Game Development

Lasse

15:15

@AlexM. did you notice it?

oh, meta does not respond, is it down?

John McDonald

15:32

Weird, it's also down for me, but this website says otherwise: downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://…

user92578

Works fine for me

MickLH

works for me also

John McDonald

Hmm, strange

Lasse

I'm not getting IP for it from DNS

Kevin van der Velden

@Lasse meta is sorta down

Lasse

15:34

sorta

Kevin van der Velden

For me to, someone else on the bridge as well

It's been posted on MSO

John McDonald

Ok, good to know

Lasse

I tweeted them about it too

they are asking my dns configuration

MickLH

@Lasse 198.252.206.16

Lasse

hmm?

Nick Craver

15:43

@Lasse it should start resolving soon, it'll take a moment for Google's DNS pool to start recognizing the name server change, glue was not affected

Lasse

okay, thanks :)

Almo

just remember: "Rectify" comes from the same Latin root (rectus, or straight) as "Rectum". So anytime someone says they will rectify something...

Jon

oh my god...

you are right

Alex M.

@Lasse the game?

yup

Lasse

good

you were waiting for it

I hope the delay wasn't too much ;)

Alex M.

15:48

be sure to update the post often <3

Lasse

oh I will

Alex M.

Same thing can be done for Groovy and Java. — ArtB 4 mins ago

THANKS FOR THE INFO

NOW PLEASE UPVOTE

Almo

Is this something you posted on SO for me to upvote?

Lasse

no it's something he posted in codegolf.se for you to upvote

Almo

oh

I only upvote alex on SO

;)

Alex M.

15:55

:(

almo pls

Almo

just kidding man

Alex M.

i need 5 upvotes to get to 100

I really want to get to 100

Lasse

will you get cake for 100?

Alex M.

I'll bake a cake for 100

Lasse

how about piece of heaven (cheese)?

Alex M.

15:59

what about that

Lasse

will you get a piece of heaven then

Alex M.

still don't understand :(

Lasse

it's a movie reference :(

Alex M.

probably didn't watch it

Lasse

imdb.com/title/tt1820723

not that great but not bad either

Ali.S

16:01

what do you guys think? will I enjoy this game?

store.steampowered.com/app/214340/?snr=1_614_615_daedalic_421

Lasse

how should we know if you like it or not?

do you like point and click adventures in general? if yes, you might try it out

Ali.S

you can start by telling if you like that kinda game?

Lasse

oh yes I like

Ali.S

then I guess it's settled, going to buy it :D

Lasse

I've liked them all from monkey island thru day of the tentacle and sam and max up to grim fandango

Ali.S

16:03

I guess it is worth 2$? right?

Alex M.

it's $2 dude wtf

it's cheaper than the beer I drank last night

deponia is a great recent adventure game

Lasse

I would buy it, but it does not run on linux

Ali.S

:D

Alex M.

some compare it to lucasarts classics

some don't

user92578

WHAT THE F*CK IS WRONG WITH MY COMPUTER!?!??!? IT TOOK LIKE 20MINS TO SWITCH FROM USER TO ANOTHER AND NOW WINDOWS EXPLORER KEEPS CHRASHING AND TASKBAR RELOADING

Ali.S

16:04

@Lasse linux is not a problem at all

Lasse

@Tyyppi_77 windows. I found your problem

user92578

hahah

Lasse

@Ali.S it does not say it works on linux

Ali.S

@Lasse I don't care if it does

Lasse

I do. It affects my buying decisions greatly

Jon

16:06

would you buy a bag of shit if it was only 2$?

Lasse

yay meta works again

John McDonald

D: Not for me

erebel55

arg can't seem to get chartboost integrated

Jon

What if the bag was made out of 2.50$ worth of gold?

