What Are You Reading?

[CombatEX]

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

[the duck]

Star Wars

[Wildt4lon]

Another book.

[TheQwertiest]

The picture of dorian gray

[laYahooz]

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

[TheGreatErenan]

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! 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.

[EkoFox]

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

Great book

[2dhh]

(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

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

[EkoFox]

(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

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

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 :/

[laYahooz]

(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! 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

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(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

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

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.