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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Zima

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I also love the username Zima, but having a username that translates to winter year-round isn't logical. If you guys are getting tired of Vesna, don't worry. It will be a month and a half until summer. :3
 

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Oh god, this week's quantum mechanics assignment makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

I have concluded that Minecraft is a programming language.

I wouldn't say creating machines is equal to programming. Then again, you didn't specify what kind of machine.

I'm planning on writing my own game during the summer.
 

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Oh god, this week's quantum mechanics assignment makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

I have concluded that Minecraft is a programming language.

I wouldn't say creating machines is equal to programming. Then again, you didn't specify what kind of machine.

I'm planning on writing my own game during the summer.

You have to program the machine. In the last video I posted I'm basically making an if statement, if the "ones" column increments 10 times then increment the "tens" column. The next step was to program the lights to display the patterns of the numbers.

What kind of game?
 

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This talk of programming brings back horrible memories of basic programming from high school. The only reason I made it is because of a friend had a tech obsession.
 

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Well, that changes things a bit I guess. Since you didn't specify the machine, I thought it could be a generic one that just did something.

Also, I'm thinking an RPG. I'm still sorting out the basics of what I want to implement.

It's pretty fun since I put my own challenges out and try to solve the problems they entail. I have no idea of how I intend to implement the graphics yet, I'll probably use some library and go by that to create some sort of graphic engine.

Also, today was the first day I noticed that (-1)^x = cos(pi*x)+i*sin(pi*x). Pretty neat
 

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Cool. I was going to make an RPG a while ago but then I lost interest. What kind of challenges do you have?

It was a day counter that I made. It uses a daylight sensor to increment a two digit display every time a new day starts.
 

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Mostly related to how I'm going to effectively implement things in an orderly fashion. Since I have really no practical experience with both the language and game programming in general, I might make a lot of things more inefficient than they have to, but I don't really care much for that now.

That, and I really just need ideas for classes, skills, weapons, locations, storyline, equipment and other items etc. etc. Well, I think I have sorted out the weapons now. And making formulas for in game logic to calculate damage and the like.


Since I basically started it to practice for an exam in that language (We had a similar exam for another language, where I implemented a basic version of pokémon to practice), I try to use some of the things that are bound to pop up there.
 

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Why are you doing it in the summer if it is to get better for an exam?

I went to create a reddit account, but there's already a TheMissingno. Looks like I can never have an account on reddit.
 

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Why are you doing it in the summer if it is to get better for an exam?

Because there is no way in hell I can complete it while reading for five different exams. I start it now, and continue. Besides, I have loads of time in the summer, at least when I'm not working.

Besides, I want to make it anyways, and I can use the training as an excuse to make something fun.
 

DerMißingno

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Why are you doing it in the summer if it is to get better for an exam?

Because there is no way in hell I can complete it while reading for five different exams. I start it now, and continue. Besides, I have loads of time in the summer, at least when I'm not working.

Besides, I want to make it anyways, and I can use the training as an excuse to make something fun.

You should make a character called Krog the Barbarian and there should be a side quest in which you help him find the band of elven thieves who killed his wife. Once you find them you have to help him kill them and remove their scalps, and your reward is half of the scalps that you collect which you can either sell to mercenary dwarves for a high price (because they can bring them back to their prefectural marshal in exchange for renown and prestige of course) or use them to brew potions of necromancy so you can raise an army of the dead.
 

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Recently I've been making a big effort to learn stuff, game design included. If everything goes well and I don't slack off I still wanna make a Pokemon fangame.
 

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Recently I've been making a big effort to learn stuff, game design included. If everything goes well and I don't slack off I still wanna make a Pokemon fangame.

Laziness will come into your room and offer you a spiked soda. You will say cheers and become sedated while laziness laughs while saying:

"NOT TODAY!"
 

