What game are you playing?

bRRRz · Post by **bRRRz** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:00 pm

wow, don't starve

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:14 pm

Trainrek wrote:
Viineri wrote:I need something I can play while listening to music/podcasts w/e. Pref. something I can play in windowed mode. I've been playing Heroes 3 but I'm starting to get bored with it (played almost every skirmish map on hard/expert).
N+

http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n_downloads.html

that game is pretty cool.. I see that it is made in flash.. I am learning actionscript right now so that i can make some games in flash and i am trying to come up some some simple but fun game ideas like this to develop.. possibly for Android and things like that..

any of you guys dabble with game dev or graphics programming?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:25 pm

imami wrote:
Trainrek wrote:
Viineri wrote:I need something I can play while listening to music/podcasts w/e. Pref. something I can play in windowed mode. I've been playing Heroes 3 but I'm starting to get bored with it (played almost every skirmish map on hard/expert).
N+

http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n_downloads.html
that game is pretty cool.. I see that it is made in flash.. I am learning actionscript right now so that i can make some games in flash and i am trying to come up some some simple but fun game ideas like this to develop.. possibly for Android and things like that..

any of you guys dabble with game dev or graphics programming?

Both, but I work primarily in C/C++ and ASM. Focusing primarily on SDL and OpenGL. I'd say take a look at Unity rather than Actionscript.

Phigure · Post by **Phigure** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:29 pm

yeah actionscript is and has been on its way out

Viineri · Post by **Viineri** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:31 pm

Don't Starve seems cool. N+ is great but it's a bit hardcore for me

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:04 pm

Yeah i have recently been getting back into this stuff.. I studied comp sci in college and learned C++ and ASM but basically didn't program for years so i forgot a lot of the details..

I am mainly learning Java right now and i plan on passing the oracle certified java programmer exam to make it easier for me to get java coding jobs.. shouldn't be too hard

Phigure: Actionscript is on it's way out because of HTML5 you mean?

Yeah Unity3D looks pretty cool, i have been checking that out lately and i really want to mess with it. It reminds me of using UnrealED years ago to make Unreal mods/maps..
Looks like a really good way to test things out too, like if you want to mess around with develop some AI algorithms you can just get right on with that and use existing content as place holders..

I have pipe dreams of using emergent AI in games lol.. Too bad game devs tend to devote as little available system resources to AI as possible in order to have more eye candy.
I think in the future though, AI will be increasingly important the more immersive and detailed the game environments become..

Deadly, what are you working on? you get anythying online that i can check out? What is SDL i've never heard of that (yeah im pretty out of the loop). I didn't know ASM was still used that much for game dev. I remember years ago reading john carmack's .plan file when he was coding the Quake 3 engine (woah curved surfaces!!) he would always talk about rewriting parts of the rendering engine in ASM.

Anyway, please forgive my cerebral flatulence

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:21 pm

Nothing online atm, working on a few projects, ones a digital version of a tabletop game I've been prototyping, a 2d stealth platformer, a stealth based roguelike, and another one that is under wraps for the time being.
SDL - http://www.libsdl.org/
ASM really isn't used that much, hell I only touch it when I'm trying to optimize and squeeze a little more speed out of a function. The last title I can remember that was made mainly in ASM was Rollercoaster Tycoon.
If you want emergent AI take a look at Dwarf Fortress heh, all CPU going to insane amounts of detail, AI, pathfinding etc and pure ASCII graphics.

Johnlenham · Post by **Johnlenham** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:42 pm

Picked up the humble bundle 7 and have been messing about on The binding of issac. No idea what th eothers game I got are like though.

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:50 pm

wow SDL looks pretty damn useful

Roller Coaster Tycoon was made in ASM? Seems like total overkill for a game like that, like you could probably make it in visual basic or soemthing (ok maybe not VB but you know)

Deadly, sounds interesting.. will you be approaching publishers with your games or do you plan to distribute them yourself? SOrry if im being nosey, just curious.. Have you worked with Unity3D?

EDIT: checking out dwarf fortress, name kinda rings a bell actually

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:05 pm

imami wrote:wow SDL looks pretty damn useful

Roller Coaster Tycoon was made in ASM? Seems like total overkill for a game like that, like you could probably make it in visual basic or soemthing (ok maybe not VB but you know)

Deadly, sounds interesting.. will you be approaching publishers with your games or do you plan to distribute them yourself? SOrry if im being nosey, just curious.. Have you worked with Unity3D?

