ENIGMA Development Environment

Harri is on a roll

I love how Darkstar missed the point entirely - when he was notified of this, he was still missing the point for several posts more.

What am I still missing ?  LGM passes its memory to the compiler, where CLI would process the file directly no ?  Not everyone has a clear understanding of the inner workings of ENIGMA or how IDE and compilers connect to one another.....  It's mostly his comment building an entire game without the IDE,

On that note, I agree we should use EGM.

Also there is a flaw in LGM anyway, despite saving project before closing LGM it always keeps reminding me that I have not saved my changes and if I really want to quit. So that would need to be fixed first.

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=593110

Interesting topic I read it all.  Did you read TV's reply

I can confirm this is not slander his book really is 20 pages long, that's like charging people $1 per page which is hilarious. It was in huge font too, I felt like I was reading a book geared toward children with bad eyesight. It isn't slander to count 20 pages of pure fluff. That's not a personal attack, it's called having eyeballs.

Well no not slander, the calling someone con artist, scam artist, thief, liars, etc, that's slander, but according to law if you can back your claims with facts, that will hold in any case and protect you, though these things are very subjective, as are games.  Some might consider his games amazing and his eBook amazing, whilst some might consider it rubbish.  Personally I would never sell an eBook without giving my readers some good credentials....Showing the index of the book, few pages, etc.  It is not uncommon for people to allegedly feel ripped off buying eBooks online, but there are lot of gray areas.  Most of the shite you find in these fucking eBooks you can find for free if you do your own research and know how to properly use a search engine   However it is not against the law to sell information that's already out there and FREE, that's a billions $ industry  

As far as the alleged misleading people, he claims he never mentioned about the sponsor list or made it a selling point, personally I have not followed this whole thing myself, but I never actually believed his claims / revenues and I don't have any respect for people who allegedly push those get rich quick schemes online.

There are many ways to earn money online, unfortunately most involve pyramids, matrix, ponzi schemes and affiliate marketing garbage / MLM ,etc.  The real money you earn with your bloody sweat, talents, efforts, or sell games like flappy bird

Read the first few comments on this article for more details
http://www.truevalhalla.com/blog/online-income-report-024-april-2014/

Well, TKG......If a guy can make $50k a day selling Flappy Bird I guess anything is possible.  One would wonder why would he lie about his income unless he is selling a program to teach you how to earn similar......Mind you I was skeptic and did not believe his reports, but after the whole flappy bird thing, who knows what is possible now.  In theory one could make 5 figures daily selling sea shells and rocks if they wanted to........we live in a weird world.

His desktop titles are nothing to be desired, and by no means could ever be evidence of his income. He don't even make his own graphics (coming from his mouth on his website) he collaborates with artist who I assume work for free.

Or allegedly uses royalty free images - again nothing wrong about that ! Not everyone has the skill to hand draw their graphics.  I have nothing against people outsourcing their game  content or using royalty free, they still have to code the game, so long as they give credit and are allowed to use content......Truly 100% hand made original games are rare.......

His games are nothing special at all, their pretty much like any other crappy indies polluting the web.
http://gamejolt.com/profile/true-valhalla/1600/

If you think that is bad see his html5 shite. The games are boring as fuck, especially that bird thing that can switch vertical gravity.
http://www.truevalhalla.com/blog/buy-html5-games/

FLIP DUCK PREMIUM !   Hmmm.  Nice.....  Mind you some of his games are far better than some of the rubibish I've seen, in other words I've seen worse. But again, that is subjective.  You might not like his games, but some do, and the internet has billions of people out of which millions who would buy these kinds of games, and reason why some people make riches without top notch games.

PS  He must be stoned on some pretty hard liquor if he really think he can convince everyone that he really makes that kind of money he claims to get in the mail regularly. I'm telling you this guy's on drugs. A fucking pothead. XD

Now that's slander    

#1) Whether he makes that kind of money from his games is open for debate.  I was skeptic once, but it's not impossible to earn such money on selling games, proof is out there

#2) As far as his alleged online earnings from other sources, this is where I would raise big red flags, as I myself am familiar with lots of the programs online to make money and have followed this for a long time...there are lot of scams / work at home / earn online crap .... so that part I would question, but keeping in mind it is not impossible to make such earnings online, whether the money comes from legit business models is another story, I am not familiar with the programs he uses so can't comment on that.

So how do I define a string in my enigma project then?

Does it work only for show message ?

What about binary file read ?
I tried calling a script that had binary read and it froze the entire game until the block was loaded and script finished.

Now I now this is same behaviour for another known game development software....... but how about making it actually different in ENIGMA, or adding some new file handling ?

writing or reading binary @ 10MB/20MB is slow when today,s hardware can handle 100MB-200MB+++.
IS there a way to implement more optimised faster file I/O in ENIGMA this is one area we don't need to match GMStudio.

That's great, but I think you meant 32bit not byte

BTW, any follow-up on this proposal ? I think for large game developers learning to use efficient, dynamic resource handling is a positive step, keeping the IDE fast and tidy.  Those not wanting to use individual files and pack file formats reading only a range of bytes from a file directly to memory.

I think he's also referring to using view boundary rectangles as done in GM.
Those are not present on LGM.

@egofree:  I simulate this by creating my own outline in my paint program and overlapping it whilst editing room. then removing it once game is completed.  it would be nice to have this feature though.