Notices by Nifflas (nifflas@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@jzillw Exactly! \o/

God I love programming! It's like the world's most open ended puzzle game, and it's an incredibly well designed one, with all kinds of difficulty modes (programming languages & APIs) depending on what kind of challenge the player wants!

There's languages for the pedantic, ones for just doin whatever, and even troll languages like php

@jzillw Yeah, my current instinct is to design the game for anything between 4:3 and 16:10 - if going any further I'll add black bars

What would you say a good range of screen aspect ratios to support is, to cover majority of all users, while still keeping it limited enough that I still get some degree of framing it all aesthetically?

I updated my compilation of how to solve the Hudson sign puzzles in Tears of the Kingdom, as I realized one of the funniest solutions was only on my deactivated twitter account:

Get ready for shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrvQ25p3T7s

@jzillw Yes, they will indeed!

Anyone knows a good list of musical modes, what they're called, and either lists the notes starting from A, or just the semitone interval between each note?

For the love of God why did they have to name it "Visual Studio Code"?

How do I do google searches about the regular Visual Studio?

Anyone knows what's the simplest existing audio mixer? I basically need to mix two 3.5mm (headphone) stereo connectors and output the mix to a single 3.5mm connector.

The one and only feature I need is adjusting the volume of each signal.

Oh my god PanGui is looking so good and easy to use. Been going through so many libraries for GUI apps in C#, looking at code examples, and I'm constantly like "why is it it so goddamn convoluted?"

I think I'm set of what I'll use next for developing GUI apps.

@jzillw Oh yeah, that's a good suggestion!

Weirdly specific problem! So if I want to indicate an item is the second of three items in very, very, very short form I can write 2/3

But, in my situation, I'm using 0-based indexing so it's actually 1/3 but that means the last item is 2/3 and that makes no sense.

So, x/y is a bad format here. But, what's a good very short format that shows an item's index and the array's length?

I do not want to change what the numbers are, so it has to be the format that presents them that's adjusted.

C# tip! You can use "{" and "}" anywhere to make a scope. Variables in it cannot be accessed outside!

While I don't use it in a way that has an impact on what the code actually does, I really like doing it just for conveying intent that I can pick up when I read the code later.

Oh yeah, today is an EU election day. By the looks of it, fascist parties are set to gain much more power across EU now.

So, if you're eligible, please vote, so we can counteract that as much as possible.

@thanius I'm only interested if I can run the whole thing and it's supported so I can count on there being good drivers for everything!

They'll probs not do that, but I really hope they will.

If they want to keep the console aspect, it could also have a separate button for booting into game console mode? Or, like, an option at start.

The world just really needs a "reference PC" since everything seems so broken.

XBox lost its chance to win me over in its console form (I don't think the catalogue of games will ever beat Playstation)

If the rumors are true and the next one can run Windows - it'd be an instant buy

After all incompatible/broken hardware I've had to deal with, any PC that can exist as a "reference device" that tons of people will have with identical specs - I'll get that instantly

'cause if I have problems, a loooot of other people will have the same ones so they might actually be fixed

My game Uurnog Uurnlimited is 85% off, it's a game that sorta went under the radar but is my first venture into algorithmic music, and my most "immersive sim" game by far.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/678850/Uurnog_Uurnlimited/

I'm so happy to be making games again \o/ It feels like the long creative block wasn't even there!

I solved an incredibly unusual situation that can only exist in an incredibly unusual game by implementing an incredibly unusual feature:

Pause stacking. Yes, you can stack multiple pauses. Only when you've unpaused the game as many times as there are stacked pauses, the game resumes.

One day, I will explain how this can make 100% sense in a game (but maybe not most games)

@taylorhadden @jzillw I actually really like Visual Studio for C#. Maybe I've just got so used to it, managed to customize it exactly for my preferences (though this feature would be great when working with someone else's code with conventions different than mine).

I think my main issue with VS is that it's very hard to find settings, and it takes forever to make a color theme since I have to close the settings dialog to see the changes, to then re-find the setting to adjust it further.