What are you up to, th15?

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:13 am

I'd really like to know. I'm requesting that you start some sort of blog to tell us your progress on BSF, Carpe Universum, as well as anything that would have any possible connection to them, such as events in real life that would delay programming, or your personal thoughts about the progression of BSF.

This would be more like an 'unofficial' news section, something not as structured or formal. It would give us something to bide on while you continue to toil away at whatever you are toiling away at.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:38 am

Just to fill people in. Go go IRC log power!

This is about two months old, FYI.

[Friday 20th] [18:16] <Arcalane> also, any news on BSF2? :V
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <th15> best case: 3 months.
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <Siber> Till news?
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <th15> but best cases are bad measures.
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <Arcalane> until we hear something or a release? :V
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <th15> umm till product. heh.
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <Siber> Aah
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <AidanAdv> Really, I thought it would take longer?
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <Siber> That sounds extraordinairly optimistic.
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <th15> its not a very advanced game, honestly
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <th15> yea, heh.
[Friday 20th] [18:17] <Siber> Don't get our hopes up like that :(
[Friday 20th] [18:18] <Siber> From the sounds of it, good netplay is never simple.
[Friday 20th] [18:18] <th15> meh, not really, problem been solved just about two zillion times by other people already
[Friday 20th] [18:18] <Arcalane> if it ain't broke, don't fix it?
[Friday 20th] [18:18] <Siber> Well, there is that.
[Friday 20th] [18:18] <th15> battleships forever just isn't the most complicated game to make
[Friday 20th] [18:19] <AidanAdv> No, he isn't reinventing the wheel
[Friday 20th] [18:19] <th15> i think that it's possible to do in 3 months
[Friday 20th] [18:19] <th15> especially since the dev won't have to wait for any design documentation and stuff to get done
[Friday 20th] [18:19] <th15> what will probably take longer is for the company to figure out what to do and start doing it
[Friday 20th] [18:19] <th15> shrug
[Friday 20th] [18:20] <Siber> Design document: "Do this again, but better"?
[Friday 20th] [18:20] <Arcalane> any news on new sections, other stuff people have been asking for? :V
[Friday 20th] [18:20] <th15> so yea, don't rely on 3 months, thta's just the absolute minimum
[Friday 20th] [18:20] <th15> shrug
[Friday 20th] [18:20] <th15> go play with spore in the meantime

I'm guessing more like four or five myself.

Magick · Post by **Magick** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:52 am

Woohoo!!!
>_>
If this is accurate... 8)

Post by **Kaelis** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:59 am

Huh. I was sure BSF is dead. Good 'news', i guess. Though i wish he would let us at least add our own stuff (sections, mostly) to BSF1 if hes doing a new iteration anyway, or release the source code.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:48 pm

antisocialmunky wrote:Its honestly not that hard to make a RTS like BSF :-\

Its just a question of whether that's what you want to do with your time. I'm not sure if its already been answered, but is BSF2 going to be done on game maker too?

Good lord no. BSF2 is being done in an actual language.

natan_j · Post by **natan_j** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:03 pm

GM is good for learning about two things, in order:
1: How games generally work.
2: Not to use GM to make games (because of lag issues, among other things).

Anyone know which language it's being coded in?

pwhk · Post by **pwhk** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:14 pm

possibly C++

Post by **th15** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:33 pm

I just got back from 12 days of military service (we have conscription over here, I served my two years while making BSF but we still have to go back every once in awhile for training, at least until I hit forty, which is a long way away) so nothings been happening the last two weeks.

I just got some work done on Carpe, finally got a boss-type enemy up and running. Should have the second level finished soon enough and I'll release the beta for the game then.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:13 pm

Th15, what language is BSF 2 being made in?

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:42 pm

Let's have a round of /facepalms on the house, okay? Great. Now let's move on.

Post by **Anna** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:00 pm

Well look at that. I clean up all the off-topic stuff, and this thread is back to being one page long.

Let's get back to business then, shall we?

Post by **th15** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:21 pm

As for the language for BSF2, either C++ or C#, depends on our target platform and the team we have.

X-14 · Post by **X-14** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:47 pm

Where is the Appearance for BFS 2 ?????? (i Don´t no my english is right ^^)

Squishy · Post by **Squishy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:06 pm

From what I can gather, it is think it's still in the early planning stages, X-14.

So for that, there's nothing to see or download for the moment.

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:23 pm

th15 wrote:As for the language for BSF2, either C++ or C#, depends on our target platform and the team we have.

You mean there's a possibility of Wii/Xbox (C++/C#) release?