I find it fascinating that you expect people want so badly to receive your criticism that they should pay you money for it while you are so adamant against considering the criticisms that others have of your own work.

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that is awesome.

I think I ment this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_algorithm

Huffman encoding is neither resource-intensive to perform nor exceptionally efficient. For reference: LZW compression (GIFs) is a variation upon and (in just about any case) an improvement of Huffman encoding.

whoa

There is an optimal lossless compression, the issue it might take years to process on current computers. It has a very bad order of magnitude.

[citation needed]

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In the docs, setentityglobal() seems to be missing the "name" argument.

Aha, thanks for catching that.

Ghhrrghwww.
I LOVE like LUA quite much, so I had to post here.

So I post.

That project looks quite charming!
Make terraria with it.

 

Shoot me a PM to get access to the closed alpha and make it yourself!

Also, I'm hoping to get into something like an open beta rather soon.

Anyway, update! I apologize for changing the names of some commands, it was all for the sake of consistency and ease of understanding.

1.1.0a
Added "randomfloat" and "objectcompare".
Added "getentityimagesize", "getentityimagewidth", and "getentityimageheight".
Added a lot of new tags to various commands.
Changed Lua command tag from "handles" to "handle", from "messages" to "message", "entitytile" to "enttile", "scripts" to "script", and "data" to "gamedata".
Changed "datasave", "dataread", "dataremove", "dataexists", "getdatatable" to "gamedatasave", "gamedataread", "gamedataexists", "getgamedatatable".
Changed the returned value for "getentityhandle" when no handle exists from a blank string to nil. (Though I don't know whether Lua even cares about this difference.)
Changed the name of the function "getmessagename" to "getmessagetitle".
Changed "requestfile" to take a boolean rather than an integer argument for whether to restrict the directory.
Renamed "initializemap" to "initmap", "deinitializemap" to "freemap", and "initializemapmask" to "initmapmask".
Removed "togglegamestate", which was an artifact of an earlier gamestate system.
Renamed "filepos" to "getfileposition" and "fileseek" to "setfileposition".
Fixed several weirdnesses pertaining to the behavior "requestfile", and made the extensions argument optional.
Fixed file path weirdness with "setquicksavepath".
Fixed string library commands being nil after loading a saved game.
Fixed a bug that would cause the object pointer with the greatest value to potentially get overwritten by the next created object.

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Code:

If i Print ":)" Else Print ":("

oh the joys of improvising weird code for the sake of debugging

I ended up changing the names of the commands that were data and not entitydata to gamedata for the next release. There were some other changes, too, but that was perhaps the most major.

Sorry for the confusion 

As for the interjected "y", that's a typo.

And documentation is almost done! There is now a complete list of commands.

View it here

I've got to finish writing the topic pages, and then shazam, the docs will be complete. (Minus some nicer formatting, maybe.) Whoo! That took a fuck of a lot of work.

I take a lot of care to write my games in as modular a way as possible. Over the last several years I have accumulated a ton of libraries of nearly every practical purpose. Some of them are small - I have one library that's simple as a convenient class for keeping timestamp data in. Some of them are the result of weeks or even months of work, like an ANSI graphics library, or an AABB physics library, or a gui library. As time goes on, the amount of work that it takes for me to make the average game steadily decreases because I have to write less and less code.

I know, I know, I could just use existing libraries for things. I do that, too. But nothing beats the thorough familiarity of a library that can only be had by having written it yourself. It significantly cuts down on the bugs and inefficiencies and things that come out of using a library that you aren't totally comfortable with, and I think that it's the revising of existing code that is the biggest timesink rather than the initial writing of it.

Uh. Some kind of slug-thing.

Sounds pretty interesting and like an effective teaching tool, actually. 

All these new Banshee engine games are inspiring me.

You should get in on it! All you need to do to get in on the closed alpha is to shoot me a PM asking so.    I'd love to see what you can make!

You know for a lossless compression it's mathematically impossible to do better than certain compression rate depending on entropy.
There is already an existing algorithm for maximum lossless compress. I don't know about extraction performance though.

I'm fairly certain that's not how it works. You can figure at the statistics for precise cases, but determining a general maximum compression rate sounds like nonsense.

Sounds like a really sweet idea! 

 

You should include some information about just what sort of game you're looking for help with, and why others should want to help you make it for free.