Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 07:54:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-12-20 19:41, Kiith-Sa wrote: This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-21 14:13, Kiith-Sa wrote: This shouldn't happen as I don't even use that extension. It's possible that it's a bug in ICE's (outdated) copy of Derelict2. I updated Derelict2 now. Can you try pulling the changes? I'll give it a try. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Rob T
I get a few compilation errors using dmd 2.060, nothrow that can throw, pure that calls impure, as well as several warnings such as unreachable code and warnings concerning @safe and @trusted. After patching some of it up to get rid of the fatal compile errors, this last error left me

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 22:00:27 UTC, Rob T wrote: I get a few compilation errors using dmd 2.060, nothrow that can throw, pure that calls impure, as well as several warnings such as unreachable code and warnings concerning @safe and @trusted. After patching some of it up to get rid

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Kiith-Sa
Also note: ICE does have some compile errors with git master DMD; at least because it uses D:YAML, which has known issues there. Bot there are no errors with DMD 2.060.

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-21 Thread Rob T
On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 00:48:51 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Are you sure you cloned ICE, not DPong? DPong was an older project that is unmaintained; although ICE reuses some of its code. ICE is developed with 2.060 and there're no compile errors there (although there are some warnings due

ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like Tyrian and Raptor: Call of the Shadows. There's still a lot of work to do (moddability is there but no

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-20 19:41, Kiith-Sa wrote: This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like Tyrian and Raptor: Call of the Shadows. Cool, but where is the Mac OS

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 19:24:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-12-20 19:41, Kiith-Sa wrote: This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread ponce
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 18:41:13 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Comments/criticism welcome (I've worked on a few toy game projects, but this is the first one that actually had a release; there are likely many beginner errors). Hi, If you are making a shoot-em-up (especially horizontal or

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 20:18:42 UTC, ponce wrote: On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 18:41:13 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Comments/criticism welcome (I've worked on a few toy game projects, but this is the first one that actually had a release; there are likely many beginner errors). Hi,

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread ponce
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 20:40:35 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: However, what's the issue with a health bar? Most shoot-em-ups I play have one (and I'm not making a one-hit-you're-dead game.) Is health bar undesirable because it obstructs the view? (i.e. would a different way of showing

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread F i L
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 18:41:13 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like Tyrian and Raptor: Call of the Shadows.

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Did you do something special about the GC? Does it run at all or do you somehow pool your objects? Kind Regards Benjamin Thaut

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
To clarify: yes, GC runs all the time. It doesn't have a whole lot to collect, though. It'd be inconvenient to disable it as I use stuff like closures for GUI, etc.

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 22:45:10 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Did you do something special about the GC? Does it run at all or do you somehow pool your objects? Kind Regards Benjamin Thaut I do use the GC; however, in general, I avoid using it for anything that gets called very

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Am 21.12.2012 00:07, schrieb Kiith-Sa: To clarify: yes, GC runs all the time. It doesn't have a whole lot to collect, though. It'd be inconvenient to disable it as I use stuff like closures for GUI, etc. It is nice to hear that leaving the GC enabled did work out for you. But basically is

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 23:15:39 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Am 21.12.2012 00:07, schrieb Kiith-Sa: To clarify: yes, GC runs all the time. It doesn't have a whole lot to collect, though. It'd be inconvenient to disable it as I use stuff like closures for GUI, etc. It is nice to hear

Re: ICE 0.1: a moddable shoot-em-up in D

2012-12-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-20 19:41, Kiith-Sa wrote: This is the first release of ICE, a small game project I'm working on at the university. ICE is a vertical shoot-em-up created with moddability in mind. Its gameplay resembles games like Tyrian and Raptor: Call of the Shadows. I've compiled the game on Mac