Tarq
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Nigel Farage's tweet on a trainline stopping selling a certain newspaper:
"We are heading in a worrying direction. Banning things because you don’t like them solves nothing."
...Unlike your continued attempts at banning people from our country?
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Laptop is misbehaving
I dont really like devving on the desktop.
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In terms of performance, I think Source (the user, not the engine) has the best in the biz when it comes to anti-lags. Gotta pay though. Second best, and free, is TheoAllen's. But, better design is ultimately the winner in reducing lag; Don't give conflicting commands, erase stuff when its no longer needed and do more with less!
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I Like the Thing! Girls' Last Tour.
Tarq commented on SpookyMothman's blog entry in Spooky Does Blog Stuff
Hey, some of the best anime out there is about nothing, or something too nebulous to define; Humanity Has Declined, Serial Experiments Lain, Paranoia Agent. Eventful plots (as in character x goes to y to perform z) are kind of tedious to me. I kind of just want more Dark Souls in the world; weird landscapes and people with secret motives. Ofc, you can have too much of a good thing but... I guess I'd rather that than too much of a bad thing :3 I haven't had time to watch this yet because of work and a new bit of software I've been dabbling with (called ClickFusion; worth a looksee if you're still devving) but I'm pretty sure from the screens of the landscape and the characters that I'm going to like the vibe of the show. -
I'm not familiar with the plugin but I don't really get the request either. Surely using intervals of 10 for this is the same as using 1-10 (...10x10=100). Edit: Or to phrase it another way. If your outcomes are 10, 20, 30....100 then its the same as 1, 2, 3....10.
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unity Gathering all Unity users! and everyone else who's interested.
Tarq replied to Wingflame's topic in Editor Support and Discussion
And if you're rocking a pre-2000 pc Unity probably wont even run on MS-DOS. Those villains. -
Looks good here. More purple = better forums. We should get rid of these words and just put in more shades of purple.
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Spending a lot of time on the ps3 lately. So many good games to revisit ^>^
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Uhh, Idk, did someone say there were no games?
There's more good games than that for the ps3, although not necessarily exclusive. Mirror's Edge was great. Journey. The flurry of RPS; Borderlands, Bioshock and Fallout.
There were a bunch of HD remakes that genuinely benefitted from the better tech; Shadow of the Colossus, the first Star Ocean. There were some cashgrabs that didn't but whatcha gonna do?
And then there were just fun games; DB Raging Blast 2 was, undeniably, a poorly made fighting game but I still got hundreds of hours of entertainment playing it with friends back when we had more time than money.
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I Like the Thing! Girls' Last Tour.
Tarq commented on SpookyMothman's blog entry in Spooky Does Blog Stuff
Looks quite promising. Anime has taken a pretty sharp nosedive over the last half-decade so here's hoping this is one of the handful that redeems the medium. -
Yo, how's that small game you started going?
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??? No small game. Just a ginormous one that I'm really not working on anymore. I usually don't feel like doing anything productive when I get home form work, and when I do, it's in the form of housecleaning and errands more often than not. Maybe after football season I'll fill part of my Sundays with game devving.
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I 'member! It took me a few minutes when I 1st read it. I actually ended up working on a new map for Regicide which is like 25% complete. Been a while since I even opened it, but I still know exactly where I left off and what needs to be done so it's completely out of mind.
QuoteWork sure can be tiring but I think I'd go crazy if I felt like I wasn't doing anything productive except work
When I'm off work, I'd rather just frolic and play!
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I prefered the HD version since it made it look more cartoony so it would be kind of like the player is in the show. Sort of. Maybe. Anyways, gotta do what works for you Riki. PS. I tried filling my signature with magic but got this error message: Unable to retrieve signature image dimensions for https://i.imgur.com/LraXqtS.png, please try another image
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EDIT: Actually Chibi, nvm; been testing it and its a mess currently. If you are still LPing and would like to play this though then let me know and I'll update you when the build is stable again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, are you still doing these Chibi? If so I'd really like it if you could give my TCG a go. Its still a WIP but it should only take 10-15 minutes to watch the tutorial and try out a Skirmish (since all the enemies share the same deck currently, there's not much point continuing to play after one Skirmish unless you want to collect/try out more cards- booster packs are bought in the commerce area and you get moneys for winning Skirmishes). Here's the link if you're interested: If you do give it a go I'd say there's a reasonable chance of hitting a bug. Playing against the guy with the hat should minimize it somewhat.
