If you ever need a beta tester to break your game, let me know!

I'll keep that in mind as soon as something playable is surfacing. :)

Same here! owo

i was a game tester for three years, so if youd like a pro to break your game and mebbe even write you up a little walkthrough, just let me know artonis XD
ive always loved your work, and would be more than honored to helpy ou break your new game =^_^=

Noone ever tests a game for testing purposes lol

Its basically a lie to say "I want to play your game, but in my defense I will say test when I really mean play"

I know this because I had tons of testers never test anything and run off with a highly incomplete idea.

Its good to be smart about who won't steal your stuff and who will actually test it :3

They can run off with whatever idea they want to, really. In the end it's how you implement your idea, not the idea itself.
Anyone can have big ideas.
I don't believe in copyrighting or otherwise owning ideas, it... seems awfully big-headed.
Even the best idea... was probably had by someone before, they just didn't get to implement it.
That is why I hate when companies create patents for the idea of doing something in a certain way and then suing anyone who happens to try to use the same idea, or being paranoid for their idea being stolen by someone who might actually do something better with it.

put me up for testing to looks like it could be a really nice game :D

If it were, like, commercial, I'd facepalm my eyes out. But yeah, for practice, ti's a fun idea :3

Haha, no, this isn't commercial. XD

Title could use a wee bit of work!

>> Do tell more.

The title is just as much WIP as the image. XD
I will tell more when there is more to tell. o.o

Artonis, perhaps you should accompany to me into the other room. ',:|

Do you have any idea what it means to make a game and work out the concept all in your mind and have to tell every person in the world what you are doing?

Its annoying, even I am developing a game and have to explain it to everyone.

Don't take it the wrong way though, I enjoy explaining it but when you are in development its annoying to have to answer every question when someone becomes a bit pissed off.

You'll get NOTHING out of me.
NOTHING.

DokuCraft!

Someone spends too much time playing minecraft, it seems. XD

Obviously, kind of sad though? :3

Looking through the comments, I cant take you seriously considering the contents of said moments. Besides would it really matter if someone played alot if minecraft? Its kind of creepy how you seem to be pretending to be artonis' bodyguard on every comment. Like... obsessed stalker creepy.

This is why I never, EVER tell a WoW (World of Warcraft) addict that they are just wasting their lives away :3

People are too defensive and quick to make excuses.

Its not my life nor do I care, but there is a line that is crossed into absurdity when it ruins or interferes with your life.

Stalker eh?
I can say the same to you, you check each and every post obviously... perhaps you are actually stalking someone?

Well. I wasn't meaning that as a bad thing, really.

Get use to it, people take offense easily and will cry at anything lol

See what I mean above? XD

Just learn to accept people believe they are always in the right and you are in the wrong, its just an endless debate on personal feelings and attachments :3

Not.... really. :/ its just a very popular and highly recognized texturepack. I haven't played minecraft in quite a while. Besides that's alot coming from a guy making his own minecraft clone. Even if it is just for practice/experimenting

It was mostly just a joke, I personally wouldn't be able to tell the difference between any of them off the top of my head. ;)

Fair enough. :)

so by a dragon Sim game can you fly around and make your liar and raid towns and kidnap maidens and do it all like some what in mine craft?

Yes, like that.

really! wow singh me up for that :D what els can we make are self any way we want like i can be white dragon liveing the sky with fathers wings or big a ground dragon and live underground or a sea dragon living in a sea if soo I want to try that game... but wait is this free download when your guys done or do we have to buy the game?

Games take forever to make, its not like he is going to create said game that you want in months, it takes a lot of time and things change, I wouldn't get so "fanatic" over it :3

I suggest looking into using voxels instead of polygons for the terrain, it would produce a much more organic and natural looking result, you could team that up with cubes and other shapes to make more complex procedurally generated content.

