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Eddie B
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Hello all

I was just thinking, What do you find fun to code?

I like doing Menus and 2D stuff

-Eddie

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Ace Of Spades
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artificial intellegance(sp?) and different types of gun shooting/laser shooting stuff.

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David R
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AI of course!! Level editors too.

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Ace Of Spades
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Quote: "Level editors too. "


Haven't seen too many people who enjoy making level editors, i find that to be the most boring part of any project.

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Kendor
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Menus

1 + 1 is not 2, is 10
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I like coding pornography.

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David R
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Quote: "Haven't seen too many people who enjoy making level editors, i find that to be the most boring part of any project.

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I have problems

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Megaton Cat
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No, you have issues.

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DBAlex
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I like coding my OS inside my own OS.. and then I try to run it in the OS im running..

But then this happened



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Mikey P
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I'm enjoying coding to text game I'm making... Well the console for it Quite a challenge! Not what you'd expext.

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David R
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'Issues' has practically the same definition as 'problems'.

Do not try correct my sentences.

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 13th Jul 2005 02:56 Edited at: 13th Jul 2005 02:56
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Quote: "'Issues' has practically the same definition as 'problems'. "


Yeah but "I have issues" is a well known phrase and "I have problems" isn't. And actually, 'issues' suggest personal problems with character and identity, 'problems' could suggest financial or work related problems that you must solve.

Sorry, I had this conversation with somebody else recently

I'd agree with you on AI and level editors - I like giving life to characters, it's great seeing them go from idle to moving around and doing stuff, although it's not always easy


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Chris K
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Believe me, small arcade games are a lot more fun to code than RPGs and FPSs. Man those bastards are tough.

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Drew Cameron
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Too right; but 2D is not without it's problems. I assume 2D (arcade).


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Things that involve a lot of data processing. And tings that are very logical - like compilers.

Basically anything that takes very simple code and applies it in such a way it looks very fancy. Reursion is especially nice

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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The puzzle game I just made has a recursive function kind of like A*. It's awesome.

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David R
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Quote: "Believe me, small arcade games are a lot more fun to code than RPGs and FPSs. Man those bastards are tough."


They're ok. But they just take a hell of a long time to get done, that all

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JoelJ
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Quote: "LEYS: "artificial intellegance""

yeah, you would know all about AI wouldnt you

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Ace Of Spades
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Quote: "yeah, you would know all about AI wouldnt you
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Simply put, yes.

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Phaelax
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Whatever involves math, or anything related to RTS games.
I'm assuming you meant DB code only?

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Eddie B
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Anything realy..

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TKF15H
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certainly not physics! I like coding:
AI
Compilers/Interpretors
Emulators

mostly low-level stuff for processors other than the x86 (ugh). And the SH4 is the most amazingest thing EVAAAR!!!

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soapyfish
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Posted: 13th Jul 2005 08:56 Edited at: 13th Jul 2005 08:57
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Quote: "Yeah but "I have issues" is a well known phrase and "I have problems" isn't. And actually, 'issues' suggest personal problems with character and identity, 'problems' could suggest financial or work related problems that you must solve."


But "I have issues" could also mean you have copies of The Big Issue to sell (bought my first ever big issue the other day, never seen such a waste of paper in all my life but I spose it's more about the people selling 'em than the people buying).

Anyway, back onto subject, I like menus and anything simple. Also like just testing out small chunks of code if I'm trying to work out how to make decent explosions or something similar.

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Manticore Night
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Quote: "not physics"

HERACY! physics are the most amazing thing to code, EVER!

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Lost in Thought
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Anything that can help someone else is fun to code.

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Quote: "physics are the most amazing thing to code, EVER!"

no, run-time SH4 opcode translation is the most amazing thing to code, silly.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th Jul 2005 11:11 Edited at: 13th Jul 2005 11:12
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I don't think he was joking.

.. Well maybe he was. I quite enjoy programming physics myself. Its very satisfying to see something respond to your input in a very...shall we say... physics way..

No?


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Quote: "[quote]"not physics""

HERACY! physics are the most amazing thing to code, EVER![/quote]

You tell him!

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I'm with David... I like to code logic things.

Something that seems hard, or trying to create patterns out of seemingly unrelated data.
'tis great fun

That's why I usually get bored after I've done it, cos programming the simple stuff just isn't fun!

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Yay for logic, when you have to do some weird work around or special input thing or whatever and you put all this beautiful code into a function with a couple tricky parameters and it does everything you need it to do and more. That's beautiful.
I think designing all the parts of a game's tech is fun. It would probably go with the level editor thing, because you have to organize how you'll read in level data, load the media, and at the same time calculate LOD or whatever you're trying to do, and you have this beautiful branching architecture that eventually builds up to:
SetDisplay()
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I find applications which will save me time in the long run most rewarding. I find games fairly tricky though, i can code the functions its just using them which is the problem!

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I like to code little useless programs that make patterns, like trippy spirals and anything that looks amusing.

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I like to code anything that moves graphics about.

mmmm....computer....
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I like to code NPC handling, like animals. e.g. I added a vulture in Lonewolf that circles around the enemies, I like stuff that you can develop quite organically, like stuff that does'nt affect the main engine, just gets along with it.


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I like that feeling when you are messing about with about of code , Then you think of something and it works first time

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DBAlex
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I like coding level editors too... Tis fun....

I like making FPS engines the best though... Up until a while ago, All I had made with DBPro was FPS's...


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that'll be a pretty rare sensation for you then ed. (j/k)

mmmm....computer....
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Quote: " that'll be a pretty rare sensation for you then ed. (j/k)"


Oi watch it

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I like when you think of a feature, usually a particle or special effect, and it goes in and looks even better than you had imagined it could!


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I really like the feeling I get when I've been stuck on something for ages and ages and then slowly I stat to work out what I need to do and everything works out. Ofcourse I don't bother remming so an hour later I don't have a clue why the code works.

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Eddie Gordo
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Quote: " certainly not physics! I like coding:
AI
Compilers/Interpretors
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mostly low-level stuff for processors other than the x86 (ugh). And the SH4 is the most amazingest thing EVAAAR!!!"


But i like writing compilers for x86 architecture...

and like...stupid random things...

Oh and an endless chain of higher than commercial class mmorpgs that have the greatest communities and features that you will never be allowed to played...they are secretive...

Who am i...i don't know anymore...its been a long time since ive walked here...
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