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SinisterSoft · December 2017

if a some code is in a function then it's not executed until the function is called.

if it's not in a function then it's executed in the order that it's loaded.

Apollo14 · December 2017

@Ninjadoodle! I found your profile on ArmorGames! I would say your game "One Button Bob" is absolutely awesome!

It's one button simple, yet there is some special magic involved, atmosphere is very lovely

Btw, where do you usually get soundtracks like this?
You published some games on ArmorGames in 2016. Is html5 as dead as people say? Are you satisfied financially with publishing game on ArmoredGames in 2016?

@Ninjadoodle could you make quick mini-series about coding simple game mechanics like in "One Button Bob", using Gideros?
Many thx! @Apollo14

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi @Apollo14 - sorry about the late reply! The holidays have been crazy with family stuff and some house renovations lol.

I'm really happy you like One Button Bob - I'm looking at bringing it back this year and finally putting it on mobile (with more episodes etc.).

I get all the music for my games from a site called opuzz.com, the tracks/CD's are pretty cheap considering they are royalty free.

I don't think HTML5 is dead at all - in fact, in my view it is the future, as long as websites and the internet exist there will be some form of 'HTML5' and you'll be able to run games inside a browser etc.

It is up to us to think of how to monetise it. As far as I know there are a lot of sponsors out there still dealing with / buying licenses for desktop browser games.

Most of the time I find a couple of people to sell a non-exclusive license to. If you are willing to sell an exclusive license, you will find a lot more sponsors.

I will definitely make a series about a One Button Bob style game, but first I wanna get through this intro series just to ease my self in and iron out a few of the issues (e.g. - crappy sound etc.).

Hope this helps! If you have any more questions, let me know

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi guys

New Geeking with Gideros vid - Texture Packing

New Inspiration Station vid - Pocket Puzzles

If you want you can also check out some of the other vids on my channel

Thanks!

antix · January 2018

Nice one @Ninjadoodle. I feel you should have just used the default Gideros TexturePacker for your video since it is what comes with Gideros, and is free

You certainly like puzzles don't you? I know who to pester if I ever need puzzles in my games

Apollo14 · January 2018

antix said:
Nice one @Ninjadoodle. I feel you should have just used the default Gideros TexturePacker for your video since it is what comes with Gideros, and is free

I couldn't find if Gideros Texture Packer has @2x/@4x settings?
Or user himself should resize sprites manually before feeding them to Gideros Texture Packer?

antix · January 2018

The Gideros TexturePacker doesn't do the @xstuff as far as I'm aware. You would need to manually resize (or auto resize if you have a program that does that) and make the different textures.

hgy29 · January 2018

It should not be too difficult to add this functionnality to Gideros TexturePacker.

SinisterSoft · January 2018

There is also the possibility of not bothering with that and have them auto-resize to smaller on loading.

Apollo14 · January 2018

SinisterSoft said:
There is also the possibility of not bothering with that and have them auto-resize to smaller on loading.

that could be one awesome possibility

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

@antix - I think I'll do a bonus session with the Gideros Texture Packer, but it would be awesome to have it supporting the @xtuff as it really makes sense to me, and it's one of the awesome features of Gideros. I also use Texture Packer with other software like Panda, so it's I find it very versatile.

@hgy29 - it would be cool if the Gideros Texture Packer supported @2x / @4x etc, otherwise I feel a little bit like it's not supporting one of the awesome features that Gideros has going for it

@SinisterSoft - If this was possible without crashing weak devices on startup, that would rock!

SinisterSoft · January 2018

It was discussed a while back (may have been on slack), basically if you loaded a file that was set to bigger than the normal resolution, eg one with @4, then it would auto-resize on loading to one of the lower set file resolutions if needed (and if there was no lower resolution file) - it wouldn't be loaded into texture memory before this - so it wouldn't crash weaker devices (as long as the file would actually fit into normal ram).

So you could then just include your biggest version and it would be ok. I suppose the texture.new command would have to have another parameter though to specify the resize system for loading - smooth or not?

antix · January 2018

Resizing on startup just depends on how long it takes to resize the textures I suppose.

SinisterSoft · January 2018

Shouldn't take that long.

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi guys

I just put up a video about my favourite sound (effects and music) resources for game design. Hope some of you find this helpful

antix · January 2018

@NinjaDoodle, nice one. It's freesound.org, not .com

It would be good to have them listed in the text for the video too.

opengameart.org has tons of sound effects and music

freepd.com has a heap of free music

newgrounds.com is interesting for music. There are many musicians there who are more than happy for you to use their music with attribution and links to their pages.

I'm sure I have more links lurking somewhere

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

@antix - I always have to mess something up lol. I'll start putting all the links in the description tho, I always forget

My two favs are opuzz for music and the universal sfx lib

Thanks of the extra links!

SinisterSoft · January 2018

It would be good if Gideros could generate 'analog'/'chip' sound effects live...

antix · January 2018

SinisterSoft said:
It would be good if Gideros could generate 'analog'/'chip' sound effects live...

Now that would be something!

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi guys

New Geeking with Gideros: Scaling Modes is up, as well as a couple of Inspiration Station vids - Wizard of Wor and Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc.

