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> Has anyone used time-lapse screencap software they can suggest? A LD48 regular created chronolapse for this purpose. http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/
I'll second chronolapse. I've used it for reviewing my productivity at the end of a day.
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Works very smooth for me (Win 7, Firefox 3.6.8). As a sidenote, this difference of experience highlights a big problem with rich web applications. You get so high variance in performance depending on a particular combination of hardware, OS and browser that you are virtually predestined to fail hard for some non-negligible part of your userbase (unless your application is so trivial that even on the worst possible pl…
Except that this isn't a rich web application--this is a java applet.
Also, Java applets are canonical example of RIA:
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Because it's for a 48h coding competition http://www.ludumdare.com/
Fascinating, it's amazing what people can do under severe constraints. I just finished my second JS10K entry (also a game, but much simpler) in about the same total time (though spread over more days). I found the hardest part was to balance playability of the game. I played it so many times while developing it that what was easy for me turned out to be very difficult for others.
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Fascinating, it's amazing what people can do under severe constraints. I just finished my second JS10K entry (also a game, but much simpler) in about the same total time (though spread over more days). I found the hardest part was to balance playability of the game. I played it so many times while developing it that what was easy for me turned out to be very difficult for others.
Having an endless supply of 'virgins' around is a staple ingredient of game development.
At least with such short competitions your involvement is limited. Constraints work both ways: deadlines are liberating when they pass.
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Having an endless supply of 'virgins' around is a staple ingredient of game development.
Now you made me blush. At least with such short competitions your involvement is limited. Constraints work both ways: deadlines are liberating when they pass.
I seem to miss such contests most of the time and only hear about them when they ended. I would love to attend to some, just for the fun (because I don't know if I would have any chance to actually win). Where would be a good source for such competitions? Another fun competition I read about was the Super Mario AI competition in 2009 where the winner has succeeded with an A* algorithm which he presented in a nice vid…
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The TIGSource "Competitions" forum is a great resource. http://forums.tigsource.com/
They host the occasional compo there, and they usually have a thread mentioning most other compos before or as they occur.
ps. I participate in some of these under the name 'jovoc'.
I compiled (yucky) with (after unzip + mkdir build):
javac -cp build src/com/mojang/metagun/{entity,level,screen,}/*.java -d build/
cp {src,build}/com/mojang/metagun/screen/exposition.txt
jar -cf app.jar -C build . -C res .
appletviewer App.html
Another aspect of how the data representation drives the game, is that there are no explicit arcs between game screens - instead, the screen design allows your character to walk off-screen, then that point enables you to transition to the next screen. I guess it's the most obvious way to do it: it's as if you are zoomed into a particular section of the 10x10 maps, and then you can move to adjacent maps. Maybe it's just that I've spent too much time with nodes and arcs recently :-), expecting logical concepts to be explicitly specified, instead of implied by the design. Anyway, there is no sequential index to get to a particular screen; you have to follow the path. Or you can look at that png. eg, the final boss screen is at xLevel=3, yLevel=10 (you can initialize those values in GameScreen.java; and you need to change the player start location too, because now it's not derived from the previous screen: change the last two args in the following new Level line, from 0,0 to 10,10).
That game is from the Minecraft guy [1], here is his blogpost [2]. [1] http://www.minecraft.net/ [2] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/998637682/minecraft-alpha-v1-0-...
I just wanted to present a warning about Minecraft: That game is distilled binary crack. I have lost a couple of entire days to the damned thing, and I only purchased it a couple of weeks ago. So just be careful if you try it out. I'm a recovering Minecraftoholic.