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Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:43 am
by Victor Tombs
No, Cornflakes, that would be pink elephants if you were an excessive imbiber of the alcoholic beverages. I was referring to the energy gobbling piece of hardware we discussed elsewhere as the particular white elephant in question. ;) :mrgreen:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:50 am
by Cornflakes_91
Oooooooh!
I have no idea why you would call it white elephant, but now i know whats going on xD :lol:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:54 am
by Talvieno
:lol:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:15 am
by Victor Tombs
Can you in all honesty say you are in a position to afford to even fire up the beast? If you can then I will withdraw the white elephant reference. :lol:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:28 am
by Cornflakes_91
I can afford to buy it, because it would go to the dump otherwise, but no, i cant afford to fire it up.
Thats the reason why i wont get it :P

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:36 am
by Victor Tombs
And now I'm sad for you, Cornflakes. I know what an awesome piece of hardware it is and opportunities like this seldom comes along. :(

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:40 am
by FormalMoss
Victor Tombs wrote:And now I'm sad for you, Cornflakes. I know what an awesome piece of hardware it is and opportunities like this seldom comes along. :(
Send Pics!
Send Pics!

uhm.. what are we talking about?

Send Pics!
:monkey:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:42 am
by Cornflakes_91
I have no pics, the white elephant would be a server with 64 xeon dual core 1.2ghz processors, 800gb ram and a massive 24kw power supply.
Which would cost me 30 bucks a day in electricity.

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:47 am
by Talvieno
Cornflakes_91 wrote:I have no pics, the white elephant would be a server with 64 xeon dual core 1.2ghz processors, 800gb ram and a massive 24kw power supply.
Which would cost me 30 bucks a day in electricity.
This sounds awesome.

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:25 am
by FormalMoss
Talvieno wrote:
Cornflakes_91 wrote:I have no pics, the white elephant would be a server with 64 xeon dual core 1.2ghz processors, 800gb ram and a massive 24kw power supply.
Which would cost me 30 bucks a day in electricity.
This sounds awesome.
Turn it on only on the weekends!
Your days would be full of how many headless LT games you could run simultaneously :)
Then again, if they stayed talking together, it could be the first true AI in existence...

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:27 am
by JoshParnell
OK, seeing a bit of angst so minor update time again:

Last week brought several major breakthroughs that led to a huge leap in the completion of the mysterious platform upon which LT now lies. It is actually quite different than I expected, but everything that I've done, all the engineering, re-engineering, and various weird tech ideas that I've played with since the beginning seem to have somehow come together in a flurry and led me to the final result, and I'm really pleased and excited about it, both from a technical standpoint (yes, there's some very cool tech underlying that which makes the engine and game both performant and manageable), but also from a content authoring & gameplay standpoint. Fundamentally, it's EASY. Both engine and game work are easier even than writing LTSL was, but orders of magnitude more performant. Finally the tech investment pays off!

I think, when I reveal this final 'new LT' and the architecture underneath it, I will get some :wtf: :? reactions followed by :shock: and then :think: :o :o and, finally, ending in :clap: :thumbup: :D :squirrel: :squirrel: :squirrel: .

Best part is, I am now at the point where I can concurrently develop any pieces that I wish, be it engine, game, or the platform on which it all rests. So yes, game code is in the works concurrent to the finalization of the platform. It's pretty elegant how they can be developed concurrently, but in time you'll all get the details on that! I wouldn't have been capable of writing this solution years ago -- perhaps not even half a year ago, so, as strongly as I regret the fact that LT still isn't on you guys' hard drive, I think the timing happened to work very strongly to LT's advantage.

Good news is good news :) Still being stealthy, but man am I seeing the light lately.

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:32 am
by JFSOCC
Man, I would just love to see that!

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:32 am
by Victor Tombs
Thank you, Josh! :thumbup: Timely and most welcome information. It's sounding really intriguing to me. :angel:

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:44 am
by Netzbummler
This forum software seriously need a rating button for posts, so I can up- or down-vote a post. Josh, thank you for this update. Just imagine me upvoting your post through the roof! :D

Re: What stage is LT currently at?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:10 am
by FormalMoss
Joshie wrote: I think, when I reveal this final 'new LT' and the architecture underneath it, I will get some :wtf: :? reactions followed by :shock: and then :think: :o :o and, finally, ending in :clap: :thumbup: :D :squirrel: :squirrel: :squirrel: .
Josh had implemented a Microsoft sql database solution that actually works?!
:P

But seriously, very happy for you Josh :)
Congrats and well done :thumbup: