Elysian Shadows

I MUST know if it actually worked, would be pretty cool if it did

Due to my current lack of internet, I haven't been able to find out all of the goings on at E3, but I have seen shots of the new U controller and I've heard they've got image scanning implemented into kinect now ( which I believe was a feature they mentioned a few E3s ago when they introduced the ki...

Congrats, it's good to see programmers of all creeds (be it computer science, software engineering or whatever else) making it in the big bad world

Everything I've read indicates that AWT is heavyweight and varies from platform to platform, but swing objects are lightweight and are intended to look the same on any platform you use them on, but I'm not so sure, I always just used swing in uni, and it works fine, although I've never made games in...

Battleships-type game in the console, I coloured the characters and everything, you had to search for the 'gold' on a grid, and you had to avoid the 'mines', it also beeped, which was enough to amuse me when I started programming all those years ago

I say just enjoy the ride, falco has already answered all of your questions (and then some), it amazes me that some people can't just enjoy the series and wait for the end product, in whatever form it arrives as at the end. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm pretty psyched about watching the ...

ajtgarber wrote:I know this, but how do I get MyGame to not be an abstract class?

Simple answer without looking at the code, derive a new class and implement all of the methods that you haven't defined (the ones you declared as =0).

You can only use pointers to an abstract class, with memory allocated to a derived class e.g.

Base* pBase = new Derived();

This is one method of polymorphism in C++.

just thought I would elaborate further on the previous (you cant't instantiate abstract classes)

For stability, and more importantly, support if you're new to the library, use 1.6, you can always move up to 2.0 when it's more stable and the docs are more comprehensive

But people may disagree with me

Learn them! one of the main reasons you would use pointers pointers when building a game include: - dynamic allocation (i.e. creating objects at runtime, trust me, you need to do this in any complicated game) - passing objects by reference (objects can be bigger than types such as ints and bools, pa...

A Battleships clone I made in the console would be the first 'game' I made, I used some functions from Windows.h to colour the background text to make it look like you were searching the ocean.

I made that in probably early '07, WAY BACK!

JAVA ON THE OTHER HAND is a completely different story. Sun Microsystems owns Java. They can do whatever the hell they want with it. Just like C#, .NET, Flash, and other proprietary languages, the companies who own them have complete freedom to change, amend, and rework the language. That's why I w...

yeah, the general rule is, the lower the RGB values, the darker the colour. I'm assuming you know how colours in computers work?, you have the 3 main 8-bit components Red, Green and Blue, as each component is 8 bits, it can represent different intensities of the colour from 0 to 255. 255,255,255 is ...

Now that's something worth bragging about!

I would also like to see the plaque!

What a shame, as an outsider spectator I really thought you added a lot to the project, but I wish you luck and second what ryan said, it would be a shame to not see you on the forums again.