Game Development

Yeah it was probably mostly people who don't frequent this chat which seems kida silly. A bunch of people not in the comunity jumping in and make decisions beased on very little context.

Almo

as was stated, the timing of the joke was bad, and it also required knowing that it was song lyrics being quoted

ToddersLegrande

@Almo you don't need to repeat yourself

Almo

I had never heard the song

ToddersLegrande

6:23 PM

I'm only talking about it because it was the topic of discussion

Almo

you're repeating yourself, so why can't I

:D

ClassicThunder

It wasn't bad even if it wasn't lyrics. It seemed a "don't make fun of me" ban by the mods.

Evan

`tp list

ToddersLegrande

I don't know how many times you need me to tell you I agree with you for you to be satisified

Evan

whoops

Almo

6:24 PM

none. I was satisfied whether you agreed with me or not :)

I hang out on a forum where the moderation is considerably stricter, so it seems very mild here. :)

Alex M.

@ClassicThunder it was a "don't make fun of me" ban

Byte56

So how about those new games coming out?

ClassicThunder

lol

ToddersLegrande

Mario Kart and Mario World look great :D

ClassicThunder

fine I'll shut up

Almo

6:26 PM

for the record, were I a mod, I would have just issued a warning for Todders's remark as it seemed clear from context it wasn't a problem

but I'm not a mod and probably won't be

Alex M.

for the record, if I were a mod, I'd leave all moral rules aside, and keep myself for more severe problems

Byte56

Those new games sure look fun and playable. The graphics look very nice too.

Almo

unless the troll skewed the election for me

ToddersLegrande

Speaking of which, less than 1 hour to vote

Almo

but... that's unlikely. I think he's skewed it to the guy who said he didn't care

unless the mods already filtered that out

Byte56

6:27 PM

He probably didn't skew it at all.

Alex M.

forcing censorship throughout the chat is like inviting 1000 Chelsea fans in a room, not allowing them to praise Chelsea and dancing while saying to oneself "yay, there are no Chelsea fans here"

Almo

yeah

ToddersLegrande

@Byte56 you are getting off topic. Unless you want to talk about the development of said graphics or funness I'm going to have to ask you to talk about something else.

Byte56

@ToddersLegrande Sorry. Feel free to flag.

Alex M.

back to the new games

I'd rather finish the old games first :D they kinda piled up

ToddersLegrande

6:28 PM

:P

Almo

You can express plenty of ideas without running foul of the mods

ClassicThunder

@Almo You're one of my picks :D

Byte56

Though I think they are at least 2 funs more fun than the previous generation.

Almo

heh cool :)

Alex M.

I need to finish Skyrim, and Deus Ex HR

and then there's a lot of other games I bought in the past year on Steam

Almo

6:29 PM

at the other forum I hang out at, people regularly complain about the strictness of the moderation. But I've got 6000 posts, many on contentious issues without so much as a warning. It's pretty easy to avoid moderation rules in general and still express anything you want

Alex M.

I also need to finish Risen 1 and try the 2nd

ToddersLegrande

@Almo in my opinion you get major points for filling out ye olde questionnaire (even if it was just "voluntary") so I wouldn't be surprised if lots of votes go to you. The only problem is Josh and Byte also filled it out in a timely manner

Byte56

Steam summer sale is coming up, so that should be nice.

ClassicThunder

@Almo Do you go to TeamLiquid lol?

Almo

yeah Josh and Byte also have a ton of rep. :)

don't know team liquid

user11177

6:29 PM

I want to have a win8/lubuntu dual boot on my computer, but am afraid to do it because last time I tried something similar nothing booted and I had to reinstall everything.

Almo

i am referring to the JREF forums

Byte56

@Almo Rep is weightless.

ToddersLegrande

@Byte56 lies. Your rep makes you look fat.

Almo

it's weightless, except voters may consider it

Byte56

@ToddersLegrande If I had feelings you might have hurt them.

Alex M.

6:30 PM

I'm thinking instead of fixing my GTX 460 and using it, I could use it on another machine and buy myself one of the new GTX 760 cards for my gaming desktop

Almo

hahah

Byte56

I just have a big armature!

