TommyvanSon

@TommyvanSon@mastodon.gamedev.place

Dad, ...... historian, game developer and programmer

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gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

Should be illegal

TommyvanSon,

@gamingonlinux What village are you from, horse thief?

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

It took me 2 days to realise I need to try another kind of refactoring to allow for my changes first.

People, use #VersionControl to be able to revert changes in 15 minutes and still be ok.
#GameDev

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

Refactoring code is a good thing, but it often creates problems like the Player object not being able to move at all, because the collider... Well, what bout the collider? But it does not [...] so it's the colliders fault. #GameDev

TommyvanSon,

@paintedsky Sounds like what we're experiencing is similar. We must be on the right track then 😄

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

Working on a system to find out if the good-looking enemy sees the player or if its view is blocked, using a pathetic parody of a raycast system. #GameDev #Love2d

Four lines connect from the enemy to the corners of the player object. The console tells us if the enemy can see the player, if the view is blocked or if it's too far. DEBUG=true here

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

This is what happens when the programmer quickly draws the enemy to go with the code #GameDev

TommyvanSon, to gamedev Dutch

#GameDev people, how many of you also created board games, card games and other non-digital games?

Me, I created some paper games for during the mortally boring lessons at high school. We were playing ⚽️football with our calculators and a dice and Mr. Verster of biology never noticed because he never noticed anything at all

TommyvanSon,

@peterdrake cool! The question then is: how does one come up with that theme?

TommyvanSon,

@peterdrake Right. cool! That explains a lot

TommyvanSon, to random Dutch

They say "never have a zero day as an #IndieDev." Today I had a zero day and it's 1am the next day and this it's the first time I even thought about devving games today. Am I a bad boy now?

TommyvanSon,

@paintedsky thanks. It's probably only one or two days.

TommyvanSon, to gamedev Dutch

#GameDev question: who is making a first person RTS? Feels interesting somehow. Do such games even exist?

TommyvanSon,

@matias_hettich interesting. I'll look it up tomorrow. Thanks.

TommyvanSon,

@peterdrake i don't know. I'm thinking of games that try to work with the idea that battles are difficult to control without a helicopter view. Or some personal interaction thing that i don't really know what that would be. Take Rome Total War battles from the ground for instance.

TommyvanSon,

@peterdrake I think it does, judging by this video and the fact that more people mention it. The controls may be weird, but it's funny there's games like this. Pity (for this ancient history guy) that it's mostly futuristic or modern warfare settings.

TommyvanSon,

@MrBehemo @matias_hettich By 'first person' I don't specifically mean the camera should be first person, but that the player is a character that plays a role in the thing, so not like a standard RTS, you controll everything with a helicopter view. I would exclude games with a Diablo kind of camera, because there's thiss a lot of view, but this one looks like I mean

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

Trying to find out how to make an object immovable in #Godot 4. It's not by turning Gravity to 128 #GameDev #learning

video/mp4

TommyvanSon, to programming

My colleague Annika thinks a boolean value should be true, false or "question mark". How should I punish her?

TommyvanSon,

@seandick that'd be a check box with [?] inside indeed. Unacceptable.

TommyvanSon, to gamedev

Stole this from Matt Hackett on Twitter #GameDev

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