Black--Snow wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:08 am

Like your mother? I spoke to her about it last night. :V (Obligatory, I sort of apologise but also once again, obligatory)

That's fightin' talk where I come from, pardner!

I don't tend to talk to older people about my beliefs on sexuality because they *tend* to have a strong conservative view to my strong liberal view and it just ends up being butting heads. Can we also have an 'ick' division...? 'cos talking to some people about anything related to sex is just ewwww...

If that's the case then how did this process stretch your $45 pledge way beyond what you thought it would.....are you saying you never expected a game? LOL Tal and CSE are absolutely correct in that I first came to the forums to complain about the dark days, because I badly wanted a game I could pl...

The con builds bring up a really interesting point, IMO; I wonder whether it was the external deadline that did the trick, or whether it was that Josh allowed himself to produce less-than-perfect code in order to get to that specific goal.

I didn't take it as you questioning me or whether I'm happy as a backer, Starbuck, no worries mate :-) My only point is that in this specific case, I think Josh has already been highly transparent in where the money went, and indeed stretched it way beyond what I ever thought my $45 pledge would be ...

I can't imagine how much more transparent anyone could have been than Josh on this project - he said right at the start it would be for some software and costs of, e.g. music production, but the rest was going on living expenses while he worked on LT. You could ask for receipts or how much his rent ...

Ahh, DWM, I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with the business. You didn't deserve it, and I hope you too realise it wasn't a reflection on you or your family, or your actions even. Sometimes, life is just cruel. I'm very impressed with your attitude coming out of it though, well done indeed - yo...

+1, Tal. If nothing else, Josh has earned time away from LT.
Let the guy recover, take as long as it takes, and if he wants to revisit any part of this at a later date, so be it.

That store will already have to settle its debts first (rent, utilities, etc) as those are considered first-party debtors. You are considered a second-party debtor and while you can request money, or file a lawsuit, you'll only see anything if the first-party debtors didn't eat up all the money, an...

Guys, as someone who in the past made the same comments and arguments and respectfully understands both sides, can I please ask that we now take this elsewhere?

By all means, create a new topic and discuss, but I'd really like to keep this thread on-topic as it's the last official one we have.

Bear in mind that these are *my* biases coming into play; I've written C since before many people on here were born, so it's as natural as breathing to me. My development instinct is saying that in LT 1.0, modding via Lua is a great feature to have; a bit of luxury. Writing the whole game in Lua is ...

It's more that it's more work to rip it out now - the game is Lua, on top of a C engine, and that's already implemented. Removing moddability would be more work cause you'd have to move all the Lua parts back to C. Well, we know that 'the game is Lua' isn't really accurate: there isn't a game right...

You haven't worked much with complex code have you? You mean, apart from things like writing parts of the Windows operating system, or JVM's, or Compilers, or PC Emulators, etc...? If you don't build in this capability from the start it's bloody nightmarish to implement later, much better to build ...

Talvieno wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:18 pm

It seems slipping out of the Community Manager role may be harder than I would have anticipated.

Pfft. You'll always be our Community Mangler regardless, Tal. :-p

Ringu, that sounds to me like a very defensible plan. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a plan, for exactly the reasons you mention: more like a general attitude and approach. The main concern I have beyond those individual features and their sequencing is performance. The reason why the architect...