EDIT: checking out dwarf fortress, name kinda rings a bell actually

Yea SDL is very useful, combined with OpenGL (still getting to grips with it) it offers some of the best and easiest options for portability.
The problem with things like VB/Actionscript compared to ASM or even C/C++ is that it's inefficient and uses more resources when running which can cause issues with older setups.
In the current environment where pretty much at the very least most have a dual core processor, a ton of RAM and dedicated video card it goes unnoticed. (Not to mention most smartphones are better equipped than the average computer running Rollercoaster Tycoon when it came out in 1999)
As far as approaching publishers... who knows what the future holds, I was thinking with the digital version of the tabletop to get it completed and use it as an incentive for a kickstarter to get the actual physical product made since that is beyond the scope of my means atm. The other projects depends on how far I get with them and if I think they're worth attempting to charge for.
Unity I've never really messed in, but it seems like a great environment for cross compatibility, that and both new coders and experienced studios alike have been using it more and more.
Like I said I primarily work in C/C++ with the SDL and OpenGL libraries so I use Code Blocks for my IDE.

JimmaJamJamie · Post by **JimmaJamJamie** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:10 pm

deadly habit wrote:
JimmaJamJamie wrote:Was stuck on Gwyn, Lord of Cinder for a while then stopped playing for a couple of months but finally finished Dark Souls today!

Started a NG+ straight away. Can't wait for Dark Souls 2.
You tackled the DLC yet?

No not yet, is it worth the purchase?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:38 pm

It's pretty damn good, but it was included with the PC version, so dunno how much it costs for consoles.
It's 6 new areas, plus one of em is a PVP arena.

mIrReN · Post by **mIrReN** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:40 pm

one of the only browser games I rate
http://www.mytholia.com/
still "beta"

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:47 pm

Well actionscript is interpreted at runtime like basic right? or is it compiled to bytecode like java?

Deadly that is a cool idea with the kickstarter thing.. If people already like the digi version they are more likely to be excited about a tabletop version and stuff..

I really like the integrated, streamlined workflow aspect of Unity3D.. I think maybe having experience with using it could also lead to job opportunities down the road.. I read somewhere that like 52% of newly released iphone games are made with Unity3D? Seems like a lot.. maybe i read that in a unity sales pitch hehe

Don't starve is pretty fun.. i like the visual style and the attention to detail.. Does anyone know what it's coded in or w/e? It's 3D but it looks like it uses 2D sprites for the player and stuff you interact with. I guess that's why the camera has a fixed rotation despite being able to zoom in.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:55 pm

Don't Starve is made in Actionscript as I recall like all of Klei's titles, It's also available as a Chrome app.

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:00 pm

yeah it made me download chrome to play it in the browser..

is that an actual technical requirement or just a marketing kind of thing? do you have to compile using google libraries or something?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:04 pm

Google finished the week by posting a initial SDK for its long promised Native Client. The kit will let developers put native C and C++ apps into a Chrome browser feature that supports many of the features of stand-alone apps, including 3D, multi-core processor support and direct memory access. Unlike earlier versions of Microsoft's ActiveX, however, all apps are sandboxed and cross-checked to prevent malicious code from using the native support to attack the main OS.

Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11 ... z2FbYbYVxX

They probably use lua-alchemy tbh

Sexual_Chocolate · Post by **Sexual_Chocolate** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:18 pm

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Zombie ... 19894.html

Survival zombie MMO The War Z has been pulled from Steam's shelves just a day after its arrival. Users complained of factual inaccuracies and misleading information on the game's Steam page, some of which were posted on reddit.

Viineri · Post by **Viineri** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:51 pm

Nevalo wrote:http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Zombie ... 19894.html

Survival zombie MMO The War Z has been pulled from Steam's shelves just a day after its arrival. Users complained of factual inaccuracies and misleading information on the game's Steam page, some of which were posted on reddit.

Big up TotalBiscuit! :v

vishes · Post by **vishes** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:14 pm

Just got Dragon's Dogma. Been wanting to try it out for quite a while now so I'm looking forward to giving it a go.

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