Game Development

@whoo24 They have no product out yet. I recommend against it for someone who's starting in the industry. Especially if it involves you moving to a different country.
Unless they somehow send you a lump sum of money to cover the cost of moving to AND BACK HOME from that country.

Unless you live in Frankfurt already.

Charanor

Actually that reminds me, are there some super simple programming languages (graphic preferred, but text based works as well) that can be used to teach young children? The next summer I'm volunteering to teach children about programming but I'm not really sure what medium to use :)

Stephane Hockenhull

Scratch - scratch.mit.edu

whoo24

1:27 AM

@StephaneHockenhull Thanks. I'm living in Korea. So I have to move Frankfurt. Moving is not big deal. But I always worried about being back home.

I have to move with my cats.. I can't often move abroad.

Stephane Hockenhull

@whoo24 It's not just the fact that it's a startup, Visa issues / governmental errors happen (speaking from experience) so you have to consider the risks of ending up with a net financial loss on the whole deal.

whoo24

@StephaneHockenhull Thanks. It's nice of you :)

Charanor

@StephaneHockenhull Scratch looks really nice! Although there's the slight problem that most of these children don't speak English very well (at age 7-10 they've just started English classes in school) but there might be a way to manually change the text. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ah it is available in my language! Sweet!

Stephane Hockenhull

@whoo24 On the plus side, Frankfurt is roughly as expensive as Seoul so there's that working for you: it's not a big jump in comparison with getting a job in Seoul for day-to-day. (only moving costs)

But really keep in mind that work visas tend to "chain" you to your employer (it varies). If it turns out you have to quit or get laid off you may have to move out of the country.
So you want to make really sure that no matter what (reasonably) happens you'll come with a net gain from the experience. Both financial and personal.

whoo24

1:47 AM

@StephaneHockenhull It is very practical advise! I will keep in mind! Visa is always problem in foreign worker.

Stephane Hockenhull

@whoo24 Have you looked into working-holiday visas? If you qualify they're a great way to live and work in another country for a year, sometimes can be extended up to 2. And you're not tied to an employer.
You'll need to have a bit of money saved first tho to qualify.

whoo24

@StephaneHockenhull I want to working-holiday, but I can't. I'm over 30 years. If I were less 30 yrs, I went to Canada right now :)

Stephane Hockenhull

oh, I thought you were fresh out of school

whoo24

@StephaneHockenhull Ha ha.. I wish I were fresh men.

Stephane Hockenhull

2:08 AM

Ignore my advices then, you're old enough :D

HAHAHA

whoo24

HAHAHAHAHAH

Casanova

2:23 AM

hahaha

@StephaneHockenhull How did that spider get in there??

Stephane Hockenhull

It must have entered through a vent hole.

whoo24

Is the spider still living in the monitor?

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Q: Should we make exceptions for questions about identifying specific software?

In the general case, questions asking for software to accomplish some task are off-topic here (and generally closed as "too broad"): answers are necessarily opinions and suggestions, and not really able to stand up well to objective scrutiny. However: should we allow for exceptions to this rule ...

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Stephane Hockenhull

It's still inside, yes. From my google search spiders don't seem to live past 10 days without water :( They can get it from preys but if there were any inside for it to feed on I'd probably see them.

Casanova

I have a spider inside my cpu that is been living there for alot of time now

But it is a big one

Stephane Hockenhull

2:39 AM

That a lot less distracting tho :P

Casanova

lol true

Hemlata

6:50 AM

@StephaneHockenhull Lol aren't you scared of spiders?

You should probably look up how to get the spider out of PC

user92578

7:11 AM

Not worth the trouble

Chris McFarland

stick the screen in the microwave

Firefox Quantum is out, UI looks a lot better than it has in recent years

user92578

oh I got that last week, laughed at the name since it sounds so much like Google Ultron

Chris McFarland

haha.
I read the rendering engine has been redone?

years ago I switched to Chrome since Firefox liked to crash and lag badly

user92578

Yeah I think so

Chris McFarland

7:45 AM

eh, Firefox freezes the OS cursor for a second when opening pages sometimes

Not a fan lol

yeah this feels horrible, sigh, ah well, will stick with Chrome

Hemlata

9:43 AM

Do anyone know a software to create sound effects for game?

Chris McFarland

If you don't mind chiptune/8-bit, bfxr.net is nice

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doppelspooker

D':

Bálint

10:53 AM

@ChrisMcFarland Critters are basically unaffected by the microwave oven

When they're in a hotspot, they simply move a bit

quora.com/…

user92578

11:10 AM

Yeah BFXR and SFXR are what I used

Alexandre Vaillancourt

11:37 AM

@Hemlata I used my mouth and Audacity once. Evwryone thought they were provided by the sound guy.

Hemlata

11:53 AM

@AlexandreVaillancourt sound guy?

user92578

guy who makes sounds for a project

Hemlata

Yeah

I just wanna make some sounds for my game.

I know one software but its not free

user92578

so did you look at the programs Chris and I suggested?

Hemlata

It's called FL studio

@Tyyppi_77 Yes

user92578

and..?

Hemlata

11:55 AM

I just looked up, I didn't use it or downloaded yet

user92578

aight, I was under the impression that you didn't like those or didn't even look at those since it kinda seemed like you ignored those when you said "I know one software but its not free"

Hemlata

@Tyyppi_77 No lol.

Do you think it is a good idea to spawn obstacles or any gameobject and destroy it after sometime?

user92578

instead of..?

