Slime Salad

(In your example does the server actually need to verify anything? It sounds like the opponent can do that.) Exposing RELOAD to scripting would be neat for defining and editing data in Custom, using the reload editor and editedit, or a tabular interface. But plain dicts, arrays, and objects (class i...

Thinking more about it, the third option probably isn't useful in practice and I wouldn't spend time adding it. It would only be useful if you could reduce the CPU load significantly by skipping whole ticks instead of just rendering frames. That's easily true if you're trying to run at 300 fps becau...

I definitely want to see network support too. This is one feature though that especially deserves careful planning of interface and implementation. However I think that rapid prototyping is a great/the best way to plan something, as we can then play around with it (not publically exposed) and make c...

We should probably think about the issue of how to handle unexpected tick lengths. If you ask for 60 fps you're also at a much higher risk of getting less than that if running on a slow computer or if your game is script heavy, in addition to large differences when vsync is disabled or enabled. We s...

When you say "really close," how close do you mean? Variable framerate was added a month ago, but shouldn't really be used for non-scripted games. Also if you ask for 60fps it might run at 59.5fps which will actually display at 30 or 45fps because gfx_directx defaults to vsync. I have to ...

The technique described by James and that article (thanks, very interesting ivnestigation of old racing games) works very well; you can even easily texture the road and grass by using sprite slices instead of rectangles (see the article). I've been working on something very similar; will post a demo.

Don't worry, I'm not seriously considering it. Would be a better solution to just make it easier to set up attacks. I'm thinking of a template system...

List views have been proposed a number of times... but I actually totally forgot about that!

You forgot the classic DONKEY.BAS! Now there's a racing game suitable for the original 4.77MHz IBM PC or PC-wannabes such as the OHRRPGCE entertainment system.

A defend action should definitely be defined in the attack editor rather than something builtin; there aren't any other built-in attacks. But it would be nice if it were easier to define such an attack; the attack editor is pretty intimidating. And there's always the option to provide default attack...

Cool, good luck. Don't forget to make suggestions for engine features for those script-less games. Or do what I would and just add them yourself ;)

By the way, all the free graphics released through HamsterSpeak (I believe) are linked from the Free Graphics pages on the wiki.

Just one magnet? I don't think you'll get 30 people asking for magnets. I can cover slimebucks costs too.

Wait a moment, not everyone has a pile of unspent slimebucks. If the intent is to use it as a mechanism to assign magnets since they're in short supply then wouldn't it be fair to just hand them out evenly? I would suggest just taking requests for a while (several days?) and based on the demand deci...

As an alternative to the 2 dollar cost, I've decided to accept 2000 slimesbucks as payment for a magnet as well. I'm rich! I don't mind sending a few dollars if there's an easy way and if you prefer (is that $2 for shipping, for multiple magnets? How many?) otherwise I guess I'll pay in slimebucks ...

It looks the same brightness to me, and if it were affected by an optical illusion it should appear darker, not brighter.

Is that dark green thing a slime enemy? It's hard to see against the background, and doesn't really look much like a typical slime, so maybe it isn't.

Reply to Pepsi: I didn't find it 100% clear that "it requires two switches to lower or raise a gate" means that you can turn off one switch after raising a gate without effect. Maybe stating "both switches on are required to raise a gate or both off to lower it". It would actuall...