Alex M.

someone must've flagged something again

Byte56

I'm not fat! My matrices are scaled wrong!

Quonux

Which data structure you will use to for a witness list? [closed]

As a game developer, which data structure use for develop the game?

i see a pattern here today :/

Alex M.

6:32 PM

for a witness list, I'd use a list

booyah!

lol

@ToddersLegrande <3 that song

ToddersLegrande

Good stuff :)

ClassicThunder

@AlexM. I got about | | <-- that close to posting that as the answer

It was hard to stop myself

ToddersLegrande

6:36 PM

I best not post Albi here

Alex M.

this is currently the only big RPG project coming from Romania, excepting Ars Ignis

indiedb.com/games/noverat

it's a hacky and slashy RPG game, that looks really nice

Lucas Kauffman

guys again a flag :p?

Alex M.

I bet someone flagged me again

ToddersLegrande

wait...

Alex M.

said it earlier

Lucas Kauffman

6:38 PM

@AlexM. not you but @Quonux

ToddersLegrande

Did Quonux get flagged for simply cursing???

Alex M.

hahaha

Lucas Kauffman

I really wonder who keeps flagging stuff over here

It's getting as bad as the arqade was before

Almo

Not me :(

Alex M.

well, mass flagging is now actually just cheap trolling

Byte56

6:42 PM

So, are we to discourage flagging?

ClassicThunder

Are flags an auto remove/timeout if they get enough votes?

Almo

i thought the mods had to come agree with flags or something

Byte56

I know for main site comments, if it gets 5 flags it removes.

Gajoo

I'm pretty sure it's not me either.

in fact, I don't even look at chat page that often any more :P

Alex M.

I'm sure I don't need to tell people I'm not flagging anything

Byte56

6:44 PM

I just come here to talk about me.

Alex M.

as I said, I'd rather let the racists in than silence them and pretend there are no racists in

ToddersLegrande

@Gajoo you are GD.SE chat's number one suspect.

Gajoo

@ToddersLegrande how come?

ToddersLegrande

Obviously because you.... denied it.

And only because you are "pretty sure" and not "100% certain" - it must be you

Byte56

Well, I'm off to play some Ultimate Frisbee. Good luck to the other candidates in the election!

Gajoo

6:45 PM

@ToddersLegrande I didn't deny it, I just said the chance of me being the culprit is too low :D

Alex M.

@Gajoo now you're trying to deceive us

@Byte56 have fun!

@AlexM. I do.

@Byte56 cya :D

but does it really mean anything?

so we've been thinking about working with monogame,

ClassicThunder

6:47 PM

ewwww

Alex M.

sounds nice

Gajoo

but noticed xamarin's price is too high, so went back to cocos2dx

Alex M.

I always thought getting friends on Facebook was hard... until I started adding people to the friends list.

look at me now, 10 friends/hour at the lowest rate

Gajoo

@AlexM. I had around 150 friends before I added any.

Alex M.

I had 180, score!

Gajoo

6:49 PM

now I've got 207

ClassicThunder

I use facebook to connect with people I know irl

so my friend list it pretty small

Alex M.

224 and counting

ClassicThunder

seems it works best that

Alex M.

scorex2!

I'm trying to add as many people as possible

the more people hear about my stuff, the better

Gajoo

@AlexM. should I mention 30 friend request I didn't accept (yet)

Alex M.

6:50 PM

for some reason, some people share the stuff I share

Gajoo

I don't just accept anyone, and when adding I'm much more selective

Alex M.

even if they don't give a damn about Ars Ignis and so on

but it doesn't matter, the more people see it the bigger the chances to reach someone who's interested

Gajoo

@AlexM. just create a page, and invite people to your page.

having friends is not the solution

Alex M.

I need friends to invite first

Gajoo

@AlexM. not really.

Alex M.

6:51 PM

and how would you know

you don't have any friends!

booo

Gajoo

I've got only 20 friends less than you

@CodeAssassin hi

Alex M.

and that number is growing bigger

now it's 22

Gajoo

I miss the old days, when typing only two letters would give leave you only one autocomplete option

Alex M.

