Game Development

It's the same dilemma that has faced me since the beginning... do I force C# or JS into the mis-shapen slot? Or do I hold up everything for fucking ever every week when I need to debug and fix some scripting engine bullshit

I think I've gone in like 2 complete circles on that topic, written 2 JIT engines from scratch, at least 5 compilers, and integrated basically every scripting language available

I'm leaning mostly towards, no scripting at all. Fuck scripting.

TheMuffinCoder

~Tetris Remix Compilation~

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Jon

god damn russians and their games

TheMuffinCoder

xD

Jon

6:59 PM

man...

i think imma animate the conveyor in mecanim somehow

bazola

7:16 PM

can anyone give me any opinions on this app icon? obviously it will be much smaller on the screen of a mobile device

Joe

so flat out it seems theres a ton going on here, maybe too much detail to perceived for such a small target size

Martin Sojka

Yep. Way too busy.

Joe

i would want way more contrast between the color of my app logo and the background as well

your on the right track with the black border helps visibility alot

might even need more

or maybe you try and isolate a small group of buildings and leave the text for the name under the app?

dont necessarily need the text in there maybe?

bazola

i was afraid it was too busy, i appreciate the feedback @MartinSojka and @Joe. I'm no graphic designer!

Martin Sojka

Basically, one high-contrast house + eventually some faint outline to accentuate it against the background + something like a big "VC" overlaid on top of it is as much as the app icon will handle. Prepare to make it even simpler.

Joe

7:24 PM

no problem at all man, what i like to do is imitate others just grab one you think is really well done boil it down and see if you can emulate

Almo

@bazola way way too busy

bazola

i was hoping to get some of the style of the artwork into the app icon, but i don't know if that is remotely possible. certainly most apps seem to have more stylized or vector based icons

Joe

what i would try is get a solid background with a color high contrast from your best 3 buildings

flat color background, layout your building meshes grab a screen

but the ortho view with all the buildings on top of one another... just make it too busy

and 3 might be pushing it

bazola

i will have to try that and see how it looks

Jon

typically you don't want to put words like that in an icon

also, the name of the app is written under it

typically

Joe

7:33 PM

thats basically what i expect to see from icons these days

Honeybunch

I like that a lot

bazola

me too

Joe

feel free to run with it man

bazola

cool, ty :)

Honeybunch

you should write a shader for all your buildings to make them look like Joe's sketches

Joe

7:34 PM

lol

@bazola np man

bazola

what i really want to do is recreate that awesome mode in streets of sim city/sim copter where you could drive or fly around a 3d version of your city.. might be a bit challenging to implement though :)

Jon

7:50 PM

so i'm doing this animation for my conveyor belt

and i'm trying to time the movement of the rigidbody with the speed of the belt.. holy shit man

first attempt at a animated belt

Hjorthenify

Not bad

Really good actually :)

Jon

needs end pieces

the animations are in mecanim, so cool :)

Hjorthenify

@Jon The ends doesn't need to be round btw

Everything in your game is blocky. Stick with the style :P

Jon

good point

i might actually square it off at the ends

who had made the suggestion for conveyor belts anyways?

i can put these up at angles and shit

it can carry blocks upwards.. this is like genius

MickLH

no problem jon

Jon

8:00 PM

if the block lands on the platform with a active velocity, it lerps it to the desired velocity when the trigger is active

once the desired velocity is within a threshold, the velocity sets to constant

once the trigger is exit, it resumes normal physics

MickLH

@Jon the formula for your edge pieces is easy
Rotation = cos(time);
Position = [LastCircle.X + sin(time), LastCircle.Y + cos(time)];

Jon

interesting

MickLH

time being relative to when it starts to "curve"

Jon

im' just gonna animate the end pieces in mecanim though

:)

MickLH

lol that works

Jon

8:04 PM

but i appreciate the knowledge

MickLH

oops I flipped X and Y anyways

Jon

i have been sketching out level ideas, i'm like a mad physicist

MickLH

achievement unlocked: first code snippet of the day is a severe glitch

Jon

haha, well i'm not gonna use it

MickLH

achievement unlocked: zesty insult flavoring for your injuries!

Joe

8:11 PM

play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html nothing in here about guns? is it just apple? could i actually get Russian roulette simulator on play store?

OMGtechy

@Joe there's plenty of shoot em ups if that's what you mean

Joe

i know one of the stores recently made changes to not sell any games with a gun in any artwork displaying the game

here: gamasutra.com/view/news/236404/…

OMGtechy

wtf

and here I was about to use this as my app icon...

