Game Development

Almo

01:13

@IcyDefiance !

that is a really fun game

Icy Defiance

02:14

@Almo okay now I'm here

stupid school

Almo

hehe

just starting a game

last game sucked

0/11 taric, no wards, i go 5/6, and it's all my fault we lost

Icy Defiance

oh geez

Almo

rammus jungle

so with no pond ward, he kept ambushing us

it's amazing i died as little as i did

Icy Defiance

people always underestimate the role a support plays...unless it's a nid who only lays traps and not wards. no idea why that's the exception. vOv

Almo

hahaha

so now i'm mid ziggs again; hopefully this goes better

Seth Battin

02:51

ug, i just took pity on a terribly simple but legit question, for the first time in a long time, and i didn't even notice i was doing it on the main SO site. alas.

Almo

@icy d\

@IcyDefiance ok

Icy Defiance

aight one sec, buying a viktor skin

Almo

my fault again, despite having a positive kdr

Icy Defiance

03:35

. youtube.com/watch?v=diOhwvRYlsU

stupid thumbnail, spoiling things

7Blue_Beast7

Hi All!

Seth Battin

hello

GnomeSlice

8 tips for a smooth launch of your indie game

shhh

Shroeder

03:51

Hello

Just wanted to report I got my game saving and loading now:P No more 5 Gig save files clap clap. Many thanks to those who offered up advice, time for sleep.

7Blue_Beast7

@Shroeder Wait

May I play for you?

Christian Frantz

Heres a strange bug. When adding an item to my list, it causes the list to not work. I've set a breakpoint and nothing in the list is null. I have no idea where to go with this :P

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz What are you working on?

Christian Frantz

Crafting system. The list is a list of crafting recipes

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz What language you working with?

Christian Frantz

03:56

c#

pastebin.com/JuS4X6hW

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Aha

Christian Frantz

the last item, sharpenedrock, is the one that causes problems. If i ever learn xml ill probably use that for my crafting list

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Give me a minute here

Okay

Well I think I am just really confused

Christian Frantz

Its a rough copy lol

7Blue_Beast7

I mean I am new to C# but only a little bit and I am not sure what or why you are doing this but; foreach (Item item in axeRecipe.Items) <- isn't there suppose to be a ; symbol?

Christian Frantz

03:59

Not with a foreach loop

7Blue_Beast7

okay.

Seth Battin

@ChristianFrantz What doesn't work about it?

7Blue_Beast7

ZReally?

Christian Frantz

Everything. Once I add the sharpenedrock recipe to the list, none of my other recipes work. Ill pick up items needed for the recipe and nothing will appear in my crafting box

7Blue_Beast7

Omg dude

sharpenedRockRecipe.Output = new SharpenedRock();
            sharpenedRockRecipe.Name = "sharpenedrock";
            CraftingList.Add(sharpenedRockRecipe);

@ChristianFrantz Okay I don't know if you included three of these } but I think that may be your problem

Christian Frantz

04:01

Lol nope theyre all there

7Blue_Beast7

Sorry, edited the symbol

Seth Battin

@ChristianFrantz Everything is unfixable. What happens to your list when you add the 3rd item that is different from what it was before you added it?

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Its suppose to end with three of three of these }

If you did let me look again :/

Christian Frantz

All my brackets are there. Every item in the list is added the same way and the items before worked fine.

Nothing happens to the list that I can see. One sec, I'm gonna set a breakpoint when I pick up an item to see what happens to the list

7Blue_Beast7

@SethBattin Well the end of his paste is missing the last brackets?

Christian Frantz

04:05

I didn't paste the whole method, just the inside parts

Seth Battin

@ChristianFrantz Well, i didn't expect there to be anything wrong with the list, because it's a list and it's hard to screw up. So why did you paste the part of the code that definitely is NOT the broken part?

Christian Frantz

Because when I removed the whole chunk that adds the sharpenedrock recipe, everything works fin

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz ^

Seth Battin

right, but it breaks somewhere else

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz So the sharpened rock stuff works right then?

Seth Battin

04:06

you should isolate the part that actually breaks

7Blue_Beast7

@SethBattin Isolation is awesome, go Seth!

Christian Frantz

When I comment out the method that checks for the sharpenedrock recipe, still nothing is working within the whole list

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Show us what it looks like with the chunks or what ever.

Seth Battin

there's a part that checks for a particular item within the list?

