Game Development

user92578

14:00

That logo does not work well:

user92578

SpartanDonut

Might just be your choice of colors

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 I am going to go for PyOgre. I here stackoverflow users recommend it more if its going to be 3D kind of game.

user92578

Okay

user92578

Just note that Python is not a very fast language, and can get your game to slow down at some point

7Blue_Beast7

14:01

@Tyyppi_77 Wow! Blender auto saved my session ^.^

bornander

@Tyyppi_77 I think it looks pretty good.

user92578

@bornander Somehow I find that it looks too thin

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Yes, that game menu looks very promising :D

user92578

It's quite good now

bornander

@Tyyppi_77 Yeah I see what you mean, the logo is a bit thin compared to the menu options.

user92578

14:02

Yeah

bornander

@Tyyppi_77 Can't you just blow it up a bit? Make it bigger or bolder?

user92578

@7Blue_Beast7 The gameplay is even more promising (not as polished as the menu stuff tough

user92578

@bornander I'll try

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Cool. So in the game, can you actually save where you are and stuff?

user92578

I have that part working, it's not quite added to the game part yet

bornander

14:03

@Tyyppi_77 I'd help you but my graphic skills ends with the "Resize Image" in MS Paint :)

user92578

But programmaticly, I can save data into an XML file and load that up

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Cool.

user92578

Atleast that stuff did work, I might need to make the serializer more generic

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 My landing pad for the hangar is going to be hard to work with :/

user92578

I like it how every other message starts with pinging me

7Blue_Beast7

14:11

I was thinking about centering the pad in the station/hangar because this idea of centering the pad in the hangar sounds better.

user92578

Have you got any stuff done in PyOgre yet?

user92578

Just wondering

SpartanDonut

We can't convince him to make Pong

user92578

Ah

user92578

so still a first game to come?

7Blue_Beast7

14:13

@Tyyppi_77 Its installed on my computer, I just haven't started working on the code yet until I finish my objects and stuff.

user92578

To be honest, I never made Pong

SpartanDonut

@SethBattin really???

user92578

But neither did I start with 3d stuff

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Pretty much

Noctrine

Why do you keep pinging Tyyppi?

SpartanDonut

14:14

Apparently I suck at making the intentions of my good edits clear... -_-

user92578

@Noctrine Im wondering that too

Lasse

ohai

7Blue_Beast7

Hi there

SpartanDonut

@Noctrine I've apparently made a mess :(

user92578

Will I get an error if I use delete on a variable that contains NULL in C++?

SpartanDonut

14:17

This question - gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/84630/…

Noctrine

@SpartanDonut What's the mess?

SpartanDonut

Apparently my edit was interpreted to be directed towards the author and not the answerers so now my edit was rejected and the author, I feel, has muddied up his question with an edit

I want to edit out the extra fluff now saying "my bad" but I thought I'd get a second opinion

Noctrine

We use post notices for saying what your edit said, the author didn't reject it someone else did.

SpartanDonut

Yes

But the author interpreted my edit as being directed towards him and added that large paragraph which I think makes the question worse than it was.

Noctrine

I rolled that back

SpartanDonut

14:22

Do you think I should propose my edit again, prefaced with "In your answers" ?

Or am I just trying to hard :P

Noctrine

^

The question should be closed.

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 You already seen my picture of the planet I made, right?

SpartanDonut

Should it?

I suppose it might be too broad

Noctrine

Did you know if you type @@ it brings up a window for finding users to ping?

Lasse

@Tyyppi_77 try and see, it's easy

user92578

14:22

@7Blue_Beast7 I think so

Noctrine

Just learned that.

SpartanDonut

Doesn't for me

Super mod power perhaps

Noctrine

:\

Lasse

doesn't for me either

user92578

Me neither

Noctrine

14:23

Step your mod game up :p

Lasse

me?

only if I got time :'(

:P

allright back to my game about mods ->

7Blue_Beast7

Jon

whoa

SpartanDonut

It's an igloo in the making

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Well thats the exterior (little hut or iglu like shape).

I am out of ideas on what to add for my station here :/

user92578

14:29

Could you actually show me your planet?

Jon

my planet is uranus

Lasse

pretty small planet

7Blue_Beast7

Sure

SpartanDonut

@Noctrine I can't see close votes but the up votes seem to be rolling in... I added my edit again. I'll give up if it gets rejected again xD

Jon

LOL what is the image on the bottom?

7Blue_Beast7

14:33

@Tyyppi_77 my planet just has plain colors.

Jon

is that harrison ford with a sega?

and some kid playing nintendo with jesus?

SpartanDonut

Dwight K. Schrute as a teenager perhaps

Noctrine

I also thought Rainn Wilson

SpartanDonut

Ok the OP of that question is going mad. I give up.

