Game Development

Benjamin Danger Johnson

00:00

I hate to say this but I feel the punishment fits the crime.

Alex M.

what crime :O

Benjamin Danger Johnson

the crime of googling rectal prolapse

google should not be abused in such a way

Alex M.

well I wasn't expecting that kind of results lol

Benjamin Danger Johnson

you should be when the word rectal apperas

*appears

I've never enjoyed anything with that word in it

Alex M.

good point

Benjamin Danger Johnson

00:03

it's a dangerous game

and now, to go home and stop working

actually to the store

I broke my resistance cable yesterday and now I need a new one\

Jimmy

do those things break?

I'm not a hypochondriac but I do worry about snapping my head off with a broken resistance cable

ack, he's gone. Now I'll have to live with that for the rest of my life @BenjaminDangerJohnson

Alex M.

it's a bit annoying for me :(

whatever disease or condition I read about, I automatically calculate the chances for me to get it

and then live in fear for a very long time

Jimmy

I'm curious, do hypochondrias also try to reduce their exposure to non-disease risks

like do you also avoid riding on motorcycles or alpine skiing or rock climbing

Alex M.

I don't think hypochondria is exactly the best way to describe my issue

hypochondriacs are usually those who imagine they have certain conditions

e.g. hypochondriacs can imagine they have cancer when they do not, and won't let anyone explain to them that it's their imagination

Jimmy

okay, so do you also worry about non-disease risks like airplanes crashing into your house

Alex M.

00:09

that's paranoia

nope, I don't

I worry about falling of a ship though

Jimmy

but isn't that somewhat similar?

Code Assassin

Fear my mighty implementation of Derejasktsa(Jimmy bait) algorithm

Alex M.

so I never go on a plane or ship

Jimmy

what is thi-OH ITS A TRAP CURSES

Code Assassin

It's the purple

Alex M.

00:10

my issue is also part OCD

most of it actually

hell, I usually push the window ~8 times after closing it just "to be sure" it's closed for example

Jimmy

I think @CodeAssassin is trying to say that my OCD would have me answer "Dijkstra" automatically

Alex M.

but this also allows me to obsessively work on an app or design until it's done

so I call it "misunderstood perfectionism"

instead of OCD

Jimmy

I am not OCD but I have slightly higher quality standards on some things. and slightly lower qualitiy standards on other things.

Alex M.

lol you should see me at times

I bought this porcelain thingy to decorate a shelf

and I spent 15 minutes rotating it because "it was not exactly straight"

MY CLIENT SAID HE WAS A BIT OF A PHOTOSHOP WIZ…

So I sent him the photoshop file for a mockup to review.

CLIENT: Do you want some hard criticism?

ME: Sure.

CLIENT: I think the design is really good, but the checkered, gray background is busy and distracting. Just saying, it’s not how I’d do it

Jimmy

I don't even use a level.... pretty sure everything in my house is slightly crooked

Alex M.

00:16

CLIENT: It needs a pop. You know, something to make it stand out more… Add a “shadow flare!”

sounds like a spell from a game

I'm casting... SHADOW FLARE

Code Assassin

or a

Poke*man*

I CHOOSE SHADOW FLARE

for the lulz

Alex M.

is that a new type of pikachu?

Code Assassin

Lol

Jimmy

it does sound like a move

Pikachu uses Shadow Flare!

It's super effective!

Code Assassin

snap

Alex M.

00:18

I only know the old pokemons I used to watch during my childhood

Ghastly could use Shadow Flare

or was it Gastly?

no idea, names are always screwed up

I liked Charizard

Noctrine

Charmeleon!

Alex M.

and Scyther

Jimmy

only ghastly moves I remember are Hypnosis / Night Shade / Dream Eater

Alex M.

new pokemon are made in Paint :(

"I wanted zipadeedoo-dah, not zipadeedoo-nay!"
— Client’s explanation for why he didn’t like my work

I pity artists sometimes

I rarely get this

it's nice to be a programmer

most of the time, it's just along the lines of "either it works, or it does not"

and the client provides the graphics

Halfway through an in-depth presentation I was making…

CLIENT: I wish you were wearing nothing but those shoes.

I should mention I was making this presentation to a room full of people.

Alex M.

00:45

Fixed-Price - Est. Budget: $100 - Posted 18 hours ago
I have all kinds of pictures of my neighborhood, it is roughly 5 streets picture here - http://i.imgur.com/S5xG9Ln.jpg I want something where I can walk around, like in a first person shooter --- I dont want any guns etc I am expecting something crude for budget of $75 - $200... I do not care if neighborhood is made of pixelated walls or just basic polygons, as long as they are somewhat recognizable I can provide all pictures, video, etc and its available to see on google streets right now I prefer it to be viewable on a PC web browser, …

to be viewable on a PC web browser, or andriod, etc device

that part alone, is

Almo

01:47

poeple have no idea how hard it is to make this stuff

Alex M.

02:04

the guy posted the same thing at least thrice in the last two weeks

it may be because he was unable to actually find someone to do it

you'd think he'd get it by now

a lot of people go on dating sites to try to pick up a sex buddy or 1 night stand and waste a lot of time because they dont know if the person actually wants a relationship or a 1 night stand ,so im looking at having an app were u can just look at a persons profile and say yes you would sleep with that person and then it gives the other person

the option if they would also like to sleep with the person who clicked on them 1st and if they both agree it can unlock and they can organise to meet and do what they please

Alex M., developer of "Sex Pro" and "Yo Mamma So" is the man for you!

'cause once you go porn, you don't go back

actually, wouldn't that be a thing

make this huge portfolio, with only sex-themed apps

and a mugshot that looks like this

and pass it around

Code Assassin

02:46

WHAT

@AlexM. HUH WAT

LOL

DAT FACE

ToddersLegrande

03:12

Go home @CodeAssassin. You're drunk.

