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Hamish
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: Auckland, NZ
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| I'm not concerned about it from a marketing point of view. I'd like to do it for the exact same reasons you do. Does it suit you if I post my own posts on the dev diary forum? Dunno how regular or frequent but I'd like to give it a try |
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Fost
Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Hamish wrote: | | Does it suit you if I post my own posts on the dev diary forum? |
Currently that won't work, because the dev diary forum is 'special' and gets auto-syndicated. I'm not sure of a way round that without removing the automation (which would be bad). Maybe if you just posted to the WA forum? I could then put a summary of anything significant in the DD forum when we post each month so nobody on the RSS syndication stuff missed anything interesting?
Although, I'm open to ideas... |
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Dragon Puppy
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Dan Macdonald
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Mill Creek, WA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:15 am Post subject: |
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I don't know about you guys, but when i did this type of algorithm in 2D it was surprisingly complex to implement. I think I ended up using the Liang + Barskey method. |
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Fost
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| Dan Macdonald wrote: | | I don't know about you guys, but when i did this type of algorithm in 2D it was surprisingly complex to implement. I think I ended up using the Liang + Barskey method. |
Currently it's just doing an insane amount of ray casting. It's ok in the prototype though, but then we don't have anything very detailed in the test complex we've built and I'm sure it would slow down with further surfaces. This kind of Line-of-site stuff would really suit having the art designed round it too and would probably even be better in 2D. With 3D, you are dealing with planes rather than lines (although this prototype is only worked out in 2D) so some thing look a bit odd! Good fun though, it's a shame you can't make games with absolutely rubbish graphics! |
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Chrisj
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Posts: 95
Location: Oxford, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The bottom two pictures made me think rather of the early X-COM games. Something in that line would probably have the same kind of geek/fanatic/person-who-likes gameplay appeal as Starscape and Mr Robot. |
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Inane
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
Posts: 173
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Heh, if you want an X-com style game, UFO:ET is coming out late february. |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Tacoma Washington
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:52 am Post subject: |
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There are like a million indy X-Com clones in development.
Now if moonpod were making one than that would be interesting. |
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Dan Macdonald
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Mill Creek, WA
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Yeah i did it with a combination of subdividing the main view triangle and parametric line clipping... it's a nice optimization but your obstructions need to be orthogonal. Then the number of iterations is roughly equivalent to the number of obstructions which is pretty efficient.
Personally I really like it as a game mechanic  |
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Fost
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Dan Macdonald wrote: | | Personally I really like it as a game mechanic |
Yeah it does work (which was the point in the prototype). I suppose hide and seek is one of the oldest games there is, and we still do it now in most FPS games. Line of sight checking adds that layer to any 2D game and can be applied to all sorts of genres. |
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DrDerekDoctors
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
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Location: Stratford Upon Avon, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: January-07: Finished! |
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| Flumpaphone wrote: |
This:
piqued my interest for some reason. I am wondering what the (little coloured men?) are doing in a (cave?) with a (bigfoot style space truck?)
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Bigfoot? You mean Bigtrak? And even then, for shame! It's obviously the lunar jeep our of Lunar Jetman! And there's you with an Ultimate PTG avatar...  |
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Fost
Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: Re: January-07: Finished! |
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| DrDerekDoctors wrote: | | Bigfoot? You mean Bigtrak? |
I used to covet bigtrak when I was young. Sadly we were poor, so no Starwars Millenium Falcon or Bigtrak for me. Only the rich kids had them 
| DrDerekDoctors wrote: | | It's obviously the lunar jeep our of Lunar Jetman! |
There's someone who knows their games! |
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happymonster
Joined: 03 Sep 2005
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Location: Nottingham, UK
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Any more ideas about the next game yet guys? |
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Fost
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| happymonster wrote: | | Any more ideas about the next game yet guys? |
Not yet sadly. There's a lot of options at the moment, and we need to discuss all of them thoroughly before we can make an announcement. |
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DrDerekDoctors
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
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Location: Stratford Upon Avon, UK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: January-07: Finished! |
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| Fost wrote: | | DrDerekDoctors wrote: | | Bigfoot? You mean Bigtrak? |
I used to covet bigtrak when I was young. Sadly we were poor, so no Starwars Millenium Falcon or Bigtrak for me. Only the rich kids had them
My lower school in Cornwall had one we could use during Friday afternoon playtime. *sigh*
| DrDerekDoctors wrote: | | It's obviously the lunar jeep our of Lunar Jetman! |
There's someone who knows their games! |
If not how to spell "out". I'm surprised you weren't tempted to put the mythical trailer in there as well.  |
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