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[kuraiken]

Never feel bad for how you spend your time!
"Time Enjoyed Wasted is not Wasted Time" - As long as you're enjoying what you do, it's valuable. There's too much pressure on us to spend time "Being productive" - studies, working, family time, etc. Just do you.

That wave movement is amazing! Totally puts my little game to shame. Here's a snippet for those interested:

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Can consider this to be the "Overworld Map" or, in Dwarf Fortress terms, this is similar to picking where you "Embark" to. A very high level map. Can see Forests (F) but not individual trees.
The X is the Player.
L for Basic Land.
M for Mountains
F for Forest
W for Water
Pale Yellowish S for Sand (only by water edge usually)
Green S for Swamp (between forest and water usually)

Edit: I should also add, this is showing hte South East section of the map (you can tell from the Water all around the botton and the right). I generate Islands to limit the player from going too far. Theres 9 of these sections in total. Technically the map editor can take any value you put in, but I standardise it to 9 sections anyway as it feels neater.

Right now Unity handles it by simply producing text.
There IS possibilty for it to render graphics in future, but I've honestly ignored it. I think my way has a kind of Nostalgic Charm, haha. I've posted a screenshot: Here

That's pretty cool. And yeah, I you could easily just turn your text display into displaying tiles instead.
Do you have any plan to make location of interest markers? Like a * and the letter alternating to draw the players attention to locations they should visit? (e.g. quest, or special location on the biome like wizard's tower or something)

Totally! I have some friends lined up to give it a go already. I'm sending them a little taste at the end of May... What do you mean it's already August? Damnit.
Joking side though, I've literally been linking some systems together today so it'll be playable. Everything was kind of... losely attached (because I work on the bit I'm most passionate about at any given time, which means nothing ever gets fully done...). And that's fine for debug mode, when I know what I'm doing, but if I want someone else to play it, I need things connected at least a little.

Oh yeah, you're not alone in that. My projects are dozens of almost finished things where the last bit combining them is missing. I just work on what I like to focus on, but unless someone knows the specific console commands to actually make things happen, everything's incomplete. xD

Built in via a script. Basically creates some perlin noise across a grid, and assigns terrain based on the value. I throw in some randomness, and it makes for a semi realistic map.

Simple but effective. I often get sidetracked trying to invent this super-complex awesome thing...and burn myself out. xD

I'll be honest, Unreal scares me a little, haha. 3D scares me in general.
My friend and I do little "GameJam" type things between us, I tried 3D on the last one (in Unity) and damn it was a struggle to get my head around. Just the level design made me nauseous.
If you get onto it, I wish you better luck than I had! Haha. I think I'm comfy in a 2D world right now (which is sad, because I wanted to make a Metroid Prime style game... Sigh... Oh well!)

I already worked a little on Unreal, and it's actually a lot less bad then you might think.
There's a lot of comfort features & tricks that constantly develop further that can make your life SUPER easy.

The thing that's a bit unfortunate is how much stuff is exposed to you off the bat, most of which you don't really need. But I was surprised by how much of what makes sense in 2D programming and how you'd structure things is transferable. If you ever feel like giving it a shot, look for some unreal tutorial that covers the basics. Even blueprinting is pretty easy & comfortable, though it feels a bit weird to not just write the code. xD

Honestly? Incredibly.
I have the paid version of ChatGPT and the latest release, 4o, is insane. It could code an entire game on it's own, if you let it. But I still want to at least try it myself - it helps me with corrections and teaching me what I don't know. But it can be overzealous, sometimes I say "Can you spot why this isn't working?" and it says "Here, I've rewritten your entire script!" And, well, it's better... So I begrudgingly accept it... haha.

Wow, that's pretty crazy.
Though I have no idea how it'd handle hierarchical arrangement of sprites, given how in 2D the draw order is everything. I wonder if the AI would know it has to reorganise the draw-order when changing the player position to have the player shown behind, instead of in front, of an object. xD

Sounds like it's come so far already! That's awesome.
And you're right, it's such a good system. Underutilised too.

In theory, yes. Mostly I just need to create the final user Input and then add a working AI for the CPU decision making.
My biggest problem is always all the features that I try creeping into things that I then have to take into account. xD

Right now I'm a bit more focused on working on a 2D seduction combat system (basically you're interacting with & seducing opponents), but when I've finished that, I think I'll go back and make myself finish the tactics system.

Adventure Mode is exactly what it's like! Just my take on it.
I have moments where I'm like "Why am I even doing this when DF exists?" but, I remind myself I'm doing this for fun and just to prove I can! haha.

And, with that, I'm going to bed.
Been lovely chatting with you all. But I can BEARLY keep my eyes open.

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Good night!

 

[Saturnus]

Mmmmmmm this gif makes my pussy tingle

I know exactly what you mean. I had this whole evening of sleeping outside planned, and then some asshole called the cops on me!

Check your toes for dried sauces!

 

[Tosser]

I lost it again about 10 minutes after posting that. Bullshit is getting old. They think they know the problem, but just can't get to it until the weekend.

I told them what the problem likely was over a week ago, but they didn't want to check the first time they came out, then the second time they came out, the guy wasn't authorized to deal with the equipment that was the problem (not my stuff, theirs out on the pole). Been back up about two hours. Doubt I've got much time left before things start fucking up again.