Real Voxel systems are too slow and the processing power/image quality ratio is really poor.
Besides, the blocky look is what appeals to me. If I wanted to, I could make organic procedural terrain with polygons, don't worry. ;)

Voxel based games are not impossible, lords of uberdark uses voxels, they just use very big voxels, that's why they can do what they do.

Well... That isn't really a game using voxels. It stores its data as a threedimensional data set, but it still uses polygons to display, most likely with some sort of marching cubes algorythm that translates the scalar field into a polygon mesh. When I think voxels I really mean an actual engine using interpolated voxel elements.
Still, that is pretty awesome, but currently beyond my skill. XD

Voxels are actually power hungry and a bit on the heavy side.

Its important to actually know the basics of game development with polygons and structure, otherwise you will fail without a proper plan :3

I'm developing a game myself too but voxels are on the "heavy" side, the artist sticking with polygons and basic elements is what makes a successful game possible, you aren't worrying about the details but rather the concept and idea :3

Nice, for a long time I've wanted to do my own voxel-based game. Maybe this might kick me up the arse to do it. What language do you code in?

I use BlitzMax, which is a variant of basic with some object oriented stuff.
Some people might not consider it a real programming language, but it works and is fast enough for me.

lol, even I've been considering C# and XNA lately. Against C++

Have you tried out Unity3D?

I am using it as my game engine of choice.

As a 3D artist using Unity3D (http://www.unity3d.com) I feel it takes away from the grind of setting up your own stuff and lets you focus on the important things like design and structure instead of building it all up from scratch :3

So far so good, are you 3D modeling stuff or just using primitives, using models from a downloaded source, etc?

Hey isn't unity 3D a game engine that works on mobiles such as iPhones and Androids too?

Yes it is and does :3

Its the industry's leading game engine.

The thing is, you don't have to build up everything from scratch, there is more than enough free middleware for all programming language.
Even for BlitzMax, there is enough free libraries for every possible use.

I'm sure Unity is a very nice tool for many people, but these development systems just don't do anything for me, I tried many, but only when I do pure programming I get anything done.
Maybe I will be looking into Unity some day, but first I want to get fluent in actual programming languages, like BlitzMax or later C.

Oh, I see now :3

I'm not a programmer and Unity helps me to create games I would want to create easily :3

Most of my "hacking" friends, mostly in the Zelda community, prefer C or Visual Basic.
Also, I heard the person who created C just died recently?

Throwing this idea out there: since the player is a dragon, and quite feasibly of a burninating pedigree, a block that is a hut or a (growing?) stack that is a tall building. Treasure can be collected from these buildings to horde in your lair. (Gotta lure in takeout for those days you don't feel like getting dressed to go out to eat.)

I'm sure you'll get the terrain bit worked out. A few scaled and offset sine waves, multiplied together, and five or six landmark procedures and you'll be ready to go.

Don't worry, I have tons of ideas as it is. XD

Read: my wife is telling me way too many of her ideas on this one.

:P

Haha. XD You are my idea generator.

I'm diggin' that! Definitely will keep tabs on something like that :3

You know I'm all for this one! This is WAY more up my alley than previous ventures. I would essentially be permanently happy running around, digging dens, making chicks, hoarding stuff, rinse, cycle, repeat. It's kind of what I do in real life only I would look more badass.

I say we give Betas to EVERYONE. Absolutely EVERYONE.

i'm working on something similar myself. I'd like to get it set up as an environment for more serious multiplayer games. I'm at the terrain generation point as well, since mine is going to be very intertwined with an elemental axis system I designed for weapon upgrading I'm going to use a similar system to build terain with elemental influences(this area has high fire and air, so it will be a dessert plains sort of area). Ive got geometry, lighting, shadows, and block removal. I've also created a sectional system that only loads the terrain for areas that a player need worry about so as to make the jump to multiplayer smoother. I unfortunately started a new job in the last month and haven't had time to work on the project since XD

did anything ever come of this?