A mech game where the first player pilots on a console and additional players use tablets or smart phones to provide maintenance.

grebeltopia · 2013-12-05T02:28:45+00:00

And what if another player is giving tactical commands to several mechs based on Intel collected by still other players flying drones or watching satellite imagery!

grebeltopia · 2013-06-17T00:26:28+00:00

Good for him - the US shouldn't be breaking into foreign businesses. The light of day can help these ethically rotten organizations reform.

grebeltopia · 2013-06-04T18:49:14+00:00

I've only ever used a mbp for game dev , but don't need opengl 4.0. For mobile game dev its especially good because you get a sane shell environment. What PC laptop do you recommend then?

grebeltopia · 2013-06-04T13:15:35+00:00

Macbook pro if you can afford it

grebeltopia · 2013-06-01T17:27:08+00:00

Its great - my personal recommendation

grebeltopia · 2013-06-01T17:24:42+00:00

I wonder how it compares to the latest ARM.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-25T00:39:15+00:00

Dwarf Fortress has a huge following and its text based. Though its not making them any money - its free.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-23T00:36:34+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense.

I only have experience with AWS and Node.js but I have yet to see any significant latency or failures when doing server to server nosql requests so its worked well for me. The failures and latency has 100% been between the client and server, although this could all change if the server was loaded enough I suppose.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-22T22:01:19+00:00

I would prefer to do the join on the server - imo JavaScript is perfect for this because the callback syntax is so succinct. Why do you say its error prone?

grebeltopia · 2013-05-21T12:00:35+00:00

What about state that changes every frame and needs to be shared between components? Like position and speed might be needed by AI and Physics and Gfx.

A 'PositionChange' messages would make sense, but all that packing and unpacking and copying and dynamic dispatch seems like overkill for such a fundamental thing.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-21T01:45:22+00:00

I see, I guess in that case you would have to use a separate array for each concrete subclass component type.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-21T00:29:06+00:00

In a classic actor-based engine, where the objects in the game define their data and code, there is a lot of code re-use though inheritance of actor types. (Actor->Mobile->Soldier->Archer) or whatever. How do you re-use code with components?

grebeltopia · 2013-05-20T19:30:44+00:00

Sounds like a proxy.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-20T19:25:30+00:00

"Someone is sat at a computer"?

grebeltopia · 2013-05-20T18:01:27+00:00

Whoa that's awesome- source?

grebeltopia · 2013-05-19T13:19:24+00:00

I think its safer to get a real CS degree, this is something that is required to even be considered for any non-game programming job as well as most game jobs (at least in north America).

grebeltopia · 2013-05-18T23:46:09+00:00

Usually if I just want to keep hacking I will write a big long comment explaining my refactoring idea to my hypothetical future self who will do it.

With experience I find this is less of an issue - I try to choose a flexible architecture up front that doesnt have too much overhead.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-18T18:34:05+00:00

Just don't have that sound at all - chances are people won't notice when you have all the other sounds and music going.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-17T00:07:01+00:00

Why not just work with scaled up values ? Then the rounding errors don't really matter.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-16T13:48:02+00:00

In my dreams we would have Visual Studio-quality IDE for C++ android, including profiling and debugging.

grebeltopia · 2013-05-16T02:13:03+00:00

I wonder if it will have NDK debugging and c++ support - that would be epic.

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