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[Nix]

I don't see how it would be relevant. It's weird that you sign your posts, by the way. Your name is already next to every single one.

[John Sandoval]

pencerkoff would disagree

[Liosan]

I don't see how it would be relevant. It's weird that you sign your posts, by the way. Your name is already next to every single one.

Touché

Liosan

[Nix]

pencerkoff can sign his posts for as long as he lives

[_Tommo_]

I'm happy because now my engine can unload and reload any file-based resource without the game knowing 

This is good because
1) we can reload levels, textures, settings, whatever by just pressing a button ingame without resetting anything
2) just unloading anything that can be unloaded reduces memory consumption by more than 90%, which is perfect for "backgrounding" iOS, Android and W8 apps, avoiding premature kills.

Actually I coded it because of 2, but (1) is much more useful to us

[Nix]

[Quarry]

Scary

[pixhead]

I've had no internet access for about a month - I am using my moms laptop right now. This has proved to be the most productive thing to ever happen to me.

In the past month I have been coding practically nonstop, I have the engine at a state where I can focus on actually making the game instead of just coding the engine. For me this is a first.

I realized that although the internet has a lot of inspiration it is also a huge drain of confidence. When I see people making insanely awesome games and I am still struggling with simple collision detection it kinda sucks; but now that I have had this time to do nothing but work on my game I feel a lot better about the state it is in. Its nothing special but its getting to a point where I can maybe show it off a bit.

Ill now return to seclusion, and who knows, next time I pop up I might have a demo to show.

  cheers my fellow programmers!

[ThemsAllTook]

Nice! I find myself most productive when I'm trapped somewhere with a laptop and no internet connection, but I guess I don't have the self-control to enforce that at home on a regular basis.

[Liosan]

Nice! I find myself most productive when I'm trapped somewhere with a laptop and no internet connection, but I guess I don't have the self-control to enforce that at home on a regular basis.

Heh, yeah, me too... I actually find a coffee shop with a power socket a better place to work at than my home

Liosan

[RobJinman]

Nice! I find myself most productive when I'm trapped somewhere with a laptop and no internet connection, but I guess I don't have the self-control to enforce that at home on a regular basis.

Heh, yeah, me too... I actually find a coffee shop with a power socket a better place to work at than my home

Liosan

I do that a lot too -- it's a hard habit to break. I once searched the internet for an "ambient coffee shop soundtrack" so that I could work productively at home. It seems that it's not just the sound though, but the whole atmosphere that is conducive to work.

[ben657]

Today I'm a happy programmer because I got my players name tags to sync over the network! Took far too many hours longer than it should have, getting to know unities networking inside and out, but hey... Small victories! 

[Liosan]

And I spent 15 minutes yesterday to extract parts of my engine (resource manager + renderer + scripting) into a completely separate application - a model viewer. 15 minutes is like "WOW I like my design"

Liosan

[epcc]

frustrated with pointers pointing to freed objects, I wrote my own smart pointer class, that when the object it's pointing to is deleted, sets itself to zero. when accessed in invalid state it even prints a warning in debug mode.
Also, is it a good idea to overload operator -> ? google suggests that there are too many subtleties and pitfalls when defining it.
the only sad thing is that my project is now already almost done. if i had implemented it before, i would've saved insane amount of hours of debugging stupid pointer errors.

[Azure Lazuline]

Okay, so I'm making the hard-mode version of what's already the hardest boss. It's going to have a criss-cross laser attack, it first displays where the lasers will be, then they all fire at once. I was in an evil mood, so I coded the whole thing all at once, taking 20 minutes. Aside from a few compile errors, it worked flawlessly first try, and it looked this awesome. I felt like a complete mad scientist, and laughed maniacally as my creation destroyed the stage. The only problem was that it did way too much damage and fired too quickly, but nothing's perfect, right?

Now I need to go program some tank lobsters, and will be applying the same tactic. I seem to think a little more clearly when I'm not waiting for compiles every 10 seconds.