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[HellBlazer]

Why can't I define a method with optional parameters inside a MonoBehaviour?
I get a warning that the names of the file it is in doesn't match, but my game doesn't crash, it just halts all ingame objects that use that class?

I have to move that method into its own class(nested also doesn't work) and away from any file where a class derived from MonoBehaviour is in.
I can then instantiate it inside a MonoBehaviour Object and use it just fine
Really weird but it works now.

Huh? You can use optional parameters in a MonoBehaviour just fine, I do it all the time. Have you renamed your behaviour class recently? The error about the file name not matching the class name means that, say, the TestClass class must be declared in a file named TestClass.cs. It's not directly related to method parameters at all. Did you maybe rename the class and not the file? Or maybe you just inadvertently changed the class name?

 

[razu]

Step one towards uniting the chopper game with the boat game!

 

[cbox]

Step one towards uniting the chopper game with the boat game!

Nice!!

 

[Alts]

I've been working on cyberpunk jam this week. I've been getting way too into this one and probably won't finish it completely by the deadline, but at least I've gotten something interesting to work on out of it!

It's a metroidvania set in a futuristic Heian era Kyoto... which hangs upside down from the sky. You play an onmyouji hacker/magician. I swear all of this makes sense in context.



Early screen of one of the first areas (it's a bit more complex now).

The hacking mechanic requires you to find symbols in nature to use in hacking/spells. These are water and fire respectively.

An upside down forest with a ribbon pathway beneath it.



The big thing I just finished working on today, the techno shrine where you start the game and find your first symbol/other tutorial nonsense. I could have just screencapped it but it had to be gif'ed for its full magnificence.

This looks gorgeous. Quoting so hopefully more people see it

 

[Mental Atrophy]

I made my first batch of variable width fonts. It takes considerably more time than monospaced but wasn't -that- bad. Still bitmap fonts because I hate how unpredictable vectors look at low resolution without anti-aliasing... and also because outline fonts take a century to make and it's awful.

I am leaning towards the third font. Although it's the least space efficient, I like a heavier stroke--always preferred beefy SNES fonts intended for old CRT TVs compared to the wispy pixel-thin fonts on GBA/DS. What I may do is take the middle font and then straighten the curves to match the bottom's style, so that I still have those sexy straight lines but with slightly more space efficient lowercase characters.

 

[SlipperySlope]

An update. Some animating water (I know, kind of hard to see, I'll work on that), and the enemy AI for the bowman is complete, including the special aspect of actually shooting arrows at you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsjqCwFeAno

Edit - For the water, I'm stealing the Secret of Mana approach. The animating part is actually moving dirt that is underneath the water, then I have a water tile on top with a transparency. Later I will add a separate actually animating water tile (this will have two layers of animation, the water effect, and the transparent moving dirt underneath). It also needs water-land connector tiles.

 

[Lissar]

love the way you draw people, that looks great.

Thank you! This game is going to be interesting for me since I'm actually going to be putting a larger variety of people in it, so I'm excited to see how I can expand the style while still maintaining coherency.

This looks gorgeous. Quoting so hopefully more people see it

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it.

 

[razu]

Nice!!

Thank you!

This weekend's mission is to get the boat in that lagoon. Then chopper-boat switching when you land in the water

 

[Jack_AG]

Note: I am doing all sprite work and I don't do sprite work XD - my capabilities are far FAR lower than anyone in this thread when it comes to visuals so don't eviscerate me too bad.

So i'm working on level hazards today. Doing a typical lava/liquid/insta-kill hazard and here's my first run:

I don't think it looks too shabby. I originally had each section flowing in a single direction but after playing a few Atari games for research - not many of them were this complex so I halved it and just flipped the sprite then replicated it.

Each vertical "slice" of liquid is it's own object with it's own animation. I am thinking I might write some light physics for it so it act's like the surface of water when the player falls in it. I kinda don't want to do this since it would venturing too far outside the realm of the Atari-ness I'm going for and kinda want to remain true to form, to an extent.

I may have over-stepped that boundary in other areas so I need to sit back and look at the whole picture, eventually and remove/add "eye candy" to make the experience more cohesive. Either way, I can still write the physics and see how it looks and save it for future 2D projects.

Now I just need to rig up 2 more enemies and 1 more level hazard and that's that outside of bosses and levels.

 

[Mr. Virus]

The codies managed to redo the level generating algorithm in Monstrum a bit (read here!). The important part about this is it's now giffable !

Side on images taken from the editor, but still looks nice .

