FB Games Comp

[rdc]

FYI:

Lachie is hosting a game comp over at the FB Games forum. There are some cash prizes for the winner and runner up.

[Clyde]

I'd of quite liked doing something a bit different, but sadly rejected for some reason.
If your entering rdc dude, best of luck dude and hope you get some groovy cash.

[rdc]

I probably won't enter. I have DDD2 going strong and I am working on the next installment to my object based graphics tutorials. I am working on a circle object now, then I'll do the line object and after that the polygon object.

I am a bit conflicted though on the line-poly objects. They could actually be a single object; a line is just a collection of point objects (x1, y1) - (x2, y2), and a poly is a collection of line objects but for the tutorials this may be a bit confusing. I will have to think about this some more as I work on the circle object.

Drawing a circle or polygon is easy. The big job here is to implement a fill routine. I am going to use a scan-line approach as it is the most efficient, but the code is a bit complicated (I need to dynamically store the different start and stop points of the current scan-line) and I haven't sorted out the approach just yet.

I am also thinking about doing a series on data structures in FB: stacks, queues, trees and so forth.  These are so useful in so many cases that I think an overview of different data structures would be informative, and would translate easily to other languages too since the basic principles are the same across languages.

[Shockwave]

I'd of quite liked doing something a bit different, but sadly rejected for some reason.
If your entering rdc dude, best of luck dude and hope you get some groovy cash.

They didn't let you enter?

Did they say why mate?

[Clyde]

No reason given what so ever. just an email saying, down to The admins decision your request has been rejected ( words to similar effect )

[Shockwave]

Is that place a subdomain of freebasic.net?

I think that to just turn you down flat with no explanation sucks shit. They should go and fuck themselves.

[Dr.Death]

What a bunch of wankers you would of thought they would of gave you a reason clyde.

[BadMrBox]

No reason given what so ever. just an email saying, down to The admins decision your request has been rejected ( words to similar effect )

That doesn't sound like Lachie at all. I would figure that he want's as many as possible to join in on the fun.

[Shockwave]

What did you request then Clyde?

[Clyde]

i requested for a new user membership, that process went fine.
the email validitation said: rejected.

[Shockwave]

So they wouldn't even let you join the forum?
Why not drop them a little note to see what the problem is?

[Jim]

For instance some forums reject gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc email sign-up addresses by default.

Jim

[BadMrBox]

The forum have been having trouble with spambots in the past.
A quick mail to lachie would probably solve it.

[BadMrBox]

I checked with Lachie and you must have been mistaken for a bot. What nick do you want to use overthere?

[Dr_D]

Yeah... I couldn't see him doing that. As a matter of fact, getting better programmers involved would be a major boost to what he's trying to do. 

[Shockwave]

I''ve PM'ed Clyde to check out this topic. thanks guys.

[Clyde]

Cheers for that dudes, Clyde or if thats taken Clyde Radcliffe, if it means underscores than thats cool too.

Thankyou so much,
Clyde.

[BadMrBox]

Lachie asks you to re-register. And he apologizes for all the trouble.

[Clyde]

Thanks great news, will pop around very soon.
I wonder how the comp is fairng.