2

Jon

i think the rounded off conveyor belt isn't that bad

easier to animate too

MickLH

@OMGtechy this is a good thing

@Jon this is a good thing

OMGtechy

8:17 PM

so many good things

Jon

needs tweaking

Joe

@Jon so how the hell did you do this lol? that was crazy quick

Jon

heh, i guess it is because I am used to quick prototyping

OMGtechy

@Jon personally I think it looks better than the other one

Jon

for the next little while, it will probably be tweaking the way it looks

OMGtechy

8:22 PM

Previous looked better IMO

Jon

thanks

OMGtechy

np :)

Jon

i plan on making the circles turn with grooves in them

not sure how that is gonna work out, but we will see

OMGtechy

yeah best way to find out is to just try it, as you know well already

MickLH

@Jon I came up with a great ~~excuse why you're wrong and I'm right.~~ reason to do it procedurally

I just don't want to say it, so you can't shoot it down HAHAHAHA

Jon

8:26 PM

aight, tell me :)

MickLH

lol jokes aside, if you do them procedurally then you can add "bouncy belt" physics later

Jon

yeah... i considered adding each link as a actual physical element

but that would slow down the mobile version

and also... i don't plan on making the belts break or anything liek that

MickLH

yeah I'd imagine that getting severe quickly lol

Jon

this is 1 collider, very efficient

MickLH

but! if you didn't know this about me, this is the best way to get me to have ideas about how to make it work

user4704

8:28 PM

@Joe She can't talk in here.

Jon

hah, i know it man

and i love that stuff

Joe

@JoshPetrie I was trying to rush to beat the clock and prevent a scared away user... too much to type

didnt register* that she was a 1pt user

user4704

Yeah; she has no other site accounts either

Jovito

Is there a way to position the mouse cursor programatically in the browser?

user4704

God I hope not.

Jovito

8:31 PM

yeah I didn't think so

MickLH

I think there is an opt-in for that now on some browsers actually

Kevin van der Velden

What's the use case? There's a way to lock the mouse

MickLH

I know there's pointer lock, or mouse lock at least, as an opt-in.

Joe

@KevinvanderVelden illegally force users to click one million ads on my website for profit and glory?

Kevin van der Velden

@Joe heh, meant more, what is @Jovito planning to use it for? =p

Joe

8:36 PM

i mean thats what id use it for.. ill split it with you

MickLH

@Joe Way to be Mr. Nice Guy

Noctrine

Sup peoples.

Joe

what i just gave him 50% , cant get more generous than that

MickLH

Good guy joe has your mouse, clicks his own ads instead of "Checkout With Paypal"

Jovito

hahaha

Joe

8:37 PM

im not a monster

Jovito

just curious

MickLH

@Jovito I think you're stuck with getting the user to accept pointer lock, and then doing the mouse yourself in software

But that gives the advantage of letting you use an awesome stylized cursor with animated lighting effects

Jovito

well that is most appealing

with particles and stuff

MickLH

fuck yes. and consistently themed loading spinners and subtle in-game notifications that only show up at the cursor

Joe

LIGHTNING EFFECTS?

Jovito

8:40 PM

HAHAHA

MickLH

That's it.... I'm busting out the Microsoft Plus! pack

Honestly Space Cadet Pinball was my entry into gaming

Joe

good one! man those were the days, oh man theres a windows game i had i thought that was the name, but its not

MickLH

I had this ASCII art DOS pinball I played game I played in Win 3.1, it had color and sound and everything it was awesome

Jovito

you click something and suddenly dom elements are colliding with each other

MickLH

but then the plus pack had space cadet... blew my fucking mind

Jon

8:43 PM

another rev

lines up the circle gear thingies

i should make the gears square

Blue Bug

square_gears++

Jovito

<a> tags are flying off with their text-decoration set to 'underline'

its a domcalipse

Jon

so like, the squares would rotate

that looks bad

MickLH

what if their face stays up-side up ?? the whole time though?

Jon

up side up

MickLH

8:50 PM

oh, did you mean the trees look bad?

Jon

lol no

the square gears

MickLH

lol hahaha I somehow didn't think of that despite it being the obviously obvious thing

Jon

i have circles in my game

whatever.. lol ok i'm outta here

MickLH

peace

Blue Bug

@Jon

why not make the belt square as well? Since everything in the world is square.

Jon

8:58 PM

yeah I like that, but how to animate it?

also, not everything is square.

triangles, tetrinominoes

Blue Bug

if you like that, then you should do it. Where's your attitude? Have you grown soft all of the sudden!

4 hours ago, by Jon

Yeah, any loser with a keyboard could write that

4 hours ago, by Jon

Thats crap, pure crap

4 hours ago, by Jon

i spit on it in disgust, pleh

5 hours ago, by Joe

Jon

hahaha

ok fine

the blocks could just invert and go down, but it would look strange don't you think?

right at that corner

Blue Bug

yeah that would look strange, I believe chain blocks should bend to L shape as they run through the vertical side, like how a real chain would do it.

TheMuffinCoder

9:38 PM

A SUPER Mario Piano Medley (FULL)

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cries from beauty

He plays all the mario songs without stopping!!!

Jon

10:55 PM

Gibs

Gibbler the giver of giblets

Jon

11:47 PM

the collider is not done, so it looks weird when it launches off

TheMuffinCoder

@Jon @Almo Check out what I made with all of my low poly assets today :D

Jon

wow

why don't you just make art for me

TheMuffinCoder

@Jon :D am not skilled enough for you the almighty Jon

I could try tho :P

Any test model that I could possible try for u ? :3

Jon

blackface waffle takes the cake

TheMuffinCoder

LMAO

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