Elysian Shadows

Would YOU personally benefit from learning C? Probably not. But there are many people out there who honestly would. I work with the C language every day at work. I interface low-level C drivers for various chips with our C++-based embedded OS. It takes extensive knowledge of both languages and both...

It's a pretty simple process, actually; all GL matrix operations act on the currently selected matrix. In your original 3d code: glPushMatrix(); // pushes to the current matrix stack. Projection? ModelView? Who knows? glLoadIdentity(); // loads identity, who knows which matrix it acts on? glEnable(G...

I don't know BlitzMax, but every half-decent compiler ever will tell you which line the error occurs on. If you can show us what line(s) produce that error, we'll be much better off trying to help you. In another language, I'd say you messed up what access level the member has, but a quick google se...

It might be more interesting to also have a list of all primes. You could have it update as it scrolls by using the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm or something similar. I also think a lot of calculation here could be done client-side, since checking for prime-ness is not a terribly costly operation...

If you copied the same exact source, recompiled it, and it didn't work, it's almost definitely a linkage error. Are the .dll's in the correct place for runtime?

I have used a lot of java over the past year or so (even more than C++), and I cannot honestly recommend it (at least on the desktop; android is a different story). Swing is clunky and annoying, and especially with custom graphics (ie. the kind you'd use swing's Graphics class for instead of its pre...

Some versions of .bmp have an optional alpha channel, not sure if you can use it with SDL. SDL can do alpha blending, but it's very slow about it. This is primarily because SDL cannot take advantage of optimized array-copying techniques (memcpy is pretty good), and has to do extra processing for ev...

I'd like to add a little bit of personal experience for 4. Java is a decent language, but there are two big things that make it unsuitable for game development, and simulation in general. 1) Swing Graphics API. You don't have to use it, but this are the first readily available tool for drawing, and ...

It seems that you're trying to do something similar to minecraft's update scheme, which basically does this:

The Kindle Fire is wacky in so many strange an unusual ways :lol: Well I finished, and I have a few things to note: first, I hope those jetpacks weren't too expensive. I must have lost 50 of them on downward diagonal passageways of spikes ;) Second, awesome game. Some of the challenges were downrigh...

Well dandymcgee, you're obviously more educated on this one than I am :lol: The main reason I was suggesting using a more data-driven approach is that C and other statically-compiled languages have issues with modifying their own code, so I was suggesting having the code be less concretely "cod...

You're digging far too deep here. You want to use the OS, because the OS handles all the nasty device interactions for you. Especially with a high-level language like lisp, the last thing you want to do is override the OS. A google search for managing windows in lisp only got me an x11 window manage...

I never realized how spoiled I am working with c++ for windows all the time, all I gotta do is some #include and bam all the windows functions available to me. With lisp I have to make all these foreign function definitions and stuff... Anyone reading this know of a way to go around an os? As in, m...

GLSL is basically a way of taking the old-fashioned, restrictive fixed-function pipeline, throwing it out, and putting whatever you want in its place (with certain restrictions). For example, with OpenGL 4, there are 5 different stages of the graphics pipeline which you can program: 2 controlling te...

Yeah, tilting doesn't seem to work on Kindle Fire 6.2.2
I don't know if it's Amazon's weird-ass version of android or your game Any fix would be appreciated, I really want to keep playing