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[Maud'Dib Atreides]

Writing a suitable leveling up algorithm for my game,  LV, EXP, and NEXY. Except I'm terrible at math.

Originally the amount of experience required to reach the next level was just the level of the player times 100.

But this was bland. So now I'm hoping to have the current level times 107 since 7 has very little repeatable pattern in leveling up.

I've never programmed an RPG before, and I don't know how the AAA RPG's do this.

There are almost no tutorials online about this, so if anyone can help me, I would very much appreciate it.

Here's some eye candy!

[oahda]

A boring WordPress implementation. It's a painful break in game development, but a couple of day's boring web programming to generate enough money to support further full-time game development for another 2,5 months or so is well worth it.

[cubertron]

Working on a tile based platformer, making the prototype on flash but will be porting it to android

[EdgeOfProphecy]

Writing a suitable leveling up algorithm for my game,  LV, EXP, and NEXY. Except I'm terrible at math.

Originally the amount of experience required to reach the next level was just the level of the player times 100.

But this was bland. So now I'm hoping to have the current level times 107 since 7 has very little repeatable pattern in leveling up.

I've never programmed an RPG before, and I don't know how the AAA RPG's do this.

There are almost no tutorials online about this, so if anyone can help me, I would very much appreciate it.

Here's some eye candy!

(image snip)

Game design books talk about this kind of stuff a lot.  One piece of advice that I've heard is "when in doubt, start with a triangular progression and see how it feels."  So I'd suggest starting with a triangular progression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number

It's dumb easy to implement, too.

[Ben_Hurr]

Writing a suitable leveling up algorithm for my game,  LV, EXP, and NEXY. Except I'm terrible at math.

Originally the amount of experience required to reach the next level was just the level of the player times 100.

But this was bland. So now I'm hoping to have the current level times 107 since 7 has very little repeatable pattern in leveling up.

I've never programmed an RPG before, and I don't know how the AAA RPG's do this.

There are almost no tutorials online about this, so if anyone can help me, I would very much appreciate it.

Here's some eye candy!

(image snip)

Game design books talk about this kind of stuff a lot.  One piece of advice that I've heard is "when in doubt, start with a triangular progression and see how it feels."  So I'd suggest starting with a triangular progression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number

It's dumb easy to implement, too.

I don't know if it's just me, but having a "NEXT 1742" bugs me in that it's not a nice round number, like 10, 15, or 120. 

[pgil]

I don't know if it's just me, but having a "NEXT 1742" bugs me in that it's not a nice round number, like 10, 15, or 120. 

I don't play a ton of RPGs, but stats don't usually turn out to be nice, round numbers, do they?

[kamac]

Coding up message-display manager. Mhmmm. Alot is being added to the whole filesystem.

[Ben_Hurr]

Mmm, a delicious simplified viewing fustrum on a 2d grid

[WafflePilot]

I'm working on a jetty-websocket backend for a text based fighting game written in scala

[Crimsontide]

Finishing touches and bug fixes on a custom parser library for C++.  Allows grammars to be defined inline (ala Boost::Spirit) in forms like:

Code:

Rule r = (a >> b) | *c;   // a followed by b, or 0 or more c's

What's cool is that the same grammar definition can be parsed using a LL parser, LR parser, or even a CYK-like chart parser which can handle any context free grammar, ambiguous or otherwise.

[ThemsAllTook]

Taking another crack at an SVG parser/renderer. Feeling much more focused this time. I'm hoping to have this thing up and running before GDC...dunno if I can do it, but I'll be trying!

[VictorGrunn]

Working on a flixel game, trying to come up with a good algorithm that makes ants walk like ants.

[goshki]

Working on a flixel game, trying to come up with a good algorithm that makes ants walk like ants.

SimAnt had a nice ant AI (doh!). IIRC they've coded an algorithm that modeled scent-following just like real ants do.

[J-Snake]

A local time travel system that solves the paradoxons by bending physical rules to a modified time-continuum domain. Braid did that in a conceptually immature manner to introduce a short living gimmick. What I am doing can have global and lasting consequences for you. It is a research-project for my original metroid-rethought.

[SolarLune]

^ I'm interested in this. When you said "Braid did that", do you mean in general, or with the wedding ring?

[Maud'Dib Atreides]

Working on a flixel game, trying to come up with a good algorithm that makes ants walk like ants.

Swarm Intellegence!

I think

[Austiyn]

I am currently working on a 'working' state selecter without using slick(in Java). Also, working on a dynamic world where things age.

[Fsmv]

I've just started on a php rss reader mostly for myself and possible a few friends because Google Reader is dying and I don't want a new homepage covered in widgets like all the other readers seem to think people want, I just want updates on blogs I read.

I am also working on a video processor meant for concatenating livestreams that have been split into parts and then it can speed them up and make them into a timelapse. The video processing work is done but there might still be some bugs, I'm still planning on making a twitch.tv/justin.tv downloader although it has been almost 3 weeks since I last committed code. You could find the Livestream Processor, I'm calling it LSP, on Github.

[Lee]

Yo ant guy I have some research/idea stuff for an ant game http://i.cubeupload.com/FAduCN.png I doubt I'll get to make the ant game of my dreams any time soon so feel free to flagrantly rip me off. Obviously I generalized with the ants and termites so I don't think they are specifically from one species, though the ants are based mostly on leaf cutter ants I think.

Also this was a long time ago but this is the kind of nests I was able to procedurally generate:

[Shine Klevit]

Basic 2d lighting effects. Static spots that basically change the saturation of 2d objects when they go over. Something alluring to me about tinting black and white hand-drawn pen scratched sprites in 2d. I don't even have the sprites yet.