haeric

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by haeric 13y ago
About the "clone of someone elses work" part, I find myself repeating this, but I think it is worth repeating: Do not most games get inspiration from earlier games? Aren't quite a few FPS-games quite similar to the ones preceding them? Or
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by haeric 13y ago
A game? :) Do not most games get inspiration from earlier games? Aren't quite a few FPS-games quite similar to the ones preceding them? Or RTS-games? Aren't most games iterations, improvements and variations upon an existing foundation that
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by haeric 13y ago
Even if Skycraft were just a Minecraft clone there would be a ton of cool things you could do because it's WebGL: Giving your friends a link they can click to join or spectate your world. Embed your world in your blog. Crossplatform... But
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by haeric 13y ago
The *craft name might be temporary, I haven't really decided yet. But at this point, it just gives people the right association, because the gameplay is so similar to Minecraft :) As for my scummyness: Didn't Notch do a somewhat similar thi
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by haeric 13y ago
Hi, the creator here! :) You have many good points, and the main point I want to address is: why let people buy it already? I have thought quite a lot about that, so here are some of my reasons for releasing early: - Why not sell it? What d
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by haeric 13y ago
You found the "Gravity crystal"... which currently does very little except glow, but that will change! ;) Thanks for the kind words! I tested several different illumination techniques, including having shadows depend more on the direction o
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by haeric 13y ago
World generation is definitely one of the most time-consuming bits, and Skycraft is nowhere near where I want it to be at this point. It'll get much better, and I'll keep experimenting with new ways to store the blocks instead of as pure vo
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by haeric 13y ago
Thank you! Seeing people buy it this early is a great motivation for me, and is the reason I can quit my summer internship this summer to work on Skycraft instead :)
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by haeric 13y ago
Coming very soon! :)
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by haeric 13y ago
It's actually in the game, there just isn't any GUI for it yet, so the only way to trigger it is to press F4 :)
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by haeric 13y ago
Do you see the cube loading in the beginning? Have you tried restarting your browser? I have seen some random crashes a very few times, where I've had to do that, some times because there has been too many tabs open. There's still a ways to
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by haeric 13y ago
Thanks for the encouragement! :) But about that originality.. Aren't most games really inspired by previous games, iterating on them, remixing in stuff from other games and making them better? Didn't Transport Tycoon get a lot of inspiratio
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by haeric 13y ago
Glad you see the potential! :) I have only done a few tests yet with multiplayer, but as long as WebRTC doesn't stumble on any security hiccups (like Websockets did in its infancy), it will most likely be p2p multiplayer with a framework ca
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by haeric 13y ago
Hum.. Does WebGL stuff otherwise work for you? For instance, does this work? http://threejs.org/examples/webgl_buffergeometry_particles.h... And what OS and browser are you using?
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by haeric 13y ago
Hum, I'll think about it if I hear it from a few more people! :)
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by haeric 13y ago
It doesn't? My 13" Macbook certainly fires up the song of its people, but I guess an iMac or 15" / 17" should do a lot better :)
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by haeric 13y ago
Thank you! :) If I had started developing Skycraft in 2013, it might have been voxel.js, but it didn't exist at all a year ago. I could have converted to voxel.js, but chose not to, as I have some things voxel.js doesn't yet (lighting, ambi
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by haeric 14y ago
Well, do you EVER actually need a library? No, mostly you can always do stuff manually. But South makes a lot of stuff easier/less brittle, especially when you have a) multiple servers, b) multiple developers, c) multiple environments, and/
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by haeric 14y ago
You did say your analogy was on the fritz, but still... the "training for the olympics" analogy has a huge flaw: When he gets his degree, it probably wouldn't change anything, the coolest thing he could possibly do would probably STILL be
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by haeric 14y ago
What are you using Python for? There are plenty of occations where I have made lists of dictionaries, e.g. when I have have large amounts of data that have to be outputted in a certain way, or if it's just logical to store dictionaries inst
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by haeric 14y ago
The graph shows percentage of users having installed iOS6, one bar per day. The bars are very close to 1-2% in early september (beta testers), then around the release 19th of September, the bars quickly rise each day: 30%, 35%, 45%, 47%, 50