Game Development

Does the else statenent exists in use cases main flow? My book doesn't state anythubg about it. stackoverflow refers to the old version of it but it seems to have been removed :P

Almo

1:09 PM

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Q: Copying a successful game

Is it allowed to remake a game, if nothing is taken from a game except what we can see? Let's say I want to remake an old Super Mario game. What if I open up paint and try to draw everything like Nintendo did and then I program a jump and run with the same levels, the same hud, the same bosses, b...

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depressing how much this comes up

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Q: How closely can a game legally resemble another?

Most games build on other games' successes and many are downright clones. Where is the limit of imitation before legal issues come into play? Is it down to literary or graphic work like characters and storyline that cause legal problems, or can someone actually claim to own gameplay mechanics? T...

legal copyright intellectual-property

duplicate

Kevin van der Velden

Needs more reps =[

Almo

hmm looks like the dupe might be out of date

there's a comment linking to a court decision

Kevin van der Velden

That just means the answers are out of date, not the question

Almo

agreed

Kevin van der Velden

Also, stackexchange is not a place for legal advice, that link just being in a comment is fine

(For the record, I'm talking about this link: copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html)

Almo

1:16 PM

agreed

except for law.stackexchange.

Kevin van der Velden

That exists? Why does that exist?

Slereah

Sometimes I want to go to the law stackexchange to only ask dumb questions

Like "Is a vampire legally considered dead"

(Which the answer is no, because he does not meet the three criterias to be declared dead)

Kevin van der Velden

And get downvoted, flagged, closed and deleted in record time?

(The answer is not no, the answer is vampires aren't real and fiction is not a legal person)

Almo

hahahaha

Joe

2:36 PM

@TheMuffinCoder OMG MY WORLD IS DARK

Slereah

Tweak the luminosity? :p

Kala J

3:08 PM

Anyone using the Unity web player plugin? Does it crash for those of you using firefox ver. 40?

Kevin van der Velden

3:19 PM

Uuh cc @Chris as the only person I know with certainty uses unity

Almo

I use unity

oh web player plugin

I exported my proto using webgl, which I think is different.

maniac-games.com/Prototype/Cognizer

user4704

3:35 PM

Huh.

user4704

I can commit directly to MacVim now :D

Almo

:D

Do a massive commit that turns it into EMACS

user4704

lol

user4704

There's a few rendering bugs I might tackle.

Almo

cool

user4704

3:38 PM

But as I've started hacking on my own editor instead I'm not as inclined to devote so much time to huge R&D efforts.

user4704

There's still a ton of deprecation warnings to fix though, I'll definitely do those.

Almo

3:52 PM

hate warnings

user4704

yup.

user4704

It's tricky because lots of people still compile MacVim from source on old machines, so I still have to preserve the old execution path.

user4704

Lots if #if MAC_OS_X_MIN_REQUIRED_VER >= MAC_OS_X_10_6... #else... #endif

Asaltaviejas

gamasutra.com/blogs/AAdonaac/20150903/252889/…

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This looks great.

Lasse

4:32 PM

that gif looks gorgeous

MickLH

4:46 PM

@Ali.S did you and Josh get that thing sorted by the end? sorry the transcript is a bitch on a cell phone

user4704

@MickLH It was because the result of rdbuf() cares about the binary flag.

MickLH

oh was he outputting an LF, and ending up with a CR LF?

meh as long as its solved, cull thought away!

god I feel so amazingly shitty, I must have been doing something all night last night, I found a long blonde hair in my mouth as I tried to wipe the morning grogginess off and realized, it's not going away without a few hours of sleep, but my mind is already spinning up and the sun is out, no more sleep for me today :/

Almo

5:06 PM

@JoshPetrie yeah cute

Lokkij

@Asaltaviejas That one's pretty awesome.

Asaltaviejas

Yeah, I'm implementing that in a little game right now.

Slereah

Welp

Time to rewrite the sprite engine :p

Let's see, what to do

    public Rectangle rectInitialFrame; //first frame
    public int frameNumber = 1;    //number of frames
    public int currentFrame = 0; //current frame
    public int frameLength = 20; //how many frame the current frame lasts
    public int frameCounter = 0; //how many frames since the last change
    public bool looping = false; //does the animation loops
    public FrameAnimation sNextAnimation = null; //next animation

Does this seem okay for the fields of a frame animation class

Hm, should I use a list of rectangles for the sprites or leave the class to calculate the next one

Lokkij

5:24 PM

What engine/framework are you using?

Slereah

XNA

Almo

5:39 PM

Anxiety-provoking

BASICTONALVOCABULARY - SURGEON - FIRST

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Almo

5:53 PM

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Q: Appropriate UI scaler settings to use for mobile device

Can someone suggest to me what mode of UI canvas scaler I should use for a mobile game? I have tried all of them: constant pixel size scale with screen size constant physical size However, I have had many problems: in one mode, the button goes off the screen, in another one the panels become...

c# android user-interface unity3d

too broad.

Lokkij

Future Proofing Your Design - Looking at Hearthstone and Planning Ahead - Extra Credits

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Almo

Step one: make game, profit
Step two: introduce expansion that completely changes the character of the game permanently
Step three: lose some players who don't like the new style
Step four: profit

Jon

step five, give profit to jon

Almo

hahah

Jon

added pedestrians

now instead of a fare just appearing, a random pedestrian will request a cab

Slereah

5:57 PM

gives the 0 profit to @Jon

Jon

@Almo what is diff between standard and solo standard?

Almo

solo standard not allow parties in

on standard, you might get matched against three people on voice chat who all know each other

Jon

is it just me or does the crowd sometimes chant something along the lines of "big black cock"

Almo

"we want more"

after a game

Kevin van der Velden

And now we know what jon wants more of

MickLH

6:19 PM

@Asaltaviejas I just got on my PC, started some music and then opened this GIF. It was somehow lined up perfectly to the drop

Like all the overlapping squares went to the buildup, and then they expanded right on the drop

Kindof makes it a bit more amazing lol

Would recommend

Also the algorithm running is pretty much a good video for an electronic bassline, as-is

Jon

what would be pedestrian behaviour in a 2d sideview game?

they are limited to a specific platform... I was thinking of just randomly assigning a spot on the platform that is at least x-distance away from the current position

bazola

walk back and forth aimlessly?

Jon

then have them stop wait , and then pick another location

MickLH

@Jon That algorithm is called the "drunk walk"

Jon

for real?

MickLH

6:25 PM

So all your pedestrians are drunk.

Yes literally, I think it's even the formal name lol

Jon

that is perfect

MickLH

awww sorry, the formal name is "Random walk" I think

but I've never heard that term, ever, but I've heard "Drunk walk" used in practice several times

Jon

every platform has 2 bars

that they walk between

MickLH

lol awesome

Lol oh shit, my internal error checking mechanisms are throwing out red flags about my internal thought process, ~~I think~~ I forgot every pill this morning

this is the really shitty part... where I feel good and think I should just not take them today, and tomorrow, and every day until I crash hard and remember why I set red flags on certain "code paths"

Jon

what kind of pills?

MickLH

6:34 PM

Mostly psych meds, I guess I'll take the hormone med at least since I'll eventually die without that one

Jon

cool i know how to kill you

MickLH

Lol well the implementation details make it more difficult than just using a gun

Jon

of course, its like hitman

but in real life

you think you are taking hormones, but muwahahahaha, its just my semen!! MUWAHAHAHA

MickLH

I actually test my pills lol

They have given me wrong shit before

Jon

thats the beauty , it tests positive for hormones!! muwahahahaha

MickLH

6:38 PM

Like pills that would have directly killed me on the first shot

Jon

Ah, well that is the US for you

Can't wait for robotic AI doctors

tired of human error bullshit

MickLH

@Jon lol if it tests positive for the right hormones then won't it work?

Jon

no.. muwahahahahaha, it deactivates the hormones once it hits your stomach acid, specially formulated.. i spent 3 years developing it

Just to kill you

Almo

@MickLH you're serious about this right? that's shocking

Jon

you didn't see my kickstarter?

probably a breathing issue?

MickLH

6:40 PM

Shit! I forgot kickstarter's Non-GMO policy only applies to animals as rewards, not retro-viruses!

@Almo Yeah it was kinda scary honestly, like "How incompetent ARE they??"

I almost didn't check too.... It makes me think plenty of people have probably died that way.

Also, after I said "No, this is the wrong pill." the pharmacist literally laughed a little and tried to argue

At which point, I had to physically restrain my dad from jumping over the counter lol

Jon

i didn't know you had a dad

MickLH

Yeah they give you a full life and family and everything to cover it all

lol sorry I couldn't resist, I haven't actually gone off the deep end completely yet

Jon

all i got was plastic surgery and a new name

insidiousvr.com/promo/insidious_vr

VR INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3 SCARY

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i wanna try this

MickLH

I actually looked into kickstarter's policy on GMO, they sadly actually do disallow GM animals as investor rewards.... Which killed my idea to put actual Pokemon on kickstarter

Ali.S

@Jon I don't... I don't like horror at all

MickLH

6:52 PM

I'm pretty sure kickstarter put in that clause, specifically to fuck over that idea.

Because, well, it would probably destroy the world, but jesus christ we have the technology.

Jon

meh, the world is already fucked

MickLH

Yeah but not like Mewtwo from the original Pokemon movie level fucked

Jon

mewtwo was in the original movie?

MickLH

Maybe I have it mixed up, but I thought so

I thought mewtwo was in the original series, as a genetically modified clone of mew

Jon

yeah

he is a freak of science

MickLH

6:55 PM

You want to experience some real horror though? Why am I the only one who starred Josh's message bashing video tutorials?

There should be a Unicode symbol for "Hypothetical Question Mark"

It should look exactly like the question mark at first glance, maybe even pixel for pixel, it's primary purpose is being "righter than fuck" when it comes time to argue semantics about it.

Jon

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Almo

@MickLH because he said it once before, and I think it was starred then too

MickLH

Well then shouldn't it be a sticky by now??

Jon

video guides are for the video maker

they fucken talk and talk and talk and talk

EMMMMMMMM

UHHHHMMMM

such a waste of time