Elysian Shadows

Tom_leonardsson wrote:Is there anyway to make a map editor in ONLY c# or do I need to use xna?

You could use GDI+ but doooonnnn'tttt. Its slower than an arthritic sloth. You could also use OpenTK, SDL.NET, Direct3D. Pick your poison.

Ok thnx it worked, so a class is treated like the type of variable when referencing things? (int,char,bool) That's actually exactly what it is. Classes and structs are a way of defining your own types. There are some more complicated interactions between them, but in essence it's just adding more d...

Norton 360, in my experience , causes more issues than it solves. AVG covers pretty much everything, for even the most avid collector of exotic and dangerous porn . Not too harsh on system speed either. ;) I use AVG aswell. It's free and doesn't put a dent in performance even with deep scans running.

Nintendo still hasn't stated if it is possible to have more than one of these touchscreenthingys connected at once. Makes me sad :( Ditto that, i'm impressed by the ps vita (apart from the name). I mean we all knew about it already but it's still nice to see it at E3 and I'll definitely be buying o...

Well, each tile is just represented as one value, for example 33 for an ID. The render function calculates different SDL_Rects for the source rectangle and Vector2s for position. I was thinking making an array of SDL_Rects and Vector2s and when the map loads it would calculate them once and pass th...

M_D_K wrote:this is my philosophy (and my development methodology). An addendum is "get shit done... elegantly if possible".

LOL fucking hilarious!

Well, one could actually have all the autotile calculations be done when you change tiles rather than when you render them. That would not only save CPU time, it would also make your life at least a little easier. Isn't that what I said? Well, all the calculations can't be stored solely in the edit...

How the fuck was I not sub'd before?

So are you calculating the autotiles every time they're rendered? Why not do your calculations and then edit the actual layer so that once you've edited it it'll persist. In fact you don't even need them in the engine at all, why not just have the calculations performed in the editor then just have ...

Good job, even with cam studio it didn't seem too laggy.

There's a lot of talk about this game, I feel like I'm missing out lol. I have to get it later today.

EDIT: Chaos Rift Devotee bitches!!

TheBuzzSaw wrote:Psh. About time.
AiGD 18. Now.

^This

All I know is that these games come at a great cost. The performance suffers in every instance. Magicka is an awesome game, but it drains resources like no other. I have games that are far more graphically intensive that have no moments of lag or endless CPU buzzing. I totally agree with you. I thi...

N64vSNES wrote:Congrats man, but I considered a engineer before that piece of paper

Amen to that!

Milch wrote:Looks cool!
Thinking about buying it

btw:
Why are so many new studios switching to XNA? (Magicka was developed in XNA too)

There's a very simple reason. They can have much faster development times and it's easy to publish on XBL Indie Marketplace.