 

[AusRoachman]

Trying out some various particles from there store and working on a new snow level

and a large gif showing off the particles more

 

[BlastProcessing]

Anyone in Austin this weekend, feel free to drop by Booth 260 at the Games Expo. We will be showing Ephemerid and will have this guy (vine link) who dances a little boogie every time someone follows @SuperChopGames on Twitter!

 

[hitsugi]

An update. Some animating water (I know, kind of hard to see, I'll work on that), and the enemy AI for the bowman is complete, including the special aspect of actually shooting arrows at you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsjqCwFeAno

Edit - For the water, I'm stealing the Secret of Mana approach. The animating part is actually moving dirt that is underneath the water, then I have a water tile on top with a transparency. Later I will add a separate actually animating water tile (this will have two layers of animation, the water effect, and the transparent moving dirt underneath). It also needs water-land connector tiles.

I may have missed you mentioning it before, but what are you developing this with?

 

[SlipperySlope]

I may have missed you mentioning it before, but what are you developing this with?

Hi Hitsugi,

It's being developed in Unity and the 2D Toolkit.

 

[cbox]

Thank you!

This weekend's mission is to get the boat in that lagoon. Then chopper-boat switching when you land in the water

As soon as I saw that screen, images of sim copter flashed before my eyes.

 

[missile]

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Beautiful. I really love the art style of yours.

Note: ...

No need to justify. xD

...

I don't think it looks too shabby. ...

It begins!

Spoiler

Looks nice somehow.

... I originally had each section flowing in a single direction but after playing a few Atari games for research - not many of them
were this complex ...

Atari for research. Awesome! Am currently on the BBC Micro B doing some
research and programming -- dusting off some pretty old-school stuff I want to
use for my actual game. :+

Each vertical "slice" of liquid is it's own object with it's own animation. I am thinking I might write some light physics for it so it act's like the surface of water when the player falls in it. I kinda don't want to do ...

There is a special appeal in coupling old-school graphics with modern physics,
mind you. That's what I'm after at least.

 

[missile]

Step one towards uniting the chopper game with the boat game!

Mike must feel lost in here! The boat will gun at Mike?

 

[borius]

The codies managed to redo the level generating algorithm in Monstrum a bit (read here!). The important part about this is it's now giffable !

Side on images taken from the editor, but still looks nice .

Survival horror on a derelict ship? count me in!

How do you plan to fit procedurally generated areas with a ship layout? (skimming through your blog right now)

 

[Turfster]

This is brilliant.

 

[Bollocks]

Huh? You can use optional parameters in a MonoBehaviour just fine, I do it all the time. Have you renamed your behaviour class recently? The error about the file name not matching the class name means that, say, the TestClass class must be declared in a file named TestClass.cs. It's not directly related to method parameters at all. Did you maybe rename the class and not the file? Or maybe you just inadvertently changed the class name?

No, none of the above.

I have a Player class in Player.cs, doh and when I add this function:

        public void changeState(State newState, int foo = 3)
        {

        }

I get this warning:

The class defined in script file named 'Player' does not match the file name!

If I delete/comment that function or at least delete that second argument, it works again

 

[Turfster]

If I delete/comment that function or at least delete that second argument, it works again

That should work, tho, I've done it too.
Have you tried resyncing the project/reimporting all assets to force recompile the script?
This is sounding like a Unity/Mono-derp.

 

[SlipperySlope]

That should work, tho, I've done it too.
Have you tried resyncing the project/reimporting all assets to force recompile the script?
This is sounding like a Unity/Mono-derp.

Yeah, it sounds weird. I'd try starting a very small test project to test just that one functionality.

 

[SOLDIER]

I was referred to this thread from elsewhere, so I thought I'd try to sell myself as a possible collaborator for hire (though I'm more in it for experience instead of money...can't usually earn the latter without the former, after all).

First off, I don't have any programming experience. I'm looking to change that by fiddling with some of the well-recommended game-making tools out there (starting with RPG Maker, which I received as a gift a few months back), but I've always felt my biggest asset was my writing.

I've done a lot of opinionated writing for games, mainly reviews and articles across many websites as a freelance writer (I can provide sources upon request). I've always wanted to get into creative writing and make something on my own, but I often lack the finer points in fully fleshing out an idea.

That's why it's always been my dream to collaborate with people on projects. I nearly achieved that with a couple of aspiring comic book artists, but typically they would lose interest or get caught up with real life roadblocks. Regardless, those short-term partnerships were where I felt the most comfortable, as well as the most driven.

So I'd like to try and sell myself a bit in this thread and see if any aspiring Indie devs would be interested in letting me contribute to their games as a writer, whether for character dialog or concepts. I'm always brainstorming and I've been playing and discussing games for the better part of my life. I'm always quick to respond and almost always available, so feel free to PM me or otherwise.

