Elysian Shadows

In light of Falco's post -- if you feel you donated under false pretenses or otherwise misunderstood the purpose, e-mail or PM me (e-mail preferred) and I'll gladly pay you back. Since this has been bumped, and I had otherwise forgotten about it -- I can't be on the hook forever, so offer as it is ...

I do so much coding at work I mostly play games or hang out with the wife when I'm home.

./apps/appname/data/../../../ would still work.

Do something fun, and don't be afraid to reinvent it while you're learning.
If you want to jump into a graphics API, give it a shot.

Other: Friends with developer when he started

I think that Ocarina of Time's hub world got rather boring, so be careful. You probably don't want to put combat that gets in the way into your overworld.

dandymcgee wrote:It really depends on the style of your game.

This.

What kind of game are you making?

And you omitted the Super Mario World type of overworld, which is essentially just a map with levels that nothing happens on.

Threading in general varies when you call lock on the same object that is already locked. It is possible in C# that performing lock(array) within a lock(array) does not release locks correctly. Suggest attempting to refactor such that you do not perform a lock(array) inside a lock(array), as you are...

If you're getting an Access Forbidden, check any applicable config files to make sure you are allowing access by the correct user group (probably a wide-open one).

hurstshifter wrote:tabletop games, video games, comics, professional wrestling(WWE)

:D

You guys have great voices for podcasting.

In light of Falco's post -- if you feel you donated under false pretenses or otherwise misunderstood the purpose, e-mail or PM me (e-mail preferred) and I'll gladly pay you back.

May as well. I'm sure that the people from the future may learn something.


Alt text All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'

Yup, because int bind(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *my_addr, int addrlen); <snip> my_addr is a pointer to a struct sockaddr that contains information about your address, namely, port and IP address [/u]. <snip> (Emphasis mine) Thus it's possible to listen only on desired IP addresses, and this is imp...

As a word of advice, if you're using regexes (I don't know if you are or not), you're doing it wrong. HTML isn't regular. Nope :P It goes through every character in the string, detects a tag begin, gets the tag end, processes the string in the middle, gets where the tag ends then processes the stri...

To all of you guys that have supported me and given feedback - thank you! It really means a lot. It's cool to get feedback from people that "get it." You guys know what it takes to stay true to your vision, build a team, develop the tools, and LAUNCH the damn thing. Well, maybe everything...