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Other Games / Re: I want to make a game
« on: January 04, 2011, 12:29:58 am »
You have no programming experience and you want to code a game with all that stuff...

Right... ???

Do you know how difficult it is JUST to code a title screen? Start with that... Don't try to do a thousand and one complicated things all at once.

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Other Games / Re: Unreal World
« on: January 03, 2011, 08:37:17 am »
To the people claiming Dwarf Fortress is 'better' than UnReal World...

Is your toaster better than your alarm clock radio? You can't compare two things that are completely different.

If you LIKE Dwarf Fortress better then that's fine... To be frank, so do I... But that doesn't give you the green-light to slag off UnReal World purely on the basis that it's NOT Dwarf Fortress. It's not trying to be Dwarf Fortress.

No-one is forcing the game down your throats, if you don't like it then just go talk about other games you LIKE. Why would you waste your time complaining about a game you DON'T LIKE when you could be using that time for something more constructive ????

The guy is allowed to develop the game as frequently or infrequently as he likes and to charge what he likes... It is his intellectual property... You have no entitlement to anything...

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Other Games / Re: Unreal World
« on: January 03, 2011, 08:26:21 am »
Quote from: Deus ex Machina on January 03, 2011, 08:15:30 am
Quote from: The13thRonin on January 03, 2011, 07:53:33 am
Quote from: Deus ex Machina on January 03, 2011, 07:45:39 am
Quote from: The13thRonin on January 03, 2011, 07:44:15 am
They're completely different games ???.
Still, you'd think he could've done more than just let you set up a little cabin in the middle of nowhere and survive.
That's like saying that Gran Turismo 5 could have done more than have driving ???... It's not designed to shoot laser-beams or enable world peace... It's a rather charming and simple survival roguelike. What were you expecting?

Within 8 years, Toady has managed to design a decent world gen, simulate pathfinding, wars etc for thousands of entities, created two seperate modes of gameplay and made dwarves hilarious and predictable in unpredictable ways.

Within 10 years, the guy that does URW has managed to do an alright world gen, do decent work on animal migration and done some basics in terms of everything else. I'd just expect, with a ten (fifteen, isn't it?) year development, that this would be the most perfect survival simulator with complex interaction with villages and other cultures and the ability to integrate into other cultures yourself etc. Not just a cabin building simulator.

Toady chose to give Dwarf Fortress priority over a lot of other things in his life and he works on it full-time. It's not easy to give any project that level of dedication. Until you have put the hundreds if not thousands of required hours and sweat into developing a complicated game with procedural generation for yourself you will not understand what is involved. You don't just build games overnight, most people would find it almost impossible to summon up sufficient motivation to even be able to code a title screen let alone a game. Don't make the mistake of thinking that anyone will pander to your schedule and have as much done by what time you decide it should be done by. If you want to have that luxery then you need to start programming a game yourself.

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Other Games / Re: Unreal World
« on: January 03, 2011, 07:53:33 am »
Quote from: Deus ex Machina on January 03, 2011, 07:45:39 am
Quote from: The13thRonin on January 03, 2011, 07:44:15 am
They're completely different games ???.

Still, you'd think he could've done more than just let you set up a little cabin in the middle of nowhere and survive.

That's like saying that Gran Turismo 5 could have done more than have driving ???... It's not designed to shoot laser-beams or enable world peace... It's a rather charming and simple survival roguelike. What were you expecting?

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Other Games / Re: Unreal World
« on: January 03, 2011, 07:44:15 am »
Quote from: Deus ex Machina on January 03, 2011, 07:42:47 am
To be honest, I do find it funny how little URW accomplishes compared to DF. It's just hilarious.

They're completely different games ???.

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Other Games / Re: Contest: Win any 1 game on Steam. Ends tomorrow
« on: January 01, 2011, 11:04:08 pm »
I'm in. Why not.

