What the fuck kind of maniac plays Dark Souls for the first time, then comes back 2 days later near the end!!??

That game took me like a fuckin month!

At 1/17/13 10:32 PM, I-smel wrote: What the fuck kind of maniac plays Dark Souls for the first time, then comes back 2 days later near the end!!??

That game took me like a fuckin month!

i've done shit like that before. You can do a hell of a lot when you have no distractions and no life :P

At 1/17/13 10:39 PM, egg82 wrote: i've done shit like that before. You can do a hell of a lot when you have no distractions and no life :P

College has made me realize that you can get a lot done in 5 minutes. And there are so many 5 minuteses in a day, it's unbelievable! Instead of sleeping till like 3pm, I wake up early(ish) to get hw done, and I'm free for the rest of the day. I'm getting more coding done for this game than when I was at home for xmas break

No life helps too

At 1/17/13 11:13 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 1/17/13 10:39 PM, egg82 wrote: i've done shit like that before. You can do a hell of a lot when you have no distractions and no life :P

College has made me realize that you can get a lot done in 5 minutes. And there are so many 5 minuteses in a day, it's unbelievable! Instead of sleeping till like 3pm, I wake up early(ish) to get hw done, and I'm free for the rest of the day. I'm getting more coding done for this game than when I was at home for xmas break

No life helps too

I'm running off such little sleep right now and it's taking its toll. For some reason when night rolls around I'm wide awake and motivated to do things so I just stay up.

At 1/17/13 11:13 PM, MSGhero wrote: College has made me realize that you can get a lot done in 5 minutes. And there are so many 5 minuteses in a day, it's unbelievable! Instead of sleeping till like 3pm, I wake up early(ish) to get hw done, and I'm free for the rest of the day. I'm getting more coding done for this game than when I was at home for xmas break

Honestly, for me it's just because I have school two days a week for 4 hours a day and not much homework.

No life helps too

That it does! Though I am starting to get bored of having no girlfriend and no job. I might change that at some point.

also, Sanders was right about Eclipse in Linux. It works pretty damn well! I'm trying to see if I can get an objective-c compiler working in it so I don't need to download a Mac OS for VM.

At 1/18/13 12:15 PM, egg82 wrote: That it does! Though I am starting to get bored of having no girlfriend and no job. I might change that at some point.

I have Dota 2 to keep me company...*sob*

So far, the most annoying part of this game is making things take time to occur, like transitions and animations. I'll make something work, but it doesn't look fluid at all, so then I have to add a timer or tween to it. And then everything breaks, so I have to backtrack 10 steps and rewrite all that with timerevents or onUpdate/onComplete tweenlite functions.

At 1/18/13 12:38 PM, MSGhero wrote: I have Dota 2 to keep me company...*sob*

dota 2's so good tho

man this lounge is full of people programming in editors and doin cool shit and stuff whatever happened to the days where people were trying to figure out how to duplicatemovieclip a vcam

At 1/18/13 12:38 PM, MSGhero wrote: I have Dota 2 to keep me company...*sob*

At 1/18/13 04:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: dota 2's so good tho

No shame, DotA 2 is brilliant. On a 7 winning streak in a 5 man public.

At 1/18/13 05:01 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: man this lounge is full of people programming in editors and doin cool shit and stuff whatever happened to the days where people were trying to figure out how to duplicatemovieclip a vcam

they all died horrible, painful deaths.

>.>

At 1/18/13 05:10 PM, Sam wrote: No shame, DotA 2 is brilliant. On a 7 winning streak in a 5 man public.

I guess that's the only way you EU folks can win games any more since the russian invasion. I've won every game recently that was a 5 stack. I've only played with brazilians, never a russian, and even they aren't too terrible at my current skill level. The ones I never want to play with again are all americans >.>

"This retard faglord wants us to gank mid lol, idiot"

At 1/18/13 05:10 PM, Sam wrote:

At 1/18/13 12:38 PM, MSGhero wrote: I have Dota 2 to keep me company...*sob*

At 1/18/13 04:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: dota 2's so good tho

No shame, DotA 2 is brilliant. On a 7 winning streak in a 5 man public.

it gets so good when you get into the "very high" matchmaking, all the rage and trolls seem to dissapear and people are actually nice.

At 1/18/13 05:56 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: it gets so good when you get into the "very high" matchmaking, all the rage and trolls seem to dissapear and people are actually nice.

Can't wait, though I've stopped playing the other modes except capts...I need wards on the map or I'm always paranoid. I started playing meepo on my smurf account tho, he's so fun :D

At 1/18/13 05:01 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: man this lounge is full of people programming in editors and doin cool shit and stuff whatever happened to the days where people were trying to figure out how to duplicatemovieclip a vcam

guys help, every time i shoot missiles they overwrite each other

this.duplicateMovieClip(_root.missile,"missile",1);

I heard the next flash has gradients, but should I upgrade??

At 1/19/13 09:52 AM, I-smel wrote:

At 1/18/13 05:01 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: man this lounge is full of people programming in editors and doin cool shit and stuff whatever happened to the days where people were trying to figure out how to duplicatemovieclip a vcam

guys help, every time i shoot missiles they overwrite each other

this.duplicateMovieClip(_root.missile,"missile",1);

I heard the next flash has gradients, but should I upgrade??

nah bro as3's just a confusing mess all the real coders will still use as2, you can't even code on buttons anymore

At 1/18/13 11:51 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 1/18/13 05:56 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: it gets so good when you get into the "very high" matchmaking, all the rage and trolls seem to dissapear and people are actually nice.

Can't wait, though I've stopped playing the other modes except capts...I need wards on the map or I'm always paranoid. I started playing meepo on my smurf account tho, he's so fun :D

single draft is fairly fun, I play random mostly anyway so its nice being able to do that and not worry about the enemy team just picking 5 bullshit heroes

this was a pretty fun game https://dotabuff.com/matches/102765528

At 1/19/13 04:07 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: this was a pretty fun game https://dotabuff.com/matches/102765528

People actually pick balanced teams in very high? That's motivation for me to keep playing

https://dotabuff.com/players/88646756/matches
In the past 20 games, I've won one non-cm and every cm

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f1b6de2070d09783e45cfaef 2f9d7d39

I assume this is running poorly for everyone else, as well?
I know how to fix it so it'll run at 60 unless you really abuse it, but it's gonna be a huge pain in the ass.

At 1/19/13 06:34 PM, egg82 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f1b6de2070d09783e45cfaef 2f9d7d39

I assume this is running poorly for everyone else, as well?
I know how to fix it so it'll run at 60 unless you really abuse it, but it's gonna be a huge pain in the ass.

16fps cmon man. What is it exactly? Hopefully not addChilding a bunch of squares...

At 1/19/13 06:58 PM, MSGhero wrote: 16fps cmon man. What is it exactly? Hopefully not addChilding a bunch of squares...

testing a framework i'm building. Yeah, I addChilded a bunch of squares and they do nothing except sit there looking... Er... Pretty, I guess.

the framework looks and works as close to the regular AS3 syntax as possible, but it uses blitting. I also added a few extra features I always wondered why Adobe didn't add themselves.

the reason it's so slow is because every child added to the stage becomes as large as the stage. I figured it'd be slow, and to counter it i'll simply reduce the size of each BMD to whatever it needs to be (no larger), and optimize the update function some more. It's just going to be a massive pain in the ass, and adding and removing children will probably be pretty slow until I can figure out how to optimize it.

Does it allow for rotation and other fun stuff bmds can't do easily?

At 1/19/13 08:22 PM, MSGhero wrote: Does it allow for rotation and other fun stuff bmds can't do easily?

haha, maybe? :P

I just started this yesterday, so there's a lot of crap I haven't even started yet. I got an event system working (MUCH faster than the regular one, and it pretty much works the same) and most DisplayObjects done, with an Object auto-numbering system behind it all.

