A boards game

tok9

koHd wrote: »

In person meeting on the 9th, is that the plan?

I assume a skype chat.. in person would be a bit much for such a small project right now.

RedXIV

Yeah we'll keep it to a skype chat for now, but as seen here already, it doesn't suit some so it's open to change. Would Monday suit others better? I'd be looking for something after 8pm personally

BobbyPropane

Would love to take part in this but have the small matter of the leaving cert Will follow anyway and promote when possible ! Good luck.

ShooterSF

Any idea what kind of size team we'll have, I guess an estimate is the most you can manage. Im around every monday but not between 7:30 and 9:30 (football!)

Mr. CooL ICE

Won't get a chance to play with lua for a few days, but this article seem useful for people like me with very little knowledge of scripting:

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/The_briefest_introduction_to_Lua

mahamageehad

Thanks for all your work on this Red!
Depending on the time on Sunday I may not be able to make it, I am at the Game Of Thrones Exhibition in Belfast on Saturday so it might be evening by the time I'm back on Sunday. I've downloaded the SDk but I probably won't get a chance to even look at it until Monday!

tok9

My schedule has gotten very busy very quickly. Just got a job in London and I'm starting Monday so I can chat in the evenings or some time sunday.

RedXIV

Congrats on the job

If Sunday/Monday doesn't suit this week guys, we can push it out a little bit, but I'd be reluctant to do so without another date in mind, thats how these things start slipping into "a project I'll do SOMEDAY"

Have added a doodle poll here so people can add in what time suits. Forgive the size, but i want to give people options so we can get as many as possible involved. The first meeting WILL be held when the most people are available.

Link to Doodle timesheet

ShooterSF

I wont fill that in yet as I dont see my roster in work for next week till tomorrow. Stupid job always interfering

ShooterSF

So on the minus side: my roster wasnt done But im in at 4 tomorrow. Im most likely off Monday and Wednesday nights but with aforementioned football on monday. Dont let me hold up any skyping though. Ill still fill in that poll when I know tomorrow.

Now on the plus side. I got to play with Corona a little today. It's taken me a bit to relearn some things I had learned with Gideros but I'm getting there. Ive got a simple screen with some text that when you touch, loads different screens using the storyboard part of Corona's API.

batistuta9

Whats happening with this?

I only filled in upto next Sunday for now

tok9

We need more people to fill out the sheet... should be another 4 people anyway.

batistuta9

tok9 wrote: »

We need more people to fill out the sheet... should be another 4 people anyway.

how many would be the lowest we could go with?

You think the Skype's putting people off?

mahamageehad

batistuta9 wrote: »

how many would be the lowest we could go with?

You think the Skype's putting people off?

I've just filled it out there, I was in Belfast for the weekend so I was internetless. :eek:

RedXIV

batistuta9 wrote: »

how many would be the lowest we could go with?

You think the Skype's putting people off?

I'm gonna set this up for tomorrow at 7pm. If we put it off much longer, we'll lose momentum, and we are already a third through the month.

My Skype is davidhill252, so if ye want to add me, I'll set up a group chat for it tomorrow evening

mahamageehad

RedXIV wrote: »

I'm gonna set this up for tomorrow at 7pm. If we put it off much longer, we'll lose momentum, and we are already a third through the month.

My Skype is davidhill252, so if ye want to add me, I'll set up a group chat for it tomorrow evening

Added. Thanks!

tok9

I'll try to make this but I'm pretty busy right now. Start away without me anyway and i'll definitely be on skype tomorrow at some stage.

Mr. CooL ICE

Something has come up. I'll be on skype on my phone but will only be available for 15 mins or so.

batistuta9

i copied the skype chat, if anyone want's it PM me

koHd

I've not been available most evenings recently. Flood of socialising during the good weather!

Normal service resumed. I'll get a copy of that chat and see if I can be of any use to this project right now with my limited skills.

oisincar

Hey, folks.

I was one of the people who filed in the survey but never replied to the posts in the forum. So, sorry about that...

Corona just doesn't interest me at the moment. I'd prefer to get better at one language first, (obj-c) before i try to learn lua or some other language.

Best of luck to you all though!

Oisin

ShooterSF

So Im guessing real life bogged everyone down? I got to play around with corona some more during the week and made a very basic tapping balls game Also I think I have found a tower defense game we could look at as a template even if we change the theme from (yes it is) zombies.

The game is Zombie Tower and is the perfect example of a really simple yet annoyingly addictive overhead tower defense game. Its free on ios https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/zombie-tower-shooting-defense/id490248104?mt=8

Cant find it for android though

One issue Ive come across that might need sorting is how the levels are developed. Using tiled or something similar?

Mr. CooL ICE

Been a bit busy lately, but just playing around with Lua more than anything else. Scripting languages are pretty new to me so I'm just spending my time getting my head around the new approach needed by doing the very basics (loops, functions).

This is a handy thing to play with in work, when my boss isn't looking

tok9

I won't really be able to offer much help over the next 2 weeks but if there are any other skype chats I'll be on and hopefully give some bit of help.

cherryghost

Can't believe I missed this. Filled in the survey, I dont really have much in the way for coding but I did a bit of Sound Effects and Music Production years ago on the side. Although I've heard some of Ropedrink's stuff, he's quite good!

tok9

I take it this has stalled substantially.

Mr. CooL ICE

Maybe.

On the other hand, I for one am not spending any time inside coding when I could be outside in this weather. Lua can wait!

RedXIV

Yeah sorry guys, things have been a bit more hectic lately in work and as LC says, whatever free time I have is based around sitting outside trying to absorb as much sunlight as I can

When the weather goes crappy, I'll bring this back on the table

ShooterSF

Sounds fair. Ive been pretty busy too and even a few solo projects have fallen to the side with this heat. Will be uprooting to Canada in September though so not sure what position I'll be in then.