Noctrine

He even added "Thanks in Advance"

SpartanDonut

14:35

And reverted his spelling mistakes back

7Blue_Beast7

@Tyyppi_77 Well gtg, cya

SpartanDonut

He seemingly has his question in some text editor and keeps reverting the edits others are making by not updating his copy

Jon

it keeps getting edited

SpartanDonut

I think it would have been fine if my edit had stuck but meh

I'm not going to care on this one

But my poor edit reputation is going down D:

Noctrine

Closed now, doesn't matter.

SpartanDonut

14:37

You know me... closing a question wouldn't stop me if I cared enough ;)

Almo

:D

SpartanDonut

MAYBE IF I GET MY EDIT IN NOW :O

Nah...

Jon

dude got shut down

SpartanDonut

His edits were bad

poor guy

Noctrine

Wish I could work on that pet game right now :(

SpartanDonut

14:39

I wish I wish I was a fish

7Blue_Beast7

@Noctrine That sounds promising for kids to play :D

Noctrine

Yes, yes it is.

Lasse

I can't seem to decide what kind of ui elements I want to have in my gui engine demo

I mean, what kind of style

Jon

have all of them

Almo

StrongBad ♦

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SpartanDonut

14:40

hah

Lasse

square, round, shadowed, not shadowed, gradients, no gradients

Almo

1400 profile views

Jon

minimilistic

Noctrine

^

Gradients suck.

Lasse

SpartanDonut

14:42

I think gradients have their place

Lasse

theres's the blue firends list top bar, does that suck?

SpartanDonut

oh in UI...

I much like the flat look everything has been going with lately

@Notbad you misinterpreted my edit and aren't helping yourself with your edits

Jon

opengameart.org/content/ui-pack

SpartanDonut

Oh Kenney

Lasse

I know about that pack, and it's cool for a placeholder

Jon

14:46

yah lol

Lasse

I actually got it on my hd

John McDonald

14:59

Woot! I finally have an Android-only Unity version of Skippy Fish out for beta testers!

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Jon

ohh

Lasse

and it works!

Noctrine

Woot!

SpartanDonut

@JohnMcDonald you the man. high five!

Almo

have another star

John McDonald

15:04

@Lasse And it works!

Lasse

yaaaay!

Roy T.

15:19

@amitp ever here?

(red blob games)

John McDonald

@RoyT. Looks like a no: chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=&user=34524&room=19

Shroeder

Whats new

AttackingHobo

@JohnMcDonald works on my s3 smoothly

though it goes off the top of the screen

SpartanDonut

@Shroeder hey dood

Roy T.

@JohnMcDonald I didn't know that was there. Oh well too bad. Wanted to thank him/her

Seth Battin

15:28

@SpartanDonut What's up?

John McDonald

@AttackingHobo Cool. Ken mentioned that too, and tbh, it does that for me too, lol. I should fix that, and it's easy to do

SpartanDonut

@SethBattin I was miffed about you misinterpreting my edit... but the OP dug himself a deeper hole... twice (and I even tried to get a clearer edit inbetween)... and now his question is closed so it's all good

But for the record, my comment was directed at those who would answer and not the author of the question

Seth Battin

oh yeah, i wasn't 100% about that edit. i still thought it was comment-like, but who knows

odd question, too

SpartanDonut

Nah. The point was to get real experiences as opposed to opinions on how people would think they would approach it in the answers (as encouraged in the help center)

Seth Battin

ah, yeah, i probably could have let it go through

i was only supposed to be one vote out of a few, of course

SpartanDonut

15:33

Yeah it's fine. Like I said the OP also took it the same way and started digging himself into a large hole so no big deal

Shroeder

OP? Is that the person asking a question?

Noctrine

Yeah, Original Poster.

Shroeder

Got it

Almo

@Wardy hi! My pal who wanted to talk to you about voxels messed up and sent himself a blank email with your skype contact

and I can't find it with searching the chat

SpartanDonut

Oct 1 at 17:08, by Almo

what's your skype name?

Click that :P

I suppose I could have linked the message you were looking for but oh well

Almo

15:52

thanks todders!

really hate their logo

fnatic.com

sure, it has most of the letters of the name in it

that's kind of clever

but it's a guy opening his trenchcoat showing you his big dick :(

childish, in my opinion.

SpartanDonut

lol oh god

cannot be unseen

Almo

I'm not wrong, am I?

John McDonald

heh, pretty sure it's actually supposed to be two eyes and a nose, but yes, I see what you see

It is impressive though

Almo

if it weren't for that connotation, I'd like it

SpartanDonut

Looks like some sort of asian writing to me... I don't think I'd have seen the letters unless I really tried

Almo

15:58

:)

it's only the N that's missing

SpartanDonut

might be a stretch

Almo

:)

user4704

It looks dumb.

user4704

:D

SpartanDonut

16:15

lol

Shroeder

16:41

I think the average person doesn't look for meaning past the name at the bottom and a shiny cool looking thingy above it. Marketing is all about getting attention, then establishing the consumer's connection to the image.

