SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

With Christmas approaching we could all do with a bit of coding fun to take us up to the jolly festivities.

Theme : Make a Christmas demo
Limits : None
Time Frame : 11th of November 2020 until the 18th of December 2020 @ 23:59:59 GMT
Voting : A quick vote will take place from the 19th of December until 22nd of December @ 23:59:59 GMT
Prize : Bragging rights for winning SyntaxBomb's 1st demo comp

Description : Make a Christmas demo to bring some festive cheer to all. Choose your style from retro to a full HD super shader GPU crunching monster. Be it a simple snow scene, interactive Christmas card, story based or even something completely crazy. So long as it's festive then you're good to go.

Doesn't matter how simple, complex, short or long, it's up to you. Get them festive fingers a tapping and have a little festive fun

Yes I know I've posted this in the game comps forum but it seemed like the best place to put it

I've made a start

"Prefer Best" as opposed to "Prefer Useless"?  Really?  Is that a valid option now in AGK?   

Quote from: Steve Elliott on November 12, 2020, 21:01:19
"Prefer Best" as opposed to "Prefer Useless"?  Really?  Is that a valid option now in AGK?   

Yup, that's the terminology they chose. Idea being it'll try Vulkan first and if not available will drop to OpenGL.

No idea why you can't just put "Vulkan" and it'll drop down to OpenGL if it's not available.

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Idea being it'll try Vulkan first and if not available will drop to OpenGL.

Yes I understand.  But 'Vulkan' actually runs slower than OpenGL under AGK!!  So it should be called "Prefer Worse".   

nice idea, I need to get started on something festive as to not break yearly tradition.

Xerra, I had to remove your posts from the database manually as they somehow were breaking this thread ( looked perfectly normal to me )

Are you the Christmas Grinch out to sabotage things?

Xerra, what's up, have you gone all Grinchy😳

No. I tried to post a picture up of my dev screen and I just got a white screen. So I tried again. And then again. And then I moaned about Qube for it probably being his fault but he's getting the blame anyway

And then I had a cup of tea and forgot about it.

Maybe the picture size too large? Is there a limit, Qube?

Quote from: 3DzForMe on November 13, 2020, 18:33:34
Xerra, what's up, have you gone all Grinchy😳

Although, having said that, I am grumpy at xmas. Mainly because the missus is demanding to put up a tree this weekend and it's only the middle of November !!!!!

Quote from: Xerra on November 13, 2020, 18:44:50
Maybe the picture size too large? Is there a limit, Qube?

I think it's 8mb but it should of complained if it's too large.

Yes, but you never get a warning - it just doesn't work.

And not even the middle of November is ridiculous to put a tree up.  Keep Christmas in December!

Quote.  because the missus is demanding to put up a tree this weekend and it's only the middle of November !!!     

Think about the leccky bill as well, 12 days before and after, no more no less.... He says.

Quotebecause the missus is demanding to put up a tree this weekend and it's only the middle of November !!!

That's your game/tech demo right there

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No idea why you can't just put "Vulkan" and it'll drop down to OpenGL if it's not available.

The AGK Guys like to add words rather than be concise and logical.