Clockwork Empires 1.0 - Having A Roanoke Time!

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Daynab: Aug 5, 2008

Today's blog update is indirectly of interest for anyone who would like to mod the game eventually.
Sweet sweet JSON.
http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/02/26/theyre-made-out-of-meat/

# ? Feb 26, 2014 21:08

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# ? May 16, 2024 20:39

nvining: May 30, 2011; tunnels through walls with its odd, rubbery nasal appliance

Daynab posted:

Today's blog update is indirectly of interest for anyone who would like to mod the game eventually.
Sweet sweet JSON.
http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/02/26/theyre-made-out-of-meat/

Uh, no, no JSON. Lua and XML.

Also, it's about meat.

# ? Feb 26, 2014 21:09

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Secrets are being revealed, rebalance the meat levels.

# ? Feb 26, 2014 21:14

Tias: May 25, 2008; Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

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rhoga posted:

Endless isn't the word. The possibilities are squamous, and full of unknowable angles, vistas of unwholesome horror as only a Machen or Von Junzt could have imagined.

Fixed that for you :eng101:

# ? Feb 26, 2014 22:57

Deadmeat5150: Nov 21, 2005; OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

I see the promise of golden tickets again. I'm beginning to think you have tricked me with a Celine Dion ticket dipped in mustard.

# ? Feb 26, 2014 23:56

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

nvining posted:

Uh, no, no JSON. Lua and XML.

Also, it's about meat.

code:

models = {
  [1] = { "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteBlocky1x1-00.upm", "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteLumpy1x1-00.upm" },
  [2] = { "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteBlocky2x2-00.upm", "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteLumpy2x2-00.upm" },
  [3] = { "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteBlocky3x3-00.upm", "models//nature//rocks//rhyoliteLumpy3x3-00.upm" },
}

Why are the models indexed first by degree of devolution and then by shape, rather than vice versa? Doesn't that make it kind of aggravating to add new shapes?

Something like:

code:

models = {
  { "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteBlocky1x1-00.upm", "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteBlocky2x2-00.upm", "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteBlocky3x3-00.upm" };
  { "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteLumpy1x1-00.upm",  "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteLumpy2x2-00.upm",  "models/nature/rocks/rhyoliteLumpy3x3-00.upm"  };
}

Also, I am stoked to see how moddable this game will be, and that a lot of the interesting stuff is being pulled into Lua rather than going deeper into the XML rabbithole.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 01:19

Gaukler: Oct 9, 2012

Looks cool, but from reading the update and looking at the data format it looks like each input can only have one output? So no

code:

Cow -> 3 Bone, 5 Leather, 10 Meat 

or 

Person -> 2 Definitely Not a Human's Bone, 3 "Leather", 5 "Meat"

# ? Feb 27, 2014 17:34

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Daynab posted:

Today's blog update is indirectly of interest for anyone who would like to mod the game eventually.
Sweet sweet JSON.
http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/02/26/theyre-made-out-of-meat/

That meatcube...I gotta know what the next level of manufactured good is that comes from that.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 17:48

Deadmeat5150: Nov 21, 2005; OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

Soviet_Russia posted:

That meatcube...I gotta know what the next level of manufactured good is that comes from that.

Meat bricks -> Meat Housing -> A meat factory make of meat bricks producing meat cubes

# ? Feb 27, 2014 17:54

Agean90: Jun 28, 2008

Warning: Do put artifacts into the meat house. If the meat house begins to whisper and/or undulate, leave the meat house at once. Please remove any growths the meat house might produce as they are often acidic.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 18:06

DeathSandwich: Apr 24, 2008; I fucking hate puzzles.

Deadmeat5150 posted:

Meat bricks -> Meat Housing -> A meat factory make of meat bricks producing meat cubes

Smells like industry and progress. Ignore the dogs, they just want a piece of ~~orphan~~ capitalism for themselves.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 18:15

Deadmeat5150: Nov 21, 2005; OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

Warning: May contain meat ~~and/or the paranoid and homicidal thoughts of elder unknowable beings~~

# ? Feb 27, 2014 18:29

Dareon: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

Okay, how long has that been there? :catbert:

# ? Mar 4, 2014 05:28

dbaumgart: May 31, 2011

Dareon posted:

Okay, how long has that been there?

(I love the payoff on playing the long-game with a joke/reference! Oh man. So worth it.)

(Edit 2: SVN log says the image was there since 2011, but converted from an earlier sprite. I must have added the description later; We officially finalized the name "Clockwork Empires" in what looks to be February of 2012 though that particular name was kicking around a little earlier than that.)

dbaumgart fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Mar 4, 2014

# ? Mar 4, 2014 19:05

nvining: May 30, 2011; tunnels through walls with its odd, rubbery nasal appliance

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

# ? Mar 5, 2014 01:09

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Good luck with testing, I hope you updated Jira.

