http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer Discussing games, one brightly glowing comment at a time en-US Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:20:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/search.php http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-471 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:43:44 +0000 wickedgenius 471@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Spore&#39;s procedural generation isn&#39;t worth looking at. To sum it up reasonably well it&#39;s pretty naff. I think trevor is doing really well anyway. He doesn&#39;t need to be Sporing it up at all. </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-470 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:57:19 +0000 Kris015 470@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>How about games like Spore and Oblivion? You know with the procedural generation of stuff from Spore and the RPG from oblivion </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-469 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:04:58 +0000 trevor 469@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Well.. I know that Squidi had a similar idea (although he designed it very differently and never actually started development on it), but I think that the main reason why there aren&#39;t any games like this already out there is that it&#39;s actually really difficult to make a game about making a game without either becoming hugely abstract (see Petri Purho&#39;s &quot;The Truth About Game Development&quot; for an example of making it extremely abstract), or becoming unwieldy and non-fun.</p> <p>I mean, I&#39;ve been working on this concept on and off for well over a year now, and I still haven&#39;t really nailed down how to make the game fun.. though I think I&#39;m getting a lot closer, and have been being heavily inspired by things like Dwarf Fortress (which I wrote about earlier) and Minecraft and The Sims. </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-468 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:48:37 +0000 Kris015 468@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Kewl, i wonder why no one has ever thought about making this before you...<br /> You know the &quot;professional&quot;. Not that you aren&#39;t, but you know what i mean... Like Blizzard and Valve. </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-467 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:58:58 +0000 trevor 467@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Well, the game isn&#39;t playable at all, yet; it&#39;s really just a tech demo at this stage (although most of the gameplay code from version 1.1 is now in the new codebase, most of it isn&#39;t yet being used). And the next couple of big features I need to add are also tech demo sorts of features (procedural buildings and plants, and then more customisation to the world). The gameplay will come after all that.</p> <p>So the release won&#39;t be for several months, although I am planning to put together a basic tech demo once I have procedural buildings working, to see how well it runs for everyone.</p> <p>On my (reasonably fast) laptop, it currently takes about five seconds to build the world on startup. But that&#39;s because it&#39;s currently generating perlin noise to set up the heightmap. In the end, I&#39;m expecting to have the user (or his simulated designers) place terrain features into the world (&quot;mountain here, put a lake there, a forest over here, etc&quot;), and use those placements to generate the heightmap. That should be substantially cheaper to calculate than perlin noise, I expect! Also, it&#39;ll result in terrains much more appropriate to place an MMORPG in. </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-466 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:52:44 +0000 Kris015 466@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>haha 2 hours ago :P<br /> Oh well, when are you planning the release? </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-465 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:52:46 +0000 trevor 465@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Thanks, Kris! I&#39;m really pleased with how it came out! </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-464 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:32:26 +0000 Kris015 464@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>wow man!!! Epic sky :D :D :D </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-463 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:41:25 +0000 wickedgenius 463@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Very nice. </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-462 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:13:25 +0000 Kris015 462@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>Looks great! :) </p> <p>It&#39;s funny i always reply one hour after you :P </p> http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/topic/i-am-not-a-web-designer#post-461 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:12:54 +0000 trevor 461@http://www.vectorstorm.org/forum/ <p>You all know that the look and feel of the forums has been annoying me for an awfully long time; how they didn&#39;t provide a link back to the main site, how they looked kind of cheap.. things like that.</p> <p>I&#39;d been considering moving over to a different software with integrated forum support (Drupal), but that seemed like too much ongoing hard work. And I&#39;ve looked at a number of different Wordpress-integrated forums, but they were all either ugly or slow.</p> <p>So in the end, I bit the bullet and spent far too many hours today learning CSS and brushing up my HTML skills by working on the existing bbpress-based forums, and I think I&#39;ve managed a pretty big improvement. The look is tied in much more closely to the main site now, complete with links back. It&#39;s close enough that I suspect most casual visitors wouldn&#39;t even realised they&#39;ve switched into an entirely different website software when they visit the forums.</p> <p>If you notice anything that looks weird and/or incorrect, please let me know so that I can sort it out. But I&#39;m generally pleased, at the moment. :) </p>