Game Development

Alex M.

00:00

> Some examples of English prepositions (marked as bold) as used in phrases are:
as an adjunct (locative, temporal, etc.) to a {noun} (marked within curly brackets)
the {weather} in May
{cheese} from France with live bacteria
as an adjunct (locative, temporal, etc.) to a {verb}
{sleep} throughout the winter
{danced} atop the tables for hours
as an adjunct (locative, temporal, etc.) to an {adjective}
{happy} for them
{sick} until recently

ToddersLegrande

That said... its still a problem with the web platform and not the people using adblock in my opinion

Alex M.

Fuck until recently

no

sick fuck recently

ToddersLegrande

Anyway time to get driving. Ciao.

Alex M.

cya

the moment youtube makes me watch ads to watch videos forcibly...

I'll start torrenting all of my music

and get a portable HDD with music at work with me

facebook.com/…

this is funny

Fuck

Fuck is an English-language word, a profanity which refers to the act of sexual intercourse and is also often used to denote disdain or as an intensifier. The origin of the word is obscure. It is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475, but it may be considerably older. In modern usage, fuck and its derivatives (such as fucker and fucking) can be used in the position of a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb. There are many common phrases that make use of the word, as well as a number of compounds incorporating it, such as motherfucker. Offensiveness The word's use i...

I wonder if I'll ever be mentioned on that page

> Machine mistranslation
The word fuck occurs sometimes in Chinese/English bilingual public notices in China as a machine translation of the Simplified Chinese character 干 (干), which replaced the three Traditional Chinese characters 干 meaning "a pole", 幹 meaning "to do" or "to work", and 乾 meaning "dried". (Traditional Chinese 乾 can also be pronounced qian, which is a Taoist stem word meaning "sky".) Some examples are "spread to fuck the fruit" for "loose dried fruit", "fuck to adjust the area" for "dry seasonings section", and "fuck the certain price of goods" for "dry foods price counter"…

fuck to adjust the area

that fits so awkwardly for some reason

hasherr

00:17

@AlexM. Solution: Stop using yahoo altogether.

I don't know why anybody would these days

Alex M.

because it's the only email address with my full name in it

no dots, no nothing

just my name

I can't get the same on gmail

hasherr

What's wrong with dots?

Alex M.

I can't do it on gmail even with dots

hasherr

Why do you want an email address with your full name on it?

Alex M.

because it's representative

hasherr

00:19

I feel like ever username should have a level of cryptography to it. That's why I hate Google's 'use your full name' service.

Alex M.

and because once you get to meet people, especially for business

you want to use your full name

not some nickname

hasherr

In this day and age, it's easy to exchange that information

You don't need to use your full name, because chances are they won't remember it anyways.

Alex M.

you want to use your full name so you don't look like a 15 yo

with something like [email protected]

anyway, gotta sleep

cya

hasherr

Does '[email protected]' seem more professional to '[email protected]'?

I've noticed this thing with alex where he often leaves to go to sleep right after we start to have a good debate.

user4704

01:00

nothing "@yahoo.com" seems professional.

Grey

01:11

click2houston.com/news/…

hasherr

01:47

@JoshPetrie Haha.

I'm expecting the user 'yahoo.com' to show up like 'You pinged me?'

Grey

01:58

hashbrown detected

hasherr

DESTRUCTION IMMINENT

Grey

Instructions Unclear

hasherr

DID YOU JUST

@Grey What's your dick stuck in now?

Grey

hasherr

Answer the question, Amir.

Grey

02:09

Evan.

hasherr

AMIR. DO NOT USE MY NAME AGAINST ME.

Grey

Lol

hasherr

Lol

What're you working on, Gray?

Grey

nothing at the moment. Was doing some Health HW. I have a bio test on monday, so I'll probably be stuyding my arse off

hasherr

Honors bio?

BlueBug

02:10

YES I got my android phone get recognized in editor. Now I can run things on actual device JVD sucks so slow.

Grey

@hasherr what do u call college level bio

hasherr

AP.

@BlueBug Holy fuck it's so fast

Grey

then that's what Im doing. Up at a CC

hasherr

I'm not even joking, now you can actually make aps.

BlueBug

YES#! so freaking fast my good news. Happy to get out of that JVD hell

hasherr

02:12

@Grey I didn't take AP, I took Honors which is slightly lower level. I hated every second of it.

@BlueBug How did it take you this long?

Grey

Bio is pretty fun for me. I DISLIKE PSYCadasfhjdshuasdCOLOGY THOUGH AHURGRRHGUGRH.

BlueBug

my previous android stopped working so I had to get a new one, but I got it from back my country. They had some compatibility issue. So I had to work on that.

hasherr

@BlueBug Do you have citizenship here in the states?

BlueBug

no. I need one otherwise I have to go army this year. So marry me hasherr

hasherr

I would if I was 18.

BlueBug

02:15

I don't care. Our love, cannot be stopped. Eh... it's ok tbh. Army is fine. Everyone goes to army in my country. I am gona have fun in army. Being man and tough, u know.

hasherr

@BlueBug So are you going to army or are you going to attempt citizenship?