Christian Frantz

Yes

and commented out it still does nothing :(

7Blue_Beast7

04:09

@ChristianFrantz Why would you comment it out?

Aidan Mueller

So I had a disappointing dream.

Seth Battin

that is a code smell just by its description

why aren't you just looping over the list and using whatever is inside it?

Christian Frantz

code smell?

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Lol we coder's must understand the smells bro

We have to use our senses

Christian Frantz

pastebin.com/q847PSaX

Seth Battin

04:11

code smell - thing that looks/feels like bad code

Christian Frantz

Those are the methods that are checking for the recipes

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz I am now curios.

Have you defined the character and how he/she functions with other objects and such?

Aidan Mueller

I dreamed that I woke up and in my room, and everything was pretty normal and real looking, except I was shorter than my dresser, unlike normal, so I got suspicious. I then went to the kitchen, and the table was missing and the window was the wrong shape and size. I was pretty sure I was dreaming, so I pinched myself and I still felt it. I also tried closing my eyes and telling myself that when I opened them the window would turn into a door so that I could go outside. That didn't work either.

I was so close to becoming aware of the fact that I was dreaming.

Christian Frantz

Yeah in my player class. And the only variable that is being used from that class is the NextToCraftingRock which is just a bool that returns true when the player is near a giant rock

7Blue_Beast7

Check for crafting rock

But I don't see any types of rock being involved

Aidan Mueller

04:13

The lesson is that you shouldn't pinch yourself to check if you're dreaming.

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Such as when your other code just said rock but the sharpened rock thing doesn't seem to be involved in the list checking code.

Seth Battin

in your list generator, you have a property called Name, and in your checking code, you use a property called itemName

7Blue_Beast7

@SethBattin So the Property names should be the same?

Christian Frantz

Ok so this might be a bit confusing. I'm using an item called Rock with another item called CraftingRock to create SharpenedRock. Name is the name of the recipe, ItemName is the name of each item in the recipe

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz But your recipe doesn't have a specified name of the recipe you want to make?

Christian Frantz

04:16

Using the console, I've determined that the list is working and items are being checked correctly. Nothing is being drawn so the problem is within my draw code somewhere

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Okay here an example:

Seth Battin

@ChristianFrantz Glad you're making headway. Good luck with it

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz If I bought a recipe for making Cup Cakes. I need to first know the name of the recipe. It must be called Cup Cakes. Then I would define how and what items are needed for the recipe cup cakes.

Christian Frantz

Exactly. The name of the recipe is the exact same of the name of the output

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz If I have a recipe called name and I need to find things for this name then, well everyone would be just as confused as the computer or program trying to understand it.

@ChristianFrantz Ah.. okay

So whats this name of your recipe?

Christian Frantz

04:19

The recipe name is sharpenedrock

which is the name of the item it creates

7Blue_Beast7

Mhm... okay.

Well looking at your first code in pastebin... your sharpened rock is acting as if its in the recipe instead of being created by the items in the recipe

@ChristianFrantz Try searching google on how to make recipes for your game with C#.

Christian Frantz

I tried lol

Theres not much out there

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Let me give it a try

@ChristianFrantz Ask your question here.

Christian Frantz

This is more of a debug question which seems to piss a lot of people off on this website :P

AHAHAHAHAHA I FOUND IT

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz What you find?

Christian Frantz

04:26

      sharpenedRockRecipe.Items.Add(new CraftingRock());

this line is giving me crap for some reason

7Blue_Beast7

@ChristianFrantz Im guessing you were trying to craft a different rock by accident instead of making the items craft out the rock.

Christian Frantz

I have no idea what I did lol

7Blue_Beast7

@SethBattin Wow! How did me and you miss that?

Chris

@Shroeder good on ya, well done!

Aidan Mueller

05:07

Added a turret.

Does it look stupid?

Chris

looks small

Aidan Mueller

@Chris Maybe. It is a mining ship though.

Do you think it'd look better without it?

Chris

I kind of reckon the big mid hull should slope/arc up to meet the back somehow

maybe move the turret close to the front a little?
hehe it's your creation either way :p

Aidan Mueller

@Chris I think I'll delete it for now.

Chris

that works too

no harm in scrapping things

Aidan Mueller

05:15

@Chris I put it there because I figured that if we ever got into space mining, we would need defense against mineral robbing.

It's not like theres' laws in space.

Does that sound realistic?

