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AttackingHobo

17:04

Jeeeeeeeez this place is dead on the weekend!

Hello @Raynos @mpistrich

mpistrich

17:35

Good evening

AttackingHobo

Where you from @mpistrich? its only 10:40am here

@Raynos your icon is borderline invisible when you are inactive

Ari Patrick

@AttackingHobo You're right! I didn't even notice that he was in the room, until I hovered over his icon

mpistrich

18:04

I'm from Austria, it's 07:00 PM here.

AttackingHobo

Hello @AriPatrick, working on anything cool?

Ari Patrick

No, not right now. Sick, so just staying at home watching movies

Extrakun

hi all

anything of interest going on?

AttackingHobo

18:20

@Extrakun Working on my flash game engine, and answering a GDSE question.

Extrakun

Have you tried the CS5 iPhone packager yet?

AttackingHobo

No, I don't have an iphone, nor a mac, and I heard the performance is really lacking.

A: Making a symbol appear on any colour

This is assuming you are storing the ASCII art as bitmaps instead of text rendering, which is better for performance, flexibility, and can facilitate easy to implement custom tile-sets. Instead of changing the colors depending on the background colors, make all the ASCII art light toned, and hav...

What do you guys think about my answer?

Extrakun

That works.

AttackingHobo

I took it from the graphics art angle

Extrakun

The OP could use a spritesheet of characters for that too

AttackingHobo

18:26

Ha, Characters :)

@Extrakun are you working on anything cool?

Extrakun

actually...

I am hoping for some advice as to what do -next-

I have been mainly doing PHP stuff. Been wanting to do games, so I have been reading up a lot on it.

But I haven't decided what's next. Flash? HTML5? iPhone? ClanLib? Popcaps?

AttackingHobo

Download FlashDevelop, an amazing open source Editor, download the AS3 reference manual, and get crackin' :)

Extrakun

That doesn't require me to have Flash CS 5?

AttackingHobo

No, it uses Flex to compile, which is Free proprietary, but adobe also makes an open source version.

Extrakun

I see....

does that means you don't use the timeline at all?

AttackingHobo

18:41

You can create assets programatically, or you can import PNGs

You can do it without the timeline

or you can use it

You can publish with Flash if you have it installed, but I don't like that way

I like to build content packs with flash, export them and import them into my as3 only Projects

Extrakun

So I suppose you have to create the animations in Flash and export them.

AttackingHobo

You don't have to, but I find that the best workflow

Extrakun

I see. This is an idea.

AttackingHobo

I draw everything to BitmapData, so my games don't draw vectors while running

But it is stored as vectors. It allows for nice art, with really high frame rates, high resolution, and low file size.

Extrakun

An increase in size for faster rendering.

AttackingHobo

18:45

No, its stored as vectors, so low file size, but it does have a higher Ram usage, but Flash games at 800x600 @ 60 FPS is pretty nice

brb

Extrakun

Think that is something I could look into

hi CiscoIPPhone, thanks for your answer on my question

AttackingHobo

@Extrakun back

Extrakun

are there such things like free Flash art assets floating around in the Internet?

AttackingHobo

IDK, but one option is to make a few prototypes, and then team up with a flash artist for a cut of profits.

Extrakun

I see.

Does Flash programmers usually need someone to help with server-side stuff?

AttackingHobo

18:57

Depends. I don't do much server side stuff other than integrating highscore boards via the API from whatever site is hosting the highscore. But there are a few companies that make multiplayer server software. Some use as3 some use C#

Extrakun

Ah I see.

But what you use for server is entirely decoupled from Flash anyway...

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AttackingHobo

20:20

Why is this place dead on the weekend :(

ina

20:32

testing 123

Extrakun

test succeeds, I guess @ina

AttackingHobo

@ina 456

@Extrakun, what OS are you on?

Extrakun

Win 7

AttackingHobo

@Extrakun did you download FlashDevelop yet, or do I have to show you some of the awesome stuff it does before you do it?

Extrakun

Haha I haven't, because I was working on some PHP stuff

and that it's almost 5am here :P

I will look at it while at work tomorrow; I am just considering how do I get movie clips done if I don't have Flash myself.

AttackingHobo

20:44

FlashDevelop also works with PHP, although I am not sure how much of the cool as3 stuff transfers over

Don't use MovieClips during the gameplay if you want fast games

Extrakun

Sprites?

So it will be like traditional sprite sheets?

AttackingHobo

That is one method that works, although I render each frame of animation to a single BitmapData

Extrakun

that while the game loads, right?

after which you just offset the x and y within the BitmapData?

AttackingHobo

If you use spritesheets, sure, but I store each like a flipbook

each frame is a seperate image in memory

Extrakun

I see.

AttackingHobo

20:48

But if you were to use pngs it might be easier to use spritesheets

Extrakun

Will defintely ask you for more advice when I get started on it.

AttackingHobo

@Extrakun, some reading material 8bitrocket.com/2008/7/2/…

Extrakun

thanks man

AttackingHobo

He uses Flash though, so its slightly different for AS3 only

catfacegames.com/2009/01/18/…

THat link shows how to embed files in as3 only

Extrakun

neat.

AttackingHobo

20:53

Although I really recommend using flash to create assets for small file size and high quality animations, but for games with a smaller amount of assets, PNG is fine

Extrakun

all right I got to stop reading tvtropes and end coding for the day...

Workplace has a copy of Flash; I could use it for personal stuff at times, I guess.

though I guess the timeline is handy for stuff like start screens and helps creens and stuff...

AttackingHobo

If you want to use the timeline like that, you can make a movieclip and use the timeline in that, cause you can export a SWC file and use the assets in FD

Extrakun

Yup, I was thinking of that too.

thanks for your help

i got to crash for the night

AttackingHobo

hello @ina, you working on anything interesting?

AttackingHobo

21:27

hello @Tetrad @IvoWetzel

Ivo Wetzel

@AttackingHobo Hi there

AttackingHobo

@IvoWetzel What are you up to?

Ivo Wetzel

@AttackingHobo Not much besides winter depression

AttackingHobo

Drink more coffee

Ivo Wetzel

@AttackingHobo Have some ideas in my head but just I'm lacking any motivation

@AttackingHobo Don't drink coffee, I just don't like its taste

AttackingHobo

21:38

As I said, drink more coffee :)

Buy a Redline energy drink

Ivo Wetzel

Don't think that will change much :/

AttackingHobo

Yes it will, trust me

Ivo Wetzel

Winter + Jobless + Lonely :/

CiscoIPPhone

aww

AttackingHobo

Drink a Redline and get back to me

Ivo Wetzel

21:44

hate it, people who just don't care to accept answers -.-

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Raynos

23:51

@IvoWetzel hows the game going

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