Ali.S

@Jon depends, I mean if the bag itself is worth 2$ plus the cleaning price or not :D

@JohnMcDonald see, everyone loved your game, not everyone liked mine :|

John McDonald

16:09

yeah

erebel55

didFailToLoadInterstitial is showing a NO_AD_FOUND error pastie.org/9073234

Ali.S

@JohnMcDonald that's why I should mention your name with respect, MASTER

erebel55

I'm calling GetChartboost() and startSession() from the GLSurfaceView thread

John McDonald

@Ali.S heh, that's not necessary, but thanks

:/ Meta is still down for me

Lasse

:/

John McDonald

16:16

:\

Lasse

try flushing the dns cache?

not sure if that'll do any good though, since it's just not getting the ip from the dns

Alex M.

last time the jam votes were 7-7-7

damn, john wins even when he loses

John McDonald

heh

Alex M.

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=heh&user=21904&room=19

:O 1133 messages found

658 messages found for my "fuck" messages

erebel55

help a brother out

MickLH

16:25

@AlexM. damn dude looks like you picked a word with too much competition

you've only got 27% of the fucks said, while @JohnMcDonald has 54% of the hehs said

Lasse

heh

MickLH

or, exactly 53.72214319582741% and 26.9120654396728%....

damnit

Lasse

heh I'm altering the statistics

MickLH

53.671245855045%

Lasse

heh are you going to calculate that every time

you'll need a script for that

MickLH

16:28

@AlexM. at this rate you're going to win because Lasse is moving @JohnMcDonald's score down at a non zero rate, while yours stays the same

Alex M.

lol

MickLH

@Lasse I'm just gonna leave it at 53.64583333333334% because it's got a lot of 3s in it

John McDonald

@Lasse Line stealer

MickLH

statistically, he's correct, it is his line

Lasse

Sorry, I wanted to be an anomaly in the statistics

my fps camera almost works

never implemented one, so this is actually cool

and not a single tutorial used, yet

John McDonald

16:32

Yay, Meta is back

Lasse

yay!

Jon

hip hip

Alex M.

oooh easter discounts at the mobile carriers

might just be able to get a htc one for the price of that xperia sp

Jon

i'm going to get the HTC one right now

lol

John McDonald

So, close the jam?

Alex M.

16:34

@JoshPetrie if you may :D

we've got 3 winners

Lasse

the shirt needs to be cut in three pieces

Ali.S

@AlexM. I could have participated (I guess), I'm still mad at ya

Alex M.

:P

Ali.S

@Lasse bought it :D

@AlexM. and I guess the MASTER (@joh) is too

John McDonald

@Lasse Dibs on the left arm!

Lasse

16:37

I'd take the middle part, good for playing indians

user4704

@AlexM. Locked.

Alex M.

yay

MickLH

Just in case anyone needs a way to remember the exact percentage of "heh" said by @JohnMcDonald before I fucked it all up with this message, I've written a formula in Mathematica that gives the exact value

(Fibonacci[2 Gamma[Gamma[1 + x]^x]] -
   Prime[Fibonacci[1 + Gamma[Gamma[1 + x]^x]]])/(2^
   Gamma[Gamma[1 + x]^x] + 2^(1 + Gamma[Gamma[1 + x]^x]))

John McDonald

heh

MickLH

The value of x which produces the correct result is also the Ceiling of that correct result to the -1 power

Mathematica sadly can't solve it

so to save you the misery, the secret key to unlock the data is x=2

Naor Hadar

16:54

Someone know's a good way to learn SDL 2.0? (a good book)

John McDonald

@MickLH heh

MickLH

lol

I asked for the derivative because I was going to give you guys an insane integral transform to get the number

but mathematica is still working on that one :P

John McDonald

D: The link I posted is broken

fixed

Almo

just played quake 3 for the first time in 3 years

I feel really sick now :(

maybe it's be cause the monitor is bigger than the one I played on before

MickLH

or it might just be that you've come back to reality after being away from the sickening pace of quake for so long :P

