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PearsonArtPhoto

00:36

DH.

That's the name you came up?

PearsonArtPhoto

That's the plan as of right now.

I'm somewhat hard pressed to change it. More than anything, I just want to give it a name, I'm tired of "Unnamed Sea Trader Game"

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Ustrag, the name of the start ship of the player

Sie

00:53

Anyone doing Ludum Dare?

Starts at 9PM tonight.

DH.

I don't plan doing it

PearsonArtPhoto

I'm toying with the idea, but probably not.

DH.

The new site is being overloaded, I can't even register lol

PearsonArtPhoto

You don't have to register until you submit.

Theme is Small World

DH.

Yeah I went to the LD Twitter to see it

Sie

01:30

Do you guys ever get really excited about working on your game but by the end of the day when you sit down to work on it then the motivation is gone?

PearsonArtPhoto

Nah, that NEVER happens...

Sie

never ever?

you wouldn't lie to me would you now?

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL.

Of course it happens, all of the time!

Sie

I'm just so fucking sick of not knowing what I want to do.

I mean one day I feel like making an engine, the next working on an old game, and I just can't seem to focus.

PearsonArtPhoto

If you don't know what you want to do right now, do Ludum Dare

Build a game in 48 hours, theme Small World, no prior artwork or sounds.

Chris McFarland

01:39

@Sie I recommend taking a break from coding anything game-related for a month

Let your brain rest and focus on other things in life

DH.

You're pushing yourself Sie

Sie

You guys don't get it. I haven't worked on anything game related in months and I tried too just yesterday and I already feel this way lol.

PearsonArtPhoto

I should get back to my UI stuff, but I'm increasingly feeling sleep calling me, an hour early...

I might just hit the sack...

DH.

02:04

Just because you haven't made anything, doesn't mean you are not pushing yourself

If you can't find a minimum of motivation by yourself, just stop it

Chris McFarland

02:16

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Blue Bug

04:38

I usually set my time expected to complete to at least a year

or couple years

I just know if I work on this a bit by a bit then it will be completed eventually

and that helps, for me

3 hours later…

Kevin van der Velden

07:34

@Sie I'm joining

I just woke up because it started at 3am or so

Chris McFarland

Unity doesn't recognise iOS Bluetooth keyboard input :| Gonna submit a bug report... doesn't sound like it's ever supported it

2 hours later…

Kevin van der Velden

09:56

Yay it works

Chris McFarland

Woot

Kevin van der Velden

The theme is "A Small World"

So of course step 1 is to render a world

jgallant

11:01

Looks like a low resolution ball of puke

Kevin van der Velden

First working then not looking like puke

Hopefully less low-res puke:

jgallant

The puke is molding

Kevin van der Velden

I'd go with boils

But it's higher res!

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Stephane Hockenhull

13:11

That's some pretty puke

2 hours later…

jgallant

14:44

Haha yeah I was just pilling your leg in case you thought I was serious

Stephane Hockenhull

14:54

The bump map makes it so much better

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, it's still just vertex shading but it looks like there's detail

I'll probably do something with a watershader later but I've only got 2 days =p

And I'm currently blanking on doing proper pathfinding

Stephane Hockenhull

You'll need to create a weird bunch of inter-connected nodes.

spamming nodes around the sphere at some <radius> distance of each other

Then connecting the nodes that are within <radius * 2> of each other and a clear path

then you can go A* on them.

If your surface remains as low-poly as that you could use the centroids of your sphere triangles as the nodes.

And use triangle edges as the connections

Kevin van der Velden

15:21

Yeah I'm creating a isosphere right now

Hmmm... how does a triangle have more than 3 neighbours?

This shouldn't be happening

Stephane Hockenhull

If more than 2 triangles is attached to the same edge?

a collapsed triangle?

Kevin van der Velden

Nah, I'm subdividing everything

I found it, the cache key was borked causing it to reuse improperly

Kevin van der Velden

16:08

This seems pretty evenly divided:

Stephane Hockenhull

Looks reasonable

user92578

I've got kill scoring working

user92578

(I'm working on a PVP-arena-battle thingy, choose an arena that fits to one screen and kill your pals)

Blue Bug

18:18

@KevinvanderVelden cough cough too many holes

Kevin van der Velden

I don't want more points than I need =p

Besides, that can be controlled with a single variable

Kevin van der Velden

18:37

Q: Catfish creations, where I have laborously written long lists, numbered from 1-10 of different species

First off need to state that I am all about low tech. What I need is a better way of deciding what list, and what # on the list is chosen, which would be randomly chosen. My current way since I do not have dice, or a computer, is using text, from a book, and by assigning each letter to a single...

adventure-games

What

Stephane Hockenhull

Difficult to read this question is.

DH.

18:59

From Yoda he a lot learned

MickLH

19:31

@ChrisMcFarland this looks awesome

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jgallant

20:48

controller only game

is that a huge deal on PC?

burp

i mean like... rocket league is kinda burp controller only

Kevin van der Velden

Depends on the game, it'd have to have a really good reason to not support keyboard control

Stephane Hockenhull

Dunno. Mine's pretty much controller-only.

Kevin van der Velden

And even rocket league supports keyboard control

jgallant

yeah rudimentary keyboard controls

John Hamilton

rocket league lets you use your keyboard like a controller... it's bad...

jgallant

20:52

but the game will suck without a controller

the nature of the game

Kevin van der Velden

Then as long as it's a case of "The things the game wants you to do can't be properly done with just keys" as opposed to "The dev is lazy and implemented a shit keyboard system" it's fine

jgallant

this one is going to be intersting guys :)

never been done before hahaha

i have this game mechanic I am developing

Stephane Hockenhull

Sheep Simulator 2017?

jgallant

Awwww man that's better than my idea....

MickLH

@KevinvanderVelden I agree, but I'd love an example of a situation where a reasonable keyboard input is really unfeasible

Kevin van der Velden

20:55

@MickLH twinstick shooters where you need double 360 degrees aim is the common example

But even that is just hell with a keyboard and not impossible

MickLH

Hmm I guess, I'd prefer to use one mouse and just left or right click personally

Kevin van der Velden

Sweet, pathfinding now looks smooth

(pathfinding on a course grid of triangles representing a sphere has... issues)

(smoothing by looking slightly ahead ftw)

2 hours later…

jgallant

22:49

another set of tinted wheels woot

Stephane Hockenhull

Aaand another Korok...

I got my walk cycle to look half decent...

MickLH

23:53

@jgallant I made a thing it's "wtf"

jgallant

Sounds avant guard

Link me up

MickLH

drive.google.com/open?id=0BxOUlWYj0c6tNm1DUDRCS1NnOTQ

I took the output straight into an MP3 and onto G drive, good luck

I'll listen and see if it even recorded properly, FL magically fucks up the MIDI playback / recording part sometimes

jgallant

whoa..

can ihave it?

MickLH

you wanna use it lol? go ahead

jgallant

oh i can use this

MickLH

23:56

let me know if you need adjustments or w/e

jgallant

well it doesn't loop

but yeah its fucken pimp man

MickLH

I mean part of the sound is that it's mastered to sound like shit, but also it's a really lazy production

I feel like it has to sound somewhat shitty to get the mood right

jgallant

this is great

at the end of it

pull it back

then maybe go back hard

really good shit man

MickLH

so... make the rest of the song? :P

jgallant

yeah haha

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