BlueBug

anyway now I can make app heeya!

Grey

once twitter see's that you have passed 100 followers :

hasherr

CXONGRFASKTURATIONZMNAZZ

Grey

Hey, want to promote your business!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? Click the button below to:

Twitter assumes that u run a business

not rlly. I just make stuff, and try to get people to play it.

Anywho. TIME TO DEV

BlueBug

02:23

? how do they even promote something? do they try to push some random stuff on user's feed?

Grey

@BlueBug something like that

Previously on Grey's Development Sessions...

Grey finds out that Unity Free is very restrictive. Grey proceeds to asking twitter and gd.se what he should do about it. They say to ditch the effects, and just make a game with awesome narrative. Grey agrees.

*present day*

I wonder if I have enough CPU power to stream

twitch.tv/grestranger

Lol

The lag is immense but that should be ok

hasherr

@Grey SO GAY

Grey

that ad?

yes, titanfall sux

I have chiptunes playing if that makes the stream any better

hasherr

@Grey lol, I just wanted to see my message on the stream

Grey

xD

hasherr

02:36

@Grey You gonna play my game when it comes out?

Grey

dun has le android

hasherr

cuz yer fig

Grey

02:55

the strokes r the best

@hasherr rude

hasherr

What is better? Parsing an integer out of a text file or out of an xml file?

Grey

It depends.

Text File is better though.

hasherr

ON what?

Hmm... okay

My game has 2 things left to really do and then it's just tweaking

Full release on Friday hopefully

Grey

Personal Preference, I guess. XML file is good for large amounts of information. If you have a serializer then SURE, use XML.

and if you intend others to read it, XML is also a viable option.

Text Files can be styled to your liking but if you use an XML file you have to follow a schema.

@hasherr What are you using the files for

hasherr

I'd rather just use a text file, thinking about it

Holding an integer to represent a high score

Grey

03:05

Yeah. Text File.

hasherr

Yeah, I already know how to parse values out of text files. I don't want to relearn that process.

Grey

03:21

Are you going to encrypt it somehow? or leave it to android

@hasherr

I know Facebook released a framework that is supposed to help android developers protect their persistent storage from being tampered with. I don't know if you're going to do it for Ghostly though ;o Might be overkill since it's just one tiny thing.

YOU SHOULD TOTES hook up scoreboard support or smthn

hasherr

Why would I encrypt it?

Grey

no idea.

hasherr

It's just a side project. I could care less if people hack it.

Grey

for fun?

gotcha.

hasherr

And If I put up a scoreboard, I'd have no choice but to encrypt it.

But this is just something small. I don't really care.

Grey

03:26

^ yeah, not worth the effort. When I get back to working on trtwnt I'm going to make sure I read up more on defending against exploitations. The Flappy Bird scoreboard was plauged with false scores.

hasherr

Integer overflows and everything

It was terrible

Grey

^

I was reading about exe security at one point in time, and on this thread there was someone who suggested to poll for "Cheat Engine while your game was running".

It's funny because, the amount of CPU cycles you're wasting just for checking if a process is open is actually pretty stupid. It would work but brute force. Funny though.

private Mesh generateStarMesh()
	{
		Vector3[] vertices =
		{
			new Vector3(0,0,0.01f), // lower left corner
			new Vector3(1,0,0.01f), // lower right corner
			new Vector3(1,1,0.01f), // top right corner
			new Vector3(0,1,0.01f) // top left corner
		};
		// each vertice has a corresponding uv coordinate
		Vector2[] uv =
		{
				new Vector2 (0, 0), // texture coord for lower left
				new Vector2 (1, 0),
				new Vector2(1, 1),
				new Vector2 (0, 1)
		};

		int[] triangles =
		{
			0, 1 , 2 , 0 , 2 , 3

I HOPE THIS WORKS

hasherr

What is it?

Grey

Generating 2D planes that are supposed to act like stars.

hasherr

Cool

What is TMNT?

Grey

03:29

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLEZ

nanananna

@hasherr trtwnt

hasherr

TRtwnt

whatver

Grey

xd

It has no vowels

So it's really interesting to see how people pronounce it. Anyway's it was this project of mine, that had a lot of ambitious goals. I can do it, but I just didn't have the funds, and still don't, at the time.

Think of a board game/ rpg

with mods and stuff

hasherr

cool

Grey

That's basically what it was. Lots of people were confused on what it was, and after I went on a long hiatus with it - 3 or 4 voxel artists contacted me

but I was already working on down, and I'm finishing it and then working on trtwnt so there's that.

but I'm hoping that maybe people will play down and say HEY THIS KID NEEDS some monies for HIS NEXT GAM

because.