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You should make a character called Krog the Barbarian and there should be a side quest in which you help him find the band of elven thieves who killed his wife. Once you find them you have to help him kill them and remove their scalps, and your reward is half of the scalps that you collect which you can either sell to mercenary dwarves for a high price (because they can bring them back to their prefectural marshal in exchange for renown and prestige of course) or use them to brew potions of necromancy so you can raise an army of the dead.

Good idea. Couldn't you just bring them back to the dwarven prefectural yourself to get prestige in order to make an alliance with the dwarves in order to loot the secret city of the blood mage pirates to get their secrets (of pirate blood magic, obviously)?

I still need some sort of overarching story-line though. Any creative souls with any input here?


Also, it started to snow a bit when I was out running. It didn't stick around, but it's not what you want at the start of May.
 

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You should make a character called Krog the Barbarian and there should be a side quest in which you help him find the band of elven thieves who killed his wife. Once you find them you have to help him kill them and remove their scalps, and your reward is half of the scalps that you collect which you can either sell to mercenary dwarves for a high price (because they can bring them back to their prefectural marshal in exchange for renown and prestige of course) or use them to brew potions of necromancy so you can raise an army of the dead.

Good idea. Couldn't you just bring them back to the dwarven prefectural yourself to get prestige in order to make an alliance with the dwarves in order to loot the secret city of the blood mage pirates to get their secrets (of pirate blood magic, obviously)?

See, this is why we make such a good team. That should definitely be an option. If you do that then the elves should start to dislike you. They didn't know you killed the thieves before because no one was left alive, but if you present the scalps to the dwarves then they know it was you and now you are their enemy.

I still need some sort of overarching story-line though. Any creative souls with any input here?


Also, it started to snow a bit when I was out running. It didn't stick around, but it's not what you want at the start of May.

Well I have some thoughts about a story that I was going to use for my RPG if you would like to hear about that. I'm probably never going to make one so it's whatever.
 

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See, this is why we make such a good team. That should definitely be an option. If you do that then the elves should start to dislike you. They didn't know you killed the thieves before because no one was left alive, but if you present the scalps to the dwarves then they know it was you and now you are their enemy.

What if you use the scalps for necromancy? I doubt the elves would like that their own kin is used for those purposes. Unless they are necromancers as well. Never heard of many elves being necromancers, but there's a first for everything.

I feel we need a map for this.

Well I have some thoughts about a story that I was going to use for my RPG if you would like to hear about that. I'm probably never going to make one so it's whatever.

Feel free to shoot away.

dude i think u just dropped sumthing on tha keyboerd

i dun goofed
 

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This thread could use some more slenderman sympathy.

[video=youtube;5hYi350ap_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYi350ap_M[/video]
 

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What if you use the scalps for necromancy? I doubt the elves would like that their own kin is used for those purposes. Unless they are necromancers as well. Never heard of many elves being necromancers, but there's a first for everything.

Well the elves would never find out that you used their scalps for necromancy. One thing that has always bothered me about video games is that if you do something wrong then NPCs will know about it even if there were no witnesses.

Feel free to shoot away.

Basically the ancient ancestral people have sealed up a great power (powerful beings or gods or whatever) in the heart of the kingdom. They knew the power was unwieldy and impossible to tame, but as generations go on they forget and eventually decide to unseal the power and use it in a massive war against another kingdom or something. Obviously everything goes wrong when they try to control it. My idea was basically that the player character starts off as a soldier going to fight the other kingdom, but then you realize that you have to go on a quest to seal away the gods again.
 

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Basically the ancient ancestral people have sealed up a great power (powerful beings or gods or whatever) in the heart of the kingdom. They knew the power was unwieldy and impossible to tame, but as generations go on they forget and eventually decide to unseal the power and use it in a massive war against another kingdom or something. Obviously everything goes wrong when they try to control it. My idea was basically that the player character starts off as a soldier going to fight the other kingdom, but then you realize that you have to go on a quest to seal away the gods again.

That sounds awfully similar to kingdom hearts, specifically 358/2 days.
 
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