Thaaanks

antix · January 2018

FitWidth and FitHeight are my favorites

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

New Geeking with Gideros tut - Containers and Scenes

Hope it helps somebody out there

antix · January 2018

@Ninjadoodle hey cool episoide. Do you think you might consider creating your own github repo for the projects in these tutorials? It would be good to just be able to point people to one place.

Also for code have you thought much about things like readability? For example you have a global called pack which is good but if you called it PACK then you know (no matter which source file you are working in) that you are dealing with a global variable.

Then inside code you can make that a local variable by using like local pack = PACK

And for code (again) to save so much typing you could have for example something like this for the menu scene...

Menu = Core.class(Sprite)
 
function Menu:init()
  local pack = PACK
 
  local container = Sprite.new()
  self:addChild(container)
  self.stageContainer = container
 
  local bmp = Bitmap.new(pack:getTextureRegion("ball.png"))
  bmp:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0,5)
  bmp:setPosition(160, 240)
  container:addChild(bmp)
  self.bmp = bmp
end

I find it always easier that way but you might have a different view.

Anyhoo, good job man and look forward to next episode

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi @antix - A Github repo is definitely something I've been thinking about, especially when I start actually using real graphics (not just a circle lol).

But yeah, I'll be adding more code and stuff soon, so I'll set something up

I like the uppercase method for globals, I think I'll adopt that. Normally I use very few but seems like a cool idea!

Thanks for the tips btw!

Apollo14 · January 2018

@Ninjadoodle you mentioned that you don't use GTween for fade-to-black effects.

First thing that came to my mind is to write something like this:
(but I think it's not the best option possible

What option is better?

--Creating black shape:
local blackShape = Shape.new()
blackShape:setFillStyle(Shape.SOLID, 0x000000, 1)
blackShape:beginPath()
blackShape:moveTo(0,0)
blackShape:lineTo(application:getContentWidth(), 0)
blackShape:lineTo(application:getContentWidth(), application:getContentHeight())
blackShape:lineTo(0, application:getContentHeight())
blackShape:lineTo(0, 0)
blackShape:endPath()
blackShape:setAlpha(0)
stage:addChild(blackShape)
 
--Start fading after 3000ms:
function onEnterFrameFunc()
	blackShape:setAlpha(blackShape:getAlpha() + 0.008)
end
 
function onDelayedCallFunc()
	stage:addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrameFunc)
end
 
local timerDelayed = Timer.delayedCall(3000, onDelayedCallFunc)

Maybe somebody could write a standart reusable class? Fading is needed very frequently for many people, I guess.

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

Hi @Apollo14 - Hey, I was talking about the default transitions that come with scene manager

I don't use the default 'Fade' transition.

I do actually use Gtween for my own transitions, because it's simple to setup and I also use it for sprite animations. I know that people say it's not the most efficient, but when using Gtween - I don't really make games with crazy amounts of sprites on the screen

What you're doing there is a good option too and would work just as well imo.

Apollo14 · January 2018

Ninjadoodle said:
Hi @Apollo14 - Hey, I was talking about the default transitions that come with scene manager I don't use the default 'Fade' transition.

I do actually use Gtween for my own transitions, because it's simple to setup and I also use it for sprite animations. I know that people say it's not the most efficient, but when using Gtween - I don't really make games with crazy amounts of sprites on the screen

What you're doing there is a good option too and would work just as well imo.

uh, I'm sorry, you was talking about SceneManager, not GTween - my mistake

antix · January 2018

@Apollo14 forget Shape, use Pixel for your vignette..

local blackShape = Pixel.new(0x000000, 0, application:getContentWidth(), application:getContentHeight())

So many lines of code averted

oleg · January 2018

Apollo14 said:

Maybe somebody could write a standart reusable class? Fading is needed very frequently for many people, I guess.

 
function speed_fade(sprite,alpha2,speed)
 
        alpha1 = sprite:getAlpha()
        speed=speed/1000*60
        sprite.fade = MovieClip.new{
                {1, speed, sprite, {alpha = {alpha1, alpha2, "linear"}}} 
        }
        sprite.fade:gotoAndPlay(1)
	function fadeout()
			 sprite:dispatchEvent(Event.new("out"))  
		end
		sprite.fade :addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fadeout)  
end
 
 
------------------
 --variant1
self:addEventListener("out", 
	function(e)	
	    e:stopPropagation()
	     sceneManager:changeScene("menu", 1,  SceneManager.moveFromLeft,easing.inBack)
	end)
        speed_fade(self,0,300)
 
 
------------------
--variant2
 
 
local blackShape = Pixel.new(0x000000, 0, application:getContentWidth(), application:getContentHeight())
self:addChild(blackShape)
 
blackShape:addEventListener("out", 
	function(e)	
	    e:stopPropagation()
	     sceneManager:changeScene("menu", 1,  SceneManager.moveFromLeft,easing.inBack)
	end)
 
 speed_fade(blackShape ,1,300)

Ninjadoodle · January 2018

@antix @oleg - Awesome tips!

@antix - I like the pixel method for setting up the fade ... just recorded a new tut using your method

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