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Posts with keyword 'design'
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"A random thought on online life simulation games"
Posted by Jtgibson on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:34AM
After thinking about life simulation games online (e.g., Wurm Online), I realised that one of the fundamental problems …
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"Why hello Mr. Scope, how shall I exceed you today?"
Posted by Jtgibson on Friday, June 13, 2008 01:35PM
A demonstration of how remarkably intelligent and remarkably idiotic I am at the same time.
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A tricky and syntactically beautiful variable instantiation method for the new() and newlist() proc...
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A blog response to Masterdan's off-base post.
You're wrong, Masterdan, because your work is what is called a …
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Three guesses as to what this list represents.
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If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!
[But actually, Chewbacca lives on Endor's forest moon.]
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I'm trying to find one simple number:
* The average mass of food consumed daily by an average adult human.
I can find …
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If you're thinking of getting a profit from your BYOND game, consider the various methods at your disposal.
But before …
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I did a little research on incidences of ammunition failing to fire and ultimately came up with the following figures. …
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Grima Wormtongue spoke both "friend" and "ally" as if they meant nothing, but what makes this a sticky situation is …
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Country is an industrial nation of approximately thirty million to five hundred million people of several different …
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Damage Types:
Slash (Sharp Swing) -- e.g., a sword
Blunt (Blunt Swing) -- e.g., a staff
Pierce (Sharp Stab) -- e.g., a …
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In my space-opera single-player game, I try to accurately simulate physics. There are, of course, creative allowances …
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Energy screens are cohesive barriers of energy (often called "shields" thanks to the prevalence of various ancient …
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http:// www.3000ad.com/ downloads/ucse/ ucvcf.html
Read the "Known Issues - None Bugs" section, and tell me honestly …
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A long time ago, in the early dawn of my internet life, I was looking for lists of weapons and I encountered a website …
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What is up?! Chaz Wozzer is my name! Yo! Well, matter-of-factly, my name is Chaddington Smythe-Altra, but the public …
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I'm trying to think of a good name to refer to a specific class of limb that belongs to a creature. The best I can …
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Here are the systems that I want to chop out and rewrite in Newtopia at the moment:
* The equipment system. Presently …
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I don't think I've ever heard a wittiness quite like this before.
Combat Rounds
I've finally decided on a standard …
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I recently made a post on the Bear's Pit Forums for Jagged Alliance 2 with regards to a bullet-damage balancing thread, …
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The jt_vectors library, alpha version, has been released! Since it's still in alpha, there are still two functions …
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Deadron is a big proponent of writing unit tests and other forms of contract-based programming, so my recent policy was …
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proc/MyProc(...)
If you are writing a procedure with variable arguments, you can insert "..." into the argument …
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"Supplication for Users' Consideration of my Cogitation"
Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 08:21PM
I'm trying to decide whether I want logistic-based construction for burrows or whether burrow construction should be …
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docks.dmp - 7.13 KB (bearing in mind that this doesn't include the trees which are generated at runtime)
1,0.map - 226 …
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This is a test run of the tree generator, so don't expect those trees to be in the same position in the final …
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The program is designed to prevent bulky objects of certain size from being placed into the same location. For …
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Bartley the Badger says, "Hi!" in Common.
The pert, pretty female Mouse says, "Shh!" in Common.
Bartley the Badger …
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Like Hedgehow Hall of old, I've already implemented a system which allows objects to be 'installed'. An installed …
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Bartley says, "Hello, my name is Bartley. What's yours?" in Vesil.
DBG: test mob heard: "The tall, verbose Badger …
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"Just when I'm about to go to bed, I get a question"
Posted by Jtgibson on Friday, November 24, 2006 03:18AM
In Newtopia, I was just about to jot down a few notes for my plans to implement the dynamic maps and online creation in …
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I only have the badger graphic done, and I think it looks worse than the original Hedgerow Hall one. Plus, I was …
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The Snippets Database
Feel free to contribute your favourite snippets to the Database.
I spent 4 hours getting …
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I believe I shall! Newtopia ploughs forward.
Thanks, Lexy. =)
(Part of me is considering the double-meaning behind …
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So, I'm finding myself working on Newtopia again. For those people who weren't aware, Newtopia is a Hedgerow Hall …
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D&D came to us by way of wargames, meaning that it was based exclusively out of arbitrary dice and numbers that were …
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"What's the difference between a soldier and a craftsman?"
Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 06:19PM
In my opinion, not much. Many online RPGs out there have a focus on combat; that is to say that the whole point of the …
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Back in '99 when I first conceived of Haven (it still had the exact same delusions of grandeur it has today, albeit in …
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Coincidentally, this post title also happens to be the title of the combat music for The Haven Seed. Or rather, not …
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Can someone make my dream game so I don't have to do it? I'm tired of programming things that don't get released and …
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Once again, I've gotten to the point where The Haven Seed is so overloaded with cruft that I'm considering harvesting …
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Assumptions:
* An enclosed space is a number of points which are accessible to one another, but inaccessible to any …
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I'm back onto my roguelike again, thanks to Lummox JR dropping an innocent link to http:// www. roguelikedevelopment .org/ …
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I see people who work on their games and complain that the "coding" is too difficult, or it takes forever, but I notice …
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I was shocked, to say the least, when those hunams did it again. I work and work and work on a game idea, and then …
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Ha ha ha, what an a-musing joke.
Anyway, the musing is this: I really need to get jt_admin finished. BYOND's …
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...My four-day run of night shifts actually turned into a ten-day run, with four night shifts, one day shift, and …
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I've already been plugging away at Haven's new character generation system for over two hours, but I get a nice three …
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