At 1/19/13 10:28 PM, Innermike wrote: One question, do you ever finish/use these 'frameworks' for anything?

well, I finished a small library for network and file management (appropriately named "Network and File Manager") and am close to finishing two more. One for I/O, and one for 3D.

This is an entire framework, not just a small library with useful tools. There's a damn good chance i'll never actually finish this one, but it's really fun to play with when I have no internet connection.

At 1/19/13 06:34 PM, egg82 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f1b6de2070d09783e45cfaef 2f9d7d39

I assume this is running poorly for everyone else, as well?
I know how to fix it so it'll run at 60 unless you really abuse it, but it's gonna be a huge pain in the ass.

12 FPS (Flash 11.2ish on Linux, which has shite performance)! I too am working on a game framework. I might even eventually finish it and/or make a game with it. Right now mine performs pretty well, it just doesn't have too many features.

At 1/19/13 11:21 PM, pirateplatypus wrote: 12 FPS (Flash 11.2ish on Linux, which has shite performance)! I too am working on a game framework. I might even eventually finish it and/or make a game with it. Right now mine performs pretty well, it just doesn't have too many features.

i've been running Ubuntu 12.10 ever since I learned about fancontrol.
How're you running FD? Wine or VM?
I've been running it via wine for a while now, but i've been thinking about simply slapping it on my XP VM and running with that, instead. It's simply too unstable to use for more than half an hour with practical purposes.

At 1/19/13 11:43 PM, egg82 wrote: How're you running FD? Wine or VM?

I'm not. I write my code in Kate and compile it with the Flex SDK compiler.

I'm not really into proper IDE's. But if I were to want to use FD I'd run it in a VM, I hate Wine. I used to have a stripped down version of XP that I made with N-lite that ran very well on a VM.

If I remember right, there is an effort to port FD to work natively on Linux.

At 1/20/13 12:05 AM, pirateplatypus wrote: I'm not. I write my code in Kate and compile it with the Flex SDK compiler.

Ubuntu 11+ uses Unity, not KDE. I, for one, am happy with the new environment. The biggest challenge for it was removing all the bugs, and they seem to have done that since its first release.

Before Unity, though, I actually preferred Gnome over KDE. Just felt better.

anyway, the point is: i've never used Kate before. How is it for general-purpose developing?

I'm not really into proper IDE's. But if I were to want to use FD I'd run it in a VM, I hate Wine. I used to have a stripped down version of XP that I made with N-lite that ran very well on a VM.

I love proper IDEs. They do so much for you that a text editor with a compiler won't. I'm pretty sure Kate won't import everything for you (one of FD's best features, in my opinion. Saves a hell of a lot of time, collectively)

also, what do you mean by "stripped down" and how in the world did you accomplish that?

If I remember right, there is an effort to port FD to work natively on Linux.

yeah, so far they've been able to get it to work unstably in wine. Can you guess what i'm using?
I assume they're trying to get it to work with wine, and then port that to native. I haven't seen evidence to the contrary, at any rate.

speaking of which: what the crap is "native" for a debian-based system? (I assume all the major distros are different, judging by the individual packages and ways of getting them) I would say bash, but i'm pretty sure you can't create fully-featured C-like applications with it. My next guess would have been Python, except that sure as hell wasn't developed specifically for linux.

I know I'm an old reg here... but I still lurk...

And now I need your opinions:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1330508

I'm cheating so hard with the code for this game...but it's keeping me from hanging on a problem for a long time, so I guess it's ok. Even with a game design doc, structuring the code is a hassle, but whatever. IT'S ALMOST DONE. Which means the sequels are almost done from a code perspective since a great amount of that will stay the same :D

I released my game on Steam, and about 3 people brought up "Newgrounds" in the Steam message board for it, then said "Oh, I guess New Grounds is censored. That's weird!"

It sucks.