i still need an artist for the game jam

That moment when you've been on a coding roll, and Pandora trolls you with 10 bad songs in a row, and you can't focus any more...

At 10/13/12 10:32 PM, MSGhero wrote: That moment when you've been on a coding roll, and Pandora trolls you with 10 bad songs in a row, and you can't focus any more...

I has a vlc playlist for coding :3

Game Libraries

Can we do bold for subjects again? :(

Just out of curiosity, how many people here use game libraries (Flixel, FlashPunk...) to go about their creations? Obviously things like physics and 3D graphical engines in the scale you see them in libraries are too big to tackle just for a single project so there's more incentive to use them. However, the features that Flixel present (Cameras, collisions, tilemaps, path finding and particles) are usually the aspects of a game that are fun to do and perfect.

Everyone please play this, and if anything spawns in the middle of a tree then tell me.

Also if you finish it then tell me.

At 10/14/12 11:18 AM, I-smel wrote: Everyone please play this, and if anything spawns in the middle of a tree then tell me.

Also if you finish it then tell me.

I died with 2 circles left to collect. The game has a nice atmosphere and the difference between inside and outside is properly executed.
The first time I was randomly wandering through the forest and the game felt more mysterious that way, when I discovered it was a matter of finding the spheres it became more focused on finding an optimal strategy to find all the spheres.
Later I noticed the spheres started to move towards me as if I was looking for eggs in the forest that hatched in the warmth and safety of my own home. I'm going for another round to see what happens if I collect them all.
This game has caught my attention in a positive way.

...

"Ya gone done it"

OK I've collected all 5 of them, was hoping for something special to happen but it didn't. Nevertheless it was a good little experience. To make this game better I would add some element of surprise, something the player cannot predict, overall great job on it.

I don't know what should happen when you get all of them :/

At 10/14/12 11:18 AM, I-smel wrote: Everyone please play this, and if anything spawns in the middle of a tree then tell me.

Also if you finish it then tell me.

Nothing spawned in the middle of a tree, however:
-Orbs/Trees spawn around the cabin, and are visible even when you are inside of it
-A tree spawned right in front of the door D:
-I swear it's rigged, I am yet to find a 5th orb! :P

Love the game, really cool concept and really well executed :D

At 10/14/12 11:55 AM, I-smel wrote: I don't know what should happen when you get all of them :/

They form to make one giant "thing" which then kills the player >:D

At 10/11/12 06:13 PM, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: Shoot the stick celebrity Dress up tribute Demo trailer

This might have been a more manageable theme with my lack of time this weekend

At 10/14/12 06:57 AM, Sam wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many people here use game libraries (Flixel, FlashPunk...) to go about their creations? Obviously things like physics and 3D graphical engines in the scale you see them in libraries are too big to tackle just for a single project so there's more incentive to use them. However, the features that Flixel present (Cameras, collisions, tilemaps, path finding and particles) are usually the aspects of a game that are fun to do and perfect.

I'm using away3D, TweenLite, ASQL and Starling for my current project.

Most projects I use TweenLite and Starling.

so i've discovered that all AS3 applications can use the Socket and SecureSocket classes, but only AIR applications can use the ServerSocket class.

looks like i'll be able to submit Gold of Odin to NG, after all. The difference is the web and mobile versions won't be able to become a server.
i'm fine with that.

At 10/16/12 03:17 PM, egg82 wrote: so i've discovered that all AS3 applications can use the Socket and SecureSocket classes, but only AIR applications can use the ServerSocket class.

looks like i'll be able to submit Gold of Odin to NG, after all. The difference is the web and mobile versions won't be able to become a server.
i'm fine with that.

You need to send a certificate from the server for flash to do the serversocket stuff

i'll save you the work

http://pastebin.com/5NCP0CAV

At 10/16/12 05:40 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: You need to send a certificate from the server for flash to do the serversocket stuff

not quite. If you try and use the ServerSocket class without AIR, it'll come up with a whole bunch of errors because it doesn't exist outside of the airglobal.swc

http://pastebin.com/5NCP0CAV

good job, it's pretty much like mine - so what's the whole domainpolicy function for, anyway?

At 10/14/12 06:57 AM, Sam wrote: Game Libraries

I use Flixel a good bit and most everyone uses TweenLite if you count that.