Chris

that makes sense. but perhaps there could be a designated defence craft that would patrol around to protect the miners?

and then you could go all out with the guns on that haha

Aidan Mueller

Maybe this should just be a background ship.

I mean, it looks more like a warship now.

@Chris Should I delete the hatch in the back then?

Nah.

I'll leave it.

Aidan Mueller

05:45

@Chris What thinks you?

Chris

yeah I like this one better

Aidan Mueller

OK, bye.

7Blue_Beast7

Nice ship

Aidan Mueller

THX

Far from done.

Chris

:D

7Blue_Beast7

05:47

What you using to make it?

Aidan Mueller

Blender.

7Blue_Beast7

Well software don't matter.

Aidan Mueller

Then why did you ask?

lol

7Blue_Beast7

Really... thats the best mining space ship i've seen created with blender.

Aidan Mueller

Well it isn't going to be a mining ship anymore.

7Blue_Beast7

05:48

Well what are you expecting it to be?

Aidan Mueller

I will make a miner too though.

It's a defense ship.

7Blue_Beast7

Sounds offensive?

Aidan Mueller

Um...with guns?

It will shoot things.

It defends against attackers.

IDK, as long as it looks cool.

- Aidan Mueller

7Blue_Beast7

^.^

Aidan Mueller

Well I gotta go. See ya.

7Blue_Beast7

05:51

Bye

user92578

The boring intensifies: Religion class

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 ?

user92578

The teacher left so we have a small break

user92578

I'm using it to chat here

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Um... its night here.

user92578

05:52

Almost 9 AM here

7Blue_Beast7

10:53 PM here :/

@Tyyppi_77 Its nice to know we all have different times

user92578

You just realized that?!?!

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 No. I am saying that because I just wanted to say it.

user92578

Makes sense I guess...

user92578

So what're you working on now @7Blue_Beast7?

7Blue_Beast7

05:56

@Tyyppi_77 Working on my planet that sits out in space somewhere :D

user92578

Ah, I think I've seen picture of that

user92578

Is that for a game project of yours?

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Yup.

user92578

She returned, gtg

7Blue_Beast7

Okay, nice talking to you :D

@Chris Well ts nice to be calm and not cause anyone any trouble here isn't it?

I notice the difference when I change my behavior.

Its nice to have respect from others :D

Well while my planet is done for now, i am going to build a space station for the rest of my time tonight.

Christoph

07:38

good morning

Chris

hihi

snake5

08:06

sgs-ui point/metadata editor demo example: screencast.com/t/W0yNSNsH | code: github.com/snake5/sgs-ui/blob/dev/examples/…

Roy T.

10:05

@Pip I've tried to ask a clarifying question on your question at stack overflow

user92578

Could I get a link to that SO question?

Roy T.

10:23

@RoyT. to give a more precise image, each of the radii that I have is on a different plane, one parallel with the x axis, one parellel with the y axis, and one parallel to the z axis. It would look something like this: mhhe.com/math/calc/smithminton2e/cd/folder_structure/text/… — Pip 5 mins ago

@Pip now I get it :)

Jon

10:35

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They actually created intel pipe dream in real life..

Chris

heh

Jon

11:12

vimeo.com/88550697

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not really sure what the heck this is for

Chris

11:32

for science

2 minutes in, it's a bit disturbing really lol

Jon

a single bit is nothing

NOTHING!

user92578

12:09

Hey!

Lasse

oi

Jon

heh.. if you have an android phone "Ok google, do a barrel roll"

user92578

@Jon Is robot even a right term for a computer simulated pile of voxels?

Jon

no

its probably made in blender

user92578

Ah

user92578

12:18

Then "Moving Blob-Entities?"

Jon

cue laughter

user92578

But do they blend?

Jon

heh, NBA2K15 has a face scan option

so you can scan yourself into the game

hehehe, article here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/nba-2k15-face-scan-an-early-issue-with-us-release-of-popular-basketball-game-9780107.html

Almo

@Jon woa... one of the tricky bits is the time delay between firing a ball and it hitting the note.

Jon

@Almo let alone design all those custom instruments

Almo

12:29

yeah!

that's a pretty cool stunt man :)

Jon

insane.

Almo

ok; heading off to work. talk later :)

Jon

if anyone cares: garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/22852

SpartanDonut

12:53

I think I stopped caring about Torque around the time UDK was released... and learning about Unity, etc.

