monos

15 лет назадdiscuss

Angry Birds is a poster child for the way "modern indies" design there games:

  * evergreen mechanic
  * cute visuals
  * generated content

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

related: http://infiniteblank.com/

Infinite Blank is a massively multiplayer online canvas. The game’s world is endless, because players draw all of it. Anyone can draw a new piece in a blank spot. It then becomes a permanent part of the map.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

full ack. The only way I can speed up my games is by doing less canvas calls, everything else is negligible. Although I A* often runs and a couple dozen simple state machine AIs for the actors.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

I guess like most of those projects, GameJs grew as a library while I was coding games.

Still, I have only managed to finish small games and the biggest - roguelike RTS - is still in the making http://gamejs.org/apps/rtsimple/ (rough tech demo)

If you do game programming as a hobby, then the only predictable way to finish a game is during a competition. It is much easier to finish a game within 48 hours than with unlimited time.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

Nice. Looks good.

But that's not how the facial nerve works. That wouldn't even be the right location to trigger the eye lids. This could possibly work if he put the stimulants on his eye lids. But even then other parts of his face would gringe.

No way to get that kind of specific control over one part of the face without surgery. Certainly not by just sticking something at your temple.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

> What do I care if 1% of the population have 99% of the > wealth if there are no consequences to it? I certainly > don’t want to reduce inequality out of spite.

You might want reduce it because the lowest x% don't have enough to eat. Share the cake.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

Self-driving cars will be important in 10-20 years that is obvious. You can look into that certain future by watching how far R&D has come in recent years.

But I strongly doubt that cars as we know them today will still be around. Todays car design - fast & heavy - is absurd and only serves to satisfy the image we have of a car. 'Sensible cars' are often not perceived as cars at all <http://www.google.at/images?q=smart>.

Making cars slower triggers a positive cycle of being more efficient (half speed = 1/4 energy), safer and allowing for lighter designs.

The problem of efficiency is not somehow magically solved by making cars 'electric' but only by making cars slower and lighter.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

    This is extremely impressive! It always surprises me how 
    far people can go with web scripting languages like
    JavaScript and CSS.

I hate to be the one who pisses on this nice looking project... but you guys do realize that this is not a "simulation of an ipad".

This a couple of jQuery plugins and ~200 LOC of JavaScript to make it look like the iPad interface.

Did anyone actually look at the code?

I'm not even sure I understand what the point of this is.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

Although I'm a gamejs committer, i disagree :)

Take for example doodlejs: it doesn't have any of the things you mention, BUT its scene graph is superior to all other engines.

Not everyone wants the same things in his framework. E.g. sprite animation makes no sense (not a lot) if your lib is vector & tween centric.

See my list of favorites in a comment higher up.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

If you care for game centric libraries that use canvas, then only the following are valid choices.

In my personal favorites order with random remarks:

  * https://github.com/kesiev/akihabara - arcade game centric
  * https://github.com/oberhamsi/gamejs - (my lib) port of PyGame; commonjs
  * https://github.com/biilly/doodle-js - scene graph
  * https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js - simplistic but fast sprite handling
  * https://github.com/fairfieldt/xcjs - coffeescript
  * http://easeljs.com/ -

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

1. agreed.

2. flash = javascript + super vector libs + sweet IDE. it has been around for a decade+ so yes: it is better.

3.a. 3D (webgl) does not make 2D obsolete. I'm not sure you imply that?

3.b. not everyone wants a scene graph for doing games. SVG + CSS is superior if you want a scene graph but plenty (and i would argue: the best) libraries for opengl, sdl, you name it are non scene graph driven.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

gamejs.org is my baby.

coolest features are:

   * similar to PyGame.org API (so lots of docs & known patterns)
   * commonjs support
   * server-side support built in (via ringojs.org)
   * modern browsers only
   * MIT license

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

THE AMULET OF YENDOR: INSIDE THE KERNEL

JUST ONE MORE TURN...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

please don't make such general statements about some program being X times slower then another program :|

you will not get good performance and easy scalability for free - no matter which tools you choose.

also see: RingoJS vs. Node.js: Runtime Values http://hns.github.com/2010/09/21/benchmark.html and the follow up http://hns.github.com/2010/09/29/benchmark2.html

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

Ringo is fine.

The number of add-on frameworks is probably so small because Ringo came bundled with a web-framework. But it will be removed from the core within the next releases.

And additional frameworks for Ringo are already appearing, like https://github.com/hns/stick or the proprietary http://erbix.com platform

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

"Twitter strikes me as a very anti-intellectual medium because of the 140 character limitation."

You can always write multiple tweets on the topic. Also it forces you to think about the essence of what you want to say. (122 chars)

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

    > Discuss their crimes with them and persuade them
    > to pay restitution?

Why restitution? In some cases - violent crimes - any amount of money would not be enough. Punishment has no positive effect for society.

Discussing and admitting the crimes would help the victim and be cheaper. In our current law system the victim, who is the one we should pay most attention to, is mostly ignored.

For more on this controversial standpoint read up on how Tutsi & Hutu learnt to live together after the genocide.

or:

When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0691148643

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

in this context 'Object-relational mapping' is the most likely meaning.

monos

16 лет назадdiscuss

I sometimes find this nicer to read when I just want to collect a property from an array of objects (yes, map would work too):

    var ids = [story.id for (story in stories)]

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