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Q: gamedev.stackexchange: logo info

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3:44 AM

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the logo of gamedev.stackexchange is of interest to me. specifically does anyone know who designed it? how long ago it was made? and i am also curious how the design came about. i ask because for some years i have had a logo design built around that concept. i am planning on using my design as a...

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I asked in JavaScript, but maybe we got some socket.IO people here too. Is the socket.io loop for each of the clients asynchronous ? That would take away a lot of hassle with creating callback loops for all the units to keep the tread from blocking to much

5:59 AM

nothing in javascript is asynchronous in sense of multithreading, execution of your handler code bloks execution of other stuff, but the loop that wait for messages itself doesnt

8:09 AM

@OliverSchöning
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/48693/is-the-socket-io-client-loop-asynchronous

if you do this, and then somewhere you will write while (true) { } your callback will never be executed

9:45 AM

@Kikaimaru I have a lot to learn master yoda :)
I am starting to wonder if a lot of people started like me, or just somehow instantly understood it all.. Sigh. Thx for the tip, can you tell me why it would never be executed rather then after the while?

9:56 AM

@OliverSchöning well because there is only one thread that executes your code, and your code is currently in infinite while (true) { } loop, so it cant do anything else, like handle callbacks

it can be confusing since in c# such callbacks are in separate threads

everything in nodejs expects you to return control from your code back to node, you have to just setup handlers and some basic stuff

Well, I mean I know that a While Loop inside the general node.js would be blocking. But I though the socket.io clients them selves are asyncronus and sort of like child processes

even when you write game in javascript, you dont write infinite loop, you write setTimeout(loop, 1/desiredfps) (or requestanimationframe)

nope, i dont think thats even possible in node (sharing stuff between other, thread, node whatever) - i mean there must be libraries for it

I know :), but for pathfinding I might have to do a while loop to itterate over all nodes. I would NEVER do a game loop in while in JavaScript LOL, that much I do know

github.com/Kikaimaru/GrindFest here you can look on my javascript (typescript) mmorpg :)

Afaik node.js runs a main loop, and a I/O one that is the asynchronous one

Cheers

I found this wonderful SO answer about node scaling. sec

This one.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10773564/which-would-be-better-for-concurrent-tasks-on-node-js-fibers-web-workers-or-t

Are modules a good idea to use with node.js? it's like using src = "link" on a website?

10:09 AM

@OliverSchöning i dont know i think most people that use nodejs are crazy

@OliverSchöning i dont think you can use socket.io without modules, can you?

it can handle basic stuff like serving static websites very fast, and that scenario is scalable, but it wont help scale anyting complex

Just let me have this okay!
If Node.js fails, ill learn Erlang or C# :p

well i use nodejs because its easiest way to use websockets :)

I am not ready to learn an additional language at the moment, Node.js is very convinient, and unless I create THE KILL MMORPGFPSRTS it won be a scale proble for now

won't be*

I know to little about other approaches to say anything definitve about -easiest web-socket approach- But I enjoy it so far, I think that's pretty cheesy and important for now ^^

I found Node.JS because of Construct2 some time ago, Event based Editor, Event Based Server. Seemed fitting :)

except for javascript, node is ok :)

@Kikaimaru lmao. But the Turtle won against the hare in the end you know. (If you got that story in your country? lol)

10:19 AM

yes but the turtle was just slow, not retarted

JS isn't retarded

brainfuck is retarded

Let the flame war begin

retards cannot accomplish simple tasks

(whoa, that would include Java too)

and c/c++ too

@Kikaimaru not at all

10:21 AM

sure :)

simple tasks in C++ are simple

like reading an xml?

compared to java or c#?

or javascript

since when is reading xml a simple task?

it is one of the most bloated representations of data ever made

ok, so reading json

and what is your simple task?

Isnt C++ syntax "kinda" similar to JS ? Java similar syntax t C stuff -> Javascript similar to Java syntax

10:22 AM

reading json is simple

is it like... calling one method, like in javascript?

@Kikaimaru data transforms, mostly

what do you mean

parsing custom formats into data structures, for example

and why you cant do that in java?

10:25 AM

now where did I say that?

retards cannot accomplish simple tasks

(whoa, that would include Java too)

ah, right

well, it is obviously possible, it just involves making the whole thing a complex task

not that saing that in c++ its easier would be different, i wouldnt agree with that either

@OliverSchöning c#, java and c++ are much more similar then javascript to any of those

C basically allows fread'ing into a struct

beat that :D

(surely padding and alignment has to be managed manually but it's just two additional lines of code, usually)

C can makes Game Boy color games too.

10:27 AM

well java has reflection that allows you to read any binary format to your classes, its more complex code, but you dont have write it again and again

@Kikaimaru exactly, it's more complex

not a simple task, not fast

ok brb

lunch :)

I got like 30 tabs open again, reading time! And this talk goes over my head. Laters!