Almo

17:02

hahaha

or maybe the mouse speed was too fast

MickLH

lol or that

Almo

gotta work 4 hours now

hope it goes away soon

Lasse

I'm getting nauseous too if I play too much old fps games

MickLH

or maybe reality sucks compared to what FPS used to be

Lasse

Once I played the original doom

wanted to puke after that, because of the motion

MickLH

17:04

lol trolling aside, I totally know what you mean about that

Lasse

It's weird that I didn't have that when I played it as a kid

MickLH

It's always been the #1 priority in my engine because that problem has bothered me since forever

Almo

I think i was fine before because i had played almost every day for 8 years

being off it 3 years must have messed it up

MickLH

I've heard that the problem is exacerbated to an extreme with the new VR headsets coming out

Almo

though all the of the keystrokes and things came back naturally including my weird config shit

"a" toggles mouse sensitivity between 15 and 3

MickLH

17:06

@Almo how the fuck do you walk?

Almo

mouse wheel up is 10 zoom fov, down is 22.5 zoom fov

MickLH

are you a leftie?1

Lasse

@MickLH that's because the head motion does not go together with what you see on the game

Almo

I use the WERD to walk

Lasse

it's too real and too unreal at the same time

MickLH

17:06

oh you weird fuck!

Almo

since you're usually going forward, why not have the left and right keys beside forward

MickLH

because SWAD is an acronym for Smoke Weed All Day

Almo

s,f,g, h are weapon binds

zxc are weapons as well

Lasse

I've never seen anyone using other than wasd

Almo

shift is sneak

MickLH

17:08

@Almo it's a good layout, and makes me feel a lot better about wasting time on a keybind system instead of just hard coding the controls :P

Almo

:D

keybind systems are really important for anything with more controls than something like QWOP

MickLH

I'm gonna steal your layout and make up a snarky name for it

Almo

:D

MickLH

and include it as the 2nd preset, so there's more than just swad set up by default

Lasse

oh oh on a whole other topic, Mick did you say you have been in scandinavia?

MickLH

17:09

yes

Denmark is Scandinavia right?

Lasse

have you tried salty liquorice

MickLH

I don't think so?

Lasse

okay, I gues they don't sell that in denmark

I wanted to boast about how I bought some for the friday evening, but meh nobody here most likely knows about salty liquorice

salmiyuck.com

That's the stuff

MickLH

looool

John McDonald

I know about single salt and double salt liquorice

MickLH

17:12

virus so hard

first time, fake java update

refresh, fake flash update

their blog is hacked

Lasse

what

I'm not getting those

John McDonald

Neither

Lasse

maybe my adblock blocks them

John McDonald

Maybe mine too

MickLH

yeah its on ad servers

John McDonald

17:14

lol, yup. Adblock blocks it. I turned if off and got that

Yikes

Lasse

that's bad

MickLH

"Please update java" with a shopping cart icon

I bet it works on... so... many... people...

Lasse

oh it so does

MickLH

I read about salty liquorice and it says they use ammonium chloride to flavor it

Lasse

yes

MickLH

17:17

I love harsh chemical flavors

Lasse

It's so common in finland that they teach in basic school chemistry class how to make some

MickLH

lol as they should

Dude people here don't even know how to make regular fucking salt from saltwater

Lasse

It's just to get the kids interested

MickLH

They are amazed at the idea if you explain it, and can't even believe it until they see it on average

It's... fucking amazing lol

Lasse

lol

Lasse

17:29

That's the best handsfree device I've seen

I bet it's so useful

John McDonald

Looks like it needs 2 hands

Alex M.

@JohnMcDonald so... it looks like today's phones?

John McDonald

Well, no. It looks like it's from the 90's

MickLH

ahhhhh ok I've slacked until 10:30am

Alex M.

MickLH

17:32

oh I know why I'm slacking, cooking food fucking sucks

Almo

Who is Mary Kirkpatrick?

MickLH

the last person I chatted with on FB lol

Almo

:D

MickLH

Shes my content lady

Alex M.

I guess there is a way for programs to check whether or not they run as superuser?

MickLH

17:35

knows how to SEO and all that fun stuff

@AlexM. yes but it's not 100% reliable

Alex M.

