+1

Also it doesnt matter if you are not doing the work for someone else. When its just you and YOUR project remember its YOUR project. You are the boss. Quite personally I switch back and fourth between singleton and objects. Both of them have their places otherwise one or the other would be missing from java as the language in large.

Unfortunately  the only way I know how to manage this with the least modification would be to have two co-ordinate systems.

Imagine a window where everything inside of it is drawn and everything outside of it is not drawn. This window has a width a height and a position. Usually this position is the center of the window.

So one way would be to say "Is object x within the window (is the x position greater then the window x - 1/2 the window width and is less then the window x + 1/2 the window width) etc.

Whatever is in the window is then drawn but not to world co-ordinates ... to screen co-ordinates.

my screen is not big enough to show the buttons to play ... al I can do is look at the pretty menu screen

sounds like pure uncut awesome sauce!

I remember working on reverse engineering the communications of a game. Some objects in the game allowed the user to interact with them and a random numbr was generated. When we started digging into to communications we found that the number was being generated client side then was sent to the server so all of the clients would see the result. In this situation they were not using enums and an invalid number did one of two things, A) if set to 0 the animation for that item kept going. B) if set to more then 8 or less then 0 the item would crash all clients viewing that item.

All in all it was very entertaining to watch the problems produced by poor coding (no data verification nor range checking of the client)

Once again, all of this is from my point of view. It is not saying everyone has the same experience.



Like I said from my experience. XNA requires license which costs money when you want to distribute. I believe the Microsoft store will be the same. On the same lines microsoft store does not target multiple platforms just windows 8. In the targeting a single platform you have the android marketplace. I can understand people have made money on both but when it comes to just dipping your feet in then java wins due to lack of fees.

I have not encountered a problem with Java other then having the proper libraries which also happens in windows.

The different device targeting issues are problems with any language.

Also if you were to use an installer for a java application the necessary libraries can be loaded on the system. If you wern't worried about size then you could even pack a VM in with your application and run it from the install directory.


Again from my experience. Javas hit and miss is due to third party development. You are comparing a broad set to a specified set. Like comparing Schwinn to all automobiles.

Also from my perspective. I use Java because my robot run environments are mostly linux based.

Also the collection of various tools and libraries is once again due to people developing for different platforms. Not all robots are the same, not all platforms are the same, not all objectives are the same. If you are using a broad range of open source libraries you will encounter this in any language in any standpoint. That is the fun behind hacking code. Take a graphics library from a video game, database setup from a enterprise application, communications stack from another application. No they are not going to fit you have to make it either by tape or hammer.


Yes iOS has a large portion of the market but android has a more diverse base. Android apps wont run on iOS and iOS wont run on Android but as far as the number of different devices Android is better. Android is on the rise and with jobbs retiring I believe that apple will soon to be on the fall.

Jumping back into the other side of the problem. Doesn't it cost money to develop applications for iOS or at least royalties?



Due to exploits. Someone will find some for silverlight soon.


Agreed, but don't forget that Applets are but a part of web development.


As a side question, has anyone had any good luck with silverlight and linux? I have not even tried.

Now theres another part of web development that you missed ... server side technologies! Apache has Tomcat which is a JSP server. So you end up mixing elements of java and html together. While I agree that Applets are dated and have issues (Its an older technology) C# still has a lot of ground to make up.

Now we can compare Java and Flash all day but we are trying to focus on Java and C#.

Once again all of this is from my view.

I hear you can hire an armada if you have a pirate problem ...


Any who an offline game will have problems (Hell look at steam games ... you can get them for free if you look hard enough)

But if you require a user account ... that has paid access then your talking more DRM.

Its easy to throw in some encryption and tweek it so its difficult to break. The time spent on reverse engineering a mutating key encryption will be enough to keep most away. Then they would have to reverse engineer communications. That's made difficult my nonsensical communications. (For example instead of saying Move player X to (X,Y) say YG8sug7, G(&IHHh, or ^&ygf ... yes you can make the same data appear different! at different times) Hell throw in some false data to throw them off too!

Eventually it will be broken someone will make a server and people will be playing for free, the only counteraction to this would be having:
A) popularity in the MMO way (people would rather play with each other then by themselves if the games is designed such)
B) Have the main content of the game stored and executed on the server (Eg a quest the story etc)
C) Making enough money to not worry about it

Regardless of what you do, as others have stated ... you have 99 problems and a DRM aint one.

(Ha on that last one ... I need sleep)

Personally I prefer Java:

I don't have much experiences with c# so the following are educated guesses at most. If I am wrong its because how c# has been represented to me.

Yes you can develop for free but actually selling a product takes more effort on c#
Point Java

Yes you can use C# on linux but some things don't work and some things only half work
Point Java

Yes you can do robotics with both but I have encountered more java then c#
Point slightly java

Mobile development More java done then c#
Point java

Web based applications
Point Java


Some side notes. In the end we may want to sell something. You could do it under the table but what happens when you want to expand get bigger. Sure you could risk it but eventually you will need licensing. On top of that more games are being developed being cross-platform Java already does this so there's no need to recompile or hack in different libraries.

That's the difference between design and development. For some one is easy for other the other is easy. Usually having the ability to do both is the magic ability.

It happens a lot in web programming. Developers make the data accessible and organized then the designer makes it look good.

Patch just for your strange gfx setup! use the switch -window to run in an 800x600 window

wow I did not plan for resolutions above 800x600 lol why is the only mode available so large >.> and at 0hZ straaaaaaaaaaaaaange.

