Game Development

Pip

12:49 AM

@ArtOfCode I voted for you for the SO election btw :P

PearsonArtPhoto

1:13 AM

That might give me a person to vote for. Hmmm...

I've now been able to consolidate, only 2 scenes:-)

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@KevinvanderVelden Have you tried The Tomorrow Children?

PearsonArtPhoto

2:10 AM

I think I'll have to adjust the ship image in the background, but what do you think of the concept overall?

Right now it shows up as all barrels, but the final version will have the ability to make other stuff in the space where the barrels are now.

Or just keep it empty and load barrels.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

3:17 AM

@PearsonArtPhoto I think you could ship the game with empty/full barrels and don't care much about 'other stuff' in place of barrels. Yes, it could be a nice to have, but ultimately, not an important feature, i.e. IMHO this would be gold plating :)

Sie

4:32 AM

Finally rocking 3 monitors :).

But... 2 of them are ancient Dell ultrasharp monitors.

Almo

4:45 AM

my dell ultrasharp is pretty good

had it for a long fuckin time

I should probably get a new one

Sie

They are nice and cheap if you want dual monitors but are strapped for cash.

Almo

yeah

user92578

9:46 AM

PearsonArtPhoto

12:06 PM

@AlexandreVaillancourt I might just leave it as barrels for the time being, but I will eventually add more. If nothing else, I want to have some capacity for carrying people.

jgallant

1:00 PM

@Tyyppi_77 you should make that tank drivable by the player

user92578

wouldn't be too hard actually

jgallant

Like just at the very end. You use the tank to kill the last boss.

user92578

that is the last boss

jgallant

I know

Use his own tank against him fucken classic

user92578

lol

jgallant

1:02 PM

Run him over

NOOOOOOOOOOUUURRRRGGG gurgle. Dead.

user92578

I have a different death for the villain planned

jgallant

Dipped in hot water and then remove all his skin and then dipped again in salt and left to dry in the desert heat

Take that villain.

Almo

1:39 PM

I would personally love it if the tank moved forward at the same speed its treads moved backward ;)

Sie

1:56 PM

Judge Doom Dips a Shoe

►

user92578

@Almo yeah

Almo

really, you're going a good job on it

user92578

brother are parents have been at a concert the whole day so I've been able to work distraction-free

Sie

Sometimes I wish I could do Game Dev full time. Life is a major distraction and easily the biggest reason for delays.

user92578

I like how I can occasionally (school break weeks) work on the game almost full-time, but I feel that evenings and weekend are really enough for me

Almo

2:05 PM

I'm starting on the cognizer revenue model change

just testing it in the new version of unity first

Sie

What change is that?

Almo

free, pay what you want

Sie

Ah.

Almo

i'm hoping it's not more than a few days' work

with unity's new IAP plugin, I don't think it will be

also considering changing the game's aspect ratio

Sie

It would be cool if Google Play Store had that as an option. Like if you wanted to support the developer.

Almo

2:09 PM

it does: multiple IAPs that don't give you anything

look up Mekorama

that's how they did it, and it's where I got the idea

Alexandre Vaillancourt

2:35 PM

@PearsonArtPhoto Oh well if these people are slaves, you could carry them in barrels, still! j/k

Almo

2:51 PM

amazingly, adjusting the game's aspect ratio is proving not to be too hard

I actually wrote the code in a way that adjusts (in the places it needs to) and the UI setup is doing what I hope

yahoo5000

3:11 PM

guys what is the best database to use for games ?

Almo

can't answer without more information

for our game at work, we wrote our own

yahoo5000

i am making online game

something like mysql,mssql or something

Almo

must it be free?

yahoo5000

yea

Almo

then mysql is probably your best bet

yahoo5000

3:12 PM

well i dont know i mean once i rent host i get database too there ?

Almo

there are others

depends on the host

my host gives me unlimited mysql dbs

yahoo5000

some host gives mssql for free too is it better ?

Almo

for your purposes, the differences are probably not noticable

yahoo5000

but if not for mine purpose ?

Almo

it depends on what you're doing

you have EVE Online with 50k concurrent users in the same universe?

yahoo5000

3:17 PM

Well i am coding a Strategy online multiplayer game

Almo

you doing Overwatch with 12 people per session?

yahoo5000

no i dont

Almo

are you doing WoW which is sharded?

there are a fuckton of things that influence this

don't worry about it; the differences don't matter for you

yahoo5000

what about actual use in programing c++ ?

Almo

it depends on what you're doing

yahoo5000

3:18 PM

okay i got u :D

Almo

there's a reason "what is the best ____" questions are off topic on the main site

user92578

^

Almo

awesome, looks like I'm done messing with the aspect change

launch image busted now for some reason

probly something changed in unity again

user92578

nice

André Marques

hey guys i have a doubt i want to get a component of a children of my gameobject enemy

imgur.com/a/yRJNV

enemiesInstantiated [num].GetComponentInChildren<TextMesh> ().text = keysAssigned [num];

i have that but not working

PearsonArtPhoto

3:27 PM

@AlexandreVaillancourt I expect that slaves would occupy almost the same space as barrels. But I'm not thinking about slaves for now...

user92578

@AndréMarques have you checked what enemiesInstantiated contains?

user92578

what do you mean by "not working"

user92578

does the text not change? does it crash?

André Marques

text not change

and doesnt give me any error

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@PearsonArtPhoto Ah, right, and slaves aren't really people, right?

Almo

3:32 PM

not as far as those people were concerned

PearsonArtPhoto

Well, I won't have them stuck in barrels at least...

user92578

all right, does keysAssigned contain what you think?

PearsonArtPhoto

Slavery is something I go back and forth on a lot...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

But barrels don't help deliver fresh and marketable slaves..