Jon

which is around the time they decided to open source it

heh

Oh look no one wants to buy this... oh well, open source it so we can at least try to compete

They are really hoping to get strong pushes from the community, after reading team members comments

SpartanDonut

Pipe dream is cool but I like this song much better: youtube.com/watch?v=3ahoqR6OGdM

Jon

Pretty good on them.

SpartanDonut

Even if it is a little silly

Jon

ohhh, this needs to be done

SpartanDonut

12:57

@Joe PC arrives next Tuesday

Jon

reminded me of this

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SpartanDonut

I actually owned the Animusic DVD long long ago... no clue where it is now xD

Animusic 2 was pretty much crap

Jon

wrong video

SpartanDonut

lol

Jon

lol, thats someone remixing the violin guy for 4 minutes

SpartanDonut

12:58

That's alright

I've seen the movie - assuming you still wanted to link that

Jon

booger was the man

SpartanDonut

So I discovered you can throttle steam downloads

Needless to say I should be able to play Shadow of Mordor sometime tomorrow! lol

Jon

cool balls

what time is too early for pizza?

SpartanDonut

between 4:30am and 10am

Jon

i haven't had breakfast, and there is pizza

and it is exactly 10am

SpartanDonut

13:00

You're fine then

Jon

i should wait another minute to be sure

SpartanDonut

Better safe than sorry I suppose

Jon

I knew a guy that always thought it was better sorry than safe

ass dan they called him

he died in a mud eating competition

SpartanDonut

That's... unfortunate I guess lol

Jon

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SpartanDonut

13:05

Is that MadTV or something?

Jon

lol, its saturday night live... there is one skit in particular with this guy in it, man its funny

SpartanDonut

Really? I always thought SNL was better than that :(

Jon

not anymore

SpartanDonut

The times they are a changing

Jon

13:25

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SpartanDonut

The physics that are happening is kind of confusing but overall its cool looking

user92578

Working on a logo, WIP, but what do you guys think? (Ignore the background color):

user92578

Jon

i don't know why.. but I picture wings on each side of that H

SpartanDonut

Now that you say it there is kind of a bi wing plane vibe from the graphic

Almo

13:34

@Tyyppi_77 looks like it has snow on it

ooooh the "r" is a gun!

user92578

I should totally make that one

Almo

we should ask each other questions about our games on arQAde and give each other upvotes and answers about them

like when Skippy Fish is released, we ask questions about it

user92578

lol totally

Jon

meh. wings are gayer than I envisioned

bornander

@Jon :)

@Jon How gay did you envision them?

Lokkij

13:38

I think the wings are cool

user92578

@Jon :D

Jon

I just thought it would made it flow

plus angel wings = hero

user92578

Sorry, no wings because it'll look too similar to BroForce

Jon

you still owe me a copy of your game

user92578

I know

user92578

13:43

eating brb

SpartanDonut

So... Pink Floyd is coming out with a new album.

Almo

you mean "Pink Floyd"? ;)

Like... Mr. Waters is still not there, right?

SpartanDonut

Correct

But the Division Bell was a fabulous album so I'm optimistic

Almo

I wonder what it will sound like

SpartanDonut

The Endless River

The Endless River is the upcoming fifteenth studio album by British rock band Pink Floyd. Produced by David Gilmour, Martin Glover, Andy Jackson and Phil Manzanera, the album is set to be released by Parlophone and Columbia Records respectively in Friday-release countries on 7 November 2014 and in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2014. The album is the band's first since the death of keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright, who appears posthumously, and the third by the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd after Roger Waters' departure from the band in 1985. The Endless River is also the first studio...

Almo

13:55

Yeah, DB was not a bad thing :)

SpartanDonut

Momentary Lapse of Reason even had a few gems

user92578

back

Almo

I'm personally not convinced things would have been good had Waters stayed

user92578

Any other type of logo ideas?

7Blue_Beast7

Hi

user92578

13:56

Hey @7Blue_Beast7

SpartanDonut

Yeah hard to say, Almo.

Almo

The direction he was taking was toward excess and bombast with his overuse of choirs of backup singers

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 I was working on my space station (hangar) yesterday but my computer just shut down on me because something was not secure :/

Almo

I perfer stuff like Meddle

7Blue_Beast7

I am going to work on it again :D

user92578

13:59

What are you going to use for the game? OpenGL? Unity?

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