This is absolutely amazing. Kudos.
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This is always a pain to think about, though I guess that's just a criticism of the genre and plot I've got more than anything else. Ah, well:
Phantasmagoria is a world where vicious, godlike beings have come to reclaim a power thought theirs . . . and you're not entirely sure they're in the wrong.
(work in progress, no links available, got a lot of tech to work through)
If we've got Visual Studio up, might as well throw in a vote for eclipse - https://eclipse.org/downloads/
As I do most of my work by hand, and my day job features it, it's what I use. Platform has drastically improved since they pushed the Luna re-release, now comes with an inbuilt dark theme that doesn't suck (mandatory for constant programming I find, especially at night) and Java as a whole is really pushing usability improvements since 8 was released.
(automatic generic classpath var, no more multiple conflicting Java versions, eclipse has an auto-installer / updater, all sorts of nice stuff. As someone who's used eclipse since Ganymede and Java since 1.5, these are actual real improvements I value)
Note: is an IDE for programming, is not a game engine. Use at your peril, Your Mileage Will Vary :P
I practise pixel art on my phone for the time being, I've done bits and pieces here and there for incomplete projects but the most fun I have is doodling in a wonderful Android app called Pixelesque. Practising different palettes and shape-building, mostly.
I love working within constraints and pixel art both caters to my good eye for simple maths (height / width / x / y) and my love of testing myself with constraints. I used to do a lot of pencil art, back in the day, but little time for that anymore.
Everyone else. Their work, their projects, their hobbies. Games developers are a fascinating lot, especially at the indie level. Positive encouragement is a must and I'm glad to have (virtually) met so many folks who give so much of their time to positive feedback (heck, look at itch.io!).
Well, that and a bunch of stubbornness and curiousity. I program in Java (and web stuff) for a living (awkward mix of backend service developer and front UI / UX developer) so sticking with Java is at this point more of a conscious stubborn reliance on something I know more than anything else :)
I have a basic understanding of C# and even though C++ moderately terrifies me, I could learn it (time permitting). That said, I've sank so many hours into understanding Java it seems a shame to throw it away now (especially since I don't have the luxury of going full-times with games stuff at the moment). I kinda actually like working in it at this point.
Hopefully a helpful thread!
All issues encountered in Firefox Developer Edition (44.0a2 (2015-11-22)) or reported by other users (see posts for browser reference as a rule).
- Clicking HTML source in any post editor and back out auto-selects a bunch of text on the page and you can't click onto something else.
- [FIXED] Editing a post and completing the Edit redirects you to the beginning of the thread, wherever you were in it.
- [FIXED] Missing word in subforum rules.
- Cursor vanishing occasionally.
- Cursor redirecting to start of reply box occasionally.
Will update with more, as I find 'em (and cross them off whenever people sort them out or correct me) :)
Some posts aren't appearing on here for some reason, but I was directed here by the lovely DarkestKale!
My name is Sean and I'm having a jolly old bit of fun making little projects in Java, including my latest public offering Honeycomb!
I mostly used to focus on GUI-driven stuff for modding games; the leap to 2D is more recent and teaching me an awful lot about the graphics stack that I never knew (or willingly forgot, hah). You can find me on Twitter though I often just stick to Retweeting more interesting folks than me - https://twitter.com/gorbles