Game Development

OMGtechy

21:00

Huge ass spider just descended upon me

i was like gtfo

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

So Adventure Capitalist was running, and when I got home, my computer had rebooted. :P

OMGtechy

what's adventure capitalist?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Just some random idle game :P

OMGtechy

reminds me of when I used to leave X3 running with my AI scripts aha

taking a look on miniclip now

Joe

@Almo how does one "talk" to unity employees

Almo

21:03

we're a company that does all our work with Unity, so we have a weekly conference call with them

now I'm trying to fix framerate in the editor

and what a hassle

I've tried what people say works and it doesn't

Joe

how long have you been using unity?

OMGtechy

What's the company?

Almo

set vsync to not, and application.targetframerate = 30

Behaviour Interactive

I don't know how long they've been using it since i've only been here about 10 months

@William'MindWorX'Mariager you don't have to leave it running

if you quit and come back, it calculates what you would have earned had you left it running

OMGtechy

virtual villagers and its kin did that

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Almo Fancy smancy.

Joe

21:06

^ archeage should do that... it dont

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Only if you're premium :P

OMGtechy

@William'MindWorX'Mariager is it this? miniclip.com/games/adventure-capitalist/en

Joe

@Almo did you work in games before that?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@OMGtechy crazygames.com/game/adventure-capitalist-version-5

Almo

I've been in games since 2000

anyone know about Time.deltaTime being unreliable in the editor?

    _frameTimer += Time.deltaTime;
    if (_frameTimer < _frameDuration)
    {
        return;
    }
    _frameTimer -= _frameDuration;

this is not preventing it from updating at more than 30 FPS

private const float _frameDuration = 1.0f / 30.0f;

OMGtechy

21:11

yeah it's the same @William'MindWorX'Mariager

Joe

@Almo you lucky bastard :D

Almo

heh

Joe

is it still good 14 years later?

Almo

I've been laid off 5 times

it's not a stable industry

OMGtechy

@William'MindWorX'Mariager oh dear, I think I have a problem

Jon

21:15

the bloop

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@OMGtechy You're playing it? :P

OMGtechy

@William'MindWorX'Mariager can't...stop...clicking....

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Haha

OMGtechy

gimme more managers

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Idle games are weird.

They're the embodiment of instant gratification :P

Jon

21:17

pay now for a 100k cookie booster

OMGtechy

@William'MindWorX'Mariager there I was being all productive and then you come along with this game :P

AttackingHobo

@OMGtechy I hate those games

SpartanDonut

@Almo how do you know?

OMGtechy

@AttackingHobo so do I, but here I am playing it

Jon

meanwhile, bitcoins are being mined

AttackingHobo

21:18

It hits so many different psychological buttons to make it addictive

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@OMGtechy Pfft, productivity :P

Jon

link me

AttackingHobo

There is probably a hack out there for it

Probably could use cheat engine to hack it.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Who wants to hack idle games? :P Except for the achievement?

Jon

heh

bragging rights?

AttackingHobo

21:19

Make things go faster so you don't waste so much time on it

get it out of your system

Jon

"look how much time I wasted"

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

4 hours ago, by Lasse

OMGtechy

@William'MindWorX'Mariager there comes a point, where there is no point carrying on

investor time ahahaha

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Hehe

The kids I'm tutoring/teaching are making an idle game.

Their own personal "Gaben Clicker" where they click his face and money fly out. :P

Almo

@SpartanDonut it's animating, and it's REALLY FAST

looks like maybe 120 to me

If it were a difference between 45 and 30, I would not be so sure

reposting a spoiler is bad form

OMGtechy

21:24

@William'MindWorX'Mariager my little bro did that in scratch, I suppose it's just easy to understand and to introduce variables and their uses

Almo

I was glad earlier when it disappeared off my screen

SpartanDonut

@Almo does it stabilize when you do a desktop build?

Almo

hmm maybe the FPS is working

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@OMGtechy Yeah, that's what I thought. It's simple, and basically just uses simple input and variables.

SpartanDonut

@Almo I have a feeling it's a logic error of some sorts unless proven otherwise. Debug that code man ;P

Almo

21:25

trying a web build

well pc build

SpartanDonut

I don't trust just eyeballing it needless to say lol

Almo

for good reason

doesn't seem to work pc build

:(

SpartanDonut

wat

Joe

tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/…

Almo

just blank screen; no sprite

Joe

21:26

ooo man how i want this as a new monitor...