 

[barbarella2021]

It looks great. I can play a game that looks like this, looks just like Adventure Mode in DF, once your eyes adjust you can see all the details, always thought graphics are overrated.

Old science fiction moves, remember watching these classics, and watched a few of the Flash Gordon serials, they were airing on TCM on Saturday mornings.

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Logan's Run. I haven't seen that in year and year! What a movie...

CATS.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter, not just one of your holiday games;

You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter, When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

 

[Saturnus]

I lost it again about 10 minutes after posting that. Bullshit is getting old. They think they know the problem, but just can't get to it until the weekend.

I told them what the problem likely was over a week ago, but they didn't want to check the first time they came out, then the second time they came out, the guy wasn't authorized to deal with the equipment that was the problem (not my stuff, theirs out on the pole). Been back up about two hours. Doubt I've got much time left before things start fucking up again.

It's like they always hate when the customer knows more.

I do service work in a different industry and always tell the customer, "I will do what you want me to do first, but you'll have to pay for it even if it doesn't work"
Most of the time, they'll just have me try their idea first and have no problem if it doesn't work. It's not so hard if you're honest.

 

[-Bonk-]

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Hiya Bonk, hoping you had a Good Day.

Tough going after 5 days in a row off. 1 more day then 2 more off. Luckily
it looked like this today

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so i hid in my office and did some backreading

 

[luciddream]

Tough going after 5 days in a row off. 1 more day then 2 more off. Luckily
it looked like this today

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so i hid in my office and did some backreading

So no one showed up today, that's OK it looks like you and me had fun in the classroom. Nothing better than playing some Connect 4 when the teachers away.

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[scdev]

I got an early start in the moring so I'm going to bed later guys

Well, I'm off to bed.
Bye everyone, have a good rest of your day/night!
And I'll see you all tomorrow!

this humidity can fuck off with 84% stopping me from sleeping

Try

 

[Mahbu005]

I'm lurking, my fellow lurkers I'm lurking. Just quietly sitting back realaxing and reading your posts.

 

[Tosser]

CATS.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter, not just one of your holiday games;

I find "Demonic Shithead" fits most domestic cats.

 

[micmitja]

I'm lurking, my fellow lurkers I'm lurking. Just quietly sitting back realaxing and reading your posts.

well have some coffee

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[scdev]

I'm lurking, my fellow lurkers I'm lurking. Just quietly sitting back realaxing and reading your posts.

 

[Tosser]

It's like they always hate when the customer knows more.

I do service work in a different industry and always tell the customer, "I will do what you want me to do first, but you'll have to pay for it even if it doesn't work"
Most of the time, they'll just have me try their idea first and have no problem if it doesn't work. It's not so hard if you're honest.

Thing is, they did all the tests and I told them about a prior issue from 12 or so years ago that gave me the same performance problems, and if someone could just check on that as they were checking everything else, even if they couldn't fix it on the spot, then that might be worth the time. They were already up on a ladder running new line, why they couldn't at least look for damage on the connection is beyond me. Rodents chewing on shit is easy to notice - that's what it was last time. They chewed a hole in the equipment and water got in an fucked it up. The guy that came back a couple of days ago said it was likely that piece of equipment that was the problem, but even he didn't go up and look at it.

 

[Saturnus]

I'm lurking, my fellow lurkers I'm lurking. Just quietly sitting back realaxing and reading your posts.

'Lurking'

I find "Demonic Shithead" fits most domestic cats.

She heard you

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[Bloodheart]

Adventure Mode is exactly what it's like! Just my take on it.
I have moments where I'm like "Why am I even doing this when DF exists?" but, I remind myself I'm doing this for fun and just to prove I can! haha.

And, with that, I'm going to bed.
Been lovely chatting with you all. But I can BEARLY keep my eyes open.

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Spoiler: night monokuma

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[Tosser]

'Lurking'

She heard you

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I have Holy Water in a spray bottle. I can handle her.

 

[Saturnus]

Thing is, they did all the tests and I told them about a prior issue from 12 or so years ago that gave me the same performance problems, and if someone could just check on that as they were checking everything else, even if they couldn't fix it on the spot, then that might be worth the time. They were already up on a ladder running new line, why they couldn't at least look for damage on the connection is beyond me. Rodents chewing on shit is easy to notice - that's what it was last time. They chewed a hole in the equipment and water got in an fucked it up. The guy that came back a couple of days ago said it was likely that piece of equipment that was the problem, but even he didn't go up and look at it.

I mean, that just seems ignorant on their part. Why not check for rodent damage? Especially if there has been previous rodent damage? On the same piece of equipment, even?

That sounds like laziness or incompetence at least.

 

[BananaPrincess]

*sniff sniff

Smells like huntin' season

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Makes me think of the time I posted a picture of a cast iron skillet [it might have had a hamburger patty in it, not
sure] then I typed something like "Having fried bear" lol

 

[goemonn7]

Well i'm off to bed.
Goodnight everyone.

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[barbarella2021]

I find "Demonic Shithead" fits most domestic cats.

Eloquently put, Tosser! Reminds me of another poem:

The problem with a kitten
Is that
Eventually
It becomes
A CAT!