Game Development

Seth Battin

18:00

encourage migration, or delete my answer?

Almo

leave the answer, but encourage migration

user4704

@SethBattin Which?

Almo

if it's not moved, you should still get any rep for an answer

user4704

nvm found it

user4704

Yeah, I think it's off-topic.

Seth Battin

18:02

BUT IT'S UNITY!!!!11!!!

/sigh

yeah, boot that thing

user4704

I know. But his actual problem is a plain-vanilla C# syntax error.

Seth Battin

totally

user4704

I'm not going to act on it, I'm just stating my opinion.

user4704

The rest of the site can deal with it.

Seth Battin

i formalized my opinion

let the record show, i alerted mods not just via chat

SpartanDonut

18:10

@SethBattin lies. You're just a rep farmer.

Seth Battin

@SpartanDonut The term is "whore". rep whore.

SpartanDonut

my bad

badp

@Jon for the record, our average age is around ~24 ;)

GnomeSlice

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dope

Almo

axu?

GnomeSlice

18:19

Axonic

The logo is dumb, yeah.

SpartanDonut

Man today has been productive. So happy

Noctrine

:(

I wanna make stuff.

SpartanDonut

Yesterday our DC suffered a DDoS attack so I basically couldn't do anything all day

Working remote and your DC having no internet means I can't work remote very easily

Jon

@badp lol, fair enough

Jon

18:50

What kind of gases should I keep track of in the atmosphere? Carbon-dioxyde/oxygen

AttackingHobo

@Jon all of them. Helium/hydrogen/w/e

John McDonald

Nitrogen probably doesn't technically matter for your gameplay, but... if you want to be scientifically accurate

AttackingHobo

make some cool fuel air bombs possible

@JohnMcDonald it should snuff out fires if high enough concentration of N

@Jon also maybe toxic gasses

John McDonald

@AttackingHobo well... maybe like higher than 90%

AttackingHobo

if theres a fire and there is some N it will go out sooner as the fire eats oxygen bring its level lower and increasing co/co2

@Jon track CO so you can have carbon monoxide poisoning

John McDonald

18:54

seeing as Nitrogen is already nearly 80% of the air, I'd have to increase the fire-snuffing percentage to like 98%+

Jon

yeah, the main ones are gonna be CarbonDioxyde vs Oxygen

since it will affect the atmosphere significantly

aside from that, I don't know what else I could include, gameplay wise

AttackingHobo

@jon track moisture for teraforming

some plants use moisture captured from air to help survive

also metals and stuff corode faster in damp environment

Jon

what happens if too much oxygen?

Noctrine

BOOM

Jon

Mercury for example, is 42% oxygen.

AttackingHobo

18:58

@Jon stuff corrodes really fast. Fires go crazy with any fuel

John McDonald

@Jon 42% of next to nothing is still next to nothing

Jon

hehe, yeah

AttackingHobo

oxygen is a violent molecule, and of course depends on pressure too

Jon

what would happen if you lit a match on Uranus?

it would immediately extinguish as there is no oxygen to supply the fire?

AttackingHobo

you can't

John McDonald

19:00

We'd now live in a binary system?

Icy Defiance

probably wouldn't ignite in the first place?

AttackingHobo

You could however make an oxygen torch

Jon

Where is Neil Degrasse Tyson when you need him

Icy Defiance

too busy receiving worship from /r/atheism

AttackingHobo

use pure oxygen and light the atmosphere where the oxygen meets it

Jon

19:03

How does nitrogen work? does it just build up in the atmosphere?

AttackingHobo

it gets converted by bacteria, lightning/atmosphere stuff and when in a different form it gets taken up by plant roots

Almo

"nitrogen fixing"

AttackingHobo

@Jon eschooltoday.com/ecosystems/the-nitrogen-cycle.html

Almo

rate of nitrogen fixing was a cap on food production for human consumption, until that guy broke it open with some fertilizer process making it possible to grow food much faster

AttackingHobo

oh nvm bacertia make it go back into air. "Nitrates in he soil can also be broken down by denitrifying bacteria (in specific conditions) and sent into the air as nitrogen. This process can help make the soil infertile, because it will lack the nitrates needed for plant use."

Almo

19:06

man i just want to fucking play LoL now

Jon

lol isn't a game

Almo

@SpartanDonut and I won a game with Leona last night, I think I understand her better now. Had a kick-ass Ashe who knew when to stay and fight, so anytime she stayed, I did as well. And we wrecked. :)

@Jon Oh, right. Bingo has more interaction.

