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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
I've been working slowly through Skyward Sword. I play a lot slower than I used to. I've logged like 20hrs into the game, but have been playing it for a few of months.

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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: ArchAngel ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:19 pm
I'm keeping keeping myself from getting Diablo 3 until I finish up Kingdoms of Amalur, which, admittedly, is a very enjoyable game with an intriguing story and good combat mechanics and I'm missing the whole server launch fiasco.

Gave Moon Breaker a try and that was a pretty fun space sim arena game. Price is right at free-to-play.

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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: SSquared ON: Fri May 18, 2012 3:40 pm
Boy! Been a long time since this thread had traction.

All iPad gaming:

Lego Harry Potter Years 1 -4: Finished the initial storyline the other day. Now working towards getting 100%. 16+ hours.

Star Wars Pit Droids - Been really enjoying this one. Had it on PC. I think I've gone further on the iPad than I ever did on the PC. The portability and easy to use format of the iPad just really fits my style.

Treasures of Montezuma 3: This game is a blast! I didn't think I'd like a time limit for levels, but this is REALLY well done. My wife and I are hooked.

The Hacker: Oh man this game is fun. Logic puzzles and stuff. The storyline makes you feel like you are really part of things. Unlockables too!

Conquest! Medieval Realms - Just bought this morning. Have yet to boot it up. But it is definitely the last game I bought (as the thread title mentions).

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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: Mack ON: Fri May 18, 2012 1:51 pm

Mack: Hopefully not all today! No wonder you're up at 1 am.

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Last Post By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:31 pm
Topic By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:31 pm
My first SpeedCoder in a while.

http://ncg.perd.org/warmingUp/warmingUp.cpp

I'm afraid that since I made this on linux, I can't compile any exes for you non-linuxers, and it is dependent on freeglut, so compilation might not be super straightforward. Just in case someone does want to compile, these options work here:

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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 pm
Mack: Hopefully not all today! No wonder you're up at 1 am.

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Last Post By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 pm
Topic By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 pm
This is quite relevant to me due to my recent work on Bat Bite. The levels there are randomly generated and some significant effort was put into fulfilling those three "hopes" if you will. I think the article really highlights how it's easy to write a random level generator, but it's not nearly so easy to unsure that the levels it generates are good.

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Last Post By: Mack ON: Fri May 18, 2012 9:44 am
Topic By: Mack ON: Fri May 18, 2012 9:44 am

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Last Post By: Mack ON: Fri May 18, 2012 9:44 am
Topic By: achild ON: Fri May 18, 2012 7:43 am

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Last Post By: samw3 ON: Fri May 18, 2012 4:24 pm
Topic By: Mack ON: Thu May 17, 2012 11:04 pm
Finished RAGE, Serious Sam 2, Xotic, TimeShift, Darkest of Days, Magicka, Hunted: The Demons Forge, Payday: The Heist, Serious Sam 3, Dead Island, Red Faction: Armageddon, FEAR2, FEAR3, Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Brothers in Arms series, Aliens vs Predator (2010), Ghost Recon, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.

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Last Post By: Mack ON: Thu May 17, 2012 10:58 pm
Topic By: Mack ON: Thu May 17, 2012 10:58 pm

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Last Post By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 pm
Topic By: Mack ON: Thu May 17, 2012 10:49 pm
Building a platformer and are thinking of procedural generated levels? Gamasutra has an interesting 3 page article up by Cloudberry Kingdom developer Jordan Fisher talks about precisely how he created the algorithmic level design system for his procedurally generated platformer.

Thinking of building a platformer and mulling over editor/engine choices? CDN member Hanclinto has a great platformer application; Platformer Starter Kit, using the PushButton Engine it allows you to easily create your own flash based platformers with XML based levels, advanced physics, full documentation/source and starting artwork so you can get crackin right away.

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Last Post By: Mack ON: Fri May 18, 2012 9:44 am
Topic By: Mack ON: Thu May 17, 2012 10:46 pm
Wired has an article up teasing Epics upcoming E3 reveal of the ever popular Unreal Engine 4. While much of the article is gibberish journalist talk it gives a bit of a look of some of the elements of future mainstream graphics technologies.

Honestly the presentation doesn't impress me as much as other advancements over the past several years. Much of the features toted are common to lesser known engines and have been available to the interested developer for years (dynamic lighting, physics based particles, etc.). It brings up an interesting discussion regarding graphical enhancements, other than a few milestones (mainly sparse voxel octrees and ray tracing) the technological leaps have been averaging out. Engine development companies have been turning much of their focus towards the easy of use of their toolsets and it's become clear in the last few years that the easier the toolset is the killer feature. What do you think the next advancements will be in? Animation? AI?

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Last Post By: brownboot ON: Thu May 17, 2012 9:12 am
Topic By: brownboot ON: Thu May 17, 2012 9:12 am
Found this over on the Escapist today

I think we should take a long hard look at this. Goes hand in hand with some of the other discussions we've been having I think.

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Last Post By: Mene-Mene ON: Fri May 18, 2012 12:31 pm
Topic By: Tyraziel ON: Wed May 16, 2012 8:34 pm
Time for another CDN Speed Coder Challenge #15!

This will be a warm up for the speed game challenge that's up coming. http://talk.christiandevs.com/viewforum.php?f=45

The Challenge:
Write a GAME with the theme of Warmth/Warm Up and Speed.

Remember:
A game has either a WIN/LOSE(like Super Mario) or a SCORE/LOSE(PacMan) system and should have a significant challenge to be (subjectively)enjoyable.

Your game can be anything from text mode to 3d, with the goal of doing it in 2hrs. (Let us know if you go over.)

All entries must be submitted by:
11:59PM EST Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Submitting an entry in this thread, within the time frame, will earn you .

Have fun and be a better coder!

To Read the Full Rules Click Here

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Last Post By: Tyraziel ON: Wed May 16, 2012 4:09 am
Topic By: Tyraziel ON: Wed May 16, 2012 4:09 am
I'd be more than happy to join up with someone as the programmer side of things

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Last Post By: mightybotme ON: Tue May 15, 2012 9:36 am
Topic By: mightybotme ON: Tue May 15, 2012 9:36 am
Oh snap, that is really cool. You guys are doing an excellent job on everything!

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Last Post By: mightybotme ON: Tue May 15, 2012 9:36 am
Topic By: brownboot ON: Tue May 15, 2012 4:01 am
OH MAN! I forgot to post our new trailer:

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Last Post By: mightybotme ON: Mon May 14, 2012 9:00 pm
Topic By: mightybotme ON: Mon May 14, 2012 9:00 pm
Those look really sweet, Nate!

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Last Post By: Mack ON: Mon May 14, 2012 9:58 am
Topic By: Mack ON: Mon May 14, 2012 9:58 am
I was pretty busy this weekend with family and I ended up forgetting to post this Sundays discussion, so here it is:

This Sundays Faith Talk discussion is:

What hard time in life has God helped you get through?