A Thought About Hosting
I don't know how much this would appeal to the average user, since the GM community as a whole seems to have trouble finding (non-sucky) hosting, but personally, I think it'd be nice to have some extended options when submitting a game to allow files to be hosted anywhere, rather …
Else, else, else...
You know. Gamemaker surprises me sometimes. It supports (simultaneously) the syntax of a bunch of different languages (Think of :=, =, and ==), and yet it can't handle multiple consecutive else statements. That seems especially odd, since it's written in Delphi, which supports multiple elses, so I would assume that …
Questions for the Wise
I can't think of a better place to ask, so here goes. If anyone out there knows a good answer to either of these, then you get a (pseudo) cookie.
1) How can I trick Windows (XP) into believing that a network drive is actually a local drive? I need …Passage of Time
There's been quite a bit of it. Basically, here's the deal. Ever since someone mentioned GMClans, and I checked it out, I've spent most of my time there instead of here. At first, I hung out at both, since really they've got pretty different purposes, but the more time passes, …
Blech
My brain hurts. I neglected to sleep last night. And just when I was about to take a nap before school, I remembered that I had some homework (essentially, create a turing machine that increments a trinary number). It didn't really take long to do, but now there's not really …
I'm missing
I just moved and am still waiting on Intarwebs to arrive. I've been without it since Thursday. In fact, this is the first time I've gotten a chance to use a computer at all since then, and I'll still be without it (except while at school, thank you wireless) until …
Software engineering sucks
Now, I'm not saying that it's bad to make a plan, or anything, but the whole software engineeering mentality just pushes things WAY too far. Following some premade design methodology when it doesn't fit the project is really stupid. Fine, so choose one of the other premade methodologies then. But …
Why WASD is evil
Warning : This is a bit of a rant…
Don't hard code WASD controls. If you're making something purely for your own use, then go right ahead, but remember that not everyone's keyboard is alike. On my keyboards, the W, A, S, and D are nowhere near each other. The …Need a Bit of Help
OKay, some of you may recall, I submitted a <a href="http://64digits.com/games/index.php?cmd=view_game&id=512" style="text-decoration:underline">worms-like WIP</a> a while back. Well, I haven't worked on it much since, because I got discouraged when it seemed to not work properly with so many people's graphics cards. So… Here's what I need from you. …
Twisted Inspiration
Well… Inspired by twisterghost, anyway. When he started putting up landscape renders (from TerraGen, I assume), it made me want to make something similar. Not with TerraGen, though. Here's a screenshot from my most recently started project. It's not up to the level of TerraGen, or anything, but hey, I …
