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[OniWorld]

Free-form 2D terrain, part of our Oni Engine.

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Demo: http://oniworks.co.uk/oniengine/terraindemo/

[diegzumillo]

Wasted way too much time just to see if I could make light shafts and patches of shadow with polygons. It looks half decent, in my defense.

[Conker534]

Free-form 2D terrain, part of our Oni Engine.

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Demo: http://oniworks.co.uk/oniengine/terraindemo/

Thats hot

[BorisTheBrave]

That's awesome, but it needs some solution for the rightmost grass tile. If your end piece mirrored the height of the repeating tile, you could always find a cropping where the two joined up.

[OniWorld]

Thats hot

Thanking you 

That's awesome, but it needs some solution for the rightmost grass tile. If your end piece mirrored the height of the repeating tile, you could always find a cropping where the two joined up.

Yeah, solutions like that will be developed when we get our own graphics in. It's all trial and error really, which is why it took so long to get it to this point. But we'll definitely look into it. Using graphics sourced online makes it difficult to make it look perfect, but it's a start!

[Layl]

Collision detection!



Yay me

Secretly I already fixed it!

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Finishing up my entry for the cyberpunk gamejam using Haxe/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.

I am really liking this language, all the major things that made actionscript really annoying are addressed.

It has a couple interesting language feature implementations. Like enums and switch statements. Switches don't use break statements or defaults. If you don't cover every case of an enum in a switch statement then it's a compile time error.

It has a pretty nice way to declaring a function pointer type so that it's signature is typed but it doesn't necessarily have a type like a c# delegate. So a return void, no parameter type would be defined as Void->Void. If you have multiple parameters you chain the arrow operator (Void->Int->Float).

[Richard Kain]

Finishing up my entry for the cyberpunk gamejam using Haxe/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying and being productive using Haxe. I switched over to Unity a year or two ago, but before that I was pretty deep into Haxe development. I had a pretty good time working with the language and the C++ exporter. It combined some of my favorite AS3 features with a bit more strict, structured typing. And the C++ exporter made it possible for me to get my projects running fairly well on mobile devices, as well as compiled for desktop platforms.

I switched over to Unity thanks to the mobile versions being added to the free license. At the time, Haxe's features weren't as well supported across multiple platforms. How is it looking now? It's been a while since I've checked in on that scene.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Actually I tried Haxe about 1 year to 18 months ago and hated it. I couldnt get anything working.

Now that they have stuff like the haxelib commandline tool for getting libraries (similar to nuget or aptget etc) things are a lot easier. It's about 4 commands to get all the libraries installed and a template haxe project generated.

Compared to a year ago it's a huge difference. Hopefully that trend continues. Flixel has a special place in my heart

[internationalfish]

Just got the first part of the dungeon generator working for my 7DRL project; forgot how much I love binary trees.

Also picked up the 16-bit fantasy sprite set from oryx yesterday, which is very exciting -- in addition to being gorgeous, I can load them without even trimming out what I'm not using in less than half a meg of RAM.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Just got the first part of the dungeon generator working for my 7DRL project; forgot how much I love binary trees.

Also picked up the 16-bit fantasy sprite set from oryx yesterday, which is very exciting -- in addition to being gorgeous, I can load them without even trimming out what I'm not using in less than half a meg of RAM.

nice. I'm trying to squeeze in the procedural death jam if I can.

What are you developing your entry with?

[internationalfish]

nice. I'm trying to squeeze in the procedural death jam if I can.

What are you developing your entry with?

It's for Android, so I'm using Eclipse (bleh). Not using any libraries; libGDX seems cool, but I already know the native Canvas 2D underpinnings well enough, and learning a framework for this one seems like overkill (not to mention something the deadline wouldn't really allow).

Procedural death jam looks interesting... hell, just reading about the genre is interesting.

[Shadowspaz]

Oh man, Procedural Death Jam looks awesome. Unfortunately, I'm just now seeing this, and I'm already working on something. My current project could fit in (With a few minor tweaks), but I'm sure not going to rush to the end of it just to get it in...

I'd love to do one of these game jams, but I'm always in the middle of a project... Oh well. Maybe someday.

[Brainswitch]

Oh man, Procedural Death Jam looks awesome. Unfortunately, I'm just now seeing this, and I'm already working on something. My current project could fit in (With a few minor tweaks), but I'm sure not going to rush to the end of it just to get it in...

I'd love to do one of these game jams, but I'm always in the middle of a project... Oh well. Maybe someday.

Agreed, it does look awesome but I am in the same position as you (or well, my current project wouldn't fit) - I'm in the middle/beginning of a project and it is progressing nicely. Don't want to break the flow. Then again, a jam now and then might be a good way to avoid project death/infinite hold.

[Martin 2BAM]

Coding an input-select screen like Jamestown's. Amazing how those guys got everything right!

[Prads]

Some stupidly easy stuff for uni assignment. yuck!

[RyanPridgeon]

Currently developing an algorithm for drawing a field-of-view kinda fog for my game. I tried it by just raycasting in all directions but the results weren't too great;



Trying to write a method now which keeps track of corners in the map geometry and uses the nearby corners to draw the fog shape... 

[OniWorld]

Currently developing an algorithm for drawing a field-of-view kinda fog for my game. I tried it by just raycasting in all directions but the results weren't too great;



Trying to write a method now which keeps track of corners in the map geometry and uses the nearby corners to draw the fog shape... 

Dude, follow this amazing tutorial:

http://www.catalinzima.com/2010/07/my-technique-for-the-shader-based-dynamic-2d-shadows/

It's for XNA, but you can adapt it.

[RyanPridgeon]

Dude, follow this amazing tutorial:

http://www.catalinzima.com/2010/07/my-technique-for-the-shader-based-dynamic-2d-shadows/

It's for XNA, but you can adapt it.

Thanks! But unfortunately that tutorial seems to use a shader-based approach using buffers/images to generate the shadows. I'm working with Flash/AS3 so I dont think it would be as suitable?

I'm working on a method that draws a black vector shape for the shadow/fog which should work nicely, as Flash seems to play nice with vectors graphics.

Can anyone correct me if I'm wrong?

Edit:

So far got it automatically detecting where the corners are in the map geometry. Going to try and use these to draw the fog as a black vector shape between these corners.

http://i.imgur.com/EUx2l8s.png

[Richard Kain]

Now that they have stuff like the haxelib commandline tool for getting libraries (similar to nuget or aptget etc) things are a lot easier.

I gave Haxe a spin before and after haxelib was integrated. It's night and day as far as setup is concerned. Haxelib made the entire setup process a breeze, I could get things set up and running in minutes. Throw in FlashDevelop as the IDE and you're looking at a pretty capable development system.

It's good to see that HaxeFlixel is still kicking. I love the new website they put up, much slicker than what they used to have. Flixel was one of my first game engines, and I actually used it to produce my first finished game. I learned a ton about game coding just from poking around in Flixel. I'm still sticking to Unity for now, they did a pretty good job with the new 2D tools. But it does my heart good to see Flixel still getting some solid support through Haxe. (and OpenFL)