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PROGRAMMING => Freebasic => Topic started by: rdc on December 01, 2009

Title: FB Games Comp
Post by: rdc on December 01, 2009
FYI:

Lachie is hosting a game comp (http://games.freebasic.net/forum/index.php?topic=382.0) over at the FB Games forum. There are some cash prizes for the winner and runner up.

Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Clyde on December 02, 2009
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.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: rdc on December 02, 2009
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.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Shockwave on December 02, 2009
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?
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Clyde on December 02, 2009
No reason given what so ever. just an email saying, down to The admins decision your request has been rejected ( words to similar effect )
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Shockwave on December 02, 2009
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.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Dr.Death on December 03, 2009
What a bunch of wankers you would of thought they would of gave you a reason clyde.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: BadMrBox on December 06, 2009
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.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Shockwave on December 06, 2009
What did you request then Clyde?
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Clyde on December 06, 2009
i requested for a new user membership, that process went fine.
the email validitation said: rejected.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Shockwave on December 07, 2009
So they wouldn't even let you join the forum?
Why not drop them a little note to see what the problem is?
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Jim on December 07, 2009
For instance some forums reject gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc email sign-up addresses by default.

Jim
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: BadMrBox on December 07, 2009
The forum have been having trouble with spambots in the past.
A quick mail to lachie would probably solve it.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: BadMrBox on December 10, 2009
I checked with Lachie and you must have been mistaken for a bot. What nick do you want to use overthere?
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Dr_D on December 21, 2009
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.  :cheers:
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2009
I''ve PM'ed Clyde to check out this topic. thanks guys.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Clyde on December 23, 2009
Cheers for that dudes, Clyde or if thats taken Clyde Radcliffe, if it means underscores than thats cool too.

Thankyou so much,
Clyde.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: BadMrBox on December 23, 2009
Lachie asks you to re-register. And he apologizes for all the trouble.
Title: Re: FB Games Comp
Post by: Clyde on January 06, 2010
Thanks great news, will pop around very soon.
I wonder how the comp is fairng.