FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

I am the Jester.

I make games using JavaScript, C, C++, Mercury, Java, Assembly (amd64 and UltraSparc) and Python. I used to use Sphere a lot, but I'm more into C/C++ and Mercury nowadays. I still use JavaScript and embed it sometimes, and I usually use Python for build systems and system management.

I wrote TurboSphere, which is a recreation of the Sphere Game Engine with a number of major improvements. I'm not really working on it anymore.

I'm surely going to finish making a game someday. I mean, sooner or later, it's bound to happen. Right?
Athena
turn-based strategy game of war and city building

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What are you thinking about right now?

I wear my pants pockets inside out. Sometimes people point it out, thinking I just don't know. I say that it's 2015, get with the times!

[Poll] A quick question about ads and RMN

author=GreatRedSpirit
We need to add a script that detects if the user has an adblocker and show a sad face to them and a message saying that ad revenue supports rmn and they are killing rmn and are a monster


Which leads to a war of attrition with greasemonkey scripts and special adblock filters...

is it just me or is there a sudden tiny influx of people desiring to play games with pixel dicks

Is the whole atari porn craze coming back?

So How Many Nintendo 64 Games Do You Own?

I just got Doshin the Giant for the 64DD. I'm really excited to play it!

author=turkeyDawg
Tetris 64
So, do you have that heart monitor thing for playing Bio Tetris?

I didn't know it was thing!

Also, Daikatana for the 64 is actually the best version, and is only mediocre. It lacks the companions (who were what really drug the PC version down for me)...so that's actually a good thing. It's missing the Daikatana itself, but (spoilers? Are spoilers for Daikatana really not OK?) that's not actually that big a deal.

So How Many Nintendo 64 Games Do You Own?

...I own a lot...

Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Mario Kart 64
Super Smash Brothers
Tetrisphere
The New Tetris
Tetris 64
SimCity 2000
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Episode I Racer
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars: Battle for Naboo
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Yoshi's Story
Star Fox
Resident Evil 2
Banjo Kazooie (both a 1.0 and a 1.1 cart)
Banjo Tooie
Donkey Kong 64
Jet Force Gemini
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Top Gear Rally
F1 Grand Prix
Cruis'n USA
Excitebike 64
1080
Diddy Kong Racing
Tony Hawk 2
Lego Racer
Midway Arcade
Namco Museum
Pokemon Stadium
Pokemon Stadium 2
Hey You, Pikachu (but no microphone...)
Pokemon Puzzle League
Pokemon Snap
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (both a gray and a gold cart)
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Blast Corps
Gex: Enter the Gecko
Glover
Quest 64
Shadowman
Castlevania
Daikatana
F-Zero X
Knockout Kings

And some more I can't remember.
Somehow, I just have never owned Super Mario 64 or Goldeneye.

I guess I also own an N64DD now, too. But no games yet. Legend has it some ordinary cart games have extras that are unlocked just by running them with a DD attached. We shall see :)

RPG Maker MV announced for PC and MAC

JavaScript is a lot better than people make it out to be.

It has very simple rules about type coercion, but because they are not apparent at first people make fun of them. The only time that really will bite you in the ass is with using null--notably different than undefined, which is more like null in Java and C/C++. That's only an issue, though, if you expect JavaScript's null to behave like it does in other languages. If you actually learn what the word null means in JS, it's not suprising at all.

JS also has good object oriented features. Unfortunately, most people immediately think that "object oriented" means "inheritance with virtual functions". That's not what it means, that's just a certain way it can exist. In fact, JavaScript is more like the original object-oriented language, Smalltalk. JS uses a prototypical object model, which I think is actually very nice for game making. Even better than the object models of languages like C++ and Java. I often find myself wishing for a prototype-based object model in C and C++.

This also has the unfortunate consequence of the new ES5 classes. Which are an unnecessary and redundant addition to the language, and kind of pollute the semantics needlessly.

Really, it largely comes down to JS looking a lot like Java and C++ at first glance, and people draw conclusions based on those other languages.

Screenshot Survival 20XX

author=Liberty
@Kaempfer - You can't hide-tag code that is in code-tags. It breaks it, unfortunately. I mean, I could post it like yours but it'd lose the set-up. :shrug: It's a short script anyway.


Github gist embedding on RMN when? :P

No-RM Event

Probably, they hotbunk it. Hotbunkin' in Hyrule.

...probably shouldn't google that...

Would someone be as kind as to help me list emotions you feel in conversations?

Mostly just boredom, awkwardness, and distaste.

No-RM Event

If Link lives with his uncle, why is there only one bed?