This worries me now: you're surely not saying that all you're planning up until the polish pass, is to allow *either* navigation *or* engine controls up? Cos that seems unworkable :-p Can you explain your concern? Having one set of controls out or multiple is simply the difference between dragging ...

And I'm curious: what core design concepts are still TBD? I don't have a list handy, but it's not a whole lot. One that comes to mind is diplomacy. It's not so much that there's a bunch of core concepts undesigned, but more that the fundamentals are designed and implementation is going to include f...

Friday, May 11th, 2018 Update time! Let's jump straight in. What have I been working on lately? A little bit of everything, as usual. A boatload of UI polish and new features. A cleanup pass on the engine. Completely overhauled the way we generate engine bindings for Lua. Reorganized and simplified...

Update time! Let's jump straight in. What have I been working on lately? A little bit of everything, as usual. A boatload of UI polish and new features. A cleanup pass on the engine. Completely overhauled the way we generate engine bindings for Lua. Reorganized and simplified our Lua support code. I...

In the meantime, I'm interested in learning how the whole-game project is progressing. What's Adam working on? How's the whole game feel with respect to the promises in the Kickstarter? Is there a big-picture plan for getting all the individual features to converge on a Limit Theory 1.0 release? I'...

Generally having a single button perform multiple, unrelated actions is going to be awkward. I can't think of any specific games or situations where that is common. For a concrete case where it's helpful to eat actions imagine Up, Down, Left, and Right are bound to moving focus in the UI. Then you f...

I missed the part where anyone at all said a specific language was required for a component architecture. At this point it's just unnecessary snark.

A pointer to what? Oh, a struct you say? So package up all the necessary data for a given type of operation, say, pathfinding and they write functions that operate on one or more data chunks? Hey look, you invented components!

I think that starts to change nowerdays, at least in the game-dev community. (with architectures using an entity component system) From what I hear AAA has mostly moved on from it, but Unity still encourages newcomers to think in term of inheritance and dynamic dispatch, unfortunately. I'm excited ...

it's not the tools that make your performance good, but the ability to make wonders with the limited set of tools you were given, and your capacity to find elegant solutions to stupid limitations imposed upon you. I'm not sure I follow the line of reasoning here. Sure, a good programmer will do goo...

Seems like designing a computer language for "good programmers" is an excellent way to insure that it remains a niche boutique language. Nothing wrong with that, unless one of your goals is a self-sustaining population of users. In my experience it seems a single good programmer is worth quite a fe...

... I'll pick this apart in detail at some point, but I'm fairly solidly done with batch. It's been an unnecessary time sink every time I touch it for years. I say that knowing my way around it fairly well. Just for a bit of perspective, consider the fact that it takes this much effort to do someth...

... There's some cool information in here, thanks for the detailed post. I didn't know there was a difference between :: and rem for f "tokens=* delims= " %%I IN ('do a system command') or for /f %%I IN (LIST.txt) do ( call :PROCESS %%I ) The problem here is the 'real time' requirement. Using a for...

Wednesday, February 15th, 2018 Allllright. It's been a little while since I've rambled on the forum so I figure it's time for an update. Plus, with Lindsey down for maintenance and Josh defragging the system someone's gotta keep y'all in the loop, right? It looks like PAX was a little more draining...

Because when I start on multiplayer I can guarantee you that a missed packet is going to cause crashes, and that's going to get super frustrating super fast. We wouldn't intentionally crash the engine in that case, so I'm assuming you mean the net result of ending up with bad data due to a missed p...