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• • sqiddster
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  • 19 Jul, 2014
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  Hey all,

  A while ago I posted a topic about getting an 'asteroids-style' movement to work with a robust collision system. I eventually came upon a solution which I was happy with but its fundamental flaw has become too problematic.

  Here's the capx of that solution. Basically, I use some trig and raycasting to find the angle of the nearest wall, and push off it opposite that angle. It works terrific for all outwards angles. However, as you can see, there are a lot of problems with inwards facing wall angles. On angles between 180 and 90, the player twitches and shakes, and on angles between 90 and 0, the player teleports away and disappears. This isn't unexpected behavior for the code I'm running (read: I'm not asking anyone to fix my bugs!) however I've spent hours trying to come up with a solution to no avail.

  So, does anyone have any ideas?

• • sqiddster
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  • 18 Jul, 2014
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  Hmm, I actually have GPU_rasterization disabled as well, could that be a problem? I didn't check if it was disabled beforehand. I don't think it's actually a graphics issue though since lowering the resolution doesn't help.

• • sqiddster
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  • 18 Jul, 2014
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  Ashley just checked and the GPU is definitely not blacklisted. Were you able to test with a game that reviously performed at the edge of your hardware's capabilities?

  This doesn't affect Node-Webkit yet so I'n in the clear for now, but if those changes get rolled across it will be catastrophic.

• • sqiddster
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  • 18 Jul, 2014
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  Today I noticed that my game was all of a sudden running extremely laggy on my PC. I've managed to narrow the problem down to Chrome since Node-Webkit preview and export works fine. I looked to see if Chrome had been updated recently, and apparently there was an update yesterday.

  Has anyone else noticed their game running laggy in Chrome?

  Daniel

• • sqiddster
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  • 17 Jul, 2014
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  volkiller730 Glad I could help out a little

• • sqiddster
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  • 16 Jul, 2014
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  Sorry about that crash, we're back up now!

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  • 16 Jul, 2014
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• • sqiddster
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  • 16 Jul, 2014
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  Steaming again tonight at 7pm EDT (That's 7pm, not 8pm, there was a bit of a mixup last week, my fault )

• • sqiddster
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  • 12 Jul, 2014
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  troublesum I don't think he needs a wireless access point, just a way to set up an ad-hoc network between the phone and PC.

  Rhindon try googling how to set up an ad hoc network - if I'm correct, once you set it up properly you should be able to connect to it just like any other network with your phone.

• • sqiddster
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  • 10 Jul, 2014
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  rekjl I'll post the morning of next week - that should give you a bit more warning

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  • 9 Jul, 2014
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  About to go live!

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  • 9 Jul, 2014
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  Tonight we'll be doing some level design! Tune in at 8pm EDT! http://www.twitch.tv/indiemegabooth

• • sqiddster
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  • 6 Jul, 2014
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  It can, but I find it a bit overkill for saving those sorts of things. It just feels weird to save the game state at a menu or something. There's probably no huge reason to avoid it, it just felt wrong for my specific game

  If you're making an RPG or something, saving the game state is most likely the best way to go about saving.

• • sqiddster
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  • 6 Jul, 2014
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  I use both, both for different purposes. I use save/load for respawning after death so that the game remains in the same state, and webstorage to save values (e.g. score, settings) so that the game can remember progress.

• • sqiddster
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  • 3 Jul, 2014
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  Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions