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[Max White]

I can code drunk, that is fine, can't remember what I did the next day can be a bit of an issue, but otherwise no worried.

Fucking insomnia, don't even get me started. Like somebody took a mallet to your brain.

[Darvi]

Insomnia. Drunkenness actually does wonders.

[Max White]

Yea but I'm already on the path from dwarven drunk to hobo drunk.
Best not to drink alone from here on in.

[Shakerag]

Yeah, I can imagine how that would be.  It doesn't sound too terrible, though.  What language are you working in again?

Mainframe assembler.  >_>

So what's your algorithm? I'm thinking of recursion.

Ehh, I'd like to avoid that if I can.  Mostly, so far, I'm scanning the target string a character at a time.  There's a ... "priming" search area, to handle filters without a leading wildcard.  Mismatch at that point returns a negative result.  Once I hit a wildcard, then I switch to a different algorithm.  A sentinal pointer sits at the character in the filter just past a wildcard, and a second pointer traverses the filter.  If I hit another wildcard, I skip it and bump up the sentinal pointer.  Mismatch returns the traversing pointer back to the sentinal pointer value, and a match bumps the traversing pointer.  The target string pointer bumps every iteration except when a wildcard is found.  If the filter-traversing pointer goes past the end of the filter, I have a match.  If the target-string pointer goes past the end of the string being checked, it's a negative unless the filter just has a "*" wildcard remaining.  I'm going to fold in "?" wildcard processing once I get this up and running.

Now your a real programmer!
Seriously, I have seen people wrack their brains for weeks making things more efficient, and for what? Saving seven ticks. Seriously, that was it, they were so proud that after countless hours working with some insane maths, they save them self an impossibly small amount of time on an algorithm that isn't even extensively used.

Efficiency is nice, and you should aim for it when ever possible, but be reasonable.

Yeah, I try to keep the balls-to-the-walls efficiency for the stuff being called thousands of time per second.  I've been talked to about keeping things readable -_-

[Stargrasper]

I can't really drink, sadly.  Alcohol and my meds don't mix.  Incidentally, one of those drugs is a sleep drug.  Which is why I keep disappearing for a few hours around 3AM while Max is here all night.

Yea but I'm already on the path from dwarven drunk to hobo drunk.
Best not to drink alone from here on in.

Come here and drink with me.  If I'm going to be awake all night, I might as well have someone to talk to.

[Levi]

The real difference between their typing system is that Ruby has a dynamic typing system as opposed to Java's static typing system. It certainly doesn't imply the language is typeless, just that types work differently.

Ah, that was the terminology I was probably looking for.  Thanks. 

[Max White]

Sometimes I just wish I could make games without players... Having to take care of input and translate that into actions is so much more tedious and annoying than just making AI...

[Willfor]

Make a game where AI fight AI, and the player watches. I've wanted this since I played Skirmish Mode in Red Alert 2. Silly AI, I want to watch you fight each other, and not just me!

[Stargrasper]

Sometimes I just wish I could make games without players... Having to take care of input and translate that into actions is so much more tedious and annoying than just making AI...

You can.  They're called movies.

[Max White]

I am now making gratuitousness space battles as a roguelike, and nobody can stop me!
But on a more serious note, this is amazing.

Spoiler: Not mine (click to show/hide)

I mean really, as far a roguelikes go how good that that look? Sort of wish that they had printed the frame around the main box before printing the trees, but what ever.
Point is I'm totally looking to do scrolls and books and anything read in the same way they did that item description, it looks really nice.

[Stargrasper]

I am now making gratuitousness space battles as a roguelike, and nobody can stop me!
But on a more serious note, this is amazing.

Spoiler: Not mine (click to show/hide)

I mean really, as far a roguelikes go how good that that look? Sort of wish that they had printed the frame around the main box before printing the trees, but what ever.
Point is I'm totally looking to do scrolls and books and anything read in the same way they did that item description, it looks really nice.

I'm more and more desperately wanting to work on a project of my own...I wish I could get JCurses to actually work...

[Willfor]

Yeah, I think the primary advantage of libtcod is using the full color display to your advantage. I love playing around with the different ways you can color the screen to great effect. I've made basic cutscenes in it before.

[Max White]

I'm more and more desperately wanting to work on a project of my own...I wish I could get JCurses to actually work...

That is how I felt, and then I saw Aquizar post something in the happy thread and I was like 'dammit man!', Imma gonna rogue up!
Plus this way I'm getting used to all the little bitchyness of libtcod for c#, so tech support ahoy!

But seriously, once you know what you are doing you can make cool shit happen. For example, that main screen in the middle is printed on an offscreen console, then blitted onto the main console, so I can easily move it around and change the alpha value. Observe!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Levi]

Bah, I should really get back to my project instead of playing video games every evening.  Maybe I'll start it back up tonight.

[Stargrasper]

With JCurses, I remember not being able to get it to initialize.  And with libjcsi, I remember the getch command just plain not working.  I didn't like ncurses for C++ just because C++ won't let me initialize the size of a 2d array at runtime.  C++ is otherwise great, though I never tried running libtcod in it; I only tried building my own engine.  I can't remember what, but something about the mechanics of Python annoyed me...  It doesn't help that none of these libraries (except maybe ncurses itself) has been updated in years.

So, should I spend my day trying to get Java to run JCurses or libjcsi, trying to get C++ to run libtcod, trying to get Python to run libtcod or Pygame, trying to learn Clojure, trying to learn C#, trying to re-invent my custom roguelike engine that I coded in Java a couple years ago because I couldn't get JCurses or libjcsi to work (yes, I coded my own engine from scratch in Java because I got frustrated at the existing ones), writing another two Java tutorials, doing my homework, or fixing my computer?  Hm...decisions, decisions...