will someone help me test my new host server code? im willing to give this one last fucking try but if this doesn't work or no one wants to help then im done with it
aceender.itch.io/smallworldjam-server-test download and run it if it freezes on the "made in gms" then that means you are trying to connect just sit there till you connect and see the "input username" screen let me know before you start it so i can open the host server though
this is the only sound effect you'll ever need to make games
Liam Roberts
For nearly a week I've been brainstorming on the actual mechanics on the concept of the game I've been wanting to create. Just haven't gotten to anything satisfactory and I'm starting to get agitated.
i haven't seen anyone join i assume it didn't work? did you all make it to the input username screen? did it freeze? ok that freeze is like that because its trying to connect and can't find any server so that means nobody has connected and the host server didn't work
thanks for all the tests ill try and fix it again then re up the server test
You've gotta get some stuff on the screen friend. All that brainstorming will just muddle you, you're too removed from the process. Use placeholder art but get something running.
Levi Wright
I entered a username and clicked join server, it froze up for a bit and then nothing happened. then I clicked create server and now it's just showing me a blank gray window
Brody Lee
>i assume it didn't work? i pass the input and clicked join. It freezed for a moment and did nothing >ok that freeze you need to figure out how to connect in a different thread with a progress bar or something like that
Blake Evans
tried to join server too but nothing happened.
Jack Allen
if you haven't made a space shooter yet, you are still not downsizing enough.
i know that feel. its hard to really dial in mechanics.
Austin Martin
I've been in your situation before. The problem is that a concept without mechanics is not, by definition, a game concept
is right, you need to actually start making the game, that gets the creative juices flowing a lot better than brainstorming
Jaxon Carter
XCom but with anime girls and tentacle monsters
Jordan Perez
Same as this user. Join froze up a lttle bit then did nothing. Create let me chose race, max player, map but server name doesn't take any input
Logan Howard
lol yeah there is no fail safe for not connecting to the host server so eventually it lets you bypass and input your username anyway as for the create server it sends you to the "pregame lobby" which isn't anything right now just a debug room and the join is also trying to get info from the host server but is just stalling out
basically what i found out was that the server works but only "locally" it isn't actually sending info out so it is minecraft tier server right now where you would have to download hamachi or evolve to join which fucking blows im going to keep working on it
John Jones
are you behind a NAT? you might need to set your router to forward whatever port your server uses
William Bell
I watch DFF too
Cooper Walker
not sure im checking that shit now
Robert Price
Yeah you guys are right. I'm still a beginner programmer so I wanted to avoid doing too much before going in but I can't let that be an excuse.
Jacob Reed
"brainstorming" doesn't mean "never locking anything down". settle on some things and then move on, one by one, until you have all the details of the gameplay. you just haven't written them in code yet. I spend days brainstorming too, but it's actual progress because then I stick to it.
Connor Hall
what language?
Anthony Robinson
A calculator app but with juice
Daniel Collins
lua I know there are solutions out there, but coming up with my own is difficult
Grayson Brown
A game where you're a calculator and have to gain your functions back one at a time using what you already have in addition to platforming / strategy / puzzles.
Basically Veeky Forums the game.
Cooper Hughes
thats what Im doing now. I previously tried to make an rpg and got as far as making a working battle system and walking around an overworld and when I found it to not be fun, I didn't have enough game design smarts to figure out how to make it more fun to play
David Roberts
where's your DF-like
Xavier Hill
make a grid and every shape is just a bunch of single blocks. don't make shapes, make every single block an object. give every block a state of "moving". when one block hits another, set all currently active blocks to "moving false". the block logic would be like "move 1 grid point down, if there is another block on xy call stop and next" if x 1 - 10 is filled with block, delete all blocks with y value and move all inactive blocks above y 1 down.
somewhat like this.
Juan Anderson
wanna play D&D to get a hang of it?
Liam Phillips
can someone smart make me a good shader on ue4
Zachary Cooper
i could have just made some meme cryptocurrency 5 years ago
uh if you're here for anything more than just having fun and having a hobby you really picked the wrong thing to do
Zachary Smith
in 5 years you'll say something similar again
Charles Campbell
how would you do block rotations?
Angel Smith
90 degree rotation matrix, check so blocks don't collide/overlap with previous blocks
Julian Hernandez
There's a 'pivotal' center of each piece. Consider it 0,0 on a grid. If you turn right, all values switch a quadrant to the right. (-x,-y turns into -y,x; -x,y turns into y,x etc.). Look it up.
your notation is confusing me and I'm too lazy to work it out on paper, do you really mean (-x,-y) -> (-y, x) or are you just being loose with the order of the tuple
neat
Adrian Roberts
how do i put emoji in my game. do i need to like draw my own or can i just take it from apple
basic emojis are a public domain - it doesnt mean you can steal the implementation of a certain emoji. The advanced ones are IPed
Hudson Gutierrez
I see, thanks
Nathaniel Jones
>doesn't use math.cos and math.sin fukin pleb
Jonathan Harris
>Using sine for a grid-based tetris I don't think a sine function existed in 80's era programming
Jayden Diaz
you don't even need to since you're only dealing in multiples of pi/2, therefore your expensive trig functions are just going to be 0, 1 or -1 in a rotation matrix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix#Common_rotations
Brandon Kelly
>using sin and cos for 90-degree rotations >not just using the solution already stated which is ultimately a simplified version of those functions
Hudson Taylor
What's 3DCoat like?
