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[Rose]

So Japa, you trying to do a sim city like engine?

Nah, just a game where you race in real world locations.

[MagmaMcFry]

So Japa, you trying to do a sim city like engine?

Nah, just a game where you race in real world locations.

Oooh, so that's why you were able to make a model of that weird roundabout thing in the rage thread.

[Siquo]

So Japa, you trying to do a sim city like engine?

Nah, just a game where you race in real world locations.

That's pretty cool

I was going to aim for a racer as well, a stunts-clone/remake. I don't know if anyone remembers it but it was tons of fun when I was a kid. It's about time I finally finish a goddamn project.

[mendonca]

It's about time I finally finish a goddamn project.

Did anything ever happen with your cool little farming roguelike-of-the-week thingamabob you did many moons ago?

[Siquo]

It's about time I finally finish a goddamn project.

Did anything ever happen with your cool little farming roguelike-of-the-week thingamabob you did many moons ago?

Oh right, forgot about that. It's still as unfinished as it ever was My only deliverable game in 20+ years of programming is a semi-finished 7DRL. Way to live the gamedev-dream.
Programming-at-work actually became more interesting, so when at home I'm a lot less inclined to program for myself for some reason. I'll probably do more when I'm more bored at work...

[Skyrunner]

It's about time I finally finish a goddamn project.

Did anything ever happen with your cool little farming roguelike-of-the-week thingamabob you did many moons ago?

Oh right, forgot about that. It's still as unfinished as it ever was My only deliverable game in 20+ years of programming is a semi-finished 7DRL. Way to live the gamedev-dream.
Programming-at-work actually became more interesting, so when at home I'm a lot less inclined to program for myself for some reason. I'll probably do more when I'm more bored at work...

Farming roguelike? I would like to hear more :O

[Siquo]

Farming roguelike? I would like to hear more :O

Wasn't that great. Here's a lets play and the link: www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77261.msg1977408

[GlyphGryph]

I coded up a new website.
http://en.cataclysmdda.com/

I know web dev stuff isn't REAL coding, but I'm proud of it.

[Mego]

I coded up a new website.
http://en.cataclysmdda.com/

I know web dev stuff isn't REAL coding, but I'm proud of it.

If you write stuff that specifies how something (computer/electronic device/program) should do things, and then gave that stuff to the thing doing the things, and the thing did the things you told it to, then it's real coding.

Things and stuff.

[Argembarger]

I used to hang around Bay12 a while back. 2010-2011ish I suppose.

Sheesh, that feels like forever ago now.

With many thanks due to Dwarf Fortress, I made the decision then to switch my major from history to computer science. Now I'm slithering (or trying to, at least) into the gamedev world. I joined and finished my first Ludum Dare in April, and I'm feeling good about myself. I have one more year until I get my bachelor's, and I'mma be putting my nose to the grindstone come August, both academically and through #onegameamonth.

Anyway, I've been on a DFTalk kick lately and thought I'd drop back in the forums and give a hello to all my newfound brothers and sisters in code.

[Skyrunner]

Argh. I can't understand A*, and I really need it in my game.

What I want to do is path from one cell to another cell, but the costs for going north, south, east, and west potentially all differ.

The pseudocode on Wikipedia and on other sites confuse me as to how g, the cost from the starting point to the current cell is counted, among other things.

[MagmaMcFry]

I used to hang around Bay12 a while back. 2010-2011ish I suppose.

Sheesh, that feels like forever ago now.

With many thanks due to Dwarf Fortress, I made the decision then to switch my major from history to computer science. Now I'm slithering (or trying to, at least) into the gamedev world. I joined and finished my first Ludum Dare in April, and I'm feeling good about myself. I have one more year until I get my bachelor's, and I'mma be putting my nose to the grindstone come August, both academically and through #onegameamonth.

Anyway, I've been on a DFTalk kick lately and thought I'd drop back in the forums and give a hello to all my newfound brothers and sisters in code.

Hi Argembarger! Care to share some games with us?

Argh. I can't understand A*, and I really need it in my game.

What I want to do is path from one cell to another cell, but the costs for going north, south, east, and west potentially all differ.

The pseudocode on Wikipedia and on other sites confuse me as to how g, the cost from the starting point to the current cell is counted, among other things.

Couldn't you just implement the pseudocode without having to know how it works?

[Skyrunner]

The pseudocode confuses me, too. :c It doesn't seem to specify how g is found...

[MagmaMcFry]

Huh? The g_score[] array is filled entirely by the algorithm, and the tentative_g_score contains possible values for that. The only unspecified things in the entire pseudocode are heuristic_cost_estimate(a, b) and dist_between(a, b). Here's how I would do these:

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dist_between(Point a, Point b) { // a and b are neighbors
  // return your move cost here
}

heuristic_cost_estimate(Point a, Point b) {
  return euclidean_distance(a,b)*C; // C is a constant, and should be the most common value of dist_between(p,q)/euclidean_distance(p,q).
}


[Skyrunner]

Eh, though it took 5 hours I sorted it all out with the help of smeding.
I'm sure it's flawed (it's also kinda slow even on 64x40 maps when I want at least an order of magnitude more than that), but it works for now, so I pushed it to the repo.
Day 2 of my personal seven day roguelike challenge and I think it's going along well. I probably am going to overshoot the seven days. Also, because it's finals I can't put in any more whole days for a long while s:

Rough list of big hefty milestones:
[v] Buy and sell. Demand and supply changes prices.
[v] pathfind
[ ] have a world map and the ability to navigate from one city to another
[ ] multiple cities with different goods
[ ] other merchants that buy and sell
   [ ] this means I need to make an AI
[ ] link all this up to libtcod for pretty graphics