Elliott's Forum Posts

  • Are you using the same browser and resolution on both computers?

  • My internet is being an absolute pain at the moment so I can just post images, these 3 events will do everything you want, if the internet Gods are kind I'll pop back and explain them, but they're so fundamental they border on self-evident.

    Who'da thunk economics and industrialisation would be complicated, eh gents?

    I'm just excited to see where this goes, I've got some stuff I might sell, but I think I'll enjoy watching the opening stages of this development even more than a possible financial return!

    $5 is actually $3.50 - a maximum price cap is a bad idea as it completely discourages quality if a developer has no direct competition.

    Let developers adjust the price of their products and let the market dictate the price; to ensure quality Scirra could charge a developer licence of $30 a year to ensure people take it seriously.

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  • Noob question: what's the deal with PHP? Is it important to games?

    I'll try and give the Cliff Notes answer for this -

    First off I don't know what ryackov meant when he said not many hosts support PHP, I've never seen a host that doesn't; there's the odd one the wont let you use some PHP functions, but these are just guys in their garage; any decent webhost has PHP.

    As to what PHP is, well there's two types of websites, static and dynamic; static sites are exclusively written in HTML, and dynamic sites use PHP. The most common use of PHP is to either retrieve or submit information to a database server; and the most prevalent example of this e-mail forms.

    As for whether you need it, you will, but I wouldn't bother looking for it, everywhere will offer it.

  • The poster of that thread is responsible for maintaining Node Webkit, requesting information about the exact problem you're having.

    How do you expect him to fix the issue if you don't provide him with an example of the faults?

  • phpBB has some great responsive themes, but the only mobile device I use to browse the forums is an iPad and it already works great on that anyway.

  • — E Bear wouldnt it be easier for a bunch of people to just send their capx to the one coordinator, who manually merges them all?

    That's definitely possible, but we'd have to set up some naming conventions (everyone puts a number or initial) in front of their objects to prevent clashes

  • How about something like Action 52 concept. 52 in 1! Quality doesn't have to follow same design

    It's a toss up between that and Warioware

    Getting serious now, how about this for an idea -

    There's a set dimension for each submission, each submission is independently hosted (or if people want I'll give away FTP details and we'll just chuck it up on some shared hosting)

    There's a "master file" that acts as the actual game, the player loads up the game and starts playing the level, they fail, and when they hit restart a different game loads up, the same thing happens when they pass a level; the game would cycle through a set of levels (say 8) until they're all completed, and then you move onto the next set. Rapidly shifting mechanics give both diversity and help the game feel fresh; with the added benefit of the games being inherently simple, easy for the player to understand, easy for the dev to make.

    Basically - iframes, obviously this can be iffy with some mobile devices, but it removes the need for a SVN or complicated co-ordination; devs make their game, upload it and share the details. Loading would be an issue - can we pre-load URLs yet? If not we could get fancy with some webdev.

    tl;dr: We make a wrapper.

  • I believe there was talk at some point about making a game with characters from other C2 games.

    There certainly was, I can't find it for the life of me - it's not that old, no more than a year.

    In my head the game itself would be a hodge-podge of 2D games, real diversity.

  • Interesting idea! You could quite easily turn a contour map into a series of friction zones and forces.

  • Bugger! Well that's this ship sunk

  • It's highly semantic, but I've always considered the games themselves to be engines, and C2 to be a framework.

    C2 is described as an engine almost everywhere though.

  • This has been discussed before, but to my knowledge never went any where.

    After seeing the new forum footer, the idea has resurfaced.

    These characters have a story to tell, a game to be played - do you guys think we can do it?

    A community wide team-up to demonstrate what C2 can do, a real show piece.