Lork posted:

What I mean is that because an animation is something that changes constantly, all of the heavy lifting is probably done in an update loop, and when you tell the animator to play an animation, you're probably just changing the variables that let the update method know what's up.

For your disabled on the same frame example, if we assume that the actual state change happens in the update, there are a couple cases depending on the execution order (which I don't know). If your request comes after the update, then the state won't change until the next frame. There's also the possibility that the update would have come after your request, but never happened because the gameobject was disabled.

Now, if my model is accurate, you would expect the state to change as normal upon reactivating the gameobject, so if that's not happening then I don't know.

Somfin posted:

Hell yes it plays. It's loving crazy, but it plays. I'd recommend keeping it subtle at first, then making the dodges harder and harder to believe. More and more desperate, less 'rephrasing' and more 'lying to your face' as the game goes on. If you want to go off the deep end on it, you could go for a 1984 thing where previous reports change to reflect the current dominance of your organisation- some are redacted, some are rephrased, some are lost, and some are brand new events out of nowhere that never happened, so as your organisation continues its history becomes completely inaccurate.

TomR posted:

APC Test for low poly pixel art.

TomR posted:

APC Test for low poly pixel art.



http://youtu.be/nr8vKz1ORvg

Edit: http://youtu.be/-62zOKSYLmI

Shoehead posted:

I stuck a new enemy in today, with a bunch of fixes and new powerup. Enemy spawns are random and I seem to either end up with an awesome go where I kill 300 guys or lovely onew where I kill like 12.
Check it out and let me know if the game is too hard now. Next update I think I'll work on victory conditions and levels and stuff.

Polo-Rican posted:

The killer is allowed to lie about everything (technically, everyone is allowed to lie, but there's no reason to lie unless you're the killer).

GarethIW posted:

Over the holidays I wrapped up the first public alpha release of Jarheads! It has five demo missions with a compressed difficulty ramp, and deathmatch, TDM and CTF multiplayer.

There's still so much left to do that even after 16 months, this is pretty much ground floor. Day jobs really get in the way, dammit.

DeepQantas posted:

As a detective, why would I ever tell the truth?

If I tell everyone what I know, that'll just help the others solve the murder before me. There's also no penalty for lying... If I act suspicious, what are they going to do? Accuse me and knock themselves out of the game?

Possible fix (altho I'm too tired to think it through all the consequences right now)...

1) Everyone votes secretly on their phone who they think killer is. Time of the vote is recorded.
2) Person with most votes gets the electric chair and loses the game
3) Killer wins if they escape justice
4) Of the living people, the person who voted for the real killer first wins the game (even if killer escapes)

This way if you don't help the investigation enough or get caught in a lie, you put yourself in risk.

IronicDongz posted:

This is super cute. Makes me think 3D advance wars.
I think it starts out at a really nice point, difficulty-wise, where it's challenging but not super overwhelming. However, something weird happens if you stay alive long enough where over time, more and more of the green enemies spawn and less and less of everything else, until eventually there's almost no enemies spawning except them, and always from the bottom boundary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPRUfcPY5Ao
And then you can survive really easily.

The only other criticisms I really have are
-You can get hit multiple times by one enemy projectile if you're moving back with it since they don't disappear on hit(can hit you like 4 times if you don't realize what's happening fast enough)
-grabbing another 10 skulls before your current powerup runs out gives you another one, and that's cool when you stack up multiple different powerups, but it's sorta lame when all it does is renew what you already have.

DeepQantas posted:

1) Everyone votes secretly on their phone who they think killer is. Time of the vote is recorded.
2) Person with most votes gets the electric chair and loses the game
3) Killer wins if they escape justice
4) Of the living people, the person who voted for the real killer first wins the game (even if killer escapes)

GarethIW posted:

Over the holidays I wrapped up the first public alpha release of Jarheads! It has five demo missions with a compressed difficulty ramp, and deathmatch, TDM and CTF multiplayer.

The Kins posted:

I just gave the single player a spin, and it's very much my poo poo. Definitely helps scratch that Cannon Fodder itch...

GazChap posted:

Where can I give you money? This is right up my street

retro sexual posted:

Anyone want to see how we built our scribble-in effect from a static spritesheet? Owen's written up a post explaining everything:
http://blog.gambrinous.com/2015/01/06/creating-the-scribble-effect-in-guild-of-dungeoneering/

retro sexual posted:

Anyone want to see how we built our scribble-in effect from a static spritesheet? Owen's written up a post explaining everything:
http://blog.gambrinous.com/2015/01/06/creating-the-scribble-effect-in-guild-of-dungeoneering/

Nition posted:

So yesterday I learnt that Bethesda made a 3D open-world game with a 150km^2 (60 square miles) map that had a big chunk of LA, cars that you can steal and drive, shops you can buy or steal from, weapons etc... in 1990. 11 years before the first 3D GTA. Written entirely in Assembly. With the Terminator licence.



Look at this map!


The Terminator.

You know, usually it's in everyone's best interests to cut down your game idea to be as pure and realistic as possible. But occasionally, when the stars align just right, people ignore all that and somehow get the impossible done anyway (note: Does not guarantee your game will actually be a success).

Lowen SoDium posted:

I bought that game a couple years after it came out, but it would just crash on my PC. I always wondered if it was any good.

quote:

Why Pseudo 3d?
Now that every system can produce graphics consisting of a zillion polygons on the fly, why would you want to do a road the old way? Aren't polygons the exact same thing, only better? Well, no. It's true that polygons lead to less distortion, but it is the warping in these old engines that give the surreal, exhillerating sense of speed found in many pre-polygon games. Think of the view as being controlled by a camera. As you take a curve in a game which uses one of these engines, it seems to look around the curve. Then, as the road straightens, the view straightens. As you go over a blind curve, the camera would seem to peer down over the ridge. And, since these games do not use a traditional track format with perfect spatial relationships, it is possible to effortlessly create tracks large enough that the player can go at ridiculous speeds-- without worrying about an object appearing on the track faster than the player can possibly react since the physical reality of the game can easily be tailored to the gameplay style.

But they have plenty of drawbacks as well. The depth of physics found in more simulation-like games tends to be lost, and so these engines aren't suited to every purpose. They are, however, easy to implement, run quickly, and are generally a lot of fun to play with!

It is worth noting that not every older racing game used these techniques. In fact, the method outlined here is only one possible way to do a pseudo 3d road. Some used projected and scaled sprites, others seem to involve varying degrees of real projection for the road. How you blend real mathematics with trickery is up to you. I hope you have as much fun exploring this special effect as I did.

Nition posted:

So yesterday I learnt that Bethesda made a 3D open-world game with a 150km^2 (60 square miles) map that had a big chunk of LA, cars that you can steal and drive, shops you can buy or steal from, weapons etc... in 1990. 11 years before the first 3D GTA. Written entirely in Assembly. With the Terminator licence.



The Terminator.

Nition posted:

It sounds like they spent almost all their time on the huge world and not much on the gameplay. There's a nice in-depth review here: http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/the-terminator-ms-dos.html

Mr Underhill posted:

RhysD posted:

So...anyone attending GDC? Are there usually any meetups, parties etc?

MockingQuantum posted:

I can't speak to whether there's any kind of official goonmeet, but I'll be there. On the audio pass though, which was pretty busy last year.

Mr Underhill posted:

It's hard to get excited about pixel art when there's a veritable flood of it lately, but Coldrice your stuff rocks! I'm a fan.

netcat posted:

"It's hard to get excited about [...] art"