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1	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Xbox 720 - IllumiRoom, we'll be stacked in our living room for ever	on: 2013-04-30 13:33:04
The kinect never really interested me but that I would buy. If it could be made to work with people moving in a room then it would make for some excellent house parties.

2	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Flip Code is coming back.	on: 2012-08-30 22:10:22
Yay, I used to read it everyday and was a sad when it closed. I wonder if it can pick up momentum again.

3	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Clojure in games?	on: 2012-06-20 15:10:07
I played with clojure a while ago to do some simple example like programs. Personally I found I preferred it to scala at the time. I sort of stopped as I started to get interested in android programming as clojure did not apparently work that well on it at the time. I believe they are know working on it. If android support gets good then I could imagine writing some more clojure as it is certainly fun to code in it. The mit video are a great watch and well worth the 20 hours spent watching it. Abelson and Sussman characters really grew on me.

4	Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: Preferred OS?	on: 2012-06-15 14:54:25
I agree with Kappa on this. These days I spend most of my time in a browser and eclipse. Linux, Mac OS or Windows let me do that just fine. The key thing I want is for it to work and not have to spend any time fixing problems. Having said that I currently use Ubuntu.

5	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Go on, ask me anything.	on: 2012-05-09 23:26:49
Minecraft didn't really pull me in either. I suppose as a programmer when I get the urge to create I code. If that creative outlet was not available perhaps I would find Minecraft a nice conduit for my creative desires. Plus if I didn't program I would have lots of free time to kill.

6	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Using code generation in your game.	on: 2012-04-11 14:40:56
Thanks I will take a look when I get home. Paul

7	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Using code generation in your game.	on: 2012-04-11 12:31:58
Quote from: Danny02 on 2012-04-02 16:14:03 Quote from: actual on 2012-04-02 15:37:02 Sorry, there is no way that writing out a new class is 9000x faster than updating my config file. [...] ctrl+n, enter, "ShipArrived", enter -- created new class "pf", tab, "f", enter, "x,y,z;", enter -- expands to public final float x, y, z; "pf", tab, "i", enter, "entity;", enter ctrl+space, down, enter -- creates constructor finished 41 vs 49 keystrokes and this only gets alot worse when you use classes, cause you have to write out the hole class path. Hi, Not wanting to derail the thread but wanting to know more on expanding from "pf" to public final. Is this an eclipse thing? if so which plugin do I need to install? Google search did not reveal anything to me. Thanks Paul

8	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Google PlayN	on: 2011-10-11 14:02:22
I have also messed around with it a bit. I only got to the stage of moving images around a screen but quite like it an api. If it lives up to its promises it could be pretty useful. I also could not get flash to work and did not try compiling down to android.

9	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Go on, ask me anything.	on: 2011-03-17 16:14:58
What's been your most popular game? Interesting thread by the way.

10	Java Game APIs & Engines / Android / Re: Good Ad Providers on Android?	on: 2011-01-27 13:58:21
I have only used AdMob and have had similar experiences to lsgames. Sometimes you get low impression rates but otherwise everything seems to tick along fine. No problems with payments and so on.

11	Discussions / Business and Project Discussions / Re: Who here is brilliant at making iOS games / apps?	on: 2011-01-12 13:59:55
If you are going to end up with a portable C++/OpenGL code base and given that if the iOS device sales pays for the port it makes sense to consider android via the android NDK. The port of the C++ code to android would probably be fairly quick and hopefully mitigate any android VM performance worries. You don't need the sales to be as big as iOS devices to make it worth while. I agree if I had a good/popular PC game that would be suitable for tablets I would be rushing to the iPad as fast as possible, then figure out if it works on the small screens of iphones and finally a port over to android using that code base. It seems like a sensible business strategy.

12	Java Game APIs & Engines / Android / Re: Canvas vs OpenGL for 2D Games	on: 2010-06-16 17:02:41
Interesting stuff, I had naturally assumed that openGL would be faster on all hardware.

13	Java Game APIs & Engines / Android / Re: Capturing Android Exceptions remotely	on: 2010-05-25 16:19:13
I think they are independent of version, or at least for some versions lower than 2.2. I have had some reports dating from the 13th of May pre-dating the release of 2.2. It is pretty handy and has helped me find a few errors. A big plus is the zero effort required on our part to get this information about exceptions.

14	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Android phone giveaway	on: 2010-04-20 22:25:34
As far as I can tell, most phones to Europe have not yet been delivered. I know I am patiently waiting for one. There have been quite a few post on the android dev mailing list about people not having received them. For me it is a bit annoying as I about to buy a nexus one and then the day before ordering it I get this email to say Google is giving me one. 7 weeks later and still waiting...

15	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: The official iPad Discussion!	on: 2010-02-08 10:13:38
GWT will probably be the only Java route. The bonus being it will work on all other tablet PC that are brought to market. Personally I won't be buying an iPad, the no forward facing camera killed it for me.

