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#1 Jun 22, 2014 2:06 AM

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#2 Jun 22, 2014 4:44 AM

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Wow, I haven't had to read over a page of things on this forum that were all posted in one day before, except in Spam. That was quite something. Anyway, once we have a basic layout of the homeworld, I will try to create a piece of music for it. Someone can get to me on that, once they feel it's finished enough.

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Something I started wondering about now... who is responsible for coming up with enemies, their behavior and look?

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

I can see Art, Programming, Writing, and Level Design all coming into play with designing the enemies. That'll be a case where I think we'll need a general concept from Writing about the types of enemies, then the other teams will do their parts to bring them to life.

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Okay, that make sense smile

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#6 Jun 22, 2014 12:11 PM

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

So Q&A need to send you Github usernames? I don't have one...

edit: Ok I made one but I have no clue how to use that site so I guess I have to learn big_smile btw my username is same as here big_smile

edit2: Sorry this post was kinda pointless big_smile

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

KingLambda posted a guide for GitHub in one of the previous threads, if you haven't seen it yet.

One thing we probably could try to decide is what resolution the game should play in, as it's important both for the programming and art.
640 x 360 like the ps1 games? (also what the current demo thing uses)
640 x 480?
960 x 540? (1.5x ps1 resolution)
Something else?

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#8 Jun 22, 2014 4:15 PM

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I like 640x480.
I tried making sparx object big_smile but I need the updated code from you Sheep because you made some important changes to it, hope you'll figure it out soon.
With keyword being deprecated lead me a couple of times to bugs by forgetting 'this' keyword hmm just.. why?

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#10 Jun 22, 2014 8:24 PM

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

I like 640 x 480 too! big_smile

As for levels then. Do our level design team have any ideas then? Ideally, it would be nice to have one level with a:

Morning backdrop
Evening backdrop
Night backdrop

Since it might be a fun little feature to watch as Spyro's adventure progresses (like with Conker's Bad Fur Day).

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Ill take that into note then? Snow Level with Evening/Sunset sky ^^


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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Sorry for the wrong commit description :s I use other client and I guess it uses first line as the title and the rest for detailed description. I didn't know that.
Also, github seems to display tabs as 8 spaces but I have configured my editors to write 4 spaces instead. Should we go with tabs or spaces?

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

My program display tabs with a width of four spaces... But I would hate to type in four spaces all the time :S

I had to download your commit as a .zip because it by some reason didn't appear in my client, but that worked well enough.
You have my approval for all the changes to the code and structure smile

The sparx.png file was missing, btw, so the game got stuck on loading resources, which left me puzzled for a moment.

Edit:

Nice random sparx movement, feels much more like playing Spyro with him buzzing around smile 
But I think this looks slightly better, at least it makes his movement more smooth, and the code is much shorter:
this.x += (a - this.x) * 0.2;
this.y += (b - this.y) * 0.2;

Edit:

Your commit appeared when I removed my local GitHub\game folder and clicked the Clone in Desktop button on the website.

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

oh, I probably forgot to add the sparx png to the watch, now it should be there

if it was possible to make github display tabs as 4 spaces, it might not be a big problem then, you could use tabs and me spaces, but I can change my settings if needed, its just that I use the same app for other projects so I would need to reconfigure it over and over when I switch between them ^.^' or i could use that other app, but it lacks code completion : d

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

What represents a and b? Meaningful variable names are something important, it's just an advice smile For code clarity and consistence

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oh, those are just x and y coordinates of the destination where sparx should move. I'll rename it.

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

I'll be starting on work after July 2nd, I'm doing Summer School to graduate early.

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

I've been talking with masterscorp, and they came up with a few new level ideas:

An evillooking electricity level
A dark tower level
A nice evening carnival like level with lots of lights.

Have we decided on a homeworld theme yet?

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Programmers: I did some polygon testing. I can draw textured polygon and am working on the collisions (most of it done). I just wanted to ask if anybody of you is working on it or not so we don't do the same thing ^.^'
also to display files on github with tabsize = 4, make sure you put ?ts=4 at the end of the url like this: ".../master/enemy.js?ts=4"

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

You should open some TS or Skype on which you'll stay connected day long if you just have a repo without exclusive extraction methods to avoid this kind of issue smile

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#24 Jun 28, 2014 12:21 AM

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Re: Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Still no ideas for the homeworld? Perhaps a few ideas to help get the creative juices flowing? smile

-Artisans themed
-Dragon Shores themed
-Gnorc Gnexus themed

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