I am so much more popular duckface.jpg

make that 23

btw, is this not the cutest video you've ever seen?

facebook.com/photo.php?v=138884562976496

grandma used some incubator to hatch some eggs a few years ago

when the chickens came out, they started thinking we were their mother(s)

and followed us around

Tetrad

sometimes it's amusing to go back through old questions before the site kind of got into its stride of what was acceptable

9

A: Is it okay to use STL in my iPhone C++ 2d game?

Short answer: yes Long answer: depends on your use case. But probably yes.

Alex M.

6:56 PM

Hi Tetrad. As per our FAQ, you should only post an answer when you've got as much information as possible. Short answers are likely to be more appropriate to be posted as comments. Welcome to the StackExchange!

petervaz

Lol, Alex

starred

Almo

oh no another disputed flag on SO!

that's 5 in 173 :(

ToddersLegrande

OH SNAP

Almo

i flagged it as very low quality. It got closed as "not a real question" :/

Alex M.

today's all about the flags

ToddersLegrande

6:59 PM

@Almo sounds like a flaw in the system to me

Almo

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one of the best weird al songs ever

and most people here will get the jokes

hey mr petrie

um

my vote buttons have returned

did the votes get cleared or something?!?

ToddersLegrande

mine are still there

Code Assassin

@Gajoo hi

Almo

i'll just revote to be sure

Alex M.

just curious if there is some way to embed LaTeX inside a word document

Almo

7:09 PM

oh it just displays the vote buttons if i wanted to change them. got it

Alex M.

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Q: Embed LaTeX math equations into Microsoft Word

Let's say I have a (comparatively) lovely-looking document in LaTeX, full of lovingly typeset, (relatively) complex equations. Now, let's say some Philistines come along one day and decide that the document has to be put into Microsoft Word (2007). ...after the usual mourning period associated ...

LibreOffice has it

Gajoo

@AlexM. MS equation also has a similar syntax

and in the end, you can compile latex into png and simply put it inside your word document

Alex M.

yeah, but for someone who knows latex, a quick way to embed is nicer

anyone into trance? not a fan of Ayumi's music, but all of the trance remixes sound awesome

►

Almo

I have some progressive trance

not a lot though

Alex M.

I used to have a retail CD of ASOT 2011

ripped -> FLAC and threw it away

speaking of Armin, here's an awesome remix by him of one of Ayumi's songs

►

dare I say this is my favorite of all

Alex M.

7:34 PM

Ashen's look at the Ouya

►

for those who don't know: ashen usually reviews crappy games and ripoff consoles, all with excellent British humor

please don't flag that, I'm complimenting the guy

thank you

ClassicThunder

Nope you acknowledged cultural differences now I got to flag.

Alex M.

nnooooooo

where is that darth vader noooooo button

ToddersLegrande

facepalm

Alex M.

nooooooooooooooo.com

ClassicThunder

Its for the greater good :'(

ToddersLegrande

7:38 PM

"The greater good."

Code Assassin

LOL

nooooooooooooooooo I pressed it.

ToddersLegrande

►

Alex M.

I'd buy an Ouya just to hack it

and see what I can do with it

Code Assassin

@AlexM. Made with an Arduino(lies)

Alex M.

maybe I could turn it into a gaming station connected to my mainframe or something

Quonux

7:40 PM

i am alive again :)

Alex M.

:D

@Quonux yay

ToddersLegrande

@Quonux did you get muted? How long?

Quonux

yes, one hour :/

ClassicThunder

lulz

^^ thats my summary of today

Quonux

only because i said the word which starts with f..., like follow

ToddersLegrande

7:42 PM

I thought you said a different word lol

Quonux

the s word.... :/

ToddersLegrande

yeah

Quonux

snake?

;)

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Q: When to use an Array vs When to use a Vector, when dealing with GameObjects?

I understand that from other answers, Arrays and Vectors are the best choices. Many on SE claim that Linked Lists and Maps are bad for video game programming. I understand that for the most part, I can use Arrays. However, I don't really understand exactly when to use Vectors over Arrays. Why e...