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Other Games / Re: The Roguelike Development Megathread
« on: January 01, 2011, 02:25:40 am »
Quote from: Virex on December 31, 2010, 12:30:38 pm
While I'm not exactly well-versed in programming, I should be able to get you guys up to steam on the basics. However, I'm on European time and usually only available late in the evening, so I don't know how viable it would be for you guys.


As for the language, most Algol-like languages are pretty similar when it comes to the basics, but since I haven't worked with pointers intensively, I don't know how useful I'd be to those who'd want to work with C, C++ or Fortran. I could probably manage but I'd need to read up a bit. Languages like Haskell, smalltalk or Fort are going to take even longer since they don't look the slightest like Algol.

Ping me when you're online and we'll make an IRC room and chat.

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Other Games / Re: The Roguelike Development Megathread
« on: December 31, 2010, 08:38:44 am »
I am very interested in learning how to code and making a very, very basic roguelike to 'learn the ropes'. I'm a fast learner but I know NOTHING as of now and I work best with people.

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to get over IRC/MSN/whatever with me and walk me through the basics... You know... Mentor me a bit... Thought it'd be worth asking...

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-Com Terror From The Deep
« on: December 30, 2010, 03:21:23 am »
Why am I STILL not in this? ???

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-Com Terror From The Deep
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:13:37 am »
WHY THE HELL AM I NOT IN THIS ALREADY?

RONIN INTO THE FRAY PLEASE!

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-COM: Apocalypse!
« on: December 29, 2010, 09:43:41 am »
Quote from: Mysteriousbluepuppet on December 29, 2010, 09:38:17 am
Quote from: The13thRonin on December 29, 2010, 06:43:05 am
WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS GAME HAVE AGAINST ME? Why am I the only one not getting promoted?

PS - Did my guy rack up anymore kills? Screw it... I might be a private but I can at least be a bad-ass private with heaps of kills.

Same, i got to sustain my vast Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast familly.

In the first round I was the only one of all three who got a kill who didn't get promoted... SEXISM... Just because somehow my male character is a girl!

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-COM: Apocalypse!
« on: December 29, 2010, 06:43:05 am »
WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS GAME HAVE AGAINST ME? Why am I the only one not getting promoted?

PS - Did my guy rack up anymore kills? Screw it... I might be a private but I can at least be a bad-ass private with heaps of kills.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-COM: Apocalypse!
« on: December 28, 2010, 08:17:46 am »
Quote from: Azzuro on December 28, 2010, 06:08:19 am
I have a feeling this thread is going downhill before it ever went uphill. Will you guys cut it out already?

What are you complaining about? There's a lot of nice RP material there :P.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-COM: Apocalypse!
« on: December 28, 2010, 05:16:47 am »
Good men were killed by the sectoids in the First and Second Alien Wars... We do not forget... We do not forgive... Psy is the tool of the enemy!! And at the end of the day we make a choice... Every man who uses psy is just as bad as one of these... Things... A hybrid... Men don't use psy... We fight our own battles with cold steel... Always have, always will... That's the code *drops cigarette and puts it out with his boot*.



I put forward a motion that no X-COM operative shall use PSY in the field and that transgression against said motion be met with swift death dealt by peers and without court martial.

Who agrees with the motion?

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Play X-COM: Apocalypse!
« on: December 28, 2010, 04:51:56 am »
WHY THE HELL IS THE RONIN A WOMAN ???!

That portrait can't be of a man... And if it is... THE RONIN IS A MANLY MAN!! *Sobs in the corner*.

Also... Not one single hybrid was murdere... I mean tragically cut-down in our first mission.

Humans and sectoids cannot live together in peace! Down with the sectoids! Down with the hybrids!

The original Ronin picked his teeth with sectoid skulls! I will not have those psy-loving turn-coats squirming into my mind when the moment is right! We used psy in the first alien incursion and look where that got us! Might is right! X-COM must bare its teeth and show these damn hippies and civvies whose in charge!



You're with us or you're with THEM!

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