Jon

its my opinion.. its not a game

that's all there is to it.

Almo

:(

Jon

no point in arguing my opinion

Almo

19:07

Once I get my game released, I really want someone to be able to ask a real question about it >:)

AttackingHobo

@Almo make faster rounds

Jon

In a philosophy se

Almo

@AttackingHobo that is under consideration

Jon

make less registration

AttackingHobo

@Almo make a source engine mod version

Almo

19:08

I think 15-min might be the lowest interval I can put on a cronjob at the server

less registration is also under consideration

AttackingHobo

Join a real server and chat with people and shit

Almo

that's also a good suggestion

AttackingHobo

I want to play mind games with people

Almo

hahah yeah

Jon

AttackingHobo

19:09

that makeup work is great

Joe

i made a meta game... and the main objective is determining if almos game is a game

OOOOOO mind = blown

Jon

that would be funny

AttackingHobo

@Joe do it, make it in RPG maker or something

so its literally a game about figuring out if almo's game is a game. (spoiler: it is)

Joe

it needs a mini game though

Icy Defiance

FFXIII PC Locked at 720p. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2irxgc/ffxiii_pc_locked_at_720p/
the console peasants are trying to bring the master race down to their own level! such nerve!

Joe

19:11

hmmm

Jon

isn't final fantasy just interactive movies now anyways?

Icy Defiance

lol I've never played any of the FF games

Almo

@Jon wasn't it always?

Icy Defiance

so I wouldn't know

Jon

FF1 was awesome.. FF3 was epic

Then FF7 was a movie

then it was just downhill from there

Almo

19:14

I've played VII, IV (on DS) and a little X.

just not really my kind of RPG

I prefer tactical combat

so I tried FFTactics Advance

eesh

bad game design decisions

Jon

wut happened squareenix

Almo

to level up: find an enemy you can only damage by 1 point, and wail on it while healing yourself. (You get XP per hit)

AttackingHobo

@Almo kind of makes sense...

Jon

sounds like a grind

AttackingHobo

you have more experiences hitting with that weapon.

@Jon uhhhh yeah... its ff

Almo

19:16

But it breaks any balance in progression

"I'm having trouble... I should just go find one of those turtles and hit it until I gain some levels."

that is crappy

AttackingHobo

@Almo whats teh diff between that and finding some spawning enemies and farming them

Joe

@Jon FF7 was an awesome movie

Almo

It's stupid just standing there just hitting the same enemy over and over

it's not a HUGE difference

I don't like FF games in general partially because of the grinding

Joe

i just want everyone to know, i have an important announcement... i found someone who will teach me IRL metal working, starting with welding

Almo

indicates deep-seated design problems elsewhere in the game

that's pretty cool, Joe :)

Jon

19:18

Joe

if i am horribly disfigured this weekend you all must play almos game to determine who inherits my computer

Jon

Is this a game?

Almo

hahahah

Ack - lame.

I was working for them when they folded

no pay for previous month, and previous 3 months of pension contributions went missing

bitches

Pip

heyheyhey

Almo

Rod Cousins, the CEO who was turning Acclaim into a real studio system tried to buy it from the liquidators

even said we had jobs, when they suddenly found out they only bought the studios, not the IP

so that failed

Jon

19:20

LOL

Almo

damn shame; it really was turning around

day before it folded (or somewhere in there) The Red Star was approved for release on Xbox

Jon

well, not much you can do without the IP

Almo

bingo

great streets of rage type game (red star)

HAd top-down bullet hell segments, and really good beat-em-up action

very nice presentation too

AttackingHobo

damn " The Xbox version was completed and a press review copy in the shape of the entire finished game was circulated among gaming publications, but the game was never commercially released. "

Almo

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Jon

19:22

Reminded me of that duke nukem game we never got

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Almo

XS grabbed it, and released it on PS2

I had a copy of that, and played quite a bit

was really fun

Pip

holy crap this is good animation: theverge.com/2014/10/9/6951375/…

Almo

It had the classic gameplay where enemy A is easy. enemy B is easy. enemy C is easy. put them all together, and boom! challenge!

good shit

Pip

cool

Jon

you worked on that almo?