 

[RawNuts]

I just love watching this.

 

[GulAtiCa]

Sweet! Finally found a javascript class that triangulates a concave polygon into triangles. This helps me a lot, since my current physic engine I'm using for this physics-based puzzle game can only deal with convex polygons.

In other news, my Wii U game finally passed NOA lotcheck! Woo! I'm now in talks with Nintendo on potential release date while it's off to NCL for final check.

 

[Apoc29]

Why can't I define a method with optional parameters inside a MonoBehaviour?
I get a warning that the names of the file it is in doesn't match, but my game doesn't crash, it just halts all ingame objects that use that class?

I have to move that method into its own class(nested also doesn't work) and away from any file where a class derived from MonoBehaviour is in.
I can then instantiate it inside a MonoBehaviour Object and use it just fine
Really weird but it works now.

Right-click the Project in Monodevelop, choose Options. In the Project Options window, select Build->General and set Target Framework to Mono / .NET 4.0 (it might be set to 3.5 or something).

 

[Jobbs]

Have you guys heard of gfycat?

It turns big gifs into quick loading embeds that are apparently some kind of html5 video or something.

example: 22 megs to 2 megs

http://gfycat.com/NegligibleDevotedGalapagospenguin#

about gfycat: http://gfycat.com/about

This shit is awesome. It can be embedded on websites easily but as of yet I don't see any way to embed it on forums such as Neogaf. Either Neogaf or gfycat needs to figure out a way to make this happen.

 

[Five]

Have you guys heard of gfycat?

It turns big gifs into quick loading embeds that are apparently some kind of html5 video or something.

example: 22 megs to 2 megs

http://gfycat.com/NegligibleDevotedGalapagospenguin#

about gfycat: http://gfycat.com/about

This shit is awesome. It can be embedded on websites easily but as of yet I don't see any way to embed it on forums such as Neogaf. Either Neogaf or gfycat needs to figure out a way to make this happen.

All I know is Chrome keeps crashing in every tab that I open with a GFY in it. First time that I've seen the "Aw snap, something went wrong" page in a few months, actually.

But the idea's not bad.

 

[Blizzard]

Sweet! Finally found a javascript class that triangulates a concave polygon into triangles. This helps me a lot, since my current physic engine I'm using for this physics-based puzzle game can only deal with convex polygons.

In other news, my Wii U game finally passed NOA lotcheck! Woo! I'm now in talks with Nintendo on potential release date while it's off to NCL for final check.

Congratulations! Sorry I haven't been around the IRC channel much. I've been trying to stay off IRC when I'm working since it's a distraction, even if people are talking about game stuff.

 

[SlipperySlope]

Sweet! Finally found a javascript class that triangulates a concave polygon into triangles. This helps me a lot, since my current physic engine I'm using for this physics-based puzzle game can only deal with convex polygons.

In other news, my Wii U game finally passed NOA lotcheck! Woo! I'm now in talks with Nintendo on potential release date while it's off to NCL for final check.

Congrats man! All the best to you! Good luck with your game.

 

[razu]

As soon as I saw that screen, images of sim copter flashed before my eyes.

I'd never seen that!

Mike must feel lost in here! The boat will gun at Mike?

Ha. Nope, when you land on the water you'll transform into a boat and start controlling that. Then, if you sail to the edge of the lagoon you'll transform into a unimog 4x4 truck Then drive over a helipad to transform back to the chopper...!

 

[Blizzard]

I'd been using Visual Studio for a while both for my own projects and work projects, but I only just this week learned about something I should have known ages ago:

If you jump somewhere, for example because you searched for something in a file, you can jump backwards (even to different files) to all your previous locations by using Ctrl + '-'. Ctrl + Shift + '-' sends you back forward through the jump list.

It's the equivalent of Ctrl-O and Ctrl-I in VIM, which I'd probably known about and used for much longer. I had previously used the undo/redo trick to jump back to wherever I had previously been editing after jumping away, but this is better.

 

[SlipperySlope]

I'd been using Visual Studio for a while both for my own projects and work projects, but I only just this week learned about something I should have known ages ago:

If you jump somewhere, for example because you searched for something in a file, you can jump backwards (even to different files) to all your previous locations by using Ctrl + '-'. Ctrl + Shift + '-' sends you back forward through the jump list.

It's the equivalent of Ctrl-O and Ctrl-I in VIM, which I'd probably known about and used for much longer. I had previously used the undo/redo trick to jump back to wherever I had previously been editing after jumping away, but this is better.

This is helpful. Thanks. I usually use the "back" button on my mouse, but my work mouse doesn't have one.

