joeld42

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   by joeld42 17y ago

   thanks! that's pretty neat.
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   And if that sort of thing sounds like fun, check out the LudumDare 48-hour game making contest, just over a week away. http://www.ludumdare.com Any language/platform is welcome. I don't think anyone has been crazy enough to try to write a
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   Here's a good blog post by someone who's been there: http://makeitbigingames.com/2009/01/one-way-to-divide-your-c...
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   I watched people playing this for about 15 minutes at GDC. Didn't try it myself and I didn't know at the time that it was 4D, thought it was just some weird xform of the world. Looked amazing but was completely unintuitive to me. I didn't g
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   I haven't found anything better than a written list. There's something really tactile and satisfying about crossing items off it. Every few days I rewrite the list onto the next page, drop things that are no longer relevant, expand items th
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   Learn from their mistakes. Look at the reactions from their customers, and make sure that you ship with their #1 wishlist feature and make sure that feature is emphasized. Also ... "They do not have all the pieces we have so our platform is
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   Nice move. Names matter. I like it.
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   I think this is brilliant. It's not about text, it's about immediacy. video games are feedback loop between the player and this is a reminder to focus on that.
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   by joeld42 17y ago

   yes. It is frustrating to be able to see it happening but persist in the behavior. I haven't found the fix yet. Things that have helped me are 1) arbitrary deadlines (i.e. it ships on Apr 3 in whatever state it's in vs when it's done, it he
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    Kind of undercuts his argument "look I can put crap in the appstore and sell it $300" when it gets pulled.
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I find protobuf easier to catch bugs, because it can catch if you're missing data or trying to put the wrong type in or leaving out a required field. There is a ascii-version that is more readable than JSON, too. That said, overall I agree
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I've used this for some projects, with much success. In one case I used it as a data interchange format between a C++ app an some Python utilities. It worked very well for that and the generated API's were easy to work with, albiet a bit bu
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    Very impressive. This is the first example I've seen that made me think functional programming could actually work for games. I'm still not convinced but the approach described here is really neat and helps me think about the problem in a c
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I think the "words with friends" model works very well. There's a free version, it's identical except that it shows a small banner add on the main menu, and shows you a full-screen ad after every move. It's not very intrusive but you can't
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I like this suggestion.
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    There's a lot of good illustrators featured on http://www.drawn.ca
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    I voted for my favorite. Your name is a tangible noun, "top hat monocle", so there's no need to re-iterate that in the logo. Also it doesn't tell me much about the product, which is ok, but the logo could be an opportunity to communicate a
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    Thanks! Some features that would make this really useful: - custom colors (as mentioned by others) - an X across the image, corner to corner - Optional text instead of the size (i.e. "lead photo", "thumb") - a tag (or the resolution) repeat
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    This snippet presents a useful oxymoron. It's just a simple C/C++ hack, but like the best hacks, it's easy to implement and can save hours of time.
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    Tweakable Constants(gamedev.net)

    2 points by joeld42 17y ago|1 comments
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    They should have used 99 balloons.
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    summary: Use assert();
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    What a neat problem. I hadn't seen this before. You don't need quite that many -- you could test 2^289 (and you can probably skip many of them) and look for the "rectangle free subsets" that he mentions in the slides, and then just look for
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    That's a great point, and I won't even look at a new language anymore unless it has C linkage. Which Go does (as does D, OCaml, and many more...).
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    Really? http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    wow... first impression is this is my dream language... Can't wait to start messing with this...goroutines yay...I could be wrong but this looks really nice.
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    This guide was enough to get me started on the iPhone: http://www.otierney.net/objective-c.html I've got a lot of C/C++ experience, but this was my first look at O-C. The only thing it didn't cover that I needed is @properties, which is e
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    AnyApp
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    by joeld42 17y ago

    Nice! A bit sluggish here (linux/firefox) but usable. If you had some iPhone UI templates, I'd use it.