Almo

19:25

It was made at Acclaim Austin

I was in Cheltenham (where they made Xtreme G 3 and crazy taxi for dreamcast)

Actually got to meet the lead coder from Wipeout 3

AttackingHobo

Oh man Crazy Taxi

Almo

I had found a crash bug, and mailed him about it because buried on the W3 page was "[email protected]"

he actually wrote back and explained it

cockpit view, a particular ship, a particular track, and boom! the steam system overwrote the cockpit system and it died.

so I asked if he remembered me asking that. he did :)

cool guy

Pip

cool

Almo

@SethBattin good comment about just starting with a language

Pip

Alright... get this.... how about Tarbeyon in C# or C++? Having a ton of want-to-work-on-a-platformer-ness right now!

Tweeted by TheProgramm3r on October 9, 2014 at 7:21 PM

Almo

19:32

make an asteroids clone instead

;)

Jon

better yet, make 2

Seth Battin

It's funny how often people worry about doing it exactly right the first time

Pip

@SethBattin that is never going to happen, ever.

Noctrine

I wish my depth wasn't web development, so that I could spend my dayjob working on games.

Seth Battin

ah, just make canvas games. it looks like you're writing javascript

Pip

19:34

Me?

Seth Battin

because you are!

Pip

oh, Noc

Seth Battin

naw, I meant Noctrine

Noctrine

mmm, I could probably use my professional development time to explore canvas. But even then, I can't make stuff for me during these working hours.

Seth Battin

are you permitted to contribute to open source projects?

Noctrine

19:36

Hmmm, don't know. Could probably get approval.

Seth Battin

well, i don't recommend trying to subvert your contract or anything, but surely there is a way to help yourself and study professionally at the same time

Noctrine

I wouldn't attempt to subvert my contract, just at this point I need something to do.

Learning without a goal doesn't feel like learning to me

Seth Battin

implement gamepad support for normal page navigating

That is my weekend plan (not the normal page part)

Pip

Does someone have time to review a function for me?

Noctrine

This weekend I'm gonna be creating storyboards for a short film, and then hopefully finishing up a custom forum.

Seth Battin

19:40

well, that sounds cool enough

Pip

anyone?

No probs if not

Almo

@SpartanDonut @IcyDefiance Our next featured game mode, Hexakill: Twisted Treeline, will be released later this patch!

12 people on a small map. messy!

Pip

whoa

cool :)

Seth Battin

post it, pip

Pip

kk, thanks

	/**
	 * Returns if the current year is a leap year
	 */
	private boolean isLeapYear()
	{
		// No leap years occured before 1582 because that is when they were added to the calendar
		if(year > 1582)
		{
			// All code past here only executed when year mod 4 is true
			if(year % 4 != 0)
			{
				return false;
			}

			// Makes sure that it does not register the beginning of centuries as leap years
			// unless they actually are.
			else if(year % 100 == 0 && year % 400 != 0)
			{
				return false;

freaking APCS lab

don't want to do it the long way with a seperate if statement for each possibility

Seth Battin

19:50

yeah, duplicate logic in there

what kind of review are you looking for?

Almo

write it in php. if($year + 365 days == $year) return true else return false

Seth Battin

killin' me, almo

Almo

:)

Pip

lol

Seth Battin

I would mostly just reorder the statements so that it could almost be written as one logical statement (but not actually do that)

Pip

19:57

Alright

anything else?

Seth Battin

i have seen the 1582 bit written as an assert rather than a check, since the whole calendar goes out the window

it's not a not-leapyear, it's invalid input

Pip

yeah, but my teacher is stupid

Seth Battin

heh

fair enough

Pip

Know anyone who can answer this?

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Q: How to graph an ellipsoid with only the three radii

While working on a project, using a magnetometer chip, I have run into a problem where I need to graph some data, consisting of three diameters (or d/2 = radii). Is there an easy way to do this with Wolfram Alpha, or another online, free tool? In addition, when checking this out on Wolfram Alpha...

@SethBattin thanks, btw :)

Now I am getting an error from another method, wtf?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at SimpleDate.daysInMonth(SimpleDate.java:223)
	at SimpleDateTester.main(SimpleDateTester.java:18)

it fails on this: return daysInMonth.get(month);

I am an idiot, named the property and function the same thing :/

Almo

4v1 shooter. looks interesting kotaku.com/…

Seth Battin

20:04

i am a fan of that idea

new user Panda is making the most of his first day on SE

Pip

good or bad?

