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[rivon]

VSC# 2010 is a surprisingly nice IDE but Expression Blend is a fucking piece of shit... Why can't I simply remove the circle from radiobutton? Why can't I simply change the colors for all the button states (normal, clicked, hover...)?

[baconman]

Facebutting the wall, still trying to get my (GM8) levelgen code to function properly. After two months.

I know the steps I'm taking, and the order they SHOULD be taken in. I've tried messing around with object's phases, like "Create," "Game Start," and "Room Start." For the life of me, I do not know why I can't get this simple sequence of levelgen steps to execute correctly!

 

I would love to carelessly press forward from here, but this is like, the foundational backdrop for half of my freaking projects, here. Incredibly simple stuff, too!!

  Being stuck at an early/simple place like this makes me feel like a complete idiot.

[Geti]

Do you have a tilemap you can set/get tiles in? That's generally the simplest way to go about level generation, because you can either have every room as a separate tilemap (like in GBC zelda games), or subdivide the tilemap into rooms (like spelunky does).

There's also the option of just sticking with hand-made levels. It's easier, it gets better results in the short term, and you can sell smaller games to have the money (-> the time) to make bigger games. My 2c.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Forgot how little a fan I am when it comes to using Java. I'm fine with it but sometimes the way to do things with the API is annoying.

anyways, writing a OBJ file importer

[B_ill]

Using Monodevelop with Unity. I have auto-formatting on. Works fine on my desktop, and used to work fine on my laptop, but tonight whenever I close a brace on an if() statement, the brace doesn't show up and the first character in the statement of the if() gets deleted. Pressing the close brace button again will delete another character.

:boggle:

[Muz]

oh everything that doesn't come in the latest android version is deprecated even though the recommended methods don't work with half the devices and the new methods is 2-10 times the learning curve the old ones. but it's GOOD PRACTICE

[RedKnight]

oh everything that doesn't come in the latest android version is deprecated even though the recommended methods don't work with half the devices and the new methods is 2-10 times the learning curve the old ones. but it's GOOD PRACTICE

care to share what's deprecated?
since I only concentrate on 4.0/4.1 I hope it doesn't change too much of how things work

[baconman]

Do you have a tilemap you can set/get tiles in? That's generally the simplest way to go about level generation, because you can either have every room as a separate tilemap (like in GBC zelda games), or subdivide the tilemap into rooms (like spelunky does).

There's also the option of just sticking with hand-made levels. It's easier, it gets better results in the short term, and you can sell smaller games to have the money (-> the time) to make bigger games. My 2c.

It tries to do the rooms thing like Spelunky does. But maybe you're right, it might just come down to handcoding all of the levels, and then just randomizing certain elements of them where I safely can. Kind of disappointing, because that ProcGen part is one of the things I was hoping to learn about doing the most...

[PompiPompi]

Good god, lack of documentation and silliness...

I was trying to draw only part of the indices in my GLES2 draw call.
The thing is glDrawElements gets number of indices as just the amount of indices, but the offset in bytes. So I had to multiply the offset by 2(my indices are short) and it fixed it. :/

Good god, that was an annoying bug. I blame the lack of proper documentation...

[ThemsAllTook]

Good god, lack of documentation and silliness...

I was trying to draw only part of the indices in my GLES2 draw call.
The thing is glDrawElements gets number of indices as just the amount of indices, but the offset in bytes. So I had to multiply the offset by 2(my indices are short) and it fixed it. :/

Good god, that was an annoying bug. I blame the lack of proper documentation...

Hah, I've run into that exact same problem myself. OpenGL documentation is usually pretty good, but occasionally something weird like this just doesn't get explained properly.

[PompiPompi]

Well it was more confusing because I am using the Java version of GLES2, which makes it even more confusing you need to pass bytes and not instances.

[Muz]

oh everything that doesn't come in the latest android version is deprecated even though the recommended methods don't work with half the devices and the new methods is 2-10 times the learning curve the old ones. but it's GOOD PRACTICE

care to share what's deprecated?
since I only concentrate on 4.0/4.1 I hope it doesn't change too much of how things work

Was annoyed with something they did with the notifications. And earlier with turning dialogs into dialog fragments, which introduced a hell lot more work. It's become common practice to just ignore deprecation notices, go through with stuff, and make a new app if it ever breaks. Like I can see why some stuff is better practice, but it is incredibly annoying to go through a tutorial or re-use an old module, to find out that it's deprecated.

Though you should probably focus on some of the older versions, at least 2.3 and above. It's the OS of choice for low budget phones, and a lot of hardcore early adopters like myself still have an old phone.

[st33d]

Today I am not a programmer. Today I am the marketing department. Today I email every goddamned flash portal in the known universe.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugghhhh, so boring.

(This is after spending the last two days writing an article for Gamasutra about marketing as well - I don't know how people do this for a full time job.)

[ThemsAllTook]

(This is after spending the last two days writing an article for Gamasutra about marketing as well - I don't know how people do this for a full time job.)

Neat, I'd be interested in reading that once it's published.

[Graham-]

Today I am not a programmer. Today I am the marketing department. Today I email every goddamned flash portal in the known universe.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugghhhh, so boring.

(This is after spending the last two days writing an article for Gamasutra about marketing as well - I don't know how people do this for a full time job.)

You have to relate to the person, and think, "this is the best way to get my game out there." Then any problem becomes meaningful.

[st33d]

I'll link it up in the Greenlight Announced thread if it's accepted. It's all about how we used Flash game portals in our Steam Greenlight campaign.

My first draft was mostly a scathing criticism of how fucking useless the Author Stats on Greenlight are for conducting a marketing campaign. You're basically shooting blind. There's no time/value graph to compare to the pushes you're making. Even bloody Desura gives you a crappy little graph that's far more useful.

I spent ages rewriting it into more of a guide to following our strategy - which seems to have helped our footing. But yeah, those stats make it really hard to gauge success.

[st33d]

Oh god. I'm only halfway through the list.

 

[Graham-]

They really give you 0 stats? That's unreal, and unlike steam.

[st33d]

You get one powerbar comparing you to the top 100, and some powerbars for each day of the week comparing the votes you've received to the top 100.

Both of which mean nothing. The top 100 votes could be anything. It's like adding a parameter that you can never know, you've no idea how steep the curve is, if there is a curve. And why powerbars? I'm not gaming here, I'm trying to direct web traffic and user behaviour.

It tells you visitors and favourites. Why not graph that? Am I supposed to login every fucking day and draw my own chart? How the fuck am I supposed to take this system seriously? How am I supposed to understand how my actions marketing the game affect its chances of getting on Steam? We need more information, otherwise what's the fucking point? You might as well do what half the people on Greenlight have done, submit your game and forget all about it.

[Graham-]

Yeah that doesn't make a lot of sense. Maybe they see it as a way to "coach" newbies. XNA has that philosophy, and it's not well thought through. These services should appeal to near-professionals, or low-budget pros, the guys right below standard publishing.

You can write a script that checks in every day. I would do that. Can you put a link to your site on the Greenlight? There will be a high correlation with people who follow that link and how votes are trending. It's not perfect but it is something.