What are you working on? :D

[Aino]

I'm just doing it for my own learning, as I'm wanting a future as a game programmer/desifgner I'll have to know such basic things like an a* search algorithm

But everythiong is just falling apart, I have a problem with the neighbouring system, something which pains me. But now off to bed, theres a new day tommorow

[annikk.exe]

I just bought Ableton Live and am installing it.

Then I will process some sounds with my Culture Vulture Stereo Analog Distortion Unit for my friend James.  :>

[Aino]

Hmm, I wonder how you are supposed to convert screen into level, or calculating where everything is supposed to stay at that camrazoom and that cameraX/Y. I do not directly talk about Eufloria, but any overhead games(games where you look down at the world)...

It's very hard to explain, so let's imagine Minecraft, with topview. How do you know where every single block is placed on the screen? It's an easy deal with the level, but converting that into the screen it might get harder...

[Aino]

Ok, my game is soon finished, some extra polishing and it's good to go

It might not be what you expect, it's a simple Eufloria game, with more futuristic look and not so dynamic/natural...

[Aino]

Final thing to add: Saving!

I'll do the saving complex, I don't know why, but I'll just do it complex...

[Pilchard123]

So...squares instead of circles?

[Aino]

If yopu're talkihng about the game, it's made of circles, don't you worry

[Aino]

Finally finished the save/loading, now to add a button to it in the GUI x.x

[Aino]

Doing some final polishing now, I've made a very simple saving/loading system, some buttoms away and you're in the action again

You get 5 file saves to use, they are have buttons on each side telling if you want to load or save the file, and you can delete all content too of course!

[Aino]

I attached a strange file...

It's a very very early PROTOTYPE of what I've been having in mind.

(click to show/hide)

So, what I've been having on my mind is a combination of Minecraft and Black & White 2, where you play on a terrain made out of blocks, and you're the god. You can pick up blocks and place them and you must maintain a population by giving them food/materials and houses:

Food: The food can be eggs from chicken, pigs and milk from cows or farms for that sake.
Materials: Materials are wood, stone, iron and diamond for tools, weapons and armor.
Houses: Houses are complex, yet very simple: Houses are the beds, and if put a roof over the bed, the people is happy, this might tell that it's just putting blocks over the beds and done, but you can get raided, and if you have houses and your population sleeps, they might not get killed that quickly and has time to prepare.

This is very straight forward for now, but you have Mana, or the amount of god power availible, everything costs mana! Something simple as picking up a block costs mana, and killing an animal too! To obtain mana, you must get yourself an altar, four people can pray at them and gives you 1 mana per second each. The more altars you have, the more prayers you can have. Prayers don't work for food, build(ohh yes, they can build!) or fight.

The villagers can build, as I said. They use prototypes of buildings(shown transparent when existing. They use their accessible materials to build, if there is none, they'll go out and gather. You can also make them mine/harvest blocks instead of you doing it, you can put a place for them to mine, they'll use prototypes there too, but they aren't shown.

Enemies do exist too, they have a god, if it's another player or just an AI, you can form alliance or slaughter them with your people, when adding other people, you can't interact with their bases, it's like the influence ring in Black and white 2, but it doesn't limit you to not do stuff outside your own! You can interact with the world as you want, but not inside of an enemy infuence ring.

You can find more infor in the txt file, but there might not be things I said here on it, as I never really finished the file. But I've been planning for ages

The prototype is called "God"

Edit: And lol, to use the map: Right click three times in arow to change mode, is the ball on the mouse is blue you pick up and if it's red you place the availible picked ups

[Aino]

Ok, so now I'm trying myself on 3D rendering, but I need tons of help, and yes I know about annikks 3D, but I have some problems when it comes to encoding codes that are made, if I watch somebody build up the code, it looks just fine, but even if it's commented it's still hard. I don't like having to break up a code and see exactly whats going on, but if it goes step by step, it's much easier... All I currently understand it that you need a x,y,z

[Aino]

Anyone here coding c#? Because I want to know how to tell the difference between rigth/left click, which way you are scrolling the mouse and what buttons on the keyboard you are pressing...

[kmercy]

look into keyhooks

[Aino]

Nice, but I'll look into that as I've fixed scrolling and mouse movement/clicking with the mouse...

[Pilchard123]

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/globalmousekeyboardlib.aspx

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharpgeneral/thread/20ab0496-533b-433b-a309-6b0ff5f6017e

Try these. The top link is to the library's development/help page, the second is an MSDN thread about installing it. (There's only two posts though)

I think therer is a way to get it to work with .NET 4.0, but you may have to do a little hacking together.