John McDonald

@Almo That makes total sense. Board games have been doing that forever

D&D, Pandemic: On the Brink, Mansions of Madness, etc.

I guess some of those aren't "always" 1 big guy vs the rest, it's usually more than 1

Almo

20:22

Yup, looks interesting

Seth Battin

@Jon Very tardy, but here's one for a spiral galaxy formation: bitbucket.org/crempp/paisg-server/src/…

Almo

I don't have really high hopes for it personally because I don't like Left 4 Dead.

Seth Battin

and the guy who built that recommended this: alexcpeterson.com/spacescape

Almo

but I dislike it for reasons that probably will not be applicable to this one, so I'll give it a try :)

Pip

lol, rolfl answered my code review question

Almo

20:27

0

Q: Control may reach end of non-void function Xcode c++

Why am I getting this error?? This wasn't an error until I added this file to Xcode, not sure whats wrong. In my queue class in the delete function: class queue { private: point* Q[MSIZE]; int front, rear, size; public: queue() { // initialize an empty queue front...

xcode queue

I like taking these opportunities to show the clarity of Allman bracing. :)

Pip

Allman bracing <3

Almo

feel like it will be a hit-and-run though

Pip

My code review question turned into a war.....

Almo

the guy doesn't even have a name

hahaha

Pip

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Q: Function for checking leap years

As part of one of my AP Computer Science labs, I was required to write a function to determine whether a year was a leap year or not. Included as comments are a few reasons why I did things, as well as a more detailed version of the rules for leap years. Is there anything I could do better or hav...

java datetime

Almo

20:29

I looked at it, but couldn't really comment

Pip

no probs :)

Jon

@SethBattin meh, not the style i'm going for but thanks

Almo

woia

looks like the server running LN fucked up

and now there are no contests running

like it broke partway through calculating the next winner

I thought I didn't delete the old contests until the new ones were in

will have to look at the exact ordering of the operations

Jon

platane.me/Procedural-Flower/examples/RampantFlower.html

2

holy crap that is cool

SpartanDonut

@Almo DDoS from the haters at Gaming.SE

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Almo

20:37

I was wondering that

after the big argument, the chat server I host on that server has started acting funny

probably just cooincidence

Seth Battin

not a coincidence; massive increase in traffic. self-promotion successful!

Noctrine

So he was spamming!

SpartanDonut

@Almo Yeah. Need a good ADC who understands the play style to get those early kills (or at least fountain runs). Otherwise it's just turtle til laning over and rock the team fights.

@Jon FFX was a good movie at least

I really like Pip's use of CodeReview and the answer he got... is it a generally accepted practice at CodeReview to review homework or did he break a rule there?

Found this - reading it now: meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/62/…

Looks like Pip's use is legit. I like it.

I'm glad the code review community feels the same way I do on the matter

GnomeSlice

20:52

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funniest thing I've seen in quite a while

Pip

@SpartanDonut I have no idea

cool :)

SpartanDonut

I agree with the video though I will say there are some beers that are quite good

GnomeSlice

Ones that don't taste like lighter fluid? Or piss? Or lighter fluid mixed with piss?

Almo

ahahha

beer

AttackingHobo

gfycat.com/DefenselessAdorableCaracal

Pip

21:05

somuchviral.com/20-weird-american-customs

SpartanDonut

@Pip I think it was you that posted that link... I always knew of Hatsune Miku... now I know more. Pretty interesting.

Almo

@Pip yeah that shit about prescription drug ads is fucking ridiculous

Pip

@SpartanDonut yep

And I agree, Almo

it was pretty funny

Almo

In Canada, they can advertise prescription drugs, but with a limitation. They can tell you the name, or they can tell you what it does. But they can't tell you both.

Pip

nice

Almo

21:09

Led to some amazingly creative Viagra ads

Pip

should be doing homework instead of this :/

Almo

They used the name. But there was no understandable dialog

they talked to each other in gibberish, but you could tell what they were talking about.

they were great ads.

can't find them on youtube :(

AttackingHobo

@Almo

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ton more here. thisisnotadvertising.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/…

Almo

hehe

not the ones I'm looking for though

John McDonald

21:47

Icy Defiance

don't think it counts as "inhabiting" unless the robots are at least self-sufficient, and probably self-aware as well

actually self-aware is probably more important

John McDonald

yeah, I can agree with that

Lokkij