Crazy Caves

Steve Elliott · March 23, 2019, 11:42:30

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YAY !!!

I'm running at a nice 60fps

Thanks!

Hmm great for monitor refresh rates at 60Hz. But my monitor refreshes at 75hz though, so some possible unsmooth frames?

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Sleep and fresh coffee is always good, bug fix week, I seem to be able to fit that in around April 3rd, oops, too late

Derron · March 23, 2019, 12:14:45

Refresh rates should not matter if you use delta timing (as you @Steve do).

BTW thanks for your FPS talk here - wanted to check how much FPS I get with some hundred "drawRect()"-ships (so quads) and fiddled for over an hour to find out that there was a bug in NG's sdl.mod leading to always vsync. Commited a fix and ... got 6000 fps on title screen (nothing to do except some image rendering) and >1000 fps during startup. With about 800 ships alive and most of them on screen I still got 800 fps at a logic rate of 30 per second. And my system is ... GTX 650 + old AMD LLano.

bye
Ron

Steve Elliott · March 23, 2019, 12:24:39

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BTW thanks for your FPS talk here - wanted to check how much FPS I get with some hundred "drawRect()"-ships (so quads) and fiddled for over an hour to find out that there was a bug in NG's sdl.mod leading to always vsync.

Good stuff, glad you spotted the bug, corrected and got some great frame rates.

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2019, 08:43:19

Working on UI. Must type faster...

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2019, 15:21:51

I think I'm out guys.

I really don't think it will be possible to complete the game in time, I just have too much to do and not enough free time. The game will be completed though, little by little it's coming together, but I just can't see how I can make the deadline.

To quote my game when you die "GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER". It might have been in a film too lol.

Derron · March 25, 2019, 16:16:29

Just finish a non-polished-variant: better a game with glitches than no game at all.

bye
Ron

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2019, 16:31:11

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better a game with glitches than no game at all.

No I wouldn't ever want to put out a glitchy game. I'll finish it as soon as I can (and am happy with it).

Qube · March 25, 2019, 20:42:58

QuoteI really don't think it will be possible to complete the game in time, I just have too much to do and not enough free time. The game will be completed though, little by little it's coming together, but I just can't see how I can make the deadline.

Noooo!!! you need to keep going for it until the last minute. Don't give up at this stage

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2019, 21:49:45

Thanks, not giving up, just being realistic. Absolutely loved this comp so thanks. Bob will definitely make an appearance at some point.

iWasAdam · March 26, 2019, 08:28:05

I've done it a few times - sometimes it can help, but is always an unhappy experience.

Maybe submit one level that works great?

Steve Elliott · March 26, 2019, 13:25:43

All I can do is keep typing away and give a progress report on 31 March.

Qube · March 26, 2019, 14:06:49

Quote from: Steve Elliott on March 26, 2019, 13:25:43
All I can do is keep typing away and give a progress report on 31 March.

That's the best thing to do - Very worst case is you'll have tried your hardest without giving up

Steve Elliott · March 27, 2019, 08:41:01

Working away but I haven't posted a screenshot in a while, so here's one using my new text commands in action - a game instruction page. Not that interesting, but it does give an idea of gameplay if I don't get over the line in time.

Qube · March 27, 2019, 17:20:03

How many rewrites did that take to get all the text in?

Steve Elliott · March 27, 2019, 17:46:06

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How many rewrites did that take to get all the text in?

Shut up lol.