Flash CS6 spritesheet export is pretty awesome (artist has it, not me sadly :(). I have it set up so that the character class takes in its spritesheet, and you add "animations" (name, an array of rects gotten from the XML, fps) and then play the animation based on the name. I think it was ND2D where I saw something similar, but I haven't looked at that framework in a while, so I don't remember. Only problem now is flipping the tiles, but I'll probably just .draw() the input spritesheet flipped. And the GJ8 musician is getting his monitor looked at tomorrow, so hopefully he can get started so we can be done before Halloween (please?).

What are YOU working on?

At 10/16/12 08:57 PM, MSGhero wrote: What are YOU working on?

procrastinating working on GoO by doing my homework :P

At 10/16/12 08:57 PM, MSGhero wrote: What are YOU working on?

I just released one game to FGL about a week ago, still watching that, Tumble Towers 2
And tonight I'm about to release Slime's Cake Quest to FGL tonight, an expansion from my Game Jam game.

What do ya guys think?

Not playable without an FGL dev account.

At 10/16/12 06:28 PM, egg82 wrote: good job, it's pretty much like mine - so what's the whole domainpolicy function for, anyway?

flash requires it to make a connection. I forget the exact restrictions, but it was definitely needed

At 10/17/12 12:40 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: flash requires it to make a connection. I forget the exact restrictions, but it was definitely needed

huh, that's odd. I'll take a closer look at it, but i'm pretty sure the same effect is achieved with the Security.allowDomain() and Security.allowInsecureDomain() functions - at least, that's how I see it.

At 10/17/12 08:06 AM, egg82 wrote: huh, that's odd. I'll take a closer look at it, but i'm pretty sure the same effect is achieved with the Security.allowDomain() and Security.allowInsecureDomain() functions - at least, that's how I see it.

When flash opens a socket to a server, it first need to ask the server 'is it OK if I talk to you?'. This is required in the sandbox, so if you debug locally it'll be different from trying it out on a browser. Why they did this is a mistery to me still, I guess flash ads could be used for DOS attacks or something..
Quick tip, if you don't want the flash to scan all the ports on your server for the policy file add this line before you attempt to connect:

Security.loadPolicyFile("xmlsocket://" + SERVER_HOST + ":" + SERVER_PORT_POLICY);

At 10/17/12 12:23 PM, Innermike wrote: Sup homies, zrb finish his forest game yet?

woah I remember that guy, he hasnt posted anything since march 5th 2011.

sadface

Wow this light thing looks really accurate and capable. How come people like you only ever make prototypes and not games!?

It always amazes me how much information a dot or cross product gives. It never occurred to me that it could tell you about the winding of a polygon. I'd love to see the complete source :D
...Mainly because those vectors out of context are confusing, and I've never used the alpha params of copyPixels.

At 10/17/12 12:55 PM, Sandremss128 wrote: Security.loadPolicyFile("xmlsocket://" + SERVER_HOST + ":" + SERVER_PORT_POLICY);

and here I thought I was actually somewhat decent with servers :P

so I combined the two ideas, and i'm pretty sure that wasn't the correct thing to do (well, I kinda figured it wouldn't work the way I thought it would when I started coding it, but...)

what i've got is the loadPolicyFile function pointing to the server on port 7679. The server listens on port 7679 with a regular ServerSocket (I assume this is mistake number 1. It needs an XML socket instead, perhaps?) and responds with:

it could also be the fact that it doesn't load the policy file until it needs it, and that i'm worrying over nothing, but I figure it's better to be safe than sorry.

I haven't seen Gust in a long time, but yes I do miss his psuedo code reviews. Also I do agree with Mike that there is something magical about the people that come in this forum as opposed to something like tigsource. Theres less douchiness and more just honest building.

At 10/18/12 09:09 PM, Innermike wrote:

Side side note: Do Toast, citricsquid, Gust, or Kurt-Cocain(I think) come here anymore?

I dunno about the rest, but critic and Kurt chill in the Programming Forum.

At 10/18/12 09:12 PM, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: I haven't seen Gust in a long time, but yes I do miss his psuedo code reviews. Also I do agree with Mike that there is something magical about the people that come in this forum as opposed to something like tigsource. Theres less douchiness and more just honest building.

People laugh at me when I say ng community is pretty good, especially compared to tigsource. I'll take poop jokes and dick jokes over the type of anger and hate on tigs any day of the week.

At 10/18/12 09:14 PM, egg82 wrote: Kurt

Kirk*
as in Kirk-Cocaine

that was a derp moment on my part.

At 10/18/12 09:09 PM, Innermike wrote:

Holy SHIT you're alive!!1

What have you been up to?