GAMES

Hay /b/,

How do you make games?

>>1
get out FROZEN VOID

>>1
You select a platform and libraries on which you build a game.
Then you outline what you expect the game to have:features,settings,story.
After you got the outline you implement basic functions as pseudocode.
Then you flesh out the features and write them from pseudocode to real functions, which then get compiled into main unit.   After that you fix bugs and improve the code, adding features as it becomes necessary and keeping stable backups.

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>>3
As an expert in the field of Computer Science, I have come to the determination that you are a poor programmer and are at best an amateur game developer. I have developed more engaging games in Scheme and Haskell with GL bindings over the period of an evening than you have in what would seem a month.

>>4  Do any of these games feature procedural generation or non-deterministic AI?



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>>5
non-deterministic AI?
You can't have that, computers are deterministic by nature.

>>6 I contrast trigger-AI vs Non-deterministic AI: example(quite primitive:real algorithms have multiple layers and branches of this):
1.First is response(A) for event(A) is deterministic,trigger-AI.
2.second is pick(array of A response[rnd_element]) for event(A) which isn't deterministic.

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>>7
That's deterministic, just chosen at random.

>>7 The above example can described as following pseudocode
It use weighted response array and random choice.
routine AIchoice(event A){
S=get_array(responses_for_A);
S2=get_array_weights(responses_for_A);
pick_random(S[S_Element],totalweight/avgresponseweight);
set_choice(choice,S_Element) ;
execute(S_Element);
}
if(is_response_successful){adjust_addvalue(S_element,weight_choice_add)}else{adjust_subvalue(S_element,weight_choice_substract)}

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>>9
bloated closing brace line

>>10 Its indented,othewise progtards wouldn't spam this thread with "omg please indent your code, i'm blind!"



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>>11
Why do you indent just one brace? This won't help to understand the code.
othewise progtards wouldn't spam this thread with "omg please indent your code, i'm blind!"
...wait, did you just admit to trolling?

>>12 wouldn't ->would



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>>12
He was typing fast OK!

This is how i would write it in code:
routine AIchoice(event A){S=get_array(responses_for_A);S2=get_array_weights(responses_for_A);pick_random(S[S_Element],totalweight/avgresponseweight);set_choice(choice,S_Element) ;execute(S_Element);}



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Hey Void, I'm just curious: Do you use a proportional font in your editor/IDE?

>>16
Yes. Verdana.

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>>17
I want to believe that you're a troll. If you were a troll, I would regain some small amount of faith in humanity and simply abandon what's left of /prog/ to your intellectual ravages.

However, I am convinced that you really think and act this way and that you have no idea what a mutant you are, and this makes me weep. I have no soul left to pity you with. Please just do me a personal favor and never post here again.

>>18
YHBT. I guarantee it!

>>18
Oh, just don't see him.

u mad /prog/?

>>18 Every post can have judged as trolling if the person is sensitive to it.
Some people like to work with ugly monospaced fonts, some don't.  Its not a tragedy IRL: neither its trolling.
But to people like you who have their world built upon FIOC and indented monospaced code such things like Verdana will seem like heresy and "trolling". You can't imagine sane(by your standards) people deviating from "laws of code indentation" and daring to code in some other way. Think outside the box.   


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>>22
FV's mind is a frozen void.

>>22
For a post that tries to make a point, yours is terribly slanted towards your preferences.

plz to ignore troll posters