Geany restores previously edited files as su when I start it as su

and restores previously edited files as normal user otherwise

MickLH

there's a program called fakeroot that lets you let an app think it's root

and there's probably an easy way to hook the getuid system call

once you're root I mean, to make it tell an app you're not

Lasse

"oh, I'm not a root. So I can do this" *runs rm -rf /

which would be silly, but still

it would be funny if some really important tool that must not be run as root ever, would punish people running it as root by running that

MickLH

wine?

Alex M.

I'd make something like that

but instead of deleting things

Lasse

17:39

yeah wine sounds good

Alex M.

I'd send the files to my cloud

and ask for a ransom for them

MickLH

lol @AlexM. new school old school

Jovito

hey guys

MickLH

hey @Jovito

Alex M.

hey juventus

Lasse

17:39

ohai

Jovito

I need some help with vector shit

please do help me yes yes

Lasse

just ask it already

Alex M.

I am sorry

but I do not deal with shit

I have self esteem you see

Lasse

vector shit is like "this shit goes this way and that shit goes that way and together they procuce this kind of shit"

Jovito

How can I calculate the position of a ball on a circular trajectory having only its velocity components?

or

HOW DO I MAKE THIS GODDAM BALL SPIN

Lasse

17:44

like a record, baby

Jovito

seriously, now

Lasse

so what have you tried?

Alex M.

►

YOU SPIN IT LIKE THIS

Jovito

I haven't tried anything, I don't even know how to start

Alex M.

if you can't spin it like that

it's not worth spinning anyway

Lasse

17:46

so you want the ball to circle around a point that is moving, or what?

or just circle around a point?

Jovito

just circle around a point, yeah

John McDonald

"But spinning is so much cooler than not spinning! Make it spin!" - George Hammond Puppet

Alex M.

"Yeah spin that ass on the floor bitch, just like that." - Lil' Jon

Lasse

totaldistance += speed * deltatime;
x = sin(totaldistance);
y = cos(totaldistance);

would that work?

Jovito

I asked one friend for help and he sent me this

Alex M.

17:50

@Lasse how do you usually work on websites and VC them on linux?

Almo

Lasse has a good solution there

Lasse

@AlexM. VC?

Alex M.

like /var/www obviously requires su access

version control

do you somehow keep a local copy in a normal user editable folder and constantly copy the changes over as su?

Lasse

it does not require su access if you know what you are doing, and have root access

MickLH

It doesn't require superuser to access /var/www, at least it shouldn't

Alex M.

17:51

I am currently running geany as su

Lasse

just configure it so that you can write there

Alex M.

and editing directly in /var/www

Lasse

chown user:group /path

Alex M.

ah neat

MickLH

Read some tutorials about groups

Jovito

17:52

@Lasse what's totaldistance?

MickLH

You're gonna want to make a webdev group, and add all relevant users to it with proper permissions

Lasse

It's the total distance the ball has travelled

MickLH

Then change the user of your /var/www to www-data or apache or whoever the dummy user is for the server on your system, and change the group to your webdev group

Jovito

@Lasse and speed is the magn of the vector?

MickLH

and then set the permission modes recusrively on /var/www

Alex M.

17:53

►

best song ever

Lasse

if you want to use that as speed, yes

Alex M.

@MickLH I noticed I can write there as a normal user too, not sure why

Jovito

@Lasse what else could I use?

Alex M.

I think I did something earlier

well doesn't matter this is not a public server

Lasse

a constant, like float speed = 1.5f;

MickLH

17:54

That's fine dude you should be able to, don't rely on OS permissions to secure your HTTP server

that's supposed to be a protection if the HTTP server gets exploited

Jovito

@Lasse ok, so how do I get the magn of a vector having only its components?

Lasse

I don't see what else you need to calculate the magnitude

Jovito

Ok, but how?

Lasse

float mag = sqrt(vec.x^2 + vec.y^2);

Jovito

yeah, that's it

great, I'll try that

thanks!

Lasse

17:57

np

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