Hemlata

Back then I was just creating every gameObject and placing it by myself, but I think that's lame and randomly spawning them and destroying them after sometime is good idea

user92578

that's more of a game design question than a programming one, which is also totally fine, it just changes the question context

Hemlata

11:58 AM

Yeah

user92578

Do you want your game to have randomized elements or not?

Hemlata

Yeah I do

Bc it's easy to do

user92578

It's also important to ask yourself the reasons behind whatever you end up doing, i.e. is it because you're lazy, or because you want the replayability/challenge/whatever

Hemlata

plus If I will destroy them after sometime that will take less memory

Yeah

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Hemlata Yeah, we had hired a guy to produce the sounds for the project, but he had a hard time providing the appropriate feel for the game, and I was tired of the back and forth, so I hacked them in myself...

user92578

12:00 PM

Does destroying them mean leaving the world without any obstacles then?

user92578

It's really hard to give you feedback since you haven't told us anything about your game.

Hemlata

@Tyyppi_77 Yeah, bc the player will keep moving forward, so it shouldn't matter if I destroy gameObjects after sometime, since user can't see them

user92578

If this is an infinite runner it's almost a must that you generate the obstacles randomly, since otherwise you can't make it as long as necessary

Hemlata

Yeah, true.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Hemlata Random/procedural generation is easy to do, but it can be hard to get it right...

Hemlata

12:02 PM

@AlexandreVaillancourt How is it hard to get it right?

user92578

Yup, it's easy to slam obstacles with a random X position into the world

user92578

Making the game still beatable and fun and challenging is the tough part

user92578

That's much easier to do with hand made levels, since one can playtest and adjust accordingly

Alexandre Vaillancourt

^^

Hemlata

Yeah, but I have some empty gameObjects and I can place them where ever I want and the gameObjects will appear on those locations only

user92578

12:06 PM

yes that's the trivial part of the problem

user92578

the location is the hard one

Hemlata

No, it's easy lol

user92578

aight hold up I'll draw you a diagram

Hemlata

Ok

user92578

So this is a top-down view of an infinite scroller

user92578

12:10 PM

user92578

There's no way for the player to stay alive here, since the programmer just slammed some random numbers together

Hemlata

Yeah I knew you'll ask something like that lol

user92578

yes, that was my point for the whole time

user92578

8 mins ago, by Tyyppi_77

Making the game still beatable and fun and challenging is the tough part

Hemlata

I already have a lot of space between my obstacle

user92578

12:11 PM

sounds like the game is too easy then

Hemlata

No lol

user92578

does it get harder?

Hemlata

Sure

user92578

does your positioning code account for that?

user92578

calculate the change in speed or so on

user92578

12:12 PM

is the game still beatable after 100 speed increases?

Hemlata

I mean I have enough space between them, so it don't block my player like the one you shared

user92578

yeah it's quite simple to make a "boring" procedural world generator like that

Hemlata

@Tyyppi_77 Nah, if I increase the player speed it's hard to play and by endless runner I mean my player moves automatically but it's totally different from endless runner. It's not even close to endless runner

user92578

13 mins ago, by Tyyppi_77

It's really hard to give you feedback since you haven't told us anything about your game.

Hemlata

I can't play my own game for more than 10 seconds if I increase the speed of my player

user92578

12:14 PM

doesn't sound great

Hemlata

Well it does haha. I already suck at playing games. I'm not very good but I asked my sibling to play it for me and he kept playing it for close to one minute

But others can play it for even more for sure

user92578

that sounds better then

Hemlata

Plus I won't make it that hard at starting

At starting it would be very easy then I will keep making it harder by time

Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:18 PM

@Bálint So... If I were to vote on your answer, on what clear basis would it be? Would an upvote be for "Yes, allow software identification, but we should have strict rules."?

user92578

I'm doing some super exciting financial calculation spreadsheets for my production economy course; I had massive trouble yesterday to even get started but now it's going relatively smoothly

user92578

This is pretty complex stuff already at this level, I've gained a lot of respect for accountants on this course

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Sounds exciting :)

Use that for your next game!

user92578

accounting tycoon

user92578

which is actually just a group of people doing my taxes in a system where they check each other's work

Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:30 PM

Hehe :P

user92578

but yeah for some reason I was under the impression that I liked doing excel stuff

user92578

that's definitely not the case anymore

user92578

also god damn this example company is doing really terribly

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Is it like budgeting or something?

Excel data can get very confusing. I have one sheet for our budget and I'm lost sometimes.

user92578

calculating sale revenues, deducting material costs, handling money from investments and doing some accounting tricks to split up the investment over a few years and stuff like that

user92578

1:33 PM

the basics of business economy

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Yeah, ok, I see (sort of). A nice exercise :P

Uri Popov

youtu.be/KlMVd8FJE_A Artist told me it's gonna take time to build the aquaduct out of the prefab

actually underestimated my power :D

user92578

just copy paste to the nearest power of 2

Uri Popov

why power of 2 ?

user92578

it's easy to do

user92578

1:46 PM

start from one, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate...

Uri Popov

or write 20 linse of code that create the perfab and offset it correctly:D

user92578

lol yeah

Uri Popov

like you know in the video I posted

Charanor

2:39 PM

I just got the strangest insult thrown at me

I was literally speechless I didn't know how to respond

Uri Popov

what did you get called ?

nwp

@Jimmy You are right. What I said seems to be completely incorrect in practice and I can't find a reference to it anywhere either. Apparently I'm going insane.

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