richardjdare

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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   I'm a part time indie developer. For my last game, Antigen, ( http://antigengame.com ) I got to do the following: Work with procedural graphics algorithms. I invented several original techniques which I don't think have
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   I'm comparing maths with programming and every other subject I learned in school and after :) I do find maths difficult, which is also why I am fascinated by it. It's alien to me. As for physics, although I have never studied it t
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   Thanks for your reply, that's some useful information. I'm writing as a self-taught programmer who has spent years trying to get a handle on the maths of game development and computer graphics; for the most part that means calculu
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   >>Why would you need to prove central limit theorem in order to use calculus? What kind of course teach it that way? It would sound like something to prove for a honors calculus class that prepares students to become mathematicians. Y
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   Thanks mate, To be honest the game was designed primarily for iphone and ipod touch. I've tested it on 3 generations of iphones and ipods. When I set the deployment target to "iphone" rather than "universal" I assum
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   I will see what I can find out. It doesn't happen on iphone or ipod touch. Thanks for the bug report!
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   Hmm, Not sure what the problem would be. Are you accidentally touching the top right corner of the screen? Thats where the pause button is, there's a little video player pause icon up there. I made that whole corner into a pause button
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   http://antigengame.com
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   by richardjdare 12y ago

   My first game for an early mobile platform (2003) took me six months and sold 600 copies. My latest iPhone release took a couple of years of part time work, and doesn't look like it will even approach that. It won't even cover the
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    by richardjdare 12y ago

    The Amiga had several good BASICs, particularly AMOS and Blitz Basic. Blitz was very powerful and fun to program. You could easily drop beneath the provided commands and access the OS and hardware beneath. It had well-integrated inline asse
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    Perhaps the person's experience diminishes slowly as each part is replaced, until he is finally snuffed out without anyone noticing :) reminds me of "how to get ahead in advertising", or William Burroughs' "Did I ev
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    What I have always disliked about this quote is that it implies that the external world is fixed, and that the task of the individual is to merely accept what is presented to him/her without regard to that persons own desires and incli
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    One of the difficulties in creating novelty is in creating the "relationships between symbols" as you say. Take a sword in an RPG for example. It can be a weapon, it can be sold, it can be used as a crutch for a wounded person. It
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    I recently used DPaint 4 to do some pixel art for an iPhone game I am working on :) Photoshop was just too annoying when working at the pixel level. I really regret not having made any Amiga games/programs when I was a teenager. I just
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    I taught myself from the late eighties to mid nineties. I started with BASIC on the Amstrad CPC then Blitz Basic and 68000 assembly on the Amiga. Then got a PC and learned C++, then got into web development via Java (day job), now I'm
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    by richardjdare 13y ago

    I got into Renderman in the late nineties thanks to Larry Gritz's Renderman compliant renderer BMRT, which was free for non-commercial use. I believe it was used for a number of Hollywood productions alongside PRMan, since it could ray
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    by richardjdare 14y ago

    Thanks for your reply. Going on a vipassana retreat and participating in a shamanic ceremony are definitely things I'd like to do at some point. All of my investigations have been solitary, for the most part, so I am ignorant of the collect
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    by richardjdare 14y ago

    Thats something that bothered me regarding mindfulness vs. concentration. Mindfulness presupposes that the "Three Fundamental Characteristics" exist, and have the form described by Buddhist metaphysics. It tells you to take this on faith an