André Marques

yes

Almo

3:33 PM

@PearsonArtPhoto Endeavor had slavery (boardgame) handled it quite well

André Marques

i used debug.log to see keyAssigned

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@PearsonArtPhoto Yeah, I get why; slavery is a touchy topic..

Almo

it was free labor. if someone freed the slaves, everyone lost the labor and lost points for having them

PearsonArtPhoto

Slavery wasn't free really.

If I do have slavery, I want to make it somewhat awful.

But if I do it, I'll have to do quite a bit of research in to it.

Almo

@PearsonArtPhoto true

PearsonArtPhoto

3:35 PM

I'll look in to this Endeavor.

Almo

fun game, if you're into board games

PearsonArtPhoto

I read a really interesting book on the subject, 1493.

I am, so I'll add it to my list.

user92578

are there other TextMesh components that could interfere with the assignment?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I'm going back to work on Monday!

PearsonArtPhoto

This one? amzn.to/2g6ivmv

André Marques

3:36 PM

in that gameobject no only on textmesh per enemie

Almo

that one

PearsonArtPhoto

Hmmm, will have to give it a shot. The price is right too...

André Marques

but i use this to store my enemies instantiated enemiesInstantiated[i] = Instantiate (enemy, spawnPosition, spawnRotation) as GameObject; @Tyyppi_77

is that the problem?

user92578

no clue

user92578

never used unity

PearsonArtPhoto

3:38 PM

Let me look in to a Unity issue...

André Marques

hmm :(

PearsonArtPhoto

I just realized, I think I found a bug in Unity yesterday, I should report it!

Almo

YEAH

they do actually fix bugs their users report on occasion :)

PearsonArtPhoto

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it was a bug in Unity... It might have been a result of CVS...

Somehow I had two RawImage Components on a single object... Not quite sure how that happened actually.

It caused all sorts of issues, however.

Ali.S

guys any one know any adult song following this theme? youtube.com/watch?v=Pjw2A3QU8Qg

I just found it: youtube.com/watch?v=4tIsXLyZcWI

I can't remember how long I was looking for this song!

Almo

3:50 PM

i don't know if you played There Is No Game, but it was pretty funny. here's a kickstarter for the sequel

kickstarter.com/projects/482263430/…

the kickstarter page itself is funny

Sie

Is it anything like The Stanley Parable? I loved that game.

And wow does Unity's light baking process bring the whole system to a crawl...

Almo

it's a meta game in the same wayu

not as profound though

more silly

Sie

Did you ever find Stanley? There was a random chance that there'd be a semi-hidden NPC walking down a hallway.

Almo

agame.com/game/there-is-no-game

i didn't play that many times

i liked it though

Sie

I'm playing it now on Newgrounds.

It's been a long time since I visited Newgrounds to actually play a game.

I remember back in the early 2000's when my cousin first showed me it. It was a magical world.

Almo

3:57 PM

:D

Sie

Heh. This is hilarious lol.

Almo

hahah yeah

I liked it

Sie

Oh shit... I just unscrewed the "secret" panel.

Almo

:D

i hope he gets to finish his sequel

Sie

After I finish this I'll toss him a few bucks.

How do I get rid of this dumb squirrel?

There we go I found the nut.

user92578

4:20 PM

user92578

I'm actually dying which is great

3

yahoo5000

7:33 PM

guys have any of you used mysql connector c++ ?

Ali.S

8:29 PM

not me

yahoo5000

there is a host like this tcp://127.0.0.1:3306 and i am not sure do i have use it like this or i can only do ip

because mysql manual there is no much info

Ali.S

why don't you try?

I guess you should be able to omit port and protocol, if you are using the default settings

yahoo5000

i am doing but i might get answer first

Ali.S

which seems to be the case

yahoo5000

yea i am using this sample for now dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-cpp/en/…

just finishing couple classes to load ini data and then will try if i could do that

i and i am not sure if 3306 is a default port for connecting to mysql cuz php doent require port

Ali.S

8:38 PM

it is

yahoo5000

ah okay tnx

Ali.S

according to this: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/connecting.html

jgallant

9:21 PM

@Tyyppi_77 looks like you are close to a closed beta

yahoo5000

9:50 PM

guys how to convert string int LPSTR ? i mean string variable

never mind will use char

Sie

10:10 PM

Overwatch has a free weekend currently. If anyone wants to play me and two friends are. @jgallant @Almo

user92578

@jgallant kinda, yeah

user92578

I gotta polish the boss fight plus write an ending cutscene, then bugs need to be fixed and powerup system needs a rework

Sie

Have you added any easter eggs yet?

That's probably the last on the to do list but still.

user92578

Title screen logo changes to RipOff if you enter the konami code

Sie

seriously? lol

user92578

10:16 PM

And the level that introduces spinning blades is a tribute to a very similar level in super meat boy

user92578

Yeah seriously

user92578

I wrote a generic key sequence listener for it

Sie

God I love ProBuilder. I don't know how I lived without it.

It's like Hammer but for Unity and much easier to use.

user92578

Jul 5 at 15:50, by Josh Petrie

Enter the Konami code on the title screen to change the title from GunHero to RipOff.

user92578

credit there goes to josh

Sie

10:19 PM

I like how Any Video Converter is melting my CPU.

Stephane Hockenhull

10:34 PM

Took me way too long to figure out what was wrong with my directional light...

Stupid NANs

PearsonArtPhoto

11:26 PM

I think it's slightly broken...

Stephane Hockenhull

... naaaah.

jgallant

Stephane Hockenhull

LOL looks like they didn't get-latest to do their remastering.

PearsonArtPhoto

11:55 PM

Fixed!

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