Innovation & Excitement

return *this;

GGPlay — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:28:57 -0400

this is a thing when i was studing C++

in the class function we use return *this; for get itself pointer
so maybe can use for this

hge->Effect_Free(snd);
hge->Texture_Free(tex);
hge->Texture_Free(quad.tex);

becomes


hge->Effect_Free(snd)->Texture_Free(tex)->Texture_Free(quad.tex
)

in one statement but in some cases will be long.

just an idea for share , thx

GGPlay

Excitement: my first commercial game :D

AnonymousForAReason — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:51:28 -0500

Last year, thanks to demos I wrote that used HGE, I got my first job in the game industry as an audio coder (I guess they weren't that impressed with my gfx!). On the 24th of this month, the first game I worked on is being released to xbox 360 and playstation 3. The game is called 50Cent: Blood on the Sand. And despite the subject matter I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing!

So thank you Haaf, without your library I probably wouldn't be doing what I love and getting paid for it!

using nintendo's characters

SkyFox148 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:36:44 -0400

Hello everybody!

I had an idea of putting a non-commercial game on the web, containing some of nintendo's characters and storylines. Does anyone know if there's a law forbidding that?

Portal and revolutionary games

radishes — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:53:40 -0500

I love how the "Innovation & Excitement" forum has the least amount of posts; ironically it is the least innovating and exciting forum here.

BUT I do have something to bring up. Has anyone played Portal, the new game from Valve? I thought it was revolutionary and also amazing in its complex simplicity. I played through the entire (albeit short) game in one sitting. I was momentarily addicted. The whole time I was playing it, I was thinking, "Wow, this is the first truly revolutionary game I have played... Ever!" Now, that might be overstating the game, but I did find the base idea of the game to be quite new and fun.

What other games do you feel are REVOLUTIONARY, whether through story, control and movement structure, or other ideas? I don't want to hear about games that are just good or great, but rather games that are revolutionary in a contemporary sense (not a game that revolutionized gaming 5 or 10 years ago, unless the fantastic ideas therein have not become commonplace in the current gaming environment.)

a cartoon i made

haaf — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:08:42 -0400

hi, guys.
here's a cartoon i finished recently: http://haaf.morrra.ru/kruasan.zip (5 mb)

Best game ever... in my opinion....

Hoek's revenge — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:34:00 -0500

8) As far as laughs, and for when it was released I really thought Abe's Oddworld 1 & 2 were very hard to beat.

For anyone who thinks platform games are dead... Oddworld showed anything is still open as long as you've got something original, great graphics and great sound.

The interaction of Oddworld is also hard to beat, the pace of the music changing as you're being chased or sneaking around.

I'm really peeved that MS bought out the Oddworld franchise and made the new ones XBox only. Bill... I will never get an XBox just to spite you for doing this!!

Microsoft's new ranking algorithm

Pedro LM — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:17:43 -0500

http://www.research.microsoft.com/mlp/trueskill/Details.aspx

Bearing the catchy name of "TrueSkill," it's a more sophisticated method of tracking players' performance than a simple "score."

I thought it was interesting because it deals with "levels of certainty" when ranking a player -- basically, the more you play, the more info the system will have to accurately rank you.

It's expected that Xbox 360 games will use this algorithm to match gamers for multiplayer sessions.

Concept arts

petum — Mon, 09 May 2005 20:52:28 -0400

There are not many topics here so I decided to put here some stuff :D.
It is only one picture, even not serious, it's rather funart.
But i'm not only one on this forum, so count of pictures should increase.
i hope :wink:

ok here: ( 1152x864 _ 111Kb )
http://petumfile.w.interia.pl/loga/gwizdalki.jpg