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Socoder -> Question of the Day -> QOTD : Whilst playing... |
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| Mon, 13 Jul 2009, 16:20 | |
Jayenkai
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A simple short question, today.. As a coder, do you ever find yourself thinking about the way that games have been made, as you're playing them? This came up recently for me, when a friend showed me his latest Lord of the Rings game. (can't remember the name of it, some RTS thing) As the menu appeared, it faded in, from black, with a video playing in the background.. On the very left hand side of this gradually fading screen was a pixel-wide strip of the full-bright animated menu and video, clear as day, and unfaded. It occured to me, that they'd achieved this fade by drawing the whole thing, then dumping a black object over it, and slowly fading out the black object.. I assumed it was probably done in 3D, since that'd be the easiest, and most logical way to do it. Then I thought... How could they not have noticed that? And then started to moan about EA being useless again.. Am I really sad, in that I thought all of this in the time it took the menu to fade in, or have you had any similar experiences? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Mon, 13 Jul 2009, 21:14 | |
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Nolan |
Quite often I find myself wondering how to program certain menus or GUI elements -- cool health gadgets, gun icons, equip screens, etc.. Pretty much every AAA game has at least one cool widget. I love a good graphical interface. -=-=- nolandc.com
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| Tue, 14 Jul 2009, 06:57 | |
JL235
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I do similar. Like I had tonnes to say about how primitive the optional missions were in Mass Effect are after completing it, my room mate however hadn't noticed any of it.
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| Tue, 14 Jul 2009, 14:16 | |
shroom_monk
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I often think 'how is this done' when playing games - sometimes just on the logical front (as in the basic tasks), and sometimes thinking into the actual coding for said tasks.
-=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom! |
| Wed, 15 Jul 2009, 17:41 | |
Scherererer
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I do that, and I also will upon seeing something cool outside (like the way light reflects off of something or something), and then think about how to recreate that effect.
-=-=- YouTube Twitter Computer Science Series: Logic (pt1) (part 2) (part 3) 2's Complement Mathematics: Basic Differential Calculus
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| Wed, 15 Jul 2009, 18:06 | |
HoboBen
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Wondering how games worked when I was a kid is probably why I became a programmer.
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| Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 10:29 | |
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dna |
I use to do that when zork was big. Now I mostly notice the graphics and wonder how I can do this thing or that thing. -=-=- DNA |
| Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 21:02 | |
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mindstorm8191 |
I used to think about how games were made. Now most games seem so simple I don't even worry about it anymore. There are thousands of individual ways to make any given game, but most programmers choose the easiest that gets the job done. Yeah, that was a lame mistake by EA - they could've simply made the black box a bit bigger and there wouldn't be a problem. -=-=- Vesuvius web game
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