The Gamer's Quarter

[SuperWes]

Read the title. I've been doin' it!

I made a video.

Here's the video.

Here's the same video YouTubed.

If anyone is interested, I'd like someone to redo my stolen programmer art and come up with a unique visual design for it. I'll program stuff to do whatever, I'm just not talented enough to do my own art for something like this. Regardless, I recommend checking out the video. It's really neat! I'll put the windows version of the game up as soon as I can get the installer to work right.

-Wes
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[dessgeega]

so it's basically cachat. this is pretty neat!

what do you need to connect a computer to an xbox? some kind of usb thingy? then i can make sexy xna games?
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[SuperWes]

I guess so! I've never played that game though, so it's original to me!

Anyways, to connect a computer to an Xbox you just need to have them on the same network. You probably do already if you've got a computer and an Xbox online at the same time. To test it out though, go through the process that happens when you try to play music from a computer on the network using your Xbox. If you've got that going, it's as simple as paying the fee to become a member of the XNA Creator's club ($50 for 4 months or $100 for a year). I recommend playing around with XNA to get a PC game running, then when you've got something you're happy with, paying the fee and playing those games on the Xbox. Once I got something going on PC it didn't take any work at all to get it to run on the Xbox, just $50.

-Wes
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[SuperWes]

Oh hey! Also, it looks like my game is different. In Cachat, you've got to play around with the pipes on the ground after they fall. In my game, you can only mess around with them while they're falling. It's sort of a flawed game design since it's really easy to screw yourself over with a misplaced pipe, so that's where the Bombs come in. If you drop a bomb, you can clear away any misplaced pipe. But that makes it too easy in a way, so I think I'm going to change the bombs to "bomb pipes" that only explode when you use them as part of a line.

But yeah, it's a falling block version of Pipe Dream.

-Wes
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[Six]

[SuperWes]

[Ethoscapade]

i kind of like that they're making the license to run it on a console as opposed to a PC so transparently expensive.

in the context of the no-doubt "monumental" announcement at e3 two years from now that square has decided to make the SNES final fantasies available on PSN and virtual console but NOT xbla (or some nonsense like that, you follow) and neogaffers worldwide celebrate this arbitrary excuse to pay a third time for the same game they built their entire lives around when they were eleven, god forbid they just ZSNES + s-video the game to their tv screens - at least this is MS saying "yeah, we're allowed to put consoles on a pedestal like that."

[Six]

yeah, that's pretty much it. given that you can use 360 controllers with windows and that it's not especially difficult to hook your pc up to a television, there's really nothing to justify paying for a creators' club membership. mind you, it would be different if you could share your game with non-members (even a finite number of them) -- which would be doubly neat for multiplayer.

[SuperWes]

[fish]

im making an XNA game, too!

that is all.
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you cant spell selfish without fish

[dessgeega]

so yeah, i installed visual c# whatever and then i tried installing xna, and it told me it needs visual c# to be installed. which it is. i'm at a loss.
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[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

i downloaded visual c# express edition and xna game studio express, as i was instructed by this page.
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[SuperWes]

So is it requiring Visual C# Express or Visual C# Express SP1?

-Wes
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[dessgeega]

it's asking me for sp1. is that something extra i need to install?
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[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

"the upgrade patch cannot be installed by the windows installer because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program." i'm stumped.
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[dessgeega]

wait, i was trying to run the patch for the web developer. never mind!

also, the above is my 5000th post.
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[dessgeega]

"microsoft xna game studio express 1.0 refresh can not install because a beta version of the product is already installed." okay, fuck this shit already.
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[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

well, i seem to have gotten it working! thanks wes.

i'm going to watch the tutorial videos now.
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[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

please do! after watching that first video i am completely lost.
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[dessgeega]

[dongle]

does xna allow more hardware access than, say, a ps3 running linux (no 3d drivers )

i'm still not all that comfortable with a precedent of for-pay homebrew development.

[dessgeega]

it seems more like pay for distribution. but yeah, it's a pretty shitty situation.
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[parkbench]

Can you explain/take pics of the process involved? I want to know how this works as a...platform, or whatever the word is. I mean, are you DRAGGING AND DROPPING shit a la rpgmaker or what.

[SuperWes]