Hey everyone. Ludum Dare 31 was held last weekend, and I made an entry for it. I plan on continuing development of this project, so I figured I'd make a thread for it.

Here's a link to the Ludum Dare entry, if you wish to try it out: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=34647

Chess Wars is a Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars style game themed on Chess. Game play is pretty straightforward if you've never played FE or AW. You play on a grid and each turn you move your units and try to destroy all opposing units on the map. Here's a pretty good video showing gameplay from Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Edit: Changed to URL, since video isn't showing for some reason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyei3qUZmS4

Right now, my game only has two modes: Hero and Army mode. In Hero mode, you control a couple powerful units to destroy the opposing army. In Army mode, you control an opposing army. Here's what it looks like as of this writing:



In the future I want to merge the two modes together, where you play mainly as the elite force (FE-style) with supporting army reinforcements (AW-style). I might also up the strategy part of the game where the campaign is dynamic, similar to Total War or Wargame campaigns.

Either way, I'll be updating this thread with progress that I make. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.

EDIT:
Current Version (0.2.0): http://bit.ly/1xyNbQP

So Ludum Dare just finished up, and guess what? I made a game!


I wonder, did anyone else compete last weekend?

For those of you that don't know what it is, Koding.com is site for developers where each member is given root access to a Ubuntu Terminal to play around with. You can install software packages and develop software remotely. It also provides it's own G+/FB-like social media features to share code snippets and such.

Koding is also giving away memory space, 1 GB per signup up to a max of 20 for referrals. It'd be great if you guys could help me out and I think many of you would find the site interesting (if you don't already know about it, since I know some of you do).

https://koding.com/R/scipi

Hello everyone.

I've been working on a project and I am running into a bug with implementing sight for bots within the program. Basically, for each eye on an bot I have an angle for direction and a field of view, both represented in degrees. I want to find if a bot falls within sight of another, adding a buffer should only part of a bot be visible.

Here's the code I have:

private boolean inFOV2(Bot b, double uAngle, double lAngle){

double dist = Math.sqrt((xPos - b.xPos)*(xPos - b.xPos) + (yPos - b.yPos)*(yPos - b.yPos));

if(dist < 0){
    dist = .001;
}

double buffer = Math.toDegrees(Math.asin(b.radius/dist));

double angle = Math.toDegrees(Math.atan2(b.yPos - yPos, b.xPos - xPos));

uAngle += buffer;
lAngle -= buffer;

return (uAngle - angle >= 0 && lAngle - angle <= 0);
    }

//Called via

inFOV2(b, angle + FOV, angle - FOV)
This doesn't seem to be working properly. Sometimes it detects it sees another bot when it doesn't, or vice versa. I have no idea where I am going wrong here, so any insight would be greatly appreciated. ^_^

Thanks

I'm a few days late on this one, but now that the Steam Summer Sale has ended, I've been seeing people taking screenshots of their Steam Libs. I figure it'd be fun to start a thread here to see what kind of games we all have on Steam.

So if you'd like, please share a screenshot of your collection as well as which games you like to play the most from it.

Here's mine:



My favorite games from my list would have to be Singularity, Rome: Total War, Dishonored, and Wargame: Airland battle. Though I've spent the most time playing Shogun II and Empire Total War with 67 hours played for both. Napoleon comes next with 55 hours. (Though on the Xbox release of Singularity I have over 300 hours of multiplayer gameplay alone)

... I play a lot.

I've always been interested in inventing my own spoken/written language. Here lately I've actually been making some progress towards my first useable language that will be used for a hypothetical race/culture to be used in future games I make (The Kakrii race). The language is meant to be harsh sounding, thus it makes use of k/ch/sh/z sounds.

So far I have the written portion, basic grammar rules/syntax, and some words figured out.

Here is a guide for the written language:



Here's an example of a basic sentence:



The grammar tends to go as: [Question][Tense][Subject_1(Who/what is doing the action)][Subject_2(Who/what is receiving the action)][Action/Verb][Adjective]

This is still in progress, I don't know much about grammar rules.

Certain kinds of words always have a prefix of sorts.

Nouns always start with:

Ka - Physical
Ke - Conceptual
Ki - Nonexistent

Note: THis language does not distictuate between gender. All words are used gender neutral. What the language does do, however, is distictuate between if it exists, does not exists, or exists theoretically.

Verbs always start with:

Ch

Sh - Question

Kr - Adjective

Ra - Future tense
Ri - Past tense
Ro - Present tense (Used when you want to explicitly show present tense)

So far, that's about the extent of what I have. What I want to figure out next is the numbering system. I want it to be base 16, however I want a written form that's more efficient than the symbolic method we use as well as more compact and allows for mathematical concepts to be more intuitive. After that I just need to fill out the lexicon and grammar rules.

Words I have so far:

Kai - I/Me/Mine
Kao - You/Yours
Kas - Other

Check - Perform upon

Chakas - Speak

Kekaskak - Language

Kezech - Bonding (Best equivalent word would be marriage)
Chazech - Best equivalency would be "To love" (There is no word for Love since the race this language is developed for does not experience this emotion, but they do have something similar)

Chernas - Hello

So that's more or less what I have so far. Anyone have any suggestions for the numbering system? What do you guys think?

So today I registered my courses for the upcoming Spring semester and I realized my schedule can be deemed worthy as that of an Omnimagian (Omnimogite? Omnimagii?? What's the correct term? ). I also realized many of us are in college and universities and so I figured it might be nice to have a topic for us to share interesting courses we are taking.

Here are the courses I am registered for:

Computer Science II
Assembly Programming Language (x86)
Special Topics: Python Programming Language ()
Discreet Structures

So a good mix of Computer and Math subjects, with Assembly and Python (which I know more than a few people here use). Epicness.

Btw, what kind of problems can I expect from Discreet Structures? I'm just wondering.

This is more or less a cross post from here.

My entry for Cemetech's 9th contest will be bringing Leafy's Graviter to Windows. With some gameplay changes, of course.

This port of Graviter will make use of a Gravity Gun that can create points of gravity or antigravity. It will also feature a custom storyline.

I plan on using:

SFML for all media and most graphics
SPARK for particle effects (Should make the game look very nice)
Box2D for collision detection and physics

It will be written in C++.