ImaginaryVillain

Don't forget Instagram, Twitter and Reddit. We live in a world where the only way people can apparently show that they like you is by clicking a button.

is that why my friends always say "stop hitting me"?

Maybe.... Hmm... Perhaps! You know it's definitely the right thing to say to the judge, "Their cries of "stop hitting me" were only because I liked them too much!"

Worth noting I had to edit the MapInfos file and add it back in as just giving it a map 163 wasn't enough.

Similarly, if you delete files, make sure you have no events that use them or you'll get an error. Played a lot of games where random events look for audio files that don't exist.

Yeah, thankfully I only spawn in events these days. So it's very rarely been an issue. I mean other than the time I switched all the sound effects some months after I started... Yeah that was fun and exciting. Yes... fun.... and... exciting...

You infidel! May the Silicon Hell punish you for your insolence!

I usually playtest every 5 minutes so the problem of losing progress because of not saving doesn't happen to me. But MV crashing and files being corrupt happens lot I usually make a backup every week. But recently because I haven't been productive, I haven't been backing up my project. Been a few months. I guess I won't lose anything if it goes corrupt now lol

@Hyouryuu-Na Yes, it will be fine.... Mwahahahahaha... *coughs* ...er... I mean nothing will go wrong. =D

@The Mighty Palm I lost myself to corruption long ago. Though my project is secretly safe, the joke is that I said again... Meaning I already backed it up once today.

@Poryg I fix a friend's Windows 8 machine earlier today, does that count? Pretty certain it's a resident of a lower layer.

After a few hours of messing with the absolute mess of code I left for myself last night, I arrived at 80 or so lines of code and it works great! Early tests allow me to squeeze 700-800 events on a 100x100 map with 55-60 fps except when populating a region, then it falls to around 30 fps for 1-2 seconds.

This is likely due to the sloppy repurposed room generation code I threw together last night. Still very solid results, previously around 200 events was where issues were happening.

And if I trigger the events to simply unspawn once outside of range... It never bogs down, at over 2000 events it was still doing 60 fps with the 30 fps during generation. This has possibilities.

I generally try to have a good Trance Music mix lined up in advance for tasks like that - a stiff drink makes me too likely to make mistakes that I won't notice until much later.

If this bottle of alcohol WERE a lot bigger, you would have some very ... er ... interesting ... maps by the time you got to 320!

@Wavelength Ha! You act like I need to be drinking to make mistakes. Oh wait...

@Shaz Or really interesting maps up until maybe 260-280, messes till about 300 and a keyboard imprint on my face with 60 unfinished maps in the morning.

Then everybody can share in the madness!

Well, yeah.... how else am I supposed to stay insane. Get to work, you! X3

Mark of a true villain.

The upside of the method is you can easily create and move text and pictures all over the screen. And change how they look, animate them or whatever. Weirdly if you put in the effort it's a very versatile message system.

u can't use images to show me? @-@ me confused

I'd probably need to just make a thread to include all the pics due to the low character limit here. This is a pretty complicated and weird idea, you need http://sumrndm.site/hud-maker/ to try it. Personally I'd recommend that plugin anyway because it makes fantastic HUDs.

I like to think of Common Events as my best friends. What they can do is nothing short of amazing.

What....huh?

Much to my amusement.... I also went a bit overboard and was accidentally letting Common Events overwrite important Self Variables... Oops!

Yep, we can safely say this game is never going to be on Android.

Get them for your NEXT game

then spend months fighting the urge to redo your game so you can use them sooner

Oh I did... and I definitely am. xD

I did have the idea of potentially using FSM to represent an imaginary world and PVG's stuff to represent a more harsh real world. But I also run my own business so I might not have the free time for such a grandiose endeavor. Still if I don't use them in game, I'm definitely using them every game after. =D

I have no idea what kind of event sorcery/unholy plugin combination made it suddenly start doing that. But given that I started writing minor plugins of my own... Those are probably at fault. XD

Well, you might not need literal depth. Remember that Terraria is in two dimension and your engine likely also is (mind, different dimensions which would make for a very different game). As for digging, that can just be one type of way to make a tile (changes it to a dig spot).

Yeah I considered just having a different type of tile to represent each level of depth. Of course I'd also need a legend over to the side to show that since I couldn't visually show the depth.

It's likely an idea for a later project though. I already have a fairly unique gameplay/combat given that my game essentially has no floor. So the only map I was letting them collect tiles to play with was basically the "status menu". I did enjoy building towns with them though.... Ironically more than I like actual mapping. XD

It always surprises me when I find people don't run a common event each turn in battle. Now, that's one thing couldn't live without.

I dont run common event in battle, in fact, i rarely do. Why though?

@Milennin Honestly I think it's just the natural progression of new people and eventing. They start out doing minor eventing, then major eventing, and after some amount of time they start to realize how it's just the same code over and over so they switch to using more Common Events. Eventually I assume the next step is start making those Common Events into minor plugins.

...Sadly I had to update events to clean it up. Yanpi is so messy.

Oh snap, I'm about to call Simon Whistler

Today I found out who Simon Whistler is. XD