#9993 - 01/11/06 03:55 AM
Writing a "book" on building Game Engines
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I was bored and I think it would be a good learning project by itself. No, it won't be published and will available online, once it is finished (which will probably be a long time). I was like, damn it would be cool if there was a PHP game engine book (Read the review and I don't have the book myself). I'm going to go into building a basic user management (which could be used anywhere and has a million online tutorials). Then I'm going to go into using Dragon Knight and how the engine works, which is another reason why I'm posting this, is to ask permission to use DK in the online tutorial/book thing... and because the thought came to my mind to write one anyway to help those who want to hack the DK core and perhaps one for Dragon Scourge when it comes out.
After which, I'm going to go into another game engine, Gamer Fusion (site is down), which is alpha version. Then I'm going to go into the development of my own. I'm halfway done with the first chapter, and will probably finish that up in the next couple of days. I may also add another game engine... an example on what not to do.
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#9994 - 01/11/06 05:48 AM
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Hey dude, if you really want to do this I would love to give you a hand.
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#9995 - 01/11/06 06:41 AM
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Hey dude, if you really want to do this I would love to give you a hand.
That would be great. I just realized that I suck at writing.
http://www.absidongames.com/category/php-game-programming/ I have the first two "chapters" up. I am going to wait until Thursday before I start writing on Dragon Knight. I took some inspiration on this forum in the Introduction, it may piss some people off.
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#9996 - 01/11/06 06:47 AM
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Oh man... It just sunk in. I dont kinda want to do this right now though. I have issues writing up profesional user documentation at the moment to take up and its not fun. Meh. If you want any help as in, aid, or the next step or anything like that then give us a buzz. Ive done lots of manual writing and crap like that before. I know what will work and what should be writen next. but PLEASE man.. Dont go all techincal on me when im away from work.. I might kill something.
I might kill something anyway...
Even if I was 100% with ya, what would I do? It seems youre doing a good job already.
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#9997 - 01/11/06 06:48 AM
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Oh and one more very important thing.
COPPA is for pussies.... and doesnt apply in non american based countries :P
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#9998 - 01/11/06 07:46 AM
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Oh and one more very important thing.
COPPA is for pussies.... and doesnt apply in non american based countries :P
I know, but as an American, I will include it. I did some research on it a while back, but from what I gathered, you don't really need to do it, if you don't collect personal information, like name or address. I think email address may or may not fall into needing COPPA.
I've never written a technical document before, but I'll try to be loose in my usage of coding and the explaination. Yeah, thanks. Once I'm finished, it could use some polishing. I can do the disecting of Dragon Knight on my own, as I did it before trying to find the code for editing the levels. It isn't hard to find stuff, since it is coded with new lines and stuff.
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#9999 - 01/11/06 08:07 AM
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dont worry about code examples, as long as you explain their purpose its ok.. what I ment was, try not to make it sound so formal and literal.
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#10000 - 01/11/06 08:33 AM
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dont worry about code examples, as long as you explain their purpose its ok.. what I ment was, try not to make it sound so formal and literal.
Yeah, I was thinking about how to go about writing it. I have no idea on how to change it from being formal and literal. I will try to do some research on the matter.
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#10001 - 01/11/06 08:47 AM
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research? theres youre next problem.
Get a chair... put a soft toy in it.. look at it and go.. so you want to know what a game needs? Well, heres how you do it. I understand that youre not as bright as me, infact youre a compelte dumbass, but im going to tell you about it and not tell my computer monitor about it.
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#10003 - 01/11/06 09:41 PM
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Make your mum/dad/grandma/someone who hardly ever uses computers or the internet to read it and ask them if they understood it. If not, dumb it down and ask them to read it again.
You want me to commit suicide? I've talked to people who don't know crap about computers and it is like I'm talking to myself anyway. Trying to teach my family about computers has almost led me to kill them a couple of times and they are my family. I can't kill them, but I wish slow painful death upon them whenever I do try.
"Click the 'x' at the top of the screen. NO! At the top of the screen, you know the monitor... yes damnit! Ah god! Finally, after 5 minutes you finally got it, you get a cookie. Now roll over, good girl, good girl."
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#10004 - 01/11/06 10:59 PM
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Im going come right out and say this right now... There is nothing wrong will killing a family member.
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