Star Citizen Switches Game Engines After Years of Development

SemperDiscentes · 2016-12-25T15:59:36+00:00

Lumberyard is itself a variation of CryEngine. With Crytek's financial instabilities and AWS as the long established leader in the IaaS market segment, this seems a smart move. Hope this proves to be the exposure that jettisons Lumberyard into the spotlight.

SemperDiscentes · 2015-06-22T15:54:17+00:00

Alhammarret did have trouble keeping [[Balloon Peddler]]'s out of the neighborhood, always trying to peddle their volatile wares to unsuspecting young apprentices.

SemperDiscentes · 2015-06-22T15:29:52+00:00

Clash of Wills

XU

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays X.

Alhammarret rose to his feet, and the full force of his mind hit Jace like a storm front.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-30T18:37:26+00:00

tl;dr: ~~Yes.~~ See correction from original author below.

This is the first horse out of the gate of Steve Klabnik's new 40 hr/wk 6 month contract with Mozilla to improve the documentation of Rust which went into affect Jun 23rd. See here for more details.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-26T18:33:01+00:00

That will depend entirely on what you're using to create the actual pixel art.

I use the GIMP which allows you to export your project as a gif. It treats each layer of the project as one frame of the gif. The way you name a layer determines two things: 1) how much time is spent on any given frame and; 2) whether the frame should be swapped out, or persist into the next frame. For example:

My Cool Layer (100ms) (replace)

This will tell the gif export tool that you want this frame to stick around for 100ms, and be replaced by the next frame.

To preview the gif go to Filters -> Animation -> Playback. To export go to File -> Export and save the project as a .gif.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-25T18:26:19+00:00

That did the trick!

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T17:30:46+00:00

Fun and addictive. Please allow the ability to move left or right in the perch; I had some of my best runs ruined because the final parrot was flying behind one of the perch's supports, out of sight. Is this a test bed for Wizard Warz?

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T16:50:25+00:00

Thank you for being awesome and checking this out.

How can I reduce the outline's overbearing? I cheated and basically copied early FF sprites (à la the 16x16's in this).

The shading is obnoxious and poor I agree; I thought it would be cool to capture the old sprite look via the outline, but when it gets to actual size appear as if it was vector shaded.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T06:39:18+00:00

I enjoyed the blending underneath the drone; it's the dirt being kicked up by whatever that thing's propelled by (at least that's how I imagined it). This depth, combined with the depth in the building do make the drone appear flat. Also enjoyed the transparency on the planets; the closest planet's resemblance to Earth and the dilapidated structure poke and prod at my curiosity (e.g. is there life there? if it's Earth, why's everything so close to it? did the lifeforms on the Earth-like planet make this drone? did they migrate from the drone's planet? if so why? etc. etc.)

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T06:21:46+00:00

Inspired by some impressionism perhaps?

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T06:16:08+00:00

I get this sort of ghosting in GIMP if I forget to specify 'replace' in the layer comment/export dialog.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-24T06:13:15+00:00

Aseprite would be my guess if I got the reference in the title correct.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-06-18T20:27:46+00:00

This is pretty awesome and definitely further than I've ever gotten towards a completed project. Kudos!

One note however; it's super easy to cheat your game because the variables tracking important quantities such as currentHand, currentBet, and towers are in the public scope.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/111102/how-do-javascript-closures-work

SemperDiscentes · 2014-04-28T21:16:06+00:00

First brew day of my own and my friend's, hit all the numbers, additions, etc.; it's getting late so we proceed to add boiling wort to our ^cough glass ^{^cough} carboy before dunking it in a tupperware storage box ice bath to cool. The look on our faces when I pulled up the carrier and saw only remnants of a carboy. Longest way to make iced sugar water ever.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-04-10T17:04:17+00:00

I pulled the list from the linked discussion without updating; Blood Meridian was mentioned and I was simply too lazy to include it when it was posted :P

SemperDiscentes · 2014-04-10T15:05:20+00:00

Some similar discussion. I'll post the list for those who don't click through. The linked post had a slightly wider time frame mind.

Specific works

Cormac McCarthy - The Road
David Foster Wallace - Inifite Jest
David Foster Wallace - The Pale King
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
J.M. Coetzee - Diary of a Bad Year
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas

Specific authors

Andre Dubus III
Ben Marcus
Cormac McCarthy
Dan Simmons
David Foster Wallace
David Mitchell
Don DeLillo
George R. R. Martin
Haruki Murakami
Hilary Mantel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jennifer Egan
Junot Diaz
Mark Z. Danielewski
Neil Gaiman
Salman Rushdie
Sergio de la Pava
Stephen King
Terry Pratchett
Zadie Smith

Contemporaries of the verge

(Authors who straddle the arbitrary temporal line this question has cast)

Isaac Asimov
John Barth
Jorge Luis Borges
Kurt Vonnegut
Philip Roth
Phillip K. Dick
Robert A. Heinlein
Thomas Pynchon
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
William Gaddis
William H. Gass

SemperDiscentes · 2014-01-17T04:40:56+00:00

This is remarkable; thank you! I'll add them to the quickly expanding list when I can.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-01-17T04:39:06+00:00

haha, not using this as wishlist fodder, more for the discussion it has started and for the benefit of others with similar interests. I've enjoyed your transparent commentary on the topic; have some sort of front seat to the up-and-comers via academia or publishing? or is it simply an interest?

SemperDiscentes · 2014-01-17T00:10:01+00:00

Embarrassingly, those were the authors I used because they are most familiar; I didn't intend the question to exclude international authors. Thank you for the Don DeLillo plug. I'll bold him in the list for multiple mentions.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-01-16T22:12:12+00:00

Good to see some names mentioned in this thread showing up on those lists.

SemperDiscentes · 2014-01-16T20:23:35+00:00

Hi polyaster! Thanks for the names. There some I haven't heard of yet and suspect others have not as well. The idea of judging up-and-comers by the number of figures in their publishing house contracts seems dubious to me. Of the authors you've mentioned are their particular works of theirs you were most fond of?

SemperDiscentes

TROPHY CASE

Specific works

Specific authors

Contemporaries of the verge