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by lesslucid
Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:08 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

The problem lesslucid has is that his functions look a lot like that one (or are even more complex). Is it really that bad, I thought? Then I check... I have an updateBall function with almost 100 lines! :rofl: ...this gives me an idea of a gentle way back into coding; I will try to move all of tha...
by lesslucid
Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:38 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

Trying to program after a couple of months away from it hurts my brain.

Any suggestion on a nice gentle way back "in"?
by lesslucid
Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:05 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Noob on collision detection
Replies: 9
Views: 4695

Re: Noob on collision detection

How do you turn circles and rectangles into the images in your game? It won't give you perfect "per pixel" detection, but you just have a rectangle sitting roughly over the area of the image you want to be "collidable" and use that as your basis. So, a perfectly square bullet tha...
by lesslucid
Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:18 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

Ah, great, thankyou!
by lesslucid
Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:37 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

Thanks! I could probably afford to make the easiest level a little tougher than that ... At this point this is just curiosity rather than a real problem, but... should everything except the other callback functions be inside the love.load function? The explanation in the tutorial says: "This fu...
by lesslucid
Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:24 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: ideas for new game
Replies: 9
Views: 4744

Re: ideas for new game

Ah, got it!
by lesslucid
Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:46 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: ideas for new game
Replies: 9
Views: 4744

Re: ideas for new game

I think less interaction than PQ is a pretty tall order... I think the only way to do that would have it automatically begin every time your computer starts up; that way installing it would be the only interaction you did. :ultrahappy:
by lesslucid
Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:57 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: ideas for new game
Replies: 9
Views: 4744

Re: ideas for new game

I actually had an idea for a "minimalistic RPG" while reading this... you could make it using the "push your luck" mechanism underlying games like "Can't Stop" by Sid Sackson or "Incan Gold" by Moon & Faidutti. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-st...
by lesslucid
Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:27 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

Ok, now with variable difficulty levels. I don't think it's quite reached the status of unmanageable spaghetti but I can see it's headed that way. I've beaten level 4, I suspect level 5 is completely impossible. Hmm. I think my next project will be to try to use the middleclass module to create a br...
by lesslucid
Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:01 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help me decide what to do next?
Replies: 30
Views: 19506

Re: Help me decide what to do next?

Thanks for the feedback! I've added some intro & outro screens and altered the balance a bit to make it easier / possible to win. Maybe I should try to add different difficulty levels now? Hmm.