At 6/15/09 04:59 PM, Jimp wrote: And then there was this. Oh shit son.

Jesus...

I like a lot of genres of music, but that? No thanks...

At 6/15/09 04:46 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Ironically, I just started working on my own scripting language in c++, that's meant to be little more than a math parser with ints, floats, and conditionals (with c++ syntax).

Awesome! I was looking at BISE because I'm going to be creating a simple scripting language (also mainly mathematical) in the near future for a small project.. I remembered hearing about BISE and googled it, and was impressed with how useful it is. Though I'm going to be using C++, I'll probably do a Flash port just for fun since it'll be a simple project.

At 6/15/09 04:59 PM, Jimp wrote: Wow, Download this year was the best festival ive ever been to. Absolutely amazing lineup and atmosphere, I dont think I could possibly see a more diverse and impressive list of bands in 3 days.

Ah.. very awesome. KaynSlamDyke was also there I believe, you 2 should have met up and had wild tent sex. The line up did look fantastic, with literally too many awesome bands for me to name. I only found out this year that it's in Donnington Park.. I thought it was much further down south, I could totally make it one year :p

At 6/15/09 05:06 PM, Depredation wrote: pump out a flash game every 1-2 weeks, which uses my skills and probably makes more cash but isn't something to add to a job application.

That totally depends on what you want to do for a career. Although, actually, to put on your CV that you've worked on several independent games in your spare time has to be more impressive than working at a corner shop for 12 weeks.

At 6/15/09 05:06 PM, Depredation wrote: Any ideas, anyone done the latter in the past/present?

Ive never seen the point of wasting day after day working a shitty job, if youve got a skill (which you do!) that you can improve while building up a portfolio. At the same time as that, isnt making games way more fun than working in Tescos? At the start you might not be making big bucks, but if you are determined and work hard it is infinitely more rewarding than a "normal" job.

And yeah, the money can be good if you do it right.

At 6/15/09 05:32 PM, Jimp wrote: And yeah, the money can be good if you do it right.

I suppose your a prime example of making some cash from indie games. Alright i'm gonna try this for 2 weeks and see what i can do.

At 6/15/09 05:06 PM, Depredation wrote: I've just finished my exams (GCSEs), as i'm sure many people here have and now i've got 12 weeks of diddly squat, so i have 2 choice. Get a job locally in no idea where likely using none of the skills i have and making very little doing so, however it's good for a CV. Or pump out a flash game every 1-2 weeks, which uses my skills and probably makes more cash but isn't something to add to a job application.

When we (at my day job, not Dim and I) hire flash developers, it's all about two things. If they're good people we'd enjoy working with, and their portfolio. The more examples of work, and the more varied the better. I'd say if you want to be a developer, pumping out a lot of different games would be a pretty good way to bolster your portfolio :)

Tom-

got conditionals working in my scripting language

easier than I thought actually

sweet my blog post got featured on gamasutra

I was reading nintendo power just a minute ago and saw that there was an interview with edmund mcmillen and tommy refenes about super meat boy. I checked online and found this on edmund's blog.

At 6/15/09 05:06 PM, Depredation wrote:

:Or pump out a flash game every 1-2 weeks, which uses my skills and probably makes more cash but isn't something to add to a job application.

Any ideas, anyone done the latter in the past/present?

No lie, i would make a game with you every 2 weeks. We should do that..

Fuck, of course the post messes up, of course.

Depredation, i would make games with you every 2 weeks or so. I'm in deadly need of money and i'm jobless.

At 6/15/09 04:30 PM, liaaaam wrote: Makes you just want to play with it o_o

Thats what she said.

At 6/15/09 05:24 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 6/15/09 04:59 PM, Jimp wrote: And then there was this. Oh shit son.

Jesus...

I like a lot of genres of music, but that? No thanks...

How about this, then?
With a name like Behold...the Arctopus, they have to be good.

It's a little interesting, actually. Catchy? Not the slightest.

INRIA was awesome. It was our first day so we didn't do much besides listen to some guy talk about algorithms, brain studies, and computers in history, but it was still incredibly more fun and informative than school. For thursday I have to make a presentation on algorithms and the Turing machine. It looks like it would be really cool to work in a place like that

Toast: cool! But you'd have to work with the kind of programming languages that I like at INRIA. :p
Could I go somehow sometime?

At 6/15/09 04:30 PM, liaaaam wrote: Has anyone here used BISE (BeIntereactive Scripting Engine)? It's fantastic..

You know what? There's this other language that has had a scripting engine since forever. And a runtime AVM2 bytecode compiler. What was it called? I think it had like a capital X in it in the middle. Hmm.

You know what? There's this other language that has had a scripting engine since forever. And a runtime AVM2 bytecode compiler. What was it called? I think it had like a capital X in it in the middle. Hmm.

Is that a walking advertisement I hear?

At 6/16/09 02:56 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Toast: cool! But you'd have to work with the kind of programming languages that I like at INRIA. :p

That's what I thought, but they didn't even mention Caml. We're a group of 9, and 4 of them chose programming (to my surprise) so our tour guide told them to write a simple program in Java, using "Java's cool". I'll ask them if we can see an example of some of the work they're doing in OCaml.

Before I went there, I didn't think I would be interested in programming languages since I already have some considerable experience and I would get bored if they teach us a language from scratch. I read about the P=NP complexity class problem and it was really interesting, so I thought they probably do some work on that since they have a lot of research teams in algorithms. But it might actually be a good idea to learn a new language, or maybe learn more about Python. For now I'll probably just write some pathfinding algorithm in flash.

