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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Posted on: April 25, 2010, 10:34:02 pm

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...That I knew enough Make? Well, I Lied.

I've committed revision 200, which contains some very simple makefiles that do exactly what I wanted. Except one little tidbit: I forgot that I'd need to outline for Make what every file depends upon, or it would rebuild the entire project. Every. Single. Time. As in, exactly what I spent hours and hours avoiding happening.

So yes, if you were to check out ENIGMA right now and click Run, LGM wouldn't display a damn thing, but (at least on Linux; haven't tested on Windows) it will build and run your game. I have not added sprites to the output; making it compile fast gets precedence.

However, above that precedent comes my homework. This is going to be the busiest two weeks of my life, and I need to account for that. I graduate from high school soon, but am taking all college classes. Most of which are upper-level. And I have exams coming up very quickly. One is, as I've mentioned, a fifteen page report on Scientology. What I may have neglected to mention is that I will be highlighting this report in front of an estimated three hundred people. This is a new sort of WHAT THE... BUT HOW... RATHER, WHY? for me, as I'm sure you all can understand... Public speaking is easy when you know exactly what the hell it is you are talking about. I'm going to be up there explaining space planes and aliens and frozen souls to the mindless. ...Computer science final will be a take-home cakewalk. Political science final, on the other hand, will be my fourth grade in that class, and will make me suffer. I haven't exactly done superbly on any of that man's four other assignments, either. ...Calculus would be great if it wasn't an AP high school course. I'm stuck, with one other, among a group of people that can't grasp the AB material, and I'll be taking the BC. Bother, a couple questions of the AB are harder than the BC anyway. My utter success on the BC portion hinges on my memorization of some dozen different series. Not exactly fun... And I've got a huge number of memory quizzes coming up, for which I've not studied...
Anyway; point is, I've got a lot on my plate for these next couple weeks, and will probably put ENIGMA on the back burner until I'm done. It won't be long.

So, to do: Optimize makefiles, replace var and instance system, fix up syntax check more, reinstall sprite system, move some code up a directory, replace timer on Linux, carry out some in-code to-dos.

Less immediate to-do: Modify sprite system into parallel background system, add tiles to room, add cross platform widget functions to enable build mode.
Further to-dos: Comment generated code for easy error indexing.
Distant to-dos: Hook up GDB for some really neat debugger kicks.

Until then, ciao.
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Offline (Male) kkg
Reply #1 Posted on: April 26, 2010, 02:55:44 am

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Updated to revision 200, opened up LGM, loaded a test file, and clicked Run. cmd displayed everything it normally does when I click run (displayed passing the resources, their names and all that shiz). Everything built and ran fine.
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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Reply #2 Posted on: April 26, 2010, 07:06:54 am

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That's what I like to hear.
I'll look into specifying dependencies... as soon as possible.
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Reply #3 Posted on: April 26, 2010, 07:44:54 am
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One is, as I've mentioned, a fifteen page report on Scientology. What I may have neglected to mention is that I will be highlighting this report in front of an estimated three hundred people. This is a new sort of WHAT THE... BUT HOW... RATHER, WHY? for me, as I'm sure you all can understand... Public speaking is easy when you know exactly what the hell it is you are talking about. I'm going to be up there explaining space planes and aliens and frozen souls to the mindless. ...Computer science final will be a take-home cakewalk.

Don't worry, maybe someone has watched the South Park episode about Scientology and somebody may have heard about Tom Cruise's religion. Also, there has been some rumors about Gold Base having barbed wire facing inside. :google:

In fact you might even find out that your audience already has some prejudice. Then it would be really important to get some facts. Smack in a lot of bibliography just for the sake of it, best if you quote books or people insted of websites.

Best of all, keep it simple and it will be more interesting for them to hear.

Sorry for being a smart-ass, but damn I like talks. One last note, be careful with irony if you want to be taken seriously.
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Reply #4 Posted on: April 26, 2010, 07:57:17 am

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I find im drawn in when people try to tell a story every now and then - just saying :D
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