 

[razu]

I'd been using Visual Studio for a while both for my own projects and work projects, but I only just this week learned about something I should have known ages ago:

If you jump somewhere, for example because you searched for something in a file, you can jump backwards (even to different files) to all your previous locations by using Ctrl + '-'. Ctrl + Shift + '-' sends you back forward through the jump list.

It is a super feature! I too learned of it years into my coding life.. felt so dumb.

 

[Makai]

Sweet! Finally found a javascript class that triangulates a concave polygon into triangles. This helps me a lot, since my current physic engine I'm using for this physics-based puzzle game can only deal with convex polygons.

In other news, my Wii U game finally passed NOA lotcheck! Woo! I'm now in talks with Nintendo on potential release date while it's off to NCL for final check.

Yay!

 

[Mystic River]

Social media also is an important part in the future, whenever you want to get new quests, track how your crew is doing, what do they think about you and others and other things are all visible through social media in Junkcraft Armada.

Just started working on this concept 2 days ago, but I think will be interesting to see how your crew will provide feedback to the player , one of the things that bother me in most games is how easy is to replace a lost unit, like in any RTS game, just build another one and the result is the same for each unit, but in this game each crew member is different, each with different nuances, so learning about them is not a waste of time, actually can help improve the probability to finish the game or die trying.

More information at http://mysticrivergames.blogspot.jp/2014/03/quests-status-check-and-how-to-know.html

 

[Prototype Viktor]

The codies managed to redo the level generating algorithm in Monstrum a bit (read here!). The important part about this is it's now giffable !

Side on images taken from the editor, but still looks nice .

It's SimTower on steroids
Looks awesome

 

[razu]

It's Saturday! I have made something this week... behold my #screeshotsaturday!!

I think I may indeed stick with Super Something Squad™

That lagoon may look like nothing, but as a novice modeller, it was a royale pain up the assholes and no mistake!!!

 

[Blizzard]

Screenshot Saturday? I never post screenshots! I should post one! This isn't of a game but I guess it's better than nothing.

 

[Makai]

Screenshot Saturday? I never post screenshots! I should post one! This isn't of a game but I guess it's better than nothing.

Some sort of explanation will be required

 

[razu]

Some sort of explanation will be required

 

[EDarkness]

Sweet! Finally found a javascript class that triangulates a concave polygon into triangles. This helps me a lot, since my current physic engine I'm using for this physics-based puzzle game can only deal with convex polygons.

In other news, my Wii U game finally passed NOA lotcheck! Woo! I'm now in talks with Nintendo on potential release date while it's off to NCL for final check.

Congrats, man! Hope everything works out for you.

 

[Davision]

Added water and isles to my 3d map:

 

[McFadge]

Really, really, love how that looks.

 

[razu]

Added water and isles to my 3d map:

Awesome, again!

What's the actual game like?

 

[Pehesse]

Screenshot saturday! ...or is it asset saturday... ? Been stuck in animation land since the last update, so no new "screenshots" even though stuff is being made. Should be able to head back to the prototype soon to cram all those new movements in! (sorry about the terrible GIF quality and timings - since eventually this ends up in Construct 2 anyway, the timings get different since each frame gets its own length, but for now, it's basic 10FPS for everyone)

and the latest WIP as a bonus!

 

[borius]

Added water and isles to my 3d map:

That's cool! What kind of game is that? any links so I can follow and read about it?




I needed a way to find testers for my recently released game and I've just found this reddit Play my Game I don't know if everyone knows it so here it is.


Screenshot saturday

It's an endless runner developed for the iv flappy jam (flappy bird inspired game of which we are going to follow their sales on the markets and we will produce some postmortems too)
I'm working on a update that will be released tomorrow night as weel as the iOS version.
Play Store - free

 

[LSauchelli]

Have you guys heard of gfycat?

It turns big gifs into quick loading embeds that are apparently some kind of html5 video or something.

example: 22 megs to 2 megs

http://gfycat.com/NegligibleDevotedGalapagospenguin#

about gfycat: http://gfycat.com/about

This shit is awesome. It can be embedded on websites easily but as of yet I don't see any way to embed it on forums such as Neogaf. Either Neogaf or gfycat needs to figure out a way to make this happen.

You can also get the .webm file it generates: http://fat.gfycat.com/NegligibleDevotedGalapagospenguin.webm

 

[Davision]

Awesome, again!

What's the actual game like?

That's cool! What kind of game is that? any links so I can follow and read about it?

It is for Last Knight, It is basically a action platformer with lots of random generation. Here is the game's website with trailer: http://www.lastknightthegame.com
The map is for a new game mode, more about it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/92914705/1391784847

 

[BlueMagic]

Added water and isles to my 3d map:

Reminds me a lot of Little King's Story!