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A few more ideas for this game I'll never make.
- Using Google Maps to see where shops are in the real world, the game plonks premade buildings on the map in their locations
- Statues are NPCs you can talk to
- Game draws area names from Google Maps, so walking around my place for example you might get Stowheath, Merridale, Ashmore, etc
- Blue plaques and similar things are treasure chests or other collectible nodes that form rudimentary quests
- Using Google Maps to see where shops are in the real world, the game plonks premade buildings on the map in their locations
- Statues are NPCs you can talk to
- Game draws area names from Google Maps, so walking around my place for example you might get Stowheath, Merridale, Ashmore, etc
- Blue plaques and similar things are treasure chests or other collectible nodes that form rudimentary quests
Question is how to match up Google Maps with tiles.
I guess first thing is to find the right "zoom" level, as in, metres to tiles.
Then rather than drawing the world too accurately, I'd try and work out whether a particular tile, like an OS grid square, is mostly grass, water, trees or road.
Minor roads, bridleways and major roads would all be differentiated. Perhaps Motorways would be lava, as you can't walk on them.
Then I'd draw tiles based on that, with some "autotile" type blurring of the edges to look a bit more natural.
I guess first thing is to find the right "zoom" level, as in, metres to tiles.
Then rather than drawing the world too accurately, I'd try and work out whether a particular tile, like an OS grid square, is mostly grass, water, trees or road.
Minor roads, bridleways and major roads would all be differentiated. Perhaps Motorways would be lava, as you can't walk on them.
Then I'd draw tiles based on that, with some "autotile" type blurring of the edges to look a bit more natural.
That mobile game I was prototyping a year and a bit ago would change the environment your character was in based on rough geographical information (forests = forests, roads = roads, fields = fields).
I had a lot of great ideas, but it was all rather expensive. I still consider it the best way to do a truly "mobile" game.
EDIT: A nice promo video of using Google maps data for game worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bbd5dbuPBc
EDIT2: And here was that Google April Fools' Dragon Quest thingy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg which does exactly turn your map into RPG tiles
I had a lot of great ideas, but it was all rather expensive. I still consider it the best way to do a truly "mobile" game.
EDIT: A nice promo video of using Google maps data for game worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bbd5dbuPBc
EDIT2: And here was that Google April Fools' Dragon Quest thingy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg which does exactly turn your map into RPG tiles
Juan J. Sánchez
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yo how have you been juan, i havent seen you here for ages its been like 6 monthsJuan J. Sánchez":px9mgiff said:
in other news i soldered my old earbuds back together today
i had a pair of no-name asus earbuds i got with my zenfone 2 and god damn theyre the best inears ive ever used, but they died cus cable wear as they were my daily drivers all day every day for like 2 years straight
i bought a pair of shure se215s as an emergency replacement and they were such a disappointment i actually felt scammed, its all mid and hardly any low end at all, sounded the same as what you get from the $2 store just with a replaceable cable, which is interesting considering the point of the detachable cable is so you dont need to replace the drivers but whats the point if the drivers are garbo as a result lol
also my phone has extremely loud background hiss when the audio chip is powered on, and this + exaggerated mids have been driving me crazy, so for the last year or so ive just not been using them at all and instead using a little portable speaker in bed (which helps hide the hiss)
hopefully this will be able to tide me over until i get a phone that doesnt have garbage audio
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Wyatt pm me your friend code for pokemon go. We can be friends
coyotecraft
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I came into a lot of money in April-May. And then my laptop broke which I fixed, and then my car broke down. So I've been taking my car apart myself and ordered new parts. It's 105 degrees F out so I'm working on it little by little in the morning. Trying to hang on to some of what I previously made.
I was in high spirits at first and felt vigilant. But that feeling slipped away waiting for the parts to arrive. I ran out of pop and told myself I'd buy more after I got my car back together. But without caffeine I've got this dull headache behind my eyes and I've got no energy. So I've been sleeping a lot, having nothing but stress dreams and waking up in sweats.
I was in high spirits at first and felt vigilant. But that feeling slipped away waiting for the parts to arrive. I ran out of pop and told myself I'd buy more after I got my car back together. But without caffeine I've got this dull headache behind my eyes and I've got no energy. So I've been sleeping a lot, having nothing but stress dreams and waking up in sweats.
In trying to modify some emulators to improve their tools for my own means I managed to join the emulator development community, contribute fixes to two GBA emulators and join the Pokemon decompilation community and contribute fixes to three of their repos (minor stuff) and start advising kids on how to go about translating ASM into C, talking to tool authors about how to integrate their tools with flashcart hardware and emulator developers on how to improve accuracy by using code examples of real-world test cases...
All this came about because I wanted to fucking printf an int with my GBA demo that I don't even care about.
All this came about because I wanted to fucking printf an int with my GBA demo that I don't even care about.
Nathaniel3W
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Xilef you don't do anything halfway.
And happy 4th of July everyone. Give me liberty or give me death!
And happy 4th of July everyone. Give me liberty or give me death!
MysticTrunks
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I should really open Defold and start programming...but I'm lazy today (I really need to snap out of this laziness coma...)