just like this

https://fuzearena.com/help/view/3D Simple Rotation

OK, confirmed that it is definitely doing something odd while paused. I'm not entirely convinced it's a simple cause of it's still running because sometimes all my enemy sprites will vanish, sometimes things seem OK and so on. It needs looking at though so I'll raise it internally. Thanks for reporting.

@pianofire said in Some "pre-sales" questions...: @plarpco This one might be interesting https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/. There is a sample here: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/sample.pdf Funny. I literally just finished an Amazon search, found that book, read a comment on the amazon review that mentioned it was free to read online, looked at a few chapters, and then returned to this thread to post a link. This looks perfect!

What are you stuck on? That looks great!

I fixed all the issues and reshared the program, and because my other programs using the list functions were getting too big to scroll around, I added a condensed version of the functions - one function per line. Removing all that white space by hand was a trip, wondering every few lines if I screwed something up.

I've written Asteroids-like games a lot, so I know the tricks. It's a good candidate for learning a new language and API as you can test all the number systems, experiment with different drawing styles etc. For example, I figured pretty fast that lots of draw calls is slow on Fuze, so all the asteroids and the ship are pre-rendered to sprites (the asteroids are actually randomised shapes every time you start the game). This means the only direct draw calls are from the bullets (4x4 boxes) of which there are 4, and the particles, which I've allocated 2000 for and when bug testing and spawning too many, that drops the framerate, but shouldn't happen in a real game. I'll share it when I've got it more feature complete for people to look over if they want though.

@Rex9000 You should have a look at Dave and Ben's Tutorial, here they talk about the array basics. And these are the other vids, https://fuzearena.com/forum/category/6/tutorials . Even if you know one of the topics already - they are really entertaining.

I'm guessing the -0.0 and +0.0 are an artefact of the floating point format (it has both a + and - 0.0 due to how it works) and Fuze is taking your "-0.00" literal and converting it to the +0.0 instead whilst the 0.1 - 0.1 is giving -0.0 because of precision limitations in the floating point format. fract() is then handling -0.0 and +0.0 differently, which may be a bug?

@Dave said in 2 player setup?: Just means we don't end up with: p1aPress = false p1bPress = false p1xPress = false p1yPress = false p2aPress = false etc etc. this would make me want to scoop my own eyes out

As for a drop shadow effect, mabey i could put a rectangle under the sprite, re-set the opacity, then add a blur... (?)

@waldron Put setMode(1920,1080) at the start of your program. Very first line! Should sort you out here.

Space Duel was awesome fun!

@Jonboy said in motion controls?: Hi, one for a later update i'm afraid. No Camera reading at the moment. Good. I don't want it watching me as I sit naked at 2am programming and eating crisps. :D

@Martin understandably fingers crossed for korg to answer

@pianofire not using sprites on this project my tile size is 128 for my chr the tiles for the level are 64

@Mincus sorry, was wrong about that. It just accelerates viewing not the cursor.

How about this? string message = "Really looking forward to playing Steve's Missile Command game" tick = 0 speed = 0.25 // Call function 'doTick' every 'speed' seconds, indefinitely tickTimer = setTimer(speed, -1, doTick()) loop clear() printat(0, 0, message[:tick]) update() repeat function doTick() tick += 1 if (tick >= len(message)) then tick = 0 endif return void Nearly always lots of ways to approach the same thing. Usually all just as valid.

I've seen it posted about a few times in the past, but I had to look up what it was all actually about too :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat

@lawyerlounge You can do this using https://fuzearena.com/help/view/showKeyboard and https://fuzearena.com/help/view/getKeyboardBuffer