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  1. Posted

    Despite the warning at the start of the podcast I actually thought it was a pretty good pod. Michael needs to click more buttons to find out what the mineral contents of Luna is (or isn't. might just not be any!) but he probably knows that.

     

    In regards to DW:U being big and shallow: yeah, the more time you spend with Distant Worlds the more you realize that only the top-level decisions (who do I declare war on, where do I colonize and research to an extent) matter a lot. The fun in Distant Worlds is in developing this clockwork galaxy that goes about its business of doing things that don't really matter while I decide to put tourist resorts in orbit of black holes and other goofy things between wars. I love DW:U but Stellaris is probably a better game.

     

    Last year I played Aurora for about a month but had to quit cold because, as much as I love this inscrutable shit and enjoyed the harrowing 5-second interval space navy combat, I just got real tired of the ship design loop. Doing the whole thing once is one thing, but starting up that redesign process every few years when you get new tech and need to keep up is tiresome. I was doing more work with spreadsheets than I do with my real job. I hope Michael plays long enough to get into designing missiles and buoys, as I found that pretty interesting.

     

    also I hope Troy can be forced to play CMANO. I bought it on winter sale and have only played one tutorial so far but geez. Its like if the Aurora guy had a team to work with and they were all way into 80s world war 3 fiction.

     

  2. Posted

    The game is way more forgiving on the strategic layer than they make it sound. In my first game I had one full squad wipe and a couple more failed missions and didn't have the death spiral and later won the game. You just need to have a good grip on everything that's going on. They make the strategic layer sound like a mess but it is no more complicated than your most basic worker-placement board game.

    Also the key to bringing rookies out to train and not getting creamed is giving them upgrades guns and experimental ammo/nades.

  3. Posted

    Here's my routine:

    -Spend two hours trying to figure out how to do something with script.

    -Stop and browse the asset store for a solution for about 5 minutes.

    -Repeat.

     

    my routine is essentially the opposite: browse the asset store, convince myself its something I could do myself, then spend a day figuring out how to do it, invariably decide I don't need to do it or I can just halfass it, double click Hearthstone.exe

  5. Posted

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    -Then I tried writing script in my notebook for the first time. I know enough for it to be really fun, but I haven't tried the code out to see if it works. Writing away from the computer was interesting because I try to compute initial values myself (imagining what theinitial values would be and going through the script to see what would happen). At the computer, i tend to make guesses about why the script doesn't work, change a little bit, try running it, change it a little bit, repeat. It works, but I felt that my book work was significantly different, enjoyable, and gave me a greater capability. I still need to type it in to see if it works. I know it won't if C# says 1/0 is an error.

     

     

    I went to Target and raided the school supplies for graph paper, folders and colored pencils. I don't straight up write code on paper, maybe pseudocode, but its pretty nice to have that shit around to quickly scratch out ideas.

     

    also yeah I think you'll get a runtime error when the velocity.x is zero.

     

    also also you may want to use Time.deltaTime instead of Time.time, that way you can just set float countDown = 0, in Update() you can put countDown += time.deltaTime. This way instead "if (countdown + timer < Time.time)" you can just say "if(countDown >= timer)" then reset countDown to zero after getting input. If i'm reading things correctly and you just want the input have a timer seconds delay before accepting another input.

  8. Posted

    Also, concurrently, the Procedural Death Jam, if you want to make something rougelike-like that's not technically a roguelike: http://proceduraldeathjam.com/

     

    I don't know if the 7DRL challenge is super strict about the definition of a roguelike as far as entries go though. The 'Berlin Interpretation' is kind of weird. You could also enter both game jams with the same game!

     

    I plan on doing this. Gonna be my first game jam.  I want to make a somewhat traditional roguelike where you're a space scavenger, "dungeons" being derelict ships and other space leftovers. .

  9. Posted

    Pro tips for Unity users:

    -Save everything before you test a while loop.

     

    note if you don't save first and a haphazardly written loop goes infinite, you can tab over to MonoDevelop and attach it to the Unity process and use the debugging console to change whatever you need to break out of the loop. handy if you are terrible like me and never save shit

  10. Posted

    Cool. It might be an unpopular opinion, but I like how high the aim is. It makes the game feel different than most FPS's I play, maybe because I always use the sights. It took me a little while to figure out where it was shooting though because the wall was too low for my bullet to hit when I was using the iron-sights. That music is pumpin. Do the white orbs do anything yet? 

     

    the aim is actually a bit too high at the moment. It needs some fine tuning, last night I was mostly focused on getting a damage/hitpoint system in place. The white orbs are just more stand-in prefabs for enemies. The idea is that each room will have an assortment of badguys in it trying to keep you from touching the escape orb. I've set up my level generation code so that when I'm satisfied with the base game mechanics and have a couple enemies I can expand from one room/level to several rooms. And when I have time I can expand the Room code to include variations or special levels, rather than just open rectangular areas.

