Tab

Code Assasssin

I wanna plaaaay >_>

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Oh, it defaults to my username.

Silly me, I should remove that.

@CodeAssasssin, Nothing to play really. :P

Gajet

trying to connect

Code Assasssin

8:29 PM

>:/\ Fail

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Implementing networking is all baby steps.

Gajet

it started downloading lots of stuff

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Huh?

Gajet

and I can only see some crossed dirts

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I see you've connected and got accepted.

Gajet

8:31 PM

uploading umage

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Yeah, you should only see the crossed dirts.

How smooth is the camera movement?

Very not smooth at all? :P

Code Assasssin

My camera is better than your camera :)

Gajet

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Yeah, that's all there is at the moment.

Ripped out the rendering system for testing. :P

Gajet

I can't move at all

Code Assasssin

8:32 PM

Lol

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Nothing happens if you hit WASD?

Gustavo - Gtoknu

@CodeAssasssin Your camera is a copy of this camera david-amador.com/2009/10/xna-camera-2d-with-zoom-and-rotation lol

Gajet

nope

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Ohh, server crashed. :D

Code Assasssin

Heh

Gajet

8:33 PM

maybe caused by my bad internet connection

Code Assasssin

Lol

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Awesome.

That's perfect. Need to see what went wrong. I knew your poor iranian connection would be useful.

Gajet

:D

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

... My log is blank... How did that happen? :(

Gajet

handleing my connection will be last boss to defeat!

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

8:35 PM

It's a hard boss if it eats my logs.

Gajet

all caused by iranian power!

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Last log I have

[22:13:05] --------------------------------------------------------------------
[22:13:05] Initializing components . . .
[22:13:05] Initializing settings from "settings.xml" . . .
[22:13:05] Initializing database from "users.xml" . . .
[22:13:06] Initializing server and listening on port 3110 . . .
[22:13:06]  - Done!
[22:13:11] nikolaj.mariager@gmail.com connected (188.176.196.178:61593) and accepted
[22:13:16] nikolaj.mariager@gmail.com disconnected (188.176.196.178:61593)
[22:13:18] Stopping server . . .

I remember something about... Assembly or Domain containing a catch all event.

I should use it, and make sure shit's logged properly.

Here it is: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FirstChanceException

Gajet

I think I've logged in with my own email

so that log from 22:13:11 should not be me

Code Assasssin

8:54 PM

Cave Generation Fail

imgur.com/vEZJR

Gajet

:D imgur filtered!

I guess i have to activate my proxy

@CodeAssasssin it's becomming more and more like legeria

Code Assasssin

>_>

Gajet

mindy was like that at his very first steps

Code Assasssin

Notice how terraria and minecraft do tha' same thing :)

Gustavo - Gtoknu

MindworX will sue you!

Code Assasssin

8:57 PM

=-="

too much media. Must flee

@Gajet Why hasn't the Stack Exchange sued u for your avatar :3

Gajet

why should it?

did you see my avatar somewhere else?

Code Assasssin

Hm yes, I think its the help button on the gd.se site

Seems like you just flipped it :D

Gajet

beside my steam account? and my Google account

now you mention it it's kinda similar, but my color scheme is a bit different

Gustavo - Gtoknu

Where is this help button that i never came across? lol

Code Assasssin

?

Lol, when you post answers

There's Like a help button lol

Gustavo - Gtoknu

9:03 PM

ah, now i see it, it's very tiny lol

its a bit different lol

Gajet

10:17 PM

@WilliamMindWorXMariager any luck finding out what was the problem?

Dave

10:33 PM

morning

Gajet

it's 3AM here, so I can't really call it morning

but good time.

Dave

:P

i work best at those hours hehe

Gajet

it was these hour that I finished A* last night

Dave

guna try implement that js fiddle tonight

did u say u cld do multiple start points aswell as multiple ends or only ends

Gajet

10:52 PM

it was these hours that I finished A* last night

did you brag about it anywhere?

Dave

no?

i went to bed when u finished

Gajet

:D

isn't this your morning now?

Dave

well its 5 to midnight :P

Gajet

you mean 11:55pm?

Dave

same thing

@gajet - what do you do if the building covers more than one tile (say 2 by 2 tiles) thus there could be 8 starting points

is that already taken into account

Gajet

11:02 PM

i didn't get what you meant

Dave

well say a building connects to another by a path

one building may be larger than one tile thus having more than one starting point

Gajet

I think I've added that thing into that A* code

Dave

ok

Gajet

just flag multiple tiles for starting point and everything will be done

Dave

ill get it working first :P

where do you return "path" result?