SpartanDonut

oh snap

39" is bigger than my TV

Also, PSA: Do yourselves a favor and buy a sound bar or other sound system. The difference is amazing.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Joe That's crazy :P

I just paid 830 for a 55" UHD TV.

Almo

just realized I can watch myself type in the reflection of the iMac on my desk (just showed up today)

:(

Jon

can you somehow read in the playerPrefs of another project?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Joe Although, it looks like it's only HDMI 1.4 unless I'm missing something.

In which case, the 4k is going to be less than optimal for PC use.

Joe

21:36

hmm

yea prolly right

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Jon

I think I'm gonna have to make Picross Touch Color

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Remember to use symbols as well then. To aid colorblind people. :)

Jon

hmmm

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Something like this

AttackingHobo

21:50

:/

Jon

kinda defeats the purpose of the color

Anko

@Josh Ugh yes, the GPL. I don't like it either, but if someone's really into reading legalese and making other people do things, I guess it's their own foot to shoot.

AttackingHobo

@Jon make sure to add tones for fully blind people too

Jon

lol

AttackingHobo

And a brail interface for deaf and blind people

Holy shit. Thank you @William'MindWorX'Mariager you set me on an awesome train of though

What if there was a pallet picker thing that worked with tones for graphics programs for color blind people

hover over color and hear its tone

map rbg into different frequencies

Anko

21:54

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Q: Designing for visually impaired gamers

Globally the number of people of all ages visually impaired is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million are blind. — World Health Organisation, 2010. (That's 4.2% and 0.6% of the world population.) Most videogames put a strong emphasis on visuals in their content delivery. Visua...

game-design accessibility

AttackingHobo

anko usually its a good idea. But it would ruin the game for everyone

imagine in mspaint if you had huge icons covering each pixel

it would look like shit

Anko

yeah, I don't think it's possible to make a paint app blind-friendly because ..it's a paint app

AttackingHobo

I was joking earlier, if you didn't get it.

Anko

i didn't get it ;_;

Icy Defiance

gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/… SUCK IT, UBISOFT

lol

I like that site. I'll bookmark it once I get home.

Almo

22:02

And for stuff like SFIV, you should be able to select a set of controls from a list you've set up

we had all sorts of trouble at ATD because Tekken 3 and 4 didn't do this

so everytime I got on to play, I had to change the buttons, and they'd then have to change them back

I had a very good system set up and it was different enough to be a hassle

AttackingHobo

@Almo ooh savable profiles

Speaking of awesome control things. The new Guilty Gear has a press and hold start to pause

hold it for like .25 seconds I think

which nearly completely removes accidental presses that have been known to happen at big events

Anko

Never happened to me. I guess I've never played a fighting game seriously enough.

Or... vigorously enough

Almo

@AttackingHobo smart!

we did have that occasionally in tekken

AttackingHobo

Some people have weird cade sticks with easy to accidentally press start buttons

yo @Pip

@Almo yeah its not super common but it does happen, and when it does. it happens at the worst time.

Almo

:D

AttackingHobo

22:07

sup @Pip is Palindrome

Icy Defiance

about color blind thing, the most common type of colorblindness is red/green. that means if you have a red team and a green team, a red/green colorblind person won't be able to tell the difference.

LoL's colorblind mode used blue/yellow teams instead

SpartanDonut

Red and blue

Instead of you being green you are yellow

At least I'm pretty sure that's how I got those colors...

Icy Defiance

but even within red/green, a colorblind person can still see differences in brightness. so if you have a dark green background with a red flashing light, you're probably fine.

best strategy is probably to find a colorblind person and just repeat the question "can you see shit?" over and over

SpartanDonut

I know a few people who thought peanut butter was green...

I loved breaking the news to them

Best part is when they don't believe you and need to ask a 3rd party

Icy Defiance

lol, I've known a colorblind guy since before kindergarten. every so often I or another friend will make a casual comment about how we like his shirt because it's a cool shade of pink, or something like that. we space it out just right so it confuses him every time, because he'd never wear a pink shirt on purpose.

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Jon

22:29

i know a colorblind guy, I should get him to test my game

Martin Sojka

23:16

Gimp has filters for all kinds of colourblindness. I assume other graphic tools do too.

Almo

23:55

GIMP ARGH

sorry :)

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