  11. Posted

    here is a dumb thing I'm working on

     

    http://www.danimo.net/2.0/2.0.html

     

    You have a gun. There are evil green cylinders that will shoot lasers at you if you get near them. The room you spawn in is a random height/width, with glowing orb in the opposite corner. You run up to the orb and click on it to go to "next level" (currently just reloads the scene, with new room).

     

    The wall/floor textures and background music I took from opengameart.org. The gun and camera rigging is from UFPS, an asset store FPS setup that is saving me a lot of time.

     

    The basic idea of the game is supposed to be an "Endless Shooter", where you're trying to keep going through as many rng levels as you can. But right now I'm just figuring out how to implement basic mechanics, and I had to go in and add basic sounds/textures because I could only stare at soundless grey blocks for so long.

  12. Posted

    I haven't asked anything on Unity Answers but I've been getting helpful stuff from there just by googling.

     

      • Asset Store Development Tools
      • Development tools not found in the Asset Store but used in conjunction with Unity (Importing assets, using pixel editor program to implement pixel-perfect camera setup...)

     

    1. Are there any asset store things you recommend?

    2. what do you mean by "using pixel editor to implement pixel-perfect camera setup"? and any recommendations here too?

     

    I know a bunch of these tools are probably specific to the kind of game one is making, but I also keep finding Unity features/abilities I wasn't aware existed

  13. Posted

    yeah the thing I started working on, when I finished the Unity book I was reading and going through, has really turned out to be kind of a monster in scope. I was having fun coding it and I'm really liking the scripting in c# part but I spent two days this week struggling to understand how animations and character movement would work. Not to mention my complete lack of understanding of how 3D modeling works (Blender is frightening). But I'm considering this "game" an extension of the learning process. Now that I understand how the Animator component works and how to animate sprites and deal with shaders a bit, I can use that in the future. But the game itself is kind of a giant mess. I've learned so much about C# and OOP in general recently to know that everything will need a complete rewrite anyway.

     

    1. How would I go about submitting a topic for sticky? Is there someone in charge I could speak with?

    2. What is a good way to keep track of people who reply to my posts? I don't want to ignore someone who may have asked a question due to my ignorance. Is there software that is available or maybe the forum itself has an option to notify you if someone quotes or replies to your post?

     

    1. I think thats just up to the mod(s)

    2. check your notification settings at your profile

  15. Posted

    I just compiled the version 0.00000001 of my first Unity game project, so far called Random Dungeon Mans. The setting/flavor/stuff isn't settled yet, I've mostly just spent the entire weekend and today writing a dungeon creation algorithm and decided to put stuff together when I finally got it to a workable place.

     

    http://danimo.net/randdunggame/randdunggame.html

     

    Its not a game yet, but you can run around and explore what my random dungeon generator spits out. you can also jump and clip through the ceiling, then press the Reload button to generate another dungeon level for yourself. textures are just placeholder samples I grabbed from somewhere.

     

    so far my biggest issue is probably scoping. I'm gonna drop messing with the dungeon algorithm much for now and see if I can turn what this is now into some kind of game.

  16. Posted

    The book I'm using to learn Unity that I linked a couple pages back is teaching with UnityScript and giving the C# version of the code at the end of each chapter. The only real difference so far, to me, seems that C# is more particular and wants to be really specific about things. The code all looks pretty much the same though, just syntactically different, to the beginner (me).

  17. Posted

    I bought the Steam version of this and played it but I, oddly, got bored because I'm playing on Normal-Roguelike and finished two dungeons without even coming close to death on my first dude. I just have so many abilities and equipment that it feels more like Diablo than Nethack or Dungeon Crawl and kind of a breeze.

  19. Posted

    Whats up. I've listened to the podcast for a year and some now and actually lurked these boards a bit. Registered around when the Thumbs were playing Crusader Kings 2.

     

    I live in Houston, work in a boring industry where I can listen to lots of podcasts at work, play a lot of video games and recently am dipping my toes into game development as a hobby.

     

    Thanks

  20. Posted

    Just got done listening to the newest idle podblast and decided to come over and say hi.

     

    I'm completely new to games-making, have no training is music or art making, or graphic design or really anything. But I have ideas and time so I bought a Unity instructional book and downloaded Unity a few days ago. And learning that is actually pretty fun. And the program clicked with me right away; once the guide book got into coding and the handful of programming classes I took in college rushed back to me and I saw the Unity Script Reference I just thought "oh, I can do anything in this"

     

    I'm also considering learning Game Maker, since that seems to be pretty good and easy for 2D stuff (and 2D stuff is easier for the less graphically inclined). I'm not super anxious to get started on a game yet, just learning the ropes and seeing what would work best for myself.

     

    any advice/tips for Unity learnin' or whatever are appreciated.

  21. Posted

    This stream has been pretty great, as someone who's been playing Paradox games for more than a decade its delightful to watch two cool dudes experience the insanity and wonder of Crusader Kings 2.

     

    My only suggestion to the guys would be to take a breather and pause to read anything they aren't completely sure about, and to also maybe think smaller with planned marriages.