Comments on: Canceling in TRAUMA http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/ Inductive Game Design Research Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:08:02 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Krystian Majewski http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4360 Krystian Majewski Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:33:56 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4360 I don't know anybody, who can do what I want to do better that I do. Plus, I couldn't afford him anyway. I don’t know anybody, who can do what I want to do better that I do.

Plus, I couldn’t afford him anyway.

]]> By: Digital Tools http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4353 Digital Tools Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:41:24 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4353 "It’s an amazingly coder-unfriendly way to design a programming language. It takes away control, it’s almost impossible to debug and it causes unintentional waste of resources. Canceling a loading process is exactly one of those situations where you WANT to explicitly kill a bunch of objects and you want to make sure they are REALLY gone." When I remember my Actionscript wisdom, that this really will make Flash for you. That's cleary the good thing about scripting languages: you don't have to care about this (I guess, you never debugged some memory leaking). Maybe this will get you on the right path: http://gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/ http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com/2007/03/28/flash-player-memory-management-and-garbage-collection-redux-2/ (this could be completely outdated, but I've seen a similar presentation some months ago...) Hope that helps a little bit... “It’s an amazingly coder-unfriendly way to design a programming language. It takes away control, it’s almost impossible to debug and it causes unintentional waste of resources. Canceling a loading process is exactly one of those situations where you WANT to explicitly kill a bunch of objects and you want to make sure they are REALLY gone.”

When I remember my Actionscript wisdom, that this really will make Flash for you. That’s cleary the good thing about scripting languages: you don’t have to care about this (I guess, you never debugged some memory leaking).

Maybe this will get you on the right path:
http://gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/
http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com/2007/03/28/flash-player-memory-management-and-garbage-collection-redux-2/
(this could be completely outdated, but I’ve seen a similar presentation some months ago…)

Hope that helps a little bit…

]]> By: Digital Tools http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4352 Digital Tools Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:31:26 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4352 Oh Lord, you discovered the joys of user-interface programming... ;) No really, I think coding the (or better around the) UI is often enough really a pain, when you know the guts of the code-logic. I think UI-coding is really a discipline of its own. When on a medium / big project: get an UI-code-specialist, before everything gets too late. Oh Lord, you discovered the joys of user-interface programming… ;)

No really, I think coding the (or better around the) UI is often enough really a pain, when you know the guts of the code-logic. I think UI-coding is really a discipline of its own. When on a medium / big project: get an UI-code-specialist, before everything gets too late.

]]> By: GhostLyrics http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4347 GhostLyrics Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:40:50 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4347 not necessarily. Look at how Guild Wars did that. You download an initial part and play. While accessing new areas things/updates are downloaded, but only if needed. On a side note you could also start the guildwars.exe with a flag in order to download all the data before starting. (I think it was --image or something...) not necessarily. Look at how Guild Wars did that. You download an initial part and play. While accessing new areas things/updates are downloaded, but only if needed. On a side note you could also start the guildwars.exe with a flag in order to download all the data before starting. (I think it was –image or something…)

]]> By: Phil http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4345 Phil Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:11:20 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4345 Wait, what? Is Trauma played in a web browser? Damn. Will there be a stand-alone fully-downloadable alternative? I don't mind downloading something in advance, but downloading while playing is a huge turn-off. Wait, what? Is Trauma played in a web browser? Damn. Will there be a stand-alone fully-downloadable alternative? I don’t mind downloading something in advance, but downloading while playing is a huge turn-off.

]]> By: GhostLyrics http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-4344 GhostLyrics Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:08:54 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2433#comment-4344 hm. Sometimes I do tag quick, dirty lines of code with some comments, like #fixme or #todo in the source. That might seem easy, but it might improve the way you work... like the final cleaning up. ;) hm. Sometimes I do tag quick, dirty lines of code with some comments, like #fixme or #todo in the source. That might seem easy, but it might improve the way you work… like the final cleaning up. ;)

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