@Paul Need more time spent on it :P

@TomTsagk one of my first games, UFO, had a bug where you can shoot many UFOs with one bullet. It was amusing and I decided not to fix it.

There was something in my current project but I can't remember

@TomTsagk for me, one-letter variables are acceptable when their scope is very small (lambda or small loop).

@Vaillancourt two weeks*

Like "i" for index in a for loop, that's fine. But if you're doing it on class variables, "k" for an array of pressed keys, "b" for amount of "bullets"? It makes your code harder to understand but adds no performance, we also have autocompletion, so why bother?

I guess it all comes down to what's' considered "accepted" in programming. For example i in a loop is just used everywhere so everyone understands what it means

It would explain why people use one letters in physics, if a lot of people do it, it's easy to understand the code

A lot of physics is also math and that's generally single-letter-variables because of... well probably history?

And custom?

@Paul this is not a small scope

@trollingchar How's your project going? Done enough refactoring yet? :P

almost done

there is a couple of systems not finished yet

What platforms are you targeting, out of curiosity?

WebGL

(for now)

Maybe later I will target Android too

Sounds good, curious to see the result

Actually, you can see the intermediate result. Test Application 3 is deployed. It looks raw though.

Right now I don't remember the link, I'll post it later

We talk mostly about making games, but which games do you play?

I play very random games, it really depends

recently I've started playing Bard's Tale 4, gives me all the old-school vibes that I like

but I lost this luck and now I have less than 10% winrate with him because he knows how to counter my moves

so now I'm training, like in movies

I'll return and defeat him

Also I play Oxygen Not Included because it encourages building complex mechanisms and shinebugs are pretty

You can even build a shinebug light reactor, where the light is brighter than the sun!

and it looks like one

Ah I've heard of oxygen not included

In this game duplicants communicate using something that looks like emoji, and they usually say that something is good or bad. They can dislike even the best things, but no one ever said that microbes are bad. Microbes are awesome.

This kind of games is for me. I play them on ultranightmare difficulty and it feels like normal. But I really suck when I play fightings.

I remember an old game for DOS, Snake Battle. You don't control a snake directly, but you program it using regex-like cards. The game matches cards with the map 8 times with different rotation/inversion, and if a card matches, the snake moves in the specified direction.

That sounds quite fun actually, I like games with niche mechanisms like that

There are negations and OR- and AND-color groups. One of my cards uses all available 5 colors. And it's also possible to program a decent snake using only one card (the limit is 9)

and some strategies use more than one

This game will be good with a server with automatic combat, because it doesn't require your presence

You do like to make everything online don't you :P

An online game is easier to distribute. Lazy people don't want to download.

I've never been a fan of web dev, I like low level programming, and web dev doesn't really reach that

@TomTsagk Embedded Systems is as low level as you can, I quite enjoy that. Arduino is quite a fun platform, and if you want you can go into the low level C or even assembly.

@Paul I've messed with a raspberry pie before, and that's quite fun

Haven't done anything with an arduino yet

It's fun for games as well youtu.be/X24BZuQ2AWc

oh wow that looks quite fun!

I love to see people doing stuff like that, where the question is not "why" but "why not" :P

Have you made anything with arduino?

If you don't use the I/O, a raspberry pi is just like another PC. The Arduino has no OS, you program all logic yourself directly. One "thread" and no networking bs (unless if you have a network add-on), your control the hardware directly.

And yes, we had a line-following robot much like youtu.be/3KkGIUkarwQ

And a lot of other small projects actually.

Seems fun!

Yeah, I was quite drawn to actually making stuff move IRL instead of on your screen only. It comes with quite some difficulties as well, but when it works in the end, it feels very rewarding.

Some months back I was experimenting with making a small device that is basically PC, that's why I've been experimenting with raspberries

I can imagine the moment you make the first led light up, but feel really cool :P

One of the project groups shorted a power pack on the line-following robot, the thing practically burned down, which, looking back to it was quite amusing.

"Robot: Go forward!" Burns down

@TomTsagk play.worms.pro if you are curious, this version is one year old, with server hosted on Heroku, and that server has an unusually long delay. When a new version will be ready, I'll host the server myself. To get rid of that delay.