Game.

I dunno. What do you want to do? What can you do?

I'm going to have to postpone working on the Enoki* Engine (the core of the game that assembles all the images an makes them move, etc) until my computer is at a working state, or at least until I've rescued the files from my hdd. Yes, I'm writing Enoki from scratch. No opengl or anything. When it's done, we'll be able to write the game without doing any programming at all. (Basically, the programming will be generic for any game imaginable. We can make a completely new game, or sequel, without changing a single line of code.)


*For those of you wondering, yes, I named the game engine after a variety of japanese mushroom that sounds cool. Mostly it's just a random name. For those of you not wondering, enokitake.

melanation wrote:
I'LL BRING THE DOUGHNUTS!!

Doughnuts make me throw up.

takuroindigo wrote:Thats what I keep telling everyone... but, we need a working title so we don't have to refer to it as "The game. You know, that one. Not that one, the other one. Yes that one."

Plus, my story writers have not come up with anything that pleases me yet...

lol. There are no demon spawn in the game. Yet

I can see it now, a fearsome boss, "Paul, the Demon Spawn" lol

Technicaly, demons are a spiritual entities(having them implies religion; you told me no religion stuff)

Yes, well, I do agree with you. I was just joking about "Spawn of Paul" And anyway, slight religious references such as "demons" I can accept, but what I'm saying is I don't want a major religion-based plot or subplot. And spiritual entities do not imply religion. Well, sort of.

takuroindigo wrote:

melanation wrote:
I'LL BRING THE DOUGHNUTS!!

Doughnuts make me throw up.

Ok, Danishes then

So, what can you do and what do you want to do?

Basically, No games based on biblical stories

Or like, game government based on real-life Christianity. (Sorry Adriel) I just think it's kind of unnecessary, and sort of cheap by using real life religion as a plot.

takuroindigo wrote:Or like, game government based on real-life Christianity. (Sorry Adriel) I just think it's kind of unnecessary, and sort of cheap by using real life religion as a plot.

lol
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first of all, I was gonna create a whole new religion with similar roots.

secondly, didn't i tell you that the plot is defeating a tyrant and the subplot is to restore peace and good will to people controlled by demonic beings(all this with the help of religious artifacts and guidance (such as holly weapons,powers , guardian summons, etc.)).

and lastly, it's alright if you don't like my previous suggestions because it's fun when your creativity and imagination is being challenged( beats working on everyday monotonous hw)
)

PS: the odd format of my response is my practice on organizing my coding...

Oh, I must have been confused a little... write a short story version and I'll take a look
Computer still not working.. Oh well

i'll work on it during our break( still have to work on my community service)

I_don't_know wrote:i'll work on it during our break( still have to work on my community service)

ugh, right, I have to do that too.

Corey, I can do anything from "arting" to story plot, to tech support if you need it. Just tell me where you need the most help.

Story and art, por favor And maybe some tech support too.... Maybe you can help with managing the autoupdates? I just wrote a plugin for the game engine that lets it update itself from the internet.

The engine supports plugins that it can run, called Enoki Utilities. They are .uti files. So far, I've made three:
newfile.uti [to make a new save file]
getfile.uti [to download files from the game server]
updsrv.uti [to update the game files to the latest version]

I'll give you a program sometime called "runuti" that lets you run plugins as programs. You just type the name of the uti file, without the extension, and any parameters. (For example, to use getfile.uti, the name is "getfile" and the parameters are "[remote file] [local file]"

Check out the temporary website: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2605017/Webs/server/index.html

Um... oops wrong link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2605017/Webs/server/public/index.html
Nothing works yet

The characters on the top are japanese for "Ee - No - Kee - Tah - Kay"

How are you planning on retrieving the update? curl?

Hmmm? The update module is done, it uses the getfile plugin I already made. Getfile uses WinInet, part of the windows API. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383630%28VS.85%29.aspx. The specific command I'm using is

Code:


hOpen=InternetOpen(scUserAgent,INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT,NULL,NULL,0)
...
hFile=InternetOpenUrl(hOpen,sURL,NULL,0,INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD,0)
...
 res=InternetReadFile(hFile,mybuff,2048,@nret)


What's Curl? Is it any better? how can I use it?

I think I put a more detailed explanation of exactly how the updsrv plugin worked in another path of the forum, but I don't remember where. Maybe I just imagined it?

Under programming / general coding / potentially useful code

Is it any better for what I'm doing?

I don't think it would be

Ok, thanks. I'm fine with just using the windows api, it's not like I'm going to compile for anything else. (Although, FreeBASIC does have an option to compile for xbox.... Not tha I have one...)

Wow. . . FreeBASIC is like standard BASIC on steriods

And if it compiles to machine code then it even has the execution speed advantages of compiled languages

another_pd wrote:...BASIC on steriods

Meheheh that it is

Yes, it does compile to machine code. There's even an option from the command line to leave at as asm code, instead of then compiling it to an executable. < random face
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I have finished the launcher and updater. The game has been converted from using bmp's to png's to save space and enable better quality transparency. The conversion allows the files to be approximately 98% smaller. I now have a method for embedding images, text, and sound directly into the exe's, without external files. With compression, the file size is still relatively small.

IT TOOK ME 7 MINUTES TO SCROLL THROUGH THIS TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A reminder, don't triple/double post too much. (pointing at takuroindigo)