Code Assassin

Scuse u

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no

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WHY U NO ON GTALK

ToddersLegrande

Seems you came to your senses and realized you weren't on gtalk :P

Dave

05:07

Alex M.

11:59

rumor has it that Unity will allow free users to export to the mobile platforms... for free

bet the Pro license will be even more expensive now

Shotgun Ninja

13:13

howdy all

Almo

hey sg

Alex M.

hiya

Almo

got like 16 kills with twitch in dominion. about 10-12 of those were heimerdinger, whom I mercilessly hunted all over the map.

Shotgun Ninja

awesome.

Almo

it was ;)

Shotgun Ninja

13:14

I don't play much Dominion, but I've been fooling around on ARAM a lot.

Almo

yeah aram is fun

Shotgun Ninja

I played Shaco for the first time yesterday

Almo

too many dodgers though

Shotgun Ninja

true true

Almo

Shaco looks hard to me

Shotgun Ninja

13:15

He's ridiculously OP on ARAM.

Almo

heh

Ziggs is OP in ARAM

Shotgun Ninja

and he's super fun to play.

Almo

the Big Bomb is hard to dodge on that narrow map

Shotgun Ninja

Yeah, Ziggs, Lux, Ezreal, Ashe, Nidalee...

Almo

yeah :)

Shotgun Ninja

13:16

Worst ARAM team ever ;P

Almo

:)

Shotgun Ninja

But yeah, I'm learning a lot of AP champs for ARAM, and it's kinda nice.

I'm not that familiar with their strategies on the other maps yet, but I'm getting more comfortable with spells and item builds.

Almo

that's the great thing about aram. learning stuff you wouldn't usually learn

also non-stop team fights for practice

Alex M.

14:53

almost done with the Qt stuff :D

it actually makes a lot of sense once you get to know it

Almo

I seem to recall saying something along those lines. ;) It's definitely weird and off-putting right when you start!

Code Assassin

15:33

@AlexM. there we go :D

Alex M.

I still wouldn't use it to write something for my clients

Code Assassin

@AlexM. :-(

are you using the creator?

Alex M.

it must be some sort of AMAZINGLY...

resource intensive or...

control requiring project

Code Assassin

@AlexM. xD

Alex M.

for me to abandon C# and Mono

or anything that's friendlier than C++

C++11 does seem more Java-like now

I might give that one a chance

Bjarne released his new book

but I'm so not paying $80 or whatever for it

Code Assassin

15:36

snap

Alex M.

I'll just wait till it hits the other... marketplaces

Code Assassin

lol

Alex M.

I'm sure he put that huge of a price because he knew only some people would buy it

who am I to prove him wrong?

user4704

C++11 got a few higher-order constructs but I'd hardly call it "more Java-like." Java's pretty easy to use without doing outright dumb things accidentally and that's still not true of C++11.

user4704

If anything its worse and more complicated now.

Code Assassin

15:37

Who defines the new standards anyway?

Alex M.

hey, didn't explore it that much, so far I only saw stuff that made things easier

most of them STL related

Code Assassin

in terms of C++

user4704

for (auto item : container) can do unexpected things in terms of performance (that x may be a copy) and the convention wisdom w.r.t to passing arguments is now very complex thanks to move semantics.

user4704

Et cetera.

user4704

@CodeAssassin The C++ standard committee.

user4704

15:39

There's a lot of stuff you'll have to wait for, also, if you use VS2012.

user4704

2012 has no initializer list and varadic templates only work up to infinity (where infinity is 5, but upgradable to 10) because they are actually a macro hack.

Alex M.

I'll wait, as I said "I still wouldn't use it to write something for my clients"

it's mostly an experiment

user4704

@AlexM. Oh, I thought that comment specifically referred to Qt.

user4704

I wouldn't ship anything on C++11 from work, either, not for some time.

Alex M.

it was mostly a Qt & C++ comment

afaik there's Qt bindings to Python as well

Shotgun Ninja

15:40

wooooooooo

website deployed successfully

only been a month since I started getting ready for this deployment

Alex M.

apparently there was also some Qt binding for C# started, but it's dead now

or more of them

John McDonald

Neat, Unity iOS and Android licences are now free: gamasutra.com/view/news/192654/…

Alex M.

C# already has Mono and therefore GTK

@JohnMcDonald mentioned that earlier :D

John McDonald

heh, ;TLDR

@AlexM. pro licences look to be the same price

Ankur Sharma

hi

anybody here?

Almo

15:50

nope

Ankur Sharma

does anybody here know the sport of cricket?

Almo

not me

I know it has ###-# scoring that makes no sense, and you score runs, throw googlies, and that the wicket is a much better mechanism for determining strikes than in american baseball

other than that, I don't know it

oh, and a game can go on for 2 days

Ankur Sharma

I want somebody who understands cricket reasonably well to test my cricket simulation algorithm I made in C#

Almo

ok. not me then :)

Ankur Sharma

@Almo actually a game can go on for 5 days. It used to go on for even longer in the earlier days, but now its changed.

Almo

15:54

woa. that's scary

Code Assassin

16:05

;________;

RAGE

Alex M.

@JohnMcDonald hopefully they won't change them later on

the person who first told me about the new free licenses also mentioned Unity might be afraid because of havok

wasn't able to find out what havok did that might pose a threat though

John McDonald

16:32

Havok the physics engine?

Alex M.

16:50

yup, that one

ToddersLegrande

COUNTING DOWN!!!! xbox.com/en-US/hub/reveal

Alex M.

with my internet, I'll wait for pics

lol

ToddersLegrande

lol :P

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