@Gajet u seem to echo it half way through the function

Gajet

11:11 PM

i echo it as soon as I find the shortest path

Dave

so before drawing the table i just do return(path);

Gajet

when I return I only find the shortest path from one of the start point to one of the end points, but it doesn't matter which one

yep

Dave

ok

damn

@Gajet just noticed it creates the path array in the wrong format

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Gajet Like I said, the log wasn't saved. :(

Gajet

@Dave why

Dave

11:25 PM

i was hoping it the format of the path would be similiar to sdata's style

Gajet

@WilliamMindWorXMariager would you like me to join again?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Sure. :P

Gajet

@Dave it can't be like that

Dave

because its ton easier to check

why not

Gajet

since you might pass through same column twice, but in different times

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

11:26 PM

Also just fixed a bug where you could log in multiple times.

Now it'll disconnect the current login if you try to login with another client.

Dave

what you mean gajet

Gajet

for example this case :

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Still can't move around @Gajet?

Now it crashed. :P

Gajet

`S#####`
`.#E...`
`.####.`
`......`

@WilliamMindWorXMariager seems it crashes when I forcefully close the client

(I mean via alt+f4)

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

It seems so.

Gajet

11:29 PM

but I still couldn't move

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Really odd. :P

Gajet

is server your pc right now?

@dave did you get the example?

Dave

no lol :P

looks like some code to decrypt :P

Gajet

I don't know why it didn't format it correctly :(

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I guess the reason you can't move is because it's streaming 60 TCP packets per second. Assuming your connection is horrid, this create a backlog that'll at some point burst or in some other way cause issues.

Dave

11:30 PM

use paste.to

or to save time this is what im doing

				if( i in astar && j in astar[i] ){
					ctx2.fillStyle = "#000";
					ctx2.fillRect (abposx,abposy,10,10);
				}

astar is:

return(path);

its not json stringyfied

because then i can't do the in check

Gajet

@WilliamMindWorXMariager wrong password will result in client crash

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Oh, that's cause the server wasn't running. :P

I'm not checking that yet. Silly me. :P

Anyways, it's running now, please try again.

Gajet

@dave check this: codepaste.net/m6m6x9

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Heh, I should remove the default account name. :P

Dave

yeh but if i wanted to draw the path from loops - my "in && in" method doesn't work

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

11:34 PM

Lets see how long it takes before it dies. :P

Try and close it right away.

Gajet

@WilliamMindWorXMariager now it moves,

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Ohh

Sexy. :P

Gajet

I have to keep a key pressed for at least one second to see it's effect

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

What about if you press it for like half a second, does it move a bit after?

Gajet

I don't think it's cause entirely by my connection since not even 1% of my connection is used

@WilliamMindWorXMariager no

@Dave then try some old fashion method

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

11:36 PM

This is round-back movement, which means when you press, the server is told, and then the server moves you. So before you move, the data has to reach me and back to you.

Try and close it.

See what happens

Dave

hmm

ill ask in js chat see if they have the best idea

Gajet

alt+f4 or other way?

Dave

efficientcy is important at this point :P

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Just alt+f4

@Dave, Efficiency is only ever important if you have performance issues.

@Gajet, Hey, you disconnected without issues. :D

Gajet

:D

Dave

11:37 PM

not really cos i dont have a working mobile to test my engine

so i dont wana back track at a later date

Gajet

@WilliamMindWorXMariager ant changes in server code?

@WilliamMindWorXMariager you didn't tell me I could change default username via xml configuration!

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Hehe

I found the issue, now I need to figure out why it happens. It seems when you disconnect, it doesn't fire the required event. I'll see what is the cause.

Gajet

but seriously where does server.legeria.com point to?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Just my local computer.

Gajet

as I suspected.

Dave

11:40 PM

back in a bit guys :)

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

It's just easier to remember server.legeria.com. :P

Gajet

I want a server!

:D

to upload my nighties

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Hehe

Could you connect, and just close right away again?

Invalid password? :P

Gajet

first time yeah

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I accidentally closed the server I think. :P

Alright, it's running. :P

Gajet

11:44 PM

hah?

two times?

exactly when I closed the client?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

?

The server is running as it should right now.

Haven't gotten any login attempts from you yet.

Gajet

I mistype my password, every time I try to be careful

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Hehe

This is weird.

Gajet

logged in and closed, before all the contents arrive

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

That's fine. :)

So, the event is triggered, which should cause this:

    private void Users_UserLeaves(User user)
    {
        this.states.Remove(user.NetworkClient);
    }

However, even so, you're not removed from the states collection. :s

Causing an error later, when looping over the collection.

Gajet

11:50 PM

I guess that's because you are not receiving proper close connection event

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I'm also handling all exceptions, and treating them as a close event.

Gajet

and later you just get "connection forcefully closed by peer" or equivalent error in C#

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

It seems that the NetworkClient is somehow modified, so it doesn't match the one in the collection anymore. :s

In any case, I've switched to User as key now.

Lets see if it works properly.

Could you try reconnecting and closing again?

Gajet

did it

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Perfect

Now that part works properly.

Now something else is going nuts. :P

I think it has a lot to do with whatever is morphing that class.

I'll make some food and be back soon.

Then it's time to find out what's causing this bitch!

Gajet

11:53 PM

I won't be here by that time

I've just managed to reduce my game client size to 8MB

good night everyone

though it will increase again over time

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