Game Development

13:39

Almo

I love that Cricket has a no-bullshit means of determining if the ball not hit counts against the team at bat. Wicket doesn't fall, doesn't count.

Oh jesus that's where the phrase "bit of a sticky wicket" comes from!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I don't have a clue how Cricket is played :P

Almo

see the little things on top of the black things?

if the ball knocks one of those off, it's a "wicket"

similar to an "out" in baseball

so if the pitcher throws the ball and it's not going to hit the black things, it's not a big deal to miss or not swing

that's my understanding anyway

in baseball, the umpire determines on a ball not swung at if it's in "the strike box"

if it is, it's a strike

cricket makes it not a judgement call, and I think that's really smart.

n_palum

15:06

Hey all, never posted in here but had a question. Should I convert my comments from here gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/144676/… into an answer? I didn't initially because I wasn't sure it was complete enough.

Almo

@n_palum looks like it could be an answer to me. Just make sure that there's enough explanation in your answer to work even if the youtube link goes down.

n_palum

15:47

@Almo Thanks, I made an answer. Feel like it could've done with images showing the process but I don't have access to maya and won't for a little while.

Almo

:)

DH.

New game of Edmund Mcmillen has been released: The End is Nigh

The best part is requirements
Minimum GPU: "Anything made after 2008"
Recommended GPU: "nVidia 9999999999999GTX TI SLIx200"

Almo

:D

doppelgreener

16:03

recommended GPU: "whatever you have there in the future that's pretty good"

n_palum

Hmm reminds me I have to decide on building a PC or just buying stuff for my laptop...

dcfyj

Didn't know you frequented in here, Plum

n_palum

@dcfyj You're here?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Almo Ah, I see!

dcfyj

Always lol, I just don't talk much

n_palum

16:07

I've never really talked here but I had a question so it seemed like the place to ask.. I'd love to be more active on this SE but I'm not nearly as experienced as some of the people here.

dcfyj

same, I'm slowly but surely working on increasing my dev skills

n_palum

I'm in school for it so I've still got time to go

dcfyj

16:58

I thought you were working full time?

n_palum

I'm on a co-op - been here since January, but I go back to school in mid/late August.

And I'll be a community manager on an edX class for Game Design a professor of ours is running soon so that'll be interesting. (While still taking classes of course)

dcfyj

17:11

nifty

n_palum

That's one word for it.. his motto is "don't do game design" so

dcfyj

hahaha

n_palum

It's odd.. you'd think someone who was in the industry for like 10 years, and now teaching would be encouraging or something but nope he says don't do it

Almo

game design is very hard to get into, and pays shit.

I'd be doing game design if I could take the pay cut

n_palum

Yeah I understand that, and it's stressful, and unstable, etc etc

Almo

17:17

:)

n_palum

But I think at least at a younger age I can take a bit of a risk trying to get into it

Hard part is still figuring out what wanna do since I like a bit of everything

Almo

I wouldn't say "don't go into game design" I would say "go into game design with your eyes open" :)

or be like Chris Taylor. Be a programmer who designs, so you still get paid. :)

I was doing some of that a Ubisoft

n_palum

I guess that's one way to think about it

I like a bit of everything though.. so a few people said be like a producer/manager of some kind but like... that's not something you just hop into

Almo

If it's what you love, go for it. I've passed up $$$ many times in order to do what I liked

Jade offered me camera and control on Assassin's Creed II, and I turned it down to work on a smaller project.

I probably missed out on a $150,000 bonus for turning that down.

plus with that on my resume I could get top gameplay programmer jobs anywhere

but it was the right decision. I would not have been happy on it

n_palum

I like video and board games, I like art, programming, (love) design

Almo

17:20

I design both video games and boardgames

play.google.com/store/apps/…

n_palum

Top spots don't always seem to translate to happiness

I took a peek at some of your stuff already ;)

Almo

oh right :)

Linkage turned out great

I don't like the title

it was a working title

but when Arty put it up on iggamecenter, he named it that, and I never got to change it

n_palum

It'll be interesting... I go to a (top?) GDD school, and there are connections galore to be made but still

Yeah I think you could've gone with a few things that aren't "Linkage" :) but it's not terrible.

Almo

As far as I know, employers are more interested in what you've designed and your attitudes than having a degree from a design school. I am not saying "don't go" but make sure you work on your portfolio.

dcfyj

Yeah, if anything I just want to code the games, I suck at coming up with ideas :P

n_palum

17:23

Oh of course, we're always pushed to design outside of classes

That's and connections are what get you the jobs it seems

Almo

connections are very important yes

n_palum

I plan to work on something this semester in my free time.. I've only got small stuff or projects I've expanded on from class

Almo

A small completed project means more than a large unfinished one

dcfyj

yup

user92578

^

Almo

17:25

it was my 4 small completed shareware titles that got me into the industry in 1999

dcfyj

Partly why I did Pong and now working on 2048

Almo

:)

dcfyj

Not releasing things though because I want to figure out how to do stuff first

Almo

doge2048.com

111

Q: Which doge represents what number?

