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All right, so I read a scroll that made me forget everything. I had a bunch of wands and I couldn't remember which did what. So I zap one at the wall. Bad move. It's a wand of lightning bolt. It bounces back and hits me. No big deal, I survived. It then proceeded to go right through me, bounce off the wall behind me, and hit me again, killing me. That was a sad day.

I made a nice, outdoor fortress, once. That's about it. I haven't really even experimented with pumps. Keeping the dwarves from killing eachother is enough of a challenge for me, most of the time. I've tried to build towers and such in the past, but I've invariably run into the tantrum spiral "bug,"  which makes it a bit different to complete large projects... Maybe I should try adding [no_emotion] or whatever the tag is.

For people on dialup? Definitely. Still, I don't really see the point.

I played a (great) game made with Game Maker once called "Samurai Railroad Mansion" -- as part of a Random Name contest. Simple but fun, yet... it used I think 300mb of RAM for some absurd reason (according to the Windows task manager.) Is that a flaw with GM or the game itself?

Quote from: Tahin on June 29, 2008, 01:59:03 pm

I've been playing around with curses. More than anything, I just don't have a solid understanding of C, which limits me in figuring out how to use libraries. I've been messing around a little bit with SDL, too, though to a lesser amount. I'm much more interested in minimalistic text-based stuff, anyway, so curses is perfect for me. It's just that some of the C stuff makes no sense to me.

Same. I started with C++ and SDL, and now I'm using primarily C++ and PDCurses. I don't know why, but it's so much more fun to make a game in ASCII. There are, I think, several programmers on this forum, I think if you started a topic with a few questions they* would be happy to help out!

*(I say "they" instead of "we" because I'm more likely to make things worse, hehe. When it comes to spaghetti code, I can be a real pastamancer.)

Game maker games tend to be pretty bloated, if I remember correctly, but it's still a nice tool for just hammering a simple game out in a few hours.

And I might just try that.

Have you tried DFDD? Otherwise, I don't know.

Wow. As soon as I get home, I need to figure out the chords to that song and record it. That is awesome.

I used to use Game Maker, up until my switch to Ubuntu. Now I'm scrambling to learn C, and failing miserably. Oh, and I used to be pretty proficient with GML.