A better question might be : Is the image memorable and clear? In this case I would say it may be a little complex for most people to see once, and recognize weeks later.

Jon

still looks really dumb

Shroeder

Personally I like orange, so Thumbs Up for that

Aidan Mueller

It looks like chinese.

No, japanese.

Shroeder

It looks like F i C to me

Jon

it looks like they just did a couple swooches and then said, add an i in the middle

Shroeder

16:43

That or a butterfly

Jon

and the artist added the i as an afterthought

Shroeder

the bottom half of the i looks bad

Jon

my poop looked bad... but then I saw this, and thought... it wasn't so bad.

Aidan Mueller

Like when people get random asian tattoos because they think they look "cool".

Shroeder

We have hour long design meetings on circles at work though, and most of the time I have no input because it seems so small that I can't help but think the debate pointless

Jon

16:45

shitty swooches and pathetic i aside, the color isn't bad

although the gradient is kinda off

also, who the hell are these guys?

There is an A missing in their name

Aidan Mueller

Maybe if they would have fnatic written sideways with a dot above it as the I.

Jon

I really think if they took the i out of the middle, it would look a lot better

Shroeder

I'm assuming Fanatic was taken:P

Jon

probably, everything is taken now

The only two names left are Popplers and Zitzlers

Shroeder

Hoosker-Doos and Hoosker-Don'ts also taken

Damn

What is this company?

Joe

16:49

@Almo this is a man in a trench coat exposing himself... why would you want a logo of that

Jon

Joe

delicious slurm

@SpartanDonut let me know how it is when you get that new machine

SpartanDonut

o7

Worst part is I personally probably won't be spending much time with it after initial setup

Joe

17:07

well you need to do the obligatory archeage install and tradepack run for benchmarking

@AttackingHobo kickstarter.com/projects/sciencegroen/…

Almo

@Joe juvenile gamers saying they have big dicks

wow... Frank hates my game (in comments)

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A: How do I play @Almo's Pick a number game?

How to play: For each contest, you may enter a number (or numbers) from 1 to 100,000,000. When the contest ends, the person who entered the lowest number that nobody else entered wins.

I would argue there's more interaction in my game than in Bingo, and I doubt anyone says Bingo is not a game.

perhaps it's not a GOOD game, as there are no decisions to make. But it is a game nonetheless.

Joe

there are 1 million decisions to make

100 million even

Almo

hahaha

Jon

did you guys know a terraria update is coming soon?

Joe

there goes all my time

Almo

17:18

THEY STOLE YOUR CODE FROM THE FUTURE

Jon

lots of similarities, ehehe

GnomeSlice

@Almo Can you drop by gaming chat for a sec?

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General Arqade Chat. We tried to leave once, but the door lock...

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Joe

anyone here use jenkins?

Almo

@GnomeSlice I'd rather not get in a fight about the question Wardy put up about my game while on work hours. :)

GnomeSlice

Haha, good. I think the whole discussion is dumb.

Jon

17:20

lmao

Almo

if they want to close it because it was a dumb question (Wardy put it up as a joke referring to my trouble getting people to understand the game), that's fine

but it's a game

Jon

they are discussing wether or not almo's game is a game.

that is hilarious

Almo

hahah yeah

Jon

pretty funny to see another community

bitch about something you made

they say its not a game, but a social experiment.. i don't see why it can't be both.

Almo

yeah

Jon

17:25

most of those people are probably kids too

Almo

hahah yeah

Jon

welp, not a place for me :)

although i should probably venture into other rooms

Noctrine

Fun discussion to watch

Almo

I'm tempted, but I'd better not

user4704

It's pointless.

GnomeSlice

17:27

It's mostly @Frank

Almo

I wonder what his problem is

GnomeSlice

he loves to bitch about things other people in the community do

Almo

so this is not the first time?

user4704

It was a stupid, pointless question that should never have been posted.

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Jon

yet, never produces anything ?

Almo

17:27

I'll agree there, Josh

Jon

it was funny

user4704

It doesn't need to degenerate to this level of argument. :|

GnomeSlice

@Almo Oh my no.

Almo

But the argument it sparked about the game not being a game is ridiculous

Jon

We can't all be creators -- some of us have to complain about the things others make

user4704

17:29

@Jon Posting "funny" questions isn't the point of SE.

Jon

yeah, and I pity your position as a mod

:)

I'd rather not have to deal with things like that

Almo

8 mins ago, by Almo

if they want to close it because it was a dumb question (Wardy put it up as a joke referring to my trouble getting people to understand the game), that's fine

But the comments that it's not a game are off-base :)

Frank

I would prefer if personal attacks would be refrained from.