16	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: iPhone + kev g	on: 2009-09-14 17:44:18
On the xmlvm website under the contribute exception they say they will grant a different license for commercial use for people who contribute http://www.xmlvm.org/contribute/

17	Games Center / Featured Games / Re: Stickmen Wars	on: 2009-08-18 16:44:21
Wow great game, Very addictive. Although the AI could do with improvements and multi player would be great as everyone has already mentioned

18	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Scala, Groovy or Clojure for game development?	on: 2009-02-27 15:59:39
They all could be used for game development but beyond a few simple examples I don't know of anyone using Scala or Clojure in game development - I am not familar with groovy at all. Pulpcore, in version 0.11.3, included some initial support for Scalas' more advanced features but I have not personally had a play with it and am not sure on its current status. As all the languages mentioned can call into Java libraries with ease you should be able to use any java game library but the api will have a java look rather than being idiomatic to the language you are using. One thing to bear in mind when using some of these languages (Scala and Clojure) is that the IDE support is a fair way behind Java and this can lead to some frustration when coding. I have programmed in Scala a reasonable amount for non game stuff and quite enjoy it.

19	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2009 / Re: Robo Rampage 4k	on: 2008-12-21 21:42:48
pretty cool, Had a slight problem with linux (ubuntu), the window opened but seemed to be slightly to small, you could only see the bottom half of the text at the top of the screen

20	Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: Stupid Dev-C++	on: 2008-05-06 12:07:51
Thanks It was bugging me I had been hitting google for the answers and had just read question number 2 on this page http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/c++/template-faq.html#type-syntax-error which effectively says the same thing. I wonder if I will ever upload all of C++ into my brain!

21	Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: Stupid Dev-C++	on: 2008-05-06 11:45:45
That does fix it but I am not sure why it is needed! I asked a couple of people at work who do much more C++ template code than me and they are not sure why either, which made me feel a little less stupid Incidentally I tried it on the 4.3 beta of mingw and it complains if you do not include the A<T>:: part. I guess to get to the bottom of this it needs posting on a C++ forum where a template "Guru" would be able to give his insight.

22	Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: Stupid Dev-C++	on: 2008-05-05 23:13:28
I only use linux fairly minimally but I imagine linux users use a more up to date version of gcc something like version 4.2 or 4.3. These version probably have improved template handling abilities, version 3.4.2 of gcc is fairly old. A lot of work the work that has been done on all C++ compilers in the past few years has been about getting templates to work as they should, so programmers can use libraries such as those in boost that use templates extensively.

Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: Stupid Dev-C++

on: 2008-05-05 22:09:53

It does appear to be a bug in the gcc compiler(3.4.2) as this minimal code fails (compiles fine under Visual C++ 2005).

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template<class T>
class A 
{
protected:
    T val;
};

template<class T>
class B : public A<T>
{
public:
   T getVal() { return val; }
};

int main()
{
   B<int> b;
        return b.getVal();
}

As other said your best best, as you are on windows is to use Visual C++ express edition, it is free and a nice IDE for C++. The mingw team fell behind in the porting of more recent versions of gcc for a while. Although there have been signs of life in the past few months with a beta version of gcc 4.0 available on the web.

24	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Still no presence in mainstream desktop game development	on: 2007-06-28 15:37:21
Quote from: erikd on 2007-06-28 14:57:08 While that's probably true for the traditional high profile games industry that can't afford any risks, but I would have expected a trend away from C++ (hopefully in favour of Java) as C++ becomes less and less used in general. In schools, people generally learn java to learn OO programming, so I would have expected more and more students to start developing (indie) games using it. Unless they're tought that java is unsuitable for games? (just thinking out loud...) I suspect those people at university wanting to enter the games industry are learning C++ in their spare time. For people coming out of the game industry C++ is what they know best as they have been doing it day in day out. PowerOfTwo games (another start up of ex- main stream people) makes the the point in their blog about prototyping http://powerof2games.com/node/11. Further illustrating the mindset and perhaps demonstrating why for them it is lowering the risk. Once you remove the people coming out of the mainstream game industry and those wanting to enter it from the indie game development scene seems to use quite a diverse range of programming languages. It would be interesting to see statistics if they existed. On a positive note Java has more high quality indie titles now than at any time in the past Paul

25	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Still no presence in mainstream desktop game development	on: 2007-06-28 11:44:21
I suspect for the small companies it is partly using what you know, they come from a gaming background and are instantly productive in C++ as the know it inside out what what libraries to use. Java is an unknown to them and therefore a risk. Their other rational is starting a small company is risky, if it all falls apart then you need a back up plan. If you have been coding in C++ then the owners can easily slip back into a mainstream games company and continue doing what they love. If they have spent the past 3 year coding in Java then it would be harder to convince a mainstream game company to take you on. I am not saying I agree with these view points just trying to show a possible mindset that means people in small companies continue to use c++ rather than changing to Java or C#. Things are gradually changing, the games industry always lags behind the rest of the computing world, although it may be Microsofts marketing of C# as a gaming platform that leads to C# being the dominant higher level gaming language. Java needs a higher profile but to get that is need more quality games written in it. The classic chicken and egg situation as people have already mentioned. ps. First post by the way...

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