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RE: What Are You Reading? - CombatEX - 02-07-2013 01:16 PM

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Not the kind of thing I usually read but I figured I should broaden my horizons.

RE: What Are You Reading? - the duck - 02-07-2013 07:17 PM

Star Wars Cool

RE: What Are You Reading? - Wildt4lon - 02-08-2013 04:03 AM

Another book.

RE: What Are You Reading? - TheQwertiest - 02-08-2013 12:47 PM

The picture of dorian gray

RE: What Are You Reading? - laYahooz - 02-08-2013 03:01 PM

Im mainly reading A dance with dragons. Still hadn't finished lol.

Also reading:
1)C++ Dynestified. Finished it. Making a roguelike game right now.
2) Introduction to SDL. Tying to learn how to add graphics into my games.
3) Calculus A/B baron
4)Plasma physics dymestified
5) and eventually a book on object oriented programming with C++. I hear that's when the real coding fun begins!
I like learning Smile

RE: What Are You Reading? - TheGreatErenan - 02-08-2013 04:16 PM

I'm sitting on a half finished roguelike myself that I'd half forgotten about. Now that you've reminded me, maybe I'll try to work up the motivation to finish it! Thanks! Smile And good luck with your C++ studies, by the way. Also, there are two SDL libraries I've found useful for roguelike development: libfov and SDL-ASCII-Template.

RE: What Are You Reading? - EkoFox - 02-08-2013 04:29 PM

(02-08-2013 12:47 PM)TheQwertiest Wrote:  The picture of dorian gray
Great book Smile

RE: What Are You Reading? - 2dhh - 02-08-2013 09:49 PM

(02-08-2013 03:01 PM)laYahooz Wrote:  Im mainly reading A dance with dragons. Still hadn't finished lol.

Also reading:
1)C++ Dynestified. Finished it. Making a roguelike game right now.
2) Introduction to SDL. Tying to learn how to add graphics into my games.
3) Calculus A/B baron
4)Plasma physics dymestified
5) and eventually a book on object oriented programming with C++. I hear that's when the real coding fun begins!
I like learning Smile

Roguelike game? Sounds über cool! share with Poppycock when you're finished Big Grin

RE: What Are You Reading? - EkoFox - 02-09-2013 01:07 AM

(02-08-2013 09:49 PM)2dhh Wrote:  
(02-08-2013 03:01 PM)laYahooz Wrote:  Im mainly reading A dance with dragons. Still hadn't finished lol.

Also reading:
1)C++ Dynestified. Finished it. Making a roguelike game right now.
2) Introduction to SDL. Tying to learn how to add graphics into my games.
3) Calculus A/B baron
4)Plasma physics dymestified
5) and eventually a book on object oriented programming with C++. I hear that's when the real coding fun begins!
I like learning Smile

Roguelike game? Sounds über cool! I share with Poppycock when you're finished Big Grin
Yeah, roguelikes are awesome. I used to want to make one (I still sort of do), but it was just too hard for me. I kind of lost my love for the genre after that :/

RE: What Are You Reading? - laYahooz - 02-09-2013 12:55 PM

(02-08-2013 04:16 PM)Erenan Wrote:  I'm sitting on a half finished roguelike myself that I'd half forgotten about. Now that you've reminded me, maybe I'll try to work up the motivation to finish it! Thanks! Smile And good luck with your C++ studies, by the way. Also, there are two SDL libraries I've found useful for roguelike development: libfov and SDL-ASCII-Template.

Those are very useful actually. Thanks.

Right now I'm working on the random generator shenanigans such as enemy movement. I also I'm trying to port what I have to a SDL library instead of a shitty looking counsel game (which is why I'm reading SDL books).

I should have an alpha by summer so maybe I will post a free link then Tongue
(02-09-2013 01:07 AM)EkoFox Wrote:  
(02-08-2013 09:49 PM)2dhh Wrote:  
(02-08-2013 03:01 PM)laYahooz Wrote:  Im mainly reading A dance with dragons. Still hadn't finished lol.

Also reading:
1)C++ Dynestified. Finished it. Making a roguelike game right now.
2) Introduction to SDL. Tying to learn how to add graphics into my games.
3) Calculus A/B baron
4)Plasma physics dymestified
5) and eventually a book on object oriented programming with C++. I hear that's when the real coding fun begins!
I like learning Smile

Roguelike game? Sounds über cool! I share with Poppycock when you're finished Big Grin
Yeah, roguelikes are awesome. I used to want to make one (I still sort of do), but it was just too hard for me. I kind of lost my love for the genre after that :/
Just do a step at a time
Here's how I'm doing it
1) made a moving character and a user created map. Done all in a counsel
2) made traps and treasure
3) added items
4) enemy function
5) enemy AI (I got it but its doesn't work well)
6) player skills (so you can actually kill stuff)
7)NPCS
8) then SDL for graphics.
I'm on step 6-5. I got the core movement down but not the actual game elements in.
A big part of development is to do little by little. Always start with putting in random ideas in a counsel window is what I've learned from my experience.