We discussed whether this belonged on Arqade. You are welcome to include your arguments, but ad hominem attacks don't reflect well on anyone.

GnomeSlice

@Frank I was the only one who did that.

Frank

And with that, I'm done.

user4704

17:33

Everybody is entitled to their opinion about what does and doesn't constitute a game, but there's no reason to resort to attacks.

SpartanDonut

This is the most drama we've had in a while. How exciting.

Noctrine

No, not exciting.

Jon

I might have to go do some groceries

Almo

I think that was Todders's point

:)

SpartanDonut

Sarcasm never goes well on the internet

Almo

17:33

yeah; no intonation

need like a sarcasm font or something

bold, italic, sarcastic

AttackingHobo

@Almo rofl

Jon

anyone wants some cloud textures? anyone?

Lasse

I found a new toy and made really silly and useless shader with it: goo.gl/8FqLZx

Jon

i generated a ton of them

SpartanDonut

@Almo also, way to self promote bro. Uncool.

Almo

17:35

I didn't post it.

SpartanDonut

(also sarcastic)

Almo

Wardy did

Jon

now I need to generate starscapes

Almo

oh shit

hahaha

Jon

anyone ever generate starscapes?

Almo

17:35

ya got me :)

Noctrine

I wish I had the time to be more active on gaming. I was there, and then gamedev happened and I wasn't.

GnomeSlice

in The Bridge, 6 mins ago, by Frank

Bingo has more interaction than this.

Wrong!

Jon

Wardy was hoping he'd return the favour for his game :P

Noctrine

I think that Almo's game is definitely a game. That it involves being aware of social trends doesn't make it any less of a game.

Jon

Anyways, no one better be asking questions about my game on aquades, I don't want no drama

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user4704

17:37

@Jon Yup.

GnomeSlice

@Jon Hahahaha

user4704

@Jon iirc I found this article useful: gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html

Jon

Oh my, thanks @JoshPetrie

at first glance this looks really informative

GnomeSlice

@Noctrine You're probably better off.

I have been feeling less and less comfortable with the community there for quite a while now.

Noctrine

But I want all the reps.

Almo

17:39

I can't say I'm impressed if something got gangbanged for "not being a game" when clearly it is.

Leaves me with no desire to contribute to that site.

GnomeSlice

@Noctrine Make sure you post about portal and diablo then.

Jon

whoa

wwwtyro.github.io/procedural.js/space

doh

hold on

Almo

Self-promotion... of a raw prototype, with no revenue stream in place yet?

user4704

I can see how that impression could be given.

Noctrine

@GnomeSlice Pretty sure diablo is one of my hidden tags.

GnomeSlice

17:41

No rep for you!

I barely make any rep anymore because I only post about indie games.

They say that if you post a good question you'll get votes regardless of the game's popularity, but that's really not true, hah.

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Jon

Source code to the above generator: github.com/wwwtyro/procedural.js

man, the only problem with these, is that they cannot be wrapped

user4704

just keep generating new ones :P

Almo

:D

user4704

Stars are also noisy enough that seems can be hard to detect, as long as you don't get crazy with the cloudy nebulae effects.

Jon

Well.. I noticed the nebulae is perlin gen

I could probably modify it to wrap

but how much work is that gonna be

errr.. holy crap

sourceforge.net/projects/spacescape

problem solved.

Aidan Mueller

17:50

@JoshPetrie I bet that if you got close to a star, it actually would be pretty loud.

GnomeSlice

I'm probably going to get banned. See you guys later.

Noctrine

It's been so long since your last time :p

GnomeSlice

It's not a race.

SpartanDonut

Need a Gaming mod with some smarts to move the whole convo to another room

Almo

@GnomeSlice banned? for what?

GnomeSlice

17:54

For saying something about a user in here behind his back.

Noctrine

Gonna get a calendar. Like those - injury ones.

SpartanDonut

Which subsequently lead to people talking about how they felt about The Bridge and Gaming.SE

Noctrine

"Days since GD.SE had drama"

Almo

it wasn't particularly offensive, what you said.

GnomeSlice

Not to them.

Almo

17:55

I put Frank on ignore the moment he showed up here

SpartanDonut

@GnomeSlice you are kind of being excessively... dramatic, over there.

GnomeSlice

I'm pissed now

@Almo lol

Almo

seemed the best way to avoid a fight

Noctrine

I feel like, I should say something in all of this - but I don't think anything will help anything.

I think the best thing would be for everyone to go back to making games.

Almo

I've had way too many arguments about game design over the years, and I'm not in the mood for it

especially if the topic is that silly :(

SpartanDonut

17:58

Room left... Praying I don't get a ping

If I do... I'll read it from my inbox and hopefully have willpower to ignore it

Seth Battin

So i just answered that question about C# (in unity), and i agree with the close vote that it's not really a gamedev question

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