ENIGMA Development Environment

I read somewhere on the GMC spelunky is getting ported to several platforms by Mike.Dailly so.whichever game  you want to do next you might want to skip that one. I wanted to give you a heads up. Mac is a lot more popular than  Linux, though I myself am a hardcore Linux fan it may be worth checking if this game can compile on  Mac with little or no changes. To broaden the audience a bit.

If you'd like I can host mirrors of your ports, Iji, AUS, etc both the binaries and source on my Mediafire account which currently has nothing uploaded to it so a lot of space. I'd alsi love to advertise your ports on my website at some point if any of this interests you!

Have you considered publishing (free download) on app stores? Mac AppStore, Ubuntu Software Center, etc? I'm certain Matt and other authors would feel honored. Something to think about.

@sorlok interesting I wonder why Matt told me otherwise perhaps I misunderstood him, that's good to know.

Its pretty straight forward. They call it permanent. But people can change their mind over a good number of years if I can prove I'm not making the same mistakes and they notice that.

I wpuld if that wouldn't get me in more trouble. They made it clear they don't want me back.

You know the drill I'm still perma-banned from the GMC over stupid crap from 2-3 years ago so this is the only other place I can go for this kind of assistence.

I'm porting an old 3D game of mine to OUYA and was able to take it from 0.5 frames per second to about 2 FPS by replacing ellipsoids  with walls that always face the camera. Since the texture of the wall is really just a screenshot of the original sphere, that's not even a fraction of the original polys and it looks vitually Identical, even the lighting. The point lighting only came from one place, a camera that rotates in the center of the perfectly-square room without ever changing x/y coords (third person). So yeah every sphere's lighting appearance looks pretty darn the same regarless of where the model was located in the room. Note there are a ton of these spheres simultaneously present in every room so changing them to walls really helped big time.

Then I made the walls into a tiny precompiled d3d model loaded and defined at game start. Then I resized the application_surface to render to 800x600, which is the smallest, lossless resolution I can make the game have when running on the big 1080p TV screen via my OUYA. Any smaller and the game's graphics look hideous on the screen. (When the application_surface isn't resized manually, it renders to the default 1080p display of my TV). So this made the game raise from 2 FPS to 4.5 FPS. Better, but I don't know what much else I can do to make it run at a normal speed. The OUYA is Android, and a very weak Tegra card. it runs 3x as fast on my nook tablet and samsung phone.

My qestions...

1) Are loading external model files any better than code-defined models? I'm not talking about d3d_draw_[insert_primitive] I know that will kill the perfomance. I mean defining the global models once in the create event / game start event instead of dynamically every draw frame.

2) Is the 3D lighting what is causing my game too be so slow? This will destroy the look an feel of my game if I disable lighting and it will look terrible like that. There's only like three light sources in use!

Keep in mind the poly count total in every room is incredibly low in 3D indie game standards (even for GameMaker and/or OUYA ones).

THANKS.

I know it is too. But negative emotion all humans have unfortunately.

^I would have a book of quotes to share if he wasn't deleting everything. It's not so exagrated when you don't know virtually anything that happened,

Mate, the more I visit random sites on the Internet, the more I see you still bitching about me. I am kinda getting over it.

If you think that is going to drive more downloads of your assets or games, you might want to consider re-thinking your marketing approach.

You are fast becoming 'oh that guy' on the Internet. You are quite famous on the net, and not for the reasons you might think. Hint - it isn't what you are developing.

now I am fast believing that you are a nasty little troll.

Sorry to say it, but seriously, I am tired of just browsing some website to find unexpectedly that you are on there putting me down.

I am beyond annoyed by your consistent behaviour...

He also said I salked his Facebook, Twitter, Google, and many other things he said in posts he deleted. I don't really get on anything but Facebook. I never looked him up. That would be stupid unless it was to block him and for no other reason. He claimed I post about him all over the interet which is also crap. Only two sites, here, which he obviously knew about, and one post on gamejolt before I even knew the guy's username. I just saw two lines of closed-source code so I made 1 post about it on gamejolt. That's 2 sites. on Gamejolt it was one post, and that was so old it was before I met the guy.