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04-20-2012
, 04:51 PM
You'll probably have the urge to make a base class called "Renderable". Dont do that either.
Your renderer function should look something like this...
Code:
void render_everything()
{
render_background();
render_sprites();
render_UI();
}
I think doing a 2d tile/sprite game like Minish Cap is a great kind of project... totally do-able. And I think you'll find the more time you spend on the actual gameplay and not trying to abstract key-presses, mouse movements, and webcam motion-captures into a generic event base class, the better the final product will be.
04-20-2012
, 05:20 PM
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Heh... yeah, I would avoid making classes out of things like "input event handler", or "renderer", or especially "game". These are things that you're not going to ever have more than one of, so making them into classes is just going to waste your time and make things more complicated than they need to be. Resist the urge to make everything "generic"... this is the siren's song that will crash your ship into the object oriented rocks.
You'll probably have the urge to make a base class called "Renderable". Dont do that either.
Your renderer function should look something like this...
I think doing a 2d tile/sprite game like Minish Cap is a great kind of project... totally do-able. And I think you'll find the more time you spend on the actual gameplay and not trying to abstract key-presses, mouse movements, and webcam motion-captures into a generic event base class, the better the final product will be.
You'll probably have the urge to make a base class called "Renderable". Dont do that either.
Your renderer function should look something like this...
Code:
void render_everything()
{
render_background();
render_sprites();
render_UI();
}
I think doing a 2d tile/sprite game like Minish Cap is a great kind of project... totally do-able. And I think you'll find the more time you spend on the actual gameplay and not trying to abstract key-presses, mouse movements, and webcam motion-captures into a generic event base class, the better the final product will be.
04-20-2012
, 05:48 PM
Aspire One 722 seems pretty cool so far. I got the red one because red is faster ldo. Installed Xubuntu 12.04 beta2 (6 days or whatnot untill release), pretty much everything worked out of the box (sticking to the open Radeon drivers). Installed Jupiter for power management + added a grub config line to save some power and am now in the process of installing Ruby via RVM 
20 minutes battery life left untill the first charge/drain cycle is done.
Will instal Eclipse after the next charge and that should be a decent test of how much beef the machine has.
Libre Office is running fairly well, the Logitech R800 presenter thingy worked via plug+play as well. Gonna test monitor switching after my next recharge as well.
Pretty slick machine. I think I ultimately decided to get it because you could buy it without Windows, which is something I kind of want to support. The preinstalled Linpus Linux was command line only with non detected wireless card etc...gotta work on that, I wonder why they don't just ship with Ubuntu.
Yeah that's something I may also be interested in down the line. 9x9 Go is pretty strong these days, bigger boards and it gets crushed by amateurs though..thus I'd begin with a 9x9. I also have a couple of board games for which I want to code AIs so I'll clone them. Stuff like Mr.Jack Pocket should work fairly well, maybe give a Ticket to Ride clone a shot as well (I'm a huge boardgame fan with a nice collection to draw from for these experiments 
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Re: No OOP in games...meh there's some and it makes sense but events gonna event.
Sprite :P
20 minutes battery life left untill the first charge/drain cycle is done.
Will instal Eclipse after the next charge and that should be a decent test of how much beef the machine has.
Libre Office is running fairly well, the Logitech R800 presenter thingy worked via plug+play as well. Gonna test monitor switching after my next recharge as well.
Pretty slick machine. I think I ultimately decided to get it because you could buy it without Windows, which is something I kind of want to support. The preinstalled Linpus Linux was command line only with non detected wireless card etc...gotta work on that, I wonder why they don't just ship with Ubuntu.
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Brother and I have been toying with the idea of creating a Go game to run on Android. Searching in Go the same way as in Chess isn't possible since the game is to big, but most modern Go engines use either montecarlo or maybe combined with local search. Have some ideas Id like to play around with. Be an interesting side project. Seems that there may be a point in using search for some things since it works for chess on phones.
)Re: No OOP in games...meh there's some and it makes sense but events gonna event.
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You'll probably have the urge to make a base class called "Renderable".
Last edited by clowntable; 04-20-2012 at 05:54 PM.
04-20-2012
, 06:09 PM
04-20-2012
, 10:07 PM
04-20-2012
, 11:16 PM
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to neko(or any other haskell users), sorry for this again but
i need to count number of values in a list and put that number in a tuple with the value using the following to functions
sooo entering "abccbda"
will return : [(2,'a'), (2,'b'), (2,'c'), (1,'d')]
i thought something along the lines of but no work
i need to count number of values in a list and put that number in a tuple with the value using the following to functions
Code:
count :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> Int count n [] = 0 count n (x:xs) = if n == x then 1 + count n xs else count n xs rd0:: Eq a => [a] -> [a] rd0[] = [] rd0(x:xs) = x : rd0([c | c <- xs, c /= x])
will return : [(2,'a'), (2,'b'), (2,'c'), (1,'d')]
i thought something along the lines of but no work
Code:
f1:: Eq a => [a] -> [(Int, a)]
f1(x:xs) = [(y,z) | y <- (count n xs), z <- (rd0(x:xs))]
where n = rd0(x:xs)
You're sort of on the right track. You want to iterate over all of the unique elements in your input (a.k.a rd0 xs) and then count the number of times they occur in the input.
So if you did:
Code:
let f xs = [count x xs | x <- rd0 xs]
Code:
f xs = [count x xs | x <- rd0 xs]
f "abccbda" = [count x "abccbda" | x <- rd0 "abcccbda"]
= [count x "abccbda" | x <- "abcd"]
= [2, 2, 2, 1]
Code:
let f xs = [(count x xs,x) | x <- rd0 xs]
04-21-2012
, 12:46 AM
04-21-2012
, 01:30 AM
04-21-2012
, 06:16 AM
For ethical poker bots this exists as well.
http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/
I think it would be fun to submit a HU bot for this that basically plays with the heuristics I use. Maybe for 2013
04-21-2012
, 08:49 AM
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You're sort of on the right track. You want to iterate over all of the unique elements in your input (a.k.a rd0 xs) and then count the number of times they occur in the input.
So if you did:
then calling f "abccbda" we can imagine following the values through the function like so:
So we're pretty much already at the solution since we can just create a tuple of x and the count of x:
So if you did:
Code:
let f xs = [count x xs | x <- rd0 xs]
Code:
f xs = [count x xs | x <- rd0 xs]
f "abccbda" = [count x "abccbda" | x <- rd0 "abcccbda"]
= [count x "abccbda" | x <- "abcd"]
= [2, 2, 2, 1]
Code:
let f xs = [(count x xs,x) | x <- rd0 xs]