INTERNETS

So I was really trying to make down Good so people would actually donate to my cause

hasherr

Hurray, got high scores working

That was easy

Grey

03:32

:D

hasherr

So now... 1 thing left

Grey

>=[ POLISH

@hasherr wat is that 1 thing that is left

wat is it. share. tell us.

hasherr

Better ghosty animation

And then it's just clean up code/tweak until it's just right

I suck at drawing :(

Grey

hey no shame m8

ToddersLegrande

word

Grey

03:38

and then father Todders appeared.

FATHER i am taking your advice.

going with a minimal look

hasherr

I have big chemistry test tomorrow. I must sleep at once.

ToddersLegrande

@Grey sweet

Grey

@hasherr get some rest then

and ace ur test

ToddersLegrande

or you know... don't fail it

Grey

ACE

3 STARS

Coincidence.

ToddersLegrande

03:42

Minimal 3 confirmed

Grey

that would be trtwnt

but first TRY TO RAISE FUNDS with down

ToddersLegrande

You're indie. Funds not required.

1. Live in Mom's basement.
2. Eat pemento loaf.
3. ???
4. Profit!

2

Grey

funds REQUIRED

for comfortable life style

soundtrack drop

Trance Figure - School of Seven Bells

I love the guitar too much x _ x LOL

ToddersLegrande

I'm gonna call your mum and tell her she makes you uncomfortable and that you don't like her pemento loaf.

Grey

I don't care how bad the singers - Voi

@ToddersLegrande NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

ToddersLegrande

03:49

I've honestly never had it lol

And apparently I can't spell

DX12 apparently having details released at GDC. Woooo....

Grey

sigh

DX12 wats new

ToddersLegrande

We'll find out at GDC

On one hand I like moving forward, on the other hand DX is often very closely tied to the OS which means a lack of backwards compatibility which means you won't see games leveraging new tech for some time.

I feel like DX10 was practically skipped because Vista

And also prevelance of DX9

But then finally people jumped on the Windows 7 bandwagon and DX11 happened... and boom finally progress was made

Grey

04:32

The stars do very little but it's the best I've got at this point. I should probably add some sort of offset to them so it looks a little bit better.

BlueBug

that's very pretty wat's that!

@Grey ITS SO PRETTY TELL ME WHATS GOING ON IN THAT GIF PLZ

Grey

A scene for a platformer I'm working on. It was supposed to be the opening. The white dots in the background are stars. The reason the "reflection" lags so much is because I'm faking a render texture.

It's supposed to be wataer

BlueBug

how r u doing water is that gpu? shader?

Grey

xd

Nah it's all CPU.

BlueBug

oh.

Grey

04:36

fail

:_:

IFF IT"S GPU WILL IBE HIPSTERs/

BlueBug

It's still damn pretty! I will buy it! I like pretty games, so. :D What platform is that? PC?

Grey

XD I am flattered. Thank you. It's not even finished yet! I would really like it to be better, so I'm thinking of ways to make it more nicer. I'm developing on Windows, but yeah - targets are OSX,Linux,and Windows

@BlueBug what should I do to add some personality to the scene.

Down takes place mostly underground in a cave, so I was thinking in the opening scene, I should have some rocks or something floating in the water and have some background that I scroll to make it look like You're actually traveling across the water(but you really aren't!)

BlueBug

I think just adding a bit more of character to starts (like the picture below) will help. And color. I liked the purple scene more than blue scene because I could see the water clearly.

woo ha, so r u like a dwarf? I suppose? Deep sea dwarf?

Grey

xd

BlueBug

I mean that's how I would imagine it. You said a cave underground but there is water above you.

Grey

04:45

I will explain why that's so

and things are about to get deep

so hold on to your potatoes.

Popular thought says that when earth was created there was just water.

Just water. Endless and endless amounts of water, and then down the line we have evidence of life and so on.

BlueBug

ok.

Grey

My game attempts to tell a story. It isn't a super meat boy, and it isn't Fez either(even though the character was modeled after Gomez). It's a story about balance. Yin and Yang. I thought I could tell a story, in the form of a game about the balance of creation/life.

So you're not a dwarf. You're not even a thing. You're not god but you're something that is significant. It's up to the gamer to decide how to interpret the character's purpose.

Spirit maybe, idk. It may not even take place on earth. IDK. It's just about two entities that are closely related that get separated, and find their way back to each other, and restore balance to the world, etc.

Is it a love story?

Maybe.

Is it a story about finding the balance in life?

Maybe.

It's up for the reader to decide how he or she wants to interpret it. IN FACT. I'm not even going to use text.

I'm going to let the player decide how he/she wants to interpret it and make it register on an emotional level, hopefully.

Point being....

I want it to be unique to each individual. I don't know if i can design the game to actually DO that, but I try.

i cant believe I said reader

I really feel like my game is a story instead of a game.

someone help

THIS ISNT GAME DEVELOPMENT ANYMORE

BlueBug

hehehe

man that sounds very interesting. A game about creation/life placed in supposedly very early years of men, and aiming to be interpreted subjectively told through two entities. I will wait for it. :D

Grey

Ty v_v I TRY NOT TO disappoint lol.

Martin Sojka