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I did, yes - as it says in the source code

Ah? I've read it and recognized the algorithm but didn't spot the comment. Selective vision! :-)

About the assumptions: Yes, there are definitely some assumptions to make, but I was wondering if some expert had already made them 20 years ago ;-)

I'm slowly getting around to reading Physics for Game Developers, which I had bought used a few weeks back.

Those old theoritical books are sooo good. You rarely understand everything or put everything in application, but it helps so much acquiring new ideas. And it's thrilling the way they mix abstract concepts/algorithms, clever optimization ideas, and implementation methods.

You don't see so many of them anymore, because of the Internet. I have a few of them, they're like Bibles (e.g. "Zen of graphics programming", by Michael Abrash). Nowadays, when you go to a book store, you have hundreds of "Word for dummies" - a real pity.

Even here in Dublin, in the "Chapters" bookstore (that used to be a HUGE bookstore full of used books), they have divided the size of the IT books shelves by 3 a few weeks ago :'-(

[The selfish gene]

- "The selfish gene", by Richard Dawkins --> If you haven't read that, you know nothing about the human being. You can just get rid of your beliefs (both religious and philisophic).

Meh, the guy is overrated as a writer and scientist. I've read "The Blind Watchmaker" which is supposed  to be his best intellectual take on evolution, but it's all just repeating "believing in evolution makes a lot of sense" for several hundred pages.

Well, maybe he's a mediocre writer - which would mean no more than "he fails to captivate his readers", and maybe he's a mediocre scientist - which would mean no more than "he failed to produce any major achievement in his field"...

...But it doesn't change anything to the fact that the ideas expressed in "the selfish gene" should be the basis of any modern reflection on mankind. And one has no idea about all that unless one has read the book. That book deals with so much more than evolution!

Also, he is not expressing a "philosophy". He's just writing down simple facts - but those facts change our perspective as strongly as did the theory of evolution 150 years ago. No need to be a good writer or to have discovered them to unleash the power of these ideas.


PS: On another note, it seems it's not unnecessary to repeat again and again to some people that every single fact on Earth proves evolution - you know who I'm talking about.

I certainly don't want to spoil but                           

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THIS GAME IS SO MUCH FUN!!!!

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PS:                                                                         

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BOOM!

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Steve, may I ask you if you based your implementation on Xiaolin Wu's algorithm?

Do you know if there are algorithms out there that are more "space consuming"* and less "time-consuming"* ?
The more the better.

* as they say in algorithmics dialect

I am quite sure the screen I posted is in fact a scrolling room - I now recall the lamps moving in parallax.

Additionally to that, do they use some sort of distortion on the character so that it's not "vertical" when it reaches the sides of the screen in a perspective such as the one you posted? (some sort of fake fish-eye effect).

Just asking. That'd be a clever workaround when it becomes too obvious that the character is 2D in a 3D room.

Heck, wouldn't people be better served just going to this list?

I just updated it to include "Amerzone"

[The Masterpiece]

(yes, I always read several books at the same time)

Decided to rediscover classics from the 19th century, and I had several excellent surprises :

French litterature:
- "The Masterpiece", by Emile Zola --> Should be read by any artist! That guy understands you better than you do.
- "In search of the lost time", by Marcel Proust --> That guy mixes fantasy and reality in the most incredible way, considering it was in the 1900's. I also recommend the movie "Time Regained" by Raoul Ruiz ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Qguem4NDA&feature=related )

English-speaking litterature:
- "Two old men", by Leo Tolstoi --> Kind of obsolete nowadays. A historical value, though.
- "The selfish gene", by Richard Dawkins --> If you haven't read that, you know nothing about the human being. You can just get rid of your beliefs (both religious and philisophic).

Considering the lack of voting activity, and it being five days already, it might be time to conclude this one.

Hey! Hand of God! Do your thing!

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This is a double post. The "real" thread is at http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=41291.0

Please moderators lock this thread.

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Easy, just use the cab again and have a look around BC

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Well, when I use the cab, it just shows the map of North America, and I can only go to Barnett or the dead archeologist's office.

EDIT: @Mods: I've seen your post about the bulletin board.

Honestly I have never seen that before.

I know, I know, I was just kidding

Meowmeow, meeeow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVx2uCcDXX0

I'm impressed by how this crappy* perspective manages to fool the eye :

(look at the floor: the distance between the lines never changes, neither does the distance of the lines on the walls)



* I know it's on purpose.

[SpacePaw]

SpacePaw and his highly original and funny idea.

Original? Pah, it's just some Sprite Jam in the early stage of production: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=33123.msg429301#msg429301 

Why are you youtube-searching for Chris Jones? 

Woaw, woaw, woaw, I'm not!!! The whole point of this post is that I come across the name randomly, all the time.
It just makes me laugh to imagine that it's the same guy who's at the same time DJ, painter, programmer, politician, fireman, etc.

I am enjoying this game but stuck, I am at the temple but theres a cliff cant get down to the temple, and cant find my way back to the map help please thanks

I haven't reach that place yet, but could you tell me what to do after you've seen the movie in New York?

"Vote for your favourite of the 6 entries"

Ooops, I kept reading "Vote for your 6 entries" again and again.

I vote for myself Saberteeth, because his nickname is matching my profile picture so well.
I don't for 5 other people because nobody did it, so it wouldn't make any sense.

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Hey, aren't people supposed to vote for 6 entries?