2D RPG Engine

[bbguimaraes]

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This two snippets don't do the same thing:

if(dataCollection.IsEmpty()) {
  empty = true;
}

empty = dataCollection.IsEmpty();

[dandymcgee]

post -pedantic

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This two snippets don't do the same thing:

if(dataCollection.IsEmpty()) {
  empty = true;
}

empty = dataCollection.IsEmpty();

This two snippets do the same thing if you consider the declaration of empty

bool empty = false;

// Cache empty state, because IsEmpty is expensive to call.

That is much too verbose and explicit for my liking.. but to each his own. I probably wouldn't even comment the particular snippet I posted. You guys are WAY over-analyzing the intentions of my post. Wouldn't expect any less from fellow programmers.

[MarauderIIC]

Yeah if you come back in a couple years you'll generally go "why did i do it that way that was stupid" but maybe it's less stupid than you thought ;)

[bbguimaraes]

Yeah if you come back in a couple years you'll generally go "why did i do it that way that was stupid" but maybe it's less stupid than you thought

In my experience, even coming back on Monday and taking a look at Friday's code is enough. Real story:

• I look at the code and think "why the hell did I do it this way?"
• I loose half an hour changing it
• I realize I had already spent half an hour doing the same thing at some point in time and discovering it had to be done that way because of something else
• I really wish there was a comment there to remind me

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Wonderful news! As of late I have been feeling considerably better and thus this good feeling has brought about progress! Got a Main Menu up and operational and a Battle Ground screen in the works for the battle system, unlike my old engine's framework the new one allows for changing of the game state/logic, so in the main loop there are 3 if's checking for particular states and if the state is say set to 2 it shifts the logic to the battle system's logic, same goes for the main menu and over world, this allows for the game to run at a higher FPS compared to my old engine because it's not all contained in one loop. Nonetheless, hopefully I'll continue to make more progress until then I leave you with this screen shot:

Battle System Screen

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I'll just leave this here

[dandymcgee]

I'll just leave this here

Looking really good!

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I'll just leave this here

Looking really good!

Thank you! I'm so glad I went through with this rewrite, best decision I've ever made! Things are coming along quite nicely now.

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Merry Christmas everyone. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2n6ba10mn9dd1df/ynosw50s-C

I'm taking another break for a long long time. Today things went for the worst, I practically let myself dig my own grave, now I have to climb out of it.

[dandymcgee]

I'm taking another break for a long long time. Today things went for the worst, I practically let myself dig my own grave, now I have to climb out of it.

It's a slump, you'll get over it soon enough. Breaks are always healthy anyways.

[DistortedLance]

It looks good! I hope you're back and kicking soon. Stalking the thread isn't quite as fun when you're feeling down

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Merry Christmas to everyone following this, and thank you guys for your continued support means quite a bit to me!

[EdBoon]

Looks great, always coming back to see progress but never posting. Probably because your animated gif puts me into a trance. Merry Christmas too.

[MarauderIIC]

your animated gif puts me into a trance

QFT :)

[dandymcgee]

QFT

Had to gts.