# ? Mar 5, 2014 01:19

LtSmash: Dec 18, 2005; Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind.

-Sister Miriam Godwinson,
"We Must Dissent"

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

*Note: one hour of time as measured by an outside observer. To the participant subjective time will be strange aeons that see an endless march of civilizations birthed and turned to dust. Untold numbers of lives flickering past. Worlds beyond counting blooming and wilting again and again. Until the stars themselves gutter out and the goon is left to scrabble across the cinders of the universe. Until time itself winds out and they are finally trapped in the last moment. Alone for the stretching eternity of closure. Alone save for that which has always been and always will be. That which has feasted on all those realms that came before. Alone with nowhere and nowhen further to flee to.

# ? Mar 5, 2014 01:35

Gibbo: Sep 13, 2008; "yes James. Remove that from my presence. It... Offends me" *sips overpriced wine*

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

I was just over last weekend AAAUUGH. :smith:

(Victoria)

# ? Mar 5, 2014 04:20

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

I could do screen sharing so that it SEEMS like I'm present. You could tape my picture to a chair and occasionally fart, it would be like I was right there to all of the senses.

# ? Mar 5, 2014 05:28

Deadmeat5150: Nov 21, 2005; OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

There are plenty of times while sailing I can see Vancouver. Occasionally I get the pleasure of having a long wee in Canadian waters just to say I did. However without my passport I can't actually pull in and come say hi.

# ? Mar 5, 2014 05:56

Dementedghost: Jan 7, 2010; Running 1.86 miles without dying is literally impossible

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

It could have been me! Should have been me!

(Except I moved to Ontario, the hell is wrong with me)

# ? Mar 5, 2014 14:32

420 Gank Mid: Dec 26, 2008; WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

Are there any plans for dev streams in the near future/pre-release?

# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:29

Triskelli: Sep 27, 2011; I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS

What sort of tutorial/guide is being included with the game?

# ? Mar 5, 2014 20:02

nvining: May 30, 2011; tunnels through walls with its odd, rubbery nasal appliance

David teaches us how to make a secret mushroom dish this week:

http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/03/05/pickle-that-fungus/

# ? Mar 5, 2014 23:54

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

nvining posted:

David teaches us how to make a secret mushroom dish this week:

http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/03/05/pickle-that-fungus/

I know there's been a bunch of logistics chain stuff lately, but I find it pretty interesting, so thanks!

quote:

This is my life! (I didn�t even include the step where I run a lua script to write the icon & filter information to an xml file that the UI will actually read.)

Why not just have the UI read the lua directly? There seems to be a lot of XML being used as a configuration/data-description language floating around, and we all know where that leads. _{Ia! Ia!}

# ? Mar 6, 2014 01:34

Dareon: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

So what needs to happen for a kitchen to be named a Sloppery? Insane builder? Unskilled chef?

# ? Mar 6, 2014 01:40

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

tags posted:

you can't spell moonfungus without fun

You also can't spell it without "oonf", which is the noise you'll make when the flavor steamship runs aground in your mouth!

# ? Mar 6, 2014 01:58

nvining: May 30, 2011; tunnels through walls with its odd, rubbery nasal appliance

Dareon posted:

So what needs to happen for a kitchen to be named a Sloppery? Insane builder? Unskilled chef?

Insane builder or insane artisan chef running it. Watch out for those meat pies, gents.

# ? Mar 6, 2014 02:54

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

Will they ~~get~~be forced to keep all of their sundry organs?

# ? Mar 6, 2014 08:17

Murgos: Oct 21, 2010

nvining posted:

Insane builder or insane artisan chef running it. Watch out for those meat pies, gents.

Particularly if the pie shop is next door to a barber?

# ? Mar 6, 2014 13:17

Ratoslov: Feb 15, 2012; Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

Murgos posted:

Particularly if the pie shop is next door to a barber?

Goddamnit, now Pirelli's Miracle Elixir is stuck in my head. I hope you're happy.

# ? Mar 6, 2014 13:30

lizzyinthesky: Mar 24, 2010; Take drugs! Kill a bear!

nvining posted:

One lucky SomethingAwful user just wandered into our office and tested the game. It was not terrible.

If you are a *local* person in Vancouver who is willing to sacrifice about an hour of your time for Usability Testing NEXT WEEK please e-mail us at contact at (our company name) dot com - or me at [my first name].[my last name] at (our company name, all one word) dot com - and note that you are a random goon who is willing to subject themselves to Usability Testing.

(Golden Ticket Winners: You are not forgotten about.)

I did this and it was pretty cool to see where they're at. Also how much Nicholas looks like his forums av, weird.

# ? Mar 6, 2014 20:33