Could I go somehow sometime?

If you ever come to France I have to meet you. You can walk to the INRIA from my home in 10 minutes, or 2 minutes in a bus. I live in an area where a lot of hi-tech company have settled because it's relatively cheap and the geographical location is very convenient. You can find loads of research centers here.
It would be very interesting if you came to the INRIA, I'm sure you would have a lot to learn from them, and I think you would enjoy working there although I don't think you're planning on getting a job in france :P

They also have very interesting research in robotics, I got to see a robot in progress, with all sorts of hard drives and computer components sticking out of his body.

At 6/16/09 12:44 AM, K-Guare wrote: How about this, then?
With a name like Behold...the Arctopus, they have to be good.

It's a little interesting, actually. Catchy? Not the slightest.

I wasnt really commenting on the actual music, in that video they set the world record for the biggest circle pit. It was actually more like an olympic sprint, but still damn good fun :D

The most wonderfully fucked up band of the weekend was undoubtably Meshuggah. Ive never seen anything so relentless and technically mind blowing. If anyone knows anything about time signatures, the drummers arms are doing 4/4 and his legs 13/16. Apparently he had to practise for 6 months to be able to play the song live. When they played it, he had to go off stage and let his drum tech play the next so because its so bloody hard. Anyway yeah, those guys are mental.

@ Glaiel, congrats man that was a brilliant blog post, bookmarked! Po3? ;D

At 6/16/09 02:56 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: You know what? There's this other language that has had a scripting engine since forever. And a runtime AVM2 bytecode compiler. What was it called? I think it had like a capital X in it in the middle. Hmm.

I think you mean haXe, you're losing your touch old man.

But seriously, that looks cool.. they even have for.. in which BISE does not. Not that it's going to make me use it, but still nice ;)

Does anyone know if you can link to a certain page on NG from your site and still get the referral registered in the fan-net? Just adding "/refer/knugen" to the URL doesn't seem to work, and I've tried "/?refer=knugen" as well, so I suspect that the code that handles referrals is on the index-page only :/

I'm not sure if this is really worth the effort to get high up on the 'Fan-net', but still :)

At 6/16/09 06:58 AM, Jimp wrote: The most wonderfully fucked up band of the weekend was undoubtably Meshuggah. Ive never seen anything so relentless and technically mind blowing. If anyone knows anything about time signatures, the drummers arms are doing 4/4 and his legs 13/16. Apparently he had to practise for 6 months to be able to play the song live. When they played it, he had to go off stage and let his drum tech play the next so because its so bloody hard. Anyway yeah, those guys are mental.

Yeah, I think they had a drumming contest on
youtube to see who could play Bleed better.
My friend listens to Meshuggah, it's some messed up stuff. :3

I love listening to harder music like that, but at
some point my taste in it just plateaus; everything
above my limit just sounds terrible.
Meshuggah as an example... I cant imagine anybody
listening to it and liking it, without having a jealousy
over the skill of the people in the band.

I have a chopped up Guitar Hero World Tour drum set, vivisected from it's pads by a nice person in the States. It has a port on the back for MIDI in that works with my DTXT3 electronic drum kit.

I'm now playing Rock Band and GH:Metallica on the worlds most expensive video game controller.

I had a productive day :)

At 6/16/09 11:18 PM, knugen wrote: I had a productive day :)

I'm to lazy to get anything done, i've been replaying the megaman legends series, its actually VERY good and very unappreciated by the general public.

. . . i mean... power of 3! i've been working on that....you know...like...all the time! wooo!

>__>

At 6/17/09 01:31 AM, Duchednier wrote: . . . i mean... power of 3! i've been working on that....you know...like...all the time! wooo!

>__>

o ya.....i mean..... i've been working on PO3 too.....

....i hate you guys.....

I don't get what's all the big excitement with this power of three thing. It's just an excuse to make you feel special. If you want to make a flash, make it. I don't need people to tell me I have the "power" to make flashes.

At 6/17/09 02:39 AM, Toast wrote: I don't get what's all the big excitement with this power of three thing. It's just an excuse to make you feel special. If you want to make a flash, make it. I don't need people to tell me I have the "power" to make flashes.

no its just that you get more publicity from it, so it gives your game a better chance to fail or do good. plus the better you do, the more your game is publicized, and then the more money you make from it, and for charity.

i wouldn't be surprised if this becomes some people's tickets to NG fame.

Exactly what both Fluff and Toast said. it's not like you're working alongside Newrgounds or anything like that, it's just like making a game. This is my first time doing sprites for a game, but I had really wanted to before, only that I didn't know if I should, I think this event is mainly for this purpose, but everyone is too damn excited about it so we might aswell play along, you get way more coverage than standard games.

At 6/16/09 04:18 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I'm now playing Rock Band and GH:Metallica on the worlds most expensive video game controller.

Dayum. That must have been expensive. Does it work very well?

New motivational desktop picture. I hope it helps.

At 6/17/09 08:32 AM, liaaaam wrote: Dayum. That must have been expensive. Does it work very well?

Yes, it does. I need to sort out the sensitivity triggers for the hi-hat so I can play Blue when it's open and Yellow when it's closed (at the moment it's detecting i want it open too late). And other than the fact the rock band tracks have you bounce around the kit quite quickly and the complete disassociation with colour from location that I need to get ingrained its working quite well for me.

In other news, I think I'm using Tweener too much on the journal section...