So say that in the last frame your guy and camera was at 0,0 The next frame the guy has moved to 20,20. so the error is 20 in the x and 20 in the y multiply each number by a scaling (smoothing) factor and it will approach the center of the object.

Also consider that when the camera is "close enough" that it just stops moving otherwise it will twitch continuously.

If you wanted the camera to be "no further then x" then you take the error (in the above case 20) and divide it by the maximum you want it to be off. If that number is more then 1 or less then -1 then calculate how far to get it in bounds or double the change for the position

Sometimes a hack is required XD. As long as I don't get a lock while developing I am cool. I will look into it more in detail after most - all of the core features are finished before I start making content.

Thanks for the sample. I was doing those in that order. I set what settings that I could in the EDT. Then what I couldn't I set ater a short delay. I have yet to encounter a deadlock.

You may want to also consider using a what I call "slushy" camera centering algorithm.

Basically you do something like this in psudocode:

Find error in X.
Find error in Y.

Camera X = Camera X + error X * max scroll speed
Camera Y = Camera Y + error Y * max scroll speed

If you need more smoothing then look at the rate of change in error as well. Eventually at some point you will exceed the max speed for the camera and you will basically have 2 options (without changing the graphics) Either A) You zoom out (pretty neat to base zoom off of speed) or B) slow player movements.

As always a higher FPS will yield smoother results.

Once I finish the current round of updates with my engine I will implement an OpenGL version of the graphics manager. I will run the two on the same machine and record the resulting FPS. Then I will upload it to my site so you can check it out for yourself.

Figured I better implement opengl now rather then later when I "need" to.

Or have more tiles per block ...

Just a fyi I uploaded an early prototype to my website last week. I will be doing some modifications and uploading an update by friday.

SatanicSpider.com

Projects -> Software -> Java Game Engine

Sorry bout the sloppy website. I'm building a cms on a different part of my server and slowly integrating it.

+1 I do too. I calculated I can have  a max of 7.37869763 × 10^21 tiles before the int loops back. Dunno If I will have enough space guys. If I switch to longs I could have 1.36112947 × 10^41 tiles but that's still very tight. I will have a demo of the engine available soon.

Block objects are serialized to the disk at the "xy.block" so it can be 00.block or 99-99.block etc. Loading is quick and processor non-intensive

No not from edt. Should I be?

I Create a JFrame. Remove decoration and remove re sizable so it is a plain screen. Then I set the full screen window of the graphicsdevice to the jframe. Then I use getFullScreenWindow and set font, background, and foreground in that order. Deadlock occurs at the set background. Figured if I commented it out it would just lock up at the set foreground. I probably am not setting enough time between creating the full screen window and getting it again. Its probably giving me some other window.

Yes I have a 3x3 array of blocks. When the block_x or block_y changes it shifts the array accordingly and loads fresh blocks into the row or column. So say you are going left and you jump into a new block space.
(from 0)
(2,0) = (1,0)
(2,1) = (1,1)
(2,2) = (1,2)

(1,0) = (1,0)
(1,1) = (1,1)
(1,2) = (1,2)

(0,0) = Load(block_x-1, block_y-1)
(0,1) = Load(block_x-1, block_y+0)
(0,2) = Load(block_x-1, block_y+1)

So 1 out of 150 application launches causes a deadlock in the java vm. I traced the code down to a single line



Where w is a Window object.

Like I said this does not happen each and every launch just 1/150.

What I mean by deadlock is in my terminal window I can do ctrl C and there is no response  . Ctrl Z kills the process but leaves the window open (in fullscreen ... with no decorations I mind you).

Any ideas? Maybe a delay from creating the window to changing properties?

Hah i actually completely forgot about modulus -_-

I use it all the time why not here??? Who knows.

Simpler form
tile_x = (Player.X/r_width)%tiles_per_block_x;

I am tooooo tired today.

Doh! Gotcha. My maths are a little skewed with the little sleep I have been getting.

Just kidding. Still dont have you. Same example

r_width of 5 and 2 tiles per block

Now lets move player to 303 which should be block 30 tile 1 (starting at 1) {29 0 starting at 0}
(Player_x - (r_width * tiles_per_block_x) ) / r_width
(303 - (5 * 2) ) /5 = (303 - 10) / 5 = 293 / 5 = 58.6 (int) = 58

58 is a little out of bounds for the array

lets try - Tiles and blocks starting at 0
block_x = Player.x / (r_width * tiles_per_block_x) - 1
 = 303/(5*2) = 303/(10) - 1 = 29.3 (int) = 29

tile_x = (Player.X/r_width) - (block_x*tiles_per_block_x)
= (303/5)-(30*2) = (60.6) - (60) = 0.6 (int) = 0

I could argue the exact opposite. If your object is at its final revision then there is no chance of breaking. Now if you had to do an update you could keep the old version of the code and load the object into that class then construct an object from the new class then re-serialize it and re-write it to the same file

Any more screen shots?

Fixing some comments and will post shortly after

So Player_x/r_width/tiles_per_block_x?
That's the same as
block_x = Player.x / (r_width * tiles_per_block_x)

for example:
20/5/2 = 4/2 = 2
20 / (5*2) = 20 / 10 = 2


I think that is incorrect.
That simplifies to Player_x/r_width - tiles_per_block_x
which would be Global tile location - tiles_per_block if I maths right

Personally I have been experimenting with serialization A LOT lately. I like that I can instantiate an object fill its fields tweek its values then save it to a file or send it over any stream (including a socket).

I wrote a couple classes last week to facilitate loading and saving of serialized objects. If you would like I can post the source.