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"Proper ones and twos." Input Methods and Controls; Coding Syles; Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters
This week, your nice hosts are still relaxing in Mark's dining room for an episode that has it all: a disagreement about Bluetooth, some good ClawTalk™, and the shortest conversation ever had on the subject of tabs vs. spaces. All this, plus a slightly higher than usual number of wild digressions.
Discuss this episode on Reddit in this thread on r/gamedev!
Input Methods and Controls
0:01:29
Stephen McGregor
Hardware
Stephen’s controller of choice, Power A FUSION.
New Windows 10 Xbox wireless controller adapter delayed into 2018 - Gabe Gurwin, Digital Trends
Metro Nexus’ tutorial in action - Mark LaCroix, Twitter
Behold, the unintuitive enjoyment of Claw Breaker. - Martha Megarry, YouTube
“How to Claw Effectively” - Ture Vangaurd, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-o0zYxjyE - Game Maker's Toolkit, YouTube
“You say jump, I say how high?” - Martin Fasterholdt
Martha’s favorite Fingeance fighter, Sparky. - Fingance
This goofy game turns your entire keyboard into the controller - Andrew Webster, The Verge
Alternative controls game Butt Sniffin Pugs, shown at Ctrl.Alt.GDC.
Rocksmith Vs. Rock Band 3 – The Pro Guitar Showdown - Jeff Atwood, Fake Plastic Rock
Guy beats Dark Souls with DK Bongos - Jordan Devore, Destructoid
Gameplay of racing game Kirby Air Ride - Mutch Games, YouTube
We mentioned this previous episode
"We joke here."
we also mentioned this one
"Will you be the best with me?"
Coding Syles
0:36:49
Mark LaCroix
Programming
What is your preferred Indent Style?
Whatever you do, don’t code like this. - @HisCursedness, Twitter
Don’t be a Stephen: Comment your code!
Martha uses a cool HTML template engine called Pug.
Getting started with Pug template engine - António Regadas, Medium
Russian nesting dolls are called matryoshka. - Wikipedia
CamelCase or snake_case?
DarkBASIC, which Stephen used when he was young, went open-source in 2016! - the Game Creators
History around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing - Brad Abrams, MIcrosoft
“Namespacing” in Objective-C - Matt, name spacing hipster
JetBrains IDE’s: Webstorm for JavaScript and Rider for C#.
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight Visual Studio that Mark really likes.
Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters
1:13:45
Martha Megarry
Gaming
Apparently, Splatoon devs didn’t realize the comparison to Super Mario Sunshine… - Sean Ayres, Nintendo Enthusiast
Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - Dodger, On Game Design
Design Patterns in FPS Levels - Kenneth Hullett & Jim Whitehead, University of California - Santa Cruz
Lost Planet - SomeCallMeVidal, YouTube
Lost Planet's only sequel - Woophoro, YouTube
We also referenced our episode on
Violence in Games
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This week, your nice hosts are still relaxing in Mark's dining room for an episode that has it all: a disagreement about Bluetooth, some good ClawTalk™, and the shortest conversation ever had on the subject of tabs vs. spaces. All this, plus a slightly higher than usual number of wild digressions.
Discuss this episode on Reddit in this thread on r/gamedev!
Input Methods and Controls
0:01:29
Stephen McGregor
Hardware
Stephen’s controller of choice, Power A FUSION.
New Windows 10 Xbox wireless controller adapter delayed into 2018 - Gabe Gurwin, Digital Trends
Metro Nexus’ tutorial in action - Mark LaCroix, Twitter
Behold, the unintuitive enjoyment of Claw Breaker. - Martha Megarry, YouTube
“How to Claw Effectively” - Ture Vangaurd, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-o0zYxjyE - Game Maker's Toolkit, YouTube
“You say jump, I say how high?” - Martin Fasterholdt
Martha’s favorite Fingeance fighter, Sparky. - Fingance
This goofy game turns your entire keyboard into the controller - Andrew Webster, The Verge
Alternative controls game Butt Sniffin Pugs, shown at Ctrl.Alt.GDC.
Rocksmith Vs. Rock Band 3 – The Pro Guitar Showdown - Jeff Atwood, Fake Plastic Rock
Guy beats Dark Souls with DK Bongos - Jordan Devore, Destructoid
Gameplay of racing game Kirby Air Ride - Mutch Games, YouTube
We mentioned this previous episode
"We joke here."
we also mentioned this one
"Will you be the best with me?"
Coding Syles
0:36:49
Mark LaCroix
Programming
What is your preferred Indent Style?
Whatever you do, don’t code like this. - @HisCursedness, Twitter
Don’t be a Stephen: Comment your code!
Martha uses a cool HTML template engine called Pug.
Getting started with Pug template engine - António Regadas, Medium
Russian nesting dolls are called matryoshka. - Wikipedia
CamelCase or snake_case?
DarkBASIC, which Stephen used when he was young, went open-source in 2016! - the Game Creators
History around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing - Brad Abrams, MIcrosoft
“Namespacing” in Objective-C - Matt, name spacing hipster
JetBrains IDE’s: Webstorm for JavaScript and Rider for C#.
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight Visual Studio that Mark really likes.
Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters
1:13:45
Martha Megarry
Gaming
Apparently, Splatoon devs didn’t realize the comparison to Super Mario Sunshine… - Sean Ayres, Nintendo Enthusiast
Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - Dodger, On Game Design
Design Patterns in FPS Levels - Kenneth Hullett & Jim Whitehead, University of California - Santa Cruz
Lost Planet - SomeCallMeVidal, YouTube
Lost Planet's only sequel - Woophoro, YouTube
We also referenced our episode on
Violence in Games
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