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• Controllers?

  473 days ago maxxor wrote:

  Hi all,

  I am wondering what percentage of the gamejamming public would have access to a gamepad for their PC. I can see my game having controls that would work best on a gamepad (with at least a D-Pad and 4 buttons a-la SNES), and I want to know if enough people actually have PC gamepads. So..respond?

  a) I just have Keyboard/Mouse

  b) I have a PC Gamepad with D-PAD and at least 4 buttons

  c) I have a PC Gamepad with D-PAD and some analog joysticks, and about a million buttons.

  Thanks all!

• New gamejam [ view post ]

  481 days ago maxxor wrote:

  So I have an idea for a game for the November gamejam. My only trouble is that, at least for gamejams, I try to have as little drawn/handmade content as possible, and if possible, everything should be generated at runtime.

  My game idea isn't going to allow for that this time - not completely anyway. I will spend today working out the feasibility of the idea and the different systems I will need.

  I hope I am allowed to re-use tech I developed for retrovector ;)

Comments

• 465 days ago Psychopsam wrote:

  Your graphix rox! I like the hommage to Sonic.

• 465 days ago Simon wrote:

  This looks v. cool.

• 467 days ago chrism wrote:

  heck yeah!

• 467 days ago beetlefeet wrote:

  Awesome

• 472 days ago lloydkranzky wrote:

  I reckon my would be a DualShock2, using one of them fancy adapter wotsits.

• 472 days ago DodgyBarnett wrote:

  A for me. But if I were to get a gamepad, it would most likely be a 360 controller since it's USB, works on a PC and Microsoft even provides a free SDK for it :o)

• [ view comment by cam (472 days ago) ]
  472 days ago cam wrote:

  A

• [ view comment by beetlefeet (472 days ago) ]
  472 days ago beetlefeet wrote:

  A.

  Used to be C but too much THPS3 followed by superglue where it shouldn't go spelled the end of it.

• [ view comment by Lionfire (472 days ago) ]
  472 days ago Lionfire wrote:

  Also an A, but keep thinking about C (what with all the XNA and fun stuff).

• [ view comment by lloydkranzky (472 days ago) ]
  472 days ago lloydkranzky wrote:

  I'm an A, but I should be a C. I really owe it to myself.

• [ view comment by LAGGED (473 days ago) ]
  473 days ago LAGGED wrote:

  C here. Arcade stick with gajillion buttons for Mame/etc.. Gamepad with 9 buttons for well.. lots. Yeah, plenty to C here.

• [ view comment by maxxor (473 days ago) ]
  473 days ago maxxor wrote:

  I have C also. Go the gamepad!!

• [ view comment by chrism (473 days ago) ]
  473 days ago chrism wrote:

  i'm C too, and i lament daily the dearth of good PC gamepad games. also agree with kranzky that re-using tech is awes!

• [ view comment by Psychopsam (473 days ago) ]
  473 days ago Psychopsam wrote:

  I have C) - a pretty good copy of an xbox controller

• [ view comment by Psychopsam (481 days ago) ]
  481 days ago Psychopsam wrote:

  though I did post a bunch of links to sprite sheets from popular games...

• [ view comment by lloydkranzky (481 days ago) ]
  481 days ago lloydkranzky wrote:

  Definitely reuse the tech - that's what I'm doing!

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• maxxor (481 days ago)

Team Development Log

• maxxor wonders when Simon will close uploads - Today? Thursday? Friday? (464 days ago)
• maxxor has uploaded a new screenshot to team Minerva. (More stuff in game, still more code to write...) (465 days ago)
• maxxor has hacked together a level editor. And I mean *hacked*. This is nasty stuff. (466 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new comment on team Monsterworks. (467 days ago)
• maxxor wonders how much memory other people's games are gobbling: I am considering a refactor - my game has 268M resident! *shame* (467 days ago)
• maxxor thinks beets shouldnt worry. We are all a little doomed. I was thinking of marketing my release as just a 'playable demo'. :( (467 days ago)
• maxxor whipped up some graphics. Still needs a lot of work..but bugs have higher priority... (467 days ago)
• maxxor has uploaded a new screenshot to team Minerva. (The background needs a style pass, but at least it is all my own art now ;)) (467 days ago)
• maxxor ok so pixel art animation takes ridiculous amounts of time. Like...O(n^3). (467 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new comment on team Monsterworks. (468 days ago)
• maxxor Beets did you get much of a performance hit when you switched to PP collisions? (468 days ago)
• maxxor is finally feeling better. Time to draw all those tiles and sprites that I have been putting off... (468 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new comment on team NoTimeForPie. (469 days ago)
• maxxor made a function called obeyLawsOfPhysics(). That will get those pesky entities under control... (471 days ago)
• maxxor So far the gamepad poll is split right down the middle: 50% dont have one, the other 50% have a fancy one. Cast your vote on team Minerva's page. (472 days ago)
• maxxor has jumping and animations working. I feel dumb uploading a screenshot with Sonic the Hedgehog graphics though - you all know what that looks like... (472 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new comment on team Minerva. (473 days ago)
• maxxor had put a gamepad poll post on team Minerva's page. Reply there, and I will post the results in the main feed in a few days. (473 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new blog on team Minerva. (Controllers?) (473 days ago)
• maxxor refactored his hacks and broke a lot of functionality. But its ok - it has been fixed with fudge. DodgyRob would be proud! (474 days ago)
• maxxor thats incredible. I nominate it for an Archibald prize. Also your game design is amazing. (475 days ago)
• maxxor time for some Friday night gamejam. Cant let the project stagnate... (476 days ago)
• maxxor yeah fair call. I am reading comic books tonight. I guess thats pretty slack. (476 days ago)
• maxxor has a feeling this hacked together code will never get refactored.. (478 days ago)
• maxxor ended up spending the whole day sleeping off jetlag. This is a slow start... (481 days ago)
• maxxor has posted a new blog on team Minerva. (New gamejam) (481 days ago)
• maxxor has created team Minerva. (481 days ago)

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