Anthony Richardson
Its like a kiss from a beautifull girl who then puts a finger in your ass. And thats a good thing
That sword looks pretty bad and bland. Dunno what to say, the distance it is from the player, the position, the rigidity - it just meh. also >cant cut grass
Joshua Hernandez
post your impressive game then
Brody Campbell
start with having a solid grasp of the arithmetic of complex numbers
Matthew Hernandez
>You are The Mind, and your purpose is to solve the unsolvable question. You control semi-independent cyborgs, known as ‘archons’, and must operate in a world that does not the question solved. Build your base of operations. Raid and perform covert operations to gather assets. Research the unsolvable question. Avoid being caught. Make sure your archons don’t starve. Pay your ever-growing power bills. Improve your combat technology. Solve the unsolvable.
Thoughts on the idea? Relatively easy to program a non-live action game, seems like it'd be the xcom/rimworld/dwarf fortress mix I'd love to play. But I suppose execution is everything.
James Fisher
I have until Saturday night to learn Unity as much as I can. What do I make? I have a lot of Unreal experience.
note that only the server side stuff was fixed you still can't do anything (you can input a username and "create a server" or "join a server" but i took away all the code so now we only greet)
again tell me before you join so i can actually start the server
Thomas Bailey
who in the fuck is main hero
Joseph Harris
fire it up nigger
Caleb Reyes
its up tell me how long you freeze still no failsafe so you will know if you connect if the freeze is shorter
Joshua Miller
Not him but literally what? What the issue with that lighting?
Jacob Nelson
Why do we hate Boku?
Grayson Long
How the fuck does saving player progress to a Google Play account work? Googling doesn't give me any good answers and the saving functionality of Google Play Services doesn't seem to be the thing I'm looking for as the documentation states that they should work like save slots in a singleplayer game. I don't want to allow the player to see their save, I just want to load it automatically when they open the game.
Brody Stewart
the same shit. About 1min on splashscreen and the same with join button. I understand you are trying to run the server from your home comp?
Aiden Hall
i haven't seen anyone join
did you guys join?
is it still fucked?
Liam Ramirez
i don't hate him but he sometimes gives off a sense of being out of touch and he seems to samefag a lot
Tyler Brooks
hes kinda successful, his game is kinda ok and hes kinda gay. Unlike us
Ayden Gomez
tried to join, froze on splash screen and on the join button, both for ~30 seconds
Hudson Gutierrez
Still trying user. Same result as before. Create lets me choose shit but server name input doesn't do anything, and join just freezes up for 20 seconds or so then nothing
John King
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Benjamin Sullivan
Locking physics to a grid really feels unintuitive to me. I had to do a game of connect 4 in JS for a school assignement and it just ended up being a complete mess. It didn't help that I ended up coding it in a 4 hour coffee frenzy because I thought the deadline was later
Jaxson Rogers
I know nothing about google play save function but usually their hosted functions and services are really limited
Wyatt Carter
Why aren't you making a porn game then starting a patreon?
alright man server is down now thanks to all who tried
yeah........i already told my router im basically a server and to send me the network but it still isn't working but is working locally even with the altered ip address in the client thats suppose to connect to my "public server ip" when it wasn't before so i don't get wtf is happening thanks guys but i've been thinking even if i got this to work this wouldn't work for players to host their own servers since they would pretty much need to do what i had to do so i may call this project canned for now depends how im feeling about it tomorrow
Lincoln Murphy
hard work and guts
Luis Walker
I don't hate him but I did lose some respect for him when I found out about his flippant attitude towards programming and how he just blindly relies on other people to code the game for him. it's gonna bite him in the ass if there's a game-breaking bug after launch and he doesn't know how to fix it
Colton Hughes
>yeah........i already told my router im basically a server and to send me the network but it still isn't working just like the other user said the problem is the NAT. Its a nasty bitch I tell you. You will probably fail with setting up the server. NAT is a broad term. basically it means taht your IP is not your real IP. Also many thing depend on ISP. RIth now I am on a mobile internet. My ISP has a firewall on the whole network which means no one can connect to me from outside unless I make a first contact. No NAT punching is allowed for me. Your game will probably work on LAN
Hudson Perry
lol code monkeys are the worst
Owen Clark
Good luck, user. I hope you don't give up.
Jaxson Jenkins
Jesus fucking christ, he works in Unity, why can't he learn even the most basic level of programming?