From the original 2048 it was rather easy to tell which numbers I'm combining - after all, it says so right on the tile. But now with doge2048 there is such doge. What doge is 16? What is 32? Is this doge secretly 2048 and the game actually keeps going beyond that? very confuse wow

doge2048

and one of my favorite SE comments, "what in the name of god"

n_palum

I expanded on an Asteroid's game from a class.. that was fun

Almo

17:27

Asteroids is a great game

one of my favorites

dcfyj

@Almo lol

Almo

I wrote it once, with 5 different ships.

n_palum

Oh that's a neat idea

I just did different lasers and asteroid types

And added little engine smoke graphics and such

Almo

cool

n_palum

My current idea to do is expand on a tower defense Unity tutorial I found.. but idk that it's "exciting"

I'd love to design a board game but that's incredibly difficult to be successful with I've come to find

Maybe not even a board game.. but something simple and fun

Almo

17:31

board games are hard

I did an 8-hour space conquest game (people like it because turns are short), linkage and a 2.5-hour market euro-style game

n_palum

Indeed they are.. I've also thought about things like exploding kittens/funemployed style card/party games

Almo

:)

dcfyj

Exploding kittens looks rather entertaining.

(as morbid as that sounds)

n_palum

Biggest one I've made is a board game about adapting creatures that mutate etc.. gotta like travel to different environments to collect stuff to win, can fight other people and stuff.. I enjoyed that but the team didn't wanna move forward more after class

dcfyj

That sounds interesting

n_palum

17:34

@dcfyj I actually just bought it during the amazon prime deal.. the nsfw one and the expansion for like $25

dcfyj

There's a nsfw one?

like gore ns or...?

n_palum

Only way I could take it anywhere is getting some sort of agreement from the team to let me since "intellectual property" and stuff..

dcfyj

true

n_palum

Yeah there is - Exploding Kittens NOT SAFE FOR WORK Edition is a card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and boob wizards and sometimes butts.
This NSFW Edition of Exploding Kittens is an ADULT ONLY party game for 2-5 players (up to 9 players when combined with any other deck).

DH.

Board games, at least here on Brazil, is very niche specific

I prefer staying with game dev

dcfyj

17:36

@n_palum uhunh... I'll take the regular boom cats

n_palum

It was slightly cheaper for some reason so that was my incentive

dcfyj

suuuure lol

n_palum

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hmm maybe I'll build a board game anyway.. go be a bust on a game submission thing or kickstarter XD

Almo

ok, weird music post

Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans

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PaulD

18:53

Does anybody knows the equation how to calculate a normal to a plane represented as two vectors and a point in space?

user92578

isn't the normal just the cross product of the two vectors?

Almo

I'd go to google and type "calculate normal to a plane"

user92578

the point doesn't affect the direction of the normal at all

n_palum

^^

Almo

probably get a list of ways given different specifications

user92578

18:55

(a2b3−a3b2)i−(a1b3−a3b1)j+(a1b2−a2b1)k

user92578

Seems to boil down to that

Almo

linear algebra is mystifying

PaulD

@Tyyppi_77 so it's a cross product of two vectors?

Almo

24-bit 3-error-correcting Hamming codes are magic

user92578

yes, cross product is always an operation between two vectors

Almo

18:57

you send 32 bits, 24 are data, 8 are designed to fix errors. You run the 32 bits through a matrix multiply, and if up to 3 bits are flipped, they will be fixed.

For a brief time I actually understood how these things work.

something about the column-space

or something

user92578

I've done a few math classes about basic linear algebra, but every time I want to do some matrix stuff on a computer I get frustrated with row/column major and just give up

Almo

hahah :)

PaulD

given some set of { n, n+1, n+2, ... }, how to derive a formula of how many pairs we can get from such a set?

Almo

does the order matter?

is like (n, n+1) the same as (n+1, n)?

if order matters, you want permutations of N objects taken two at a time

if order does not matter, you want combinations of N objects taken two at a time

PaulD

no, order of elements in pair doesn't matter

Almo

19:09

if you look those up, you'll get formulas for it

the words in italics are the technical terms for those things

DH.

Now that's is quite new to me

The End is Nigh BGMs are all classic symphony and compositions, like "Danse Macabre", "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and so on: ridiculon.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-is-nigh-ost

I mean, there are hundred of games that has a music based on them, but 100% I never saw before

PaulD

@Almo thanks. They wanted a constant time solution and it must be written in 15 minutes... crazy. It would take me all day to implement such an algorithm, or even a week.

@Almo I doubt it could be done at constant time at all

user92578

19:29

What?

user92578

It's just a maths formula

PaulD

20:26

@Tyyppi_77 well, I've looked up solutions on the stack overflow, and they look far from simple math formula

Almo

calculatorsoup.com/calculators/discretemathematics/…

DH.

20:41

I remember that shit from statistics from uni

user92578

21:51

I didn't like statistics or probability at all but yep, that's the correct formula Almo posted there, @PaulD. Not sure what you were searching with?

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