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EDIT: Gave this a bout of testing earlier and, tbh, it is incredibly unstable and I wouldn't recommend playing it, atm. I'll leave the link up as it is possible, if you get very lucky, to play without issue but I'd only suggest doing so to new viewers who just want an idea of how the game runs. A link to an older stable build can be provided on request. I'll keep trucking though and let you guys know when its in a playable state again T_T ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's quite a lot to get through and I'm pretty tired so I'll condense it down for now. Here's the link for the new build first of all: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hr65nx4s6nhcvwc/Sovereignty V4.exe?dl=0 AI The elephant in the room. Some progress made. Targets much more, well, intelligently. Can also play a handful of command cards now but needs revision before they play them optimally. One half-built deck is still shared by all enemies and is really intended for the fellow in the hat. Tutorial Well, it exists. You can watch it from the title screen. Cutscenes There's a handful more of those pre-Skirmish VNesque cutscenes. Also added an option for skipping them to spare you my lousy writing. Oh, and I crudely animated them talking :3 Menus DECKS COME READYMADE NOW!!! You can now remove cards from your deck in deckbuilding. There's also a little tally in the top right so you know how many cards are currently in your deck. The stats screen is also up and running. Here's a thousand words: Cards Since the last release there's an additional 13 command cards,as detailed below. A few are based on drawing but there's some cool ones in there And then there's just the misc stuff like bugfixes and that nifty little animation at the start of Skirmishes. So, what's next? Well, there's some stuff in this post that still needs finishing like the cutscenes and card bits. Also concerned making so many changes in so brief a time will have made the game less stable so I'm going to have a few lengthy testing sessions. As for the long-term though, I'll be upping the AI while finishing/personalising each enemy's decks and I'd also like to redesign the cards to look less 'made by me'. So that should keep me busy for a while. Also liked an idea that @Takeo212 suggested, iirc, about card rarity that wouldn't take too long to implement. rjwcmervkeofmw,erw,hdewvdemr n w;clmwrovqpdmfgvc p2gvcmeqfcm Sorry, head hit the keys. G'night.
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So, AI targetting works like a charm. Still pretty dumb when it comes to command cards and overall tactics but posing a much stronger threat now.
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An amusing tweet this morning regarding our post-Brext passports:
'“What does this new passport do?”
“It’s blue.”
“Can I use it to travel freely and work in 26 neighbouring countries?”
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Hey Tonko, welcome to the forums. Tortoises are cool, I kind of want one but I'm not responsible enough to be a good pet owner :3 Good luck with your projects. Games don't need battles but don't shy away from them because you don't know yet; devving is all about learning and improving!
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Results of a study on race in our industry:
'At first, everyone in the room chose six white characters. I had to point out that none was black or Asian. It hadn't been been considered to be an important factor, but it should have been as changing it made the characters more relatable to many players.'
...Or maybe its more racist to reduce people to skin tones and blindly insist it makes characters 'more relatable' when evidence goes to the contrary?
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It's funny how lonely talks about a kind of religious devotion to a character. Personally I think it's perfectly acceptable to do that. People should put their faith in what they are passionate about, regardless of if they 'exist' or not. Though philosophically I would say fictional characters do exist... as fictional characters. That something 'exists' is different then if it is 'real', and that something is 'real' is different then if it is 'important'. It's a nitpick over semantics probobly, but I feel like many people are too caught up in if something is 'real' or not to understand why it is important to some people.
The more important question for me is not what you put your faith in but why. To many humans it seems to me as if faith is more like a duty, as if whatever type of person society says they are must put their faith in the expected things. If you ask me though, faith that is not chosen but instead imposed on a person is bad faith. This goes beyond what is commonly thought of as religion. The very concept of 'race' it's self for example is a belief constructed by people's faith. It might be useful to make groups to sort people into people based on some genetic markers and cultural differences, but it's nothing more then exactly that: Making up groups to sort people into. The whole concept of 'racial identity' or indeed any kind of identity I believe is a matter of faith not reason.
So yeah, role models are the same way. There is nothing wrong with choosing a role model to identify with, to worship in your own little way. I think it's a mistake to expect people to like a character and think of them as a role model just because you happen to sort them into the same group though. It's a mistake both because it makes it seem like the group people are sorted in is more important then the actual person, and also because it assumes that people identify themselves and others by the same system you do.
Of course, I am all for diversity in games anyway, but that's more because I can get bored of the same old character archetypes we have seen a million times before and want to see some new ones, not because I think random attempts at appeasement of different identity groups for the sake of being PC is a good idea.
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The Maker has arrived! ... You may grovel at your own discretion.
Tarq replied to MakerZeroOne's topic in Introductions & Farewells
'They' is a gender-neutral term. Just much easier these days to talk like that As for the doublepost, dont worry about it. In the future though if you need to post things in succession please just edit the previous post instead.- 20 replies
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The Maker has arrived! ... You may grovel at your own discretion.
Tarq replied to MakerZeroOne's topic in Introductions & Farewells
Don't worry Maker, you get used to KZ, they're very nice really. Just turn away from the screen when it gets too fairy for you. While its been a bit of an awkward exchange, well, sometimes that happens between people. We're not really here to police communications unless they get explicit or aggressive (although please do tell us if you're struggling with a member and we'll do what we can to mediate). KZ is sorry, I'm sure they'll be a bit more cautious about being, umm, 'overly-friendly' towards you in the future. ...Fairy'nuf? -
To set event locations the script call is $game_map.events[id].moveto(x,y). Here's a little known secret; you can set the location by decimals (ie. (7.3,8.7) ) to get that 'gridless' effect parrallaxers love so much. Keep schtum though
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The new ones look great but I actually kind of prefer the older ones in a minimalist kind of way; they convey almost as much information to the player with a quarter of the pixels. -
Say what you will, I still dev to the Katawa Shoujo OST.
(Don't google it at work
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Made a list to keep track of everything I've worked on for the last 2-3 weeks for the year end tcg update. I've gotten a surprising amount done. Should come out amazing if can keep up the pace for the next two weeks.
either way :/ dang
