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Joshua Spencer's Forum Posts

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Does Garage games have an mmo- creator If you want to make games, your gonna have to do at least a little programming. There's no way arou... read more 08/07/2005 (9:30 pm)
Another blow for game devs in general Alleging that they 'purposely' included said code and then 'leaked' the method of unlocking it as a ... read more 08/07/2005 (8:58 pm)
A Gamer Has Spent $26,500 on Virtual Property Project Entropia is still running? I really didn't think they had that large of a user base, and fi... read more 08/04/2005 (10:11 am)
The capabilities of Torque2D physics Yes, the physics system handles rotations. Check Melv May's latest [url=http://www.garagegames.com/... read more 07/29/2005 (8:10 pm)
Question about starting a new T2D project Shame the [url=http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=28610]Hello World[/url] ser... read more 07/26/2005 (2:55 pm)
Another blow for game devs in general Everyone knows that Thomson is an idiot. If he had his way, Pac-Man would be banned for promoting o... read more 07/25/2005 (6:50 pm)
Pinball game He's using a schedual that is called every 100ms to check the position of the paddles to make sure t... read more 07/25/2005 (3:37 pm)
Pinball game problems The problem is your basicaly 'teleporting' your paddles to the new angle, not having them 'move' ... read more 07/25/2005 (3:22 pm)
Pinball game The problem is your basicaly 'teleporting' your paddles to the new angle, not having them 'move' ... read more 07/25/2005 (2:56 pm)
Superheroes @Manuel.. Probably the same way Square/Enix does with FFXI. Simply client software optimized for us... read more 07/22/2005 (7:58 pm)
Do you think violent video games make people violent? Josiah DOES have a point about the desensitizing thing. Every military training program on the plan... read more 07/16/2005 (2:20 pm)
T2D first experiences and issues The origin is user definable via script. Personaly I pefer setting my levels up so that the top lef... read more 07/15/2005 (9:40 pm)
T2D first experiences and issues Hmm... Just thinking a bit here, but maybe setting it up like this will help based on your initial c... read more 07/15/2005 (8:15 pm)
2d overhead racer engine suggestion T2D can be used for it, but it's not 'free'. Here's some that I found by searching. Many of these... read more 07/14/2005 (8:16 pm)
Issue with shooter demo in 1.2 Could be a weird keyboard related error as well... I noticed it in one of my little tech demos on a ... read more 07/14/2005 (7:32 pm)
Generating Sprites? I don't think that T2D(or Torque in general) supports this out of the box. I think you might be abl... read more 07/12/2005 (3:24 pm)
T2d vs. FlashMX? There's also been some [url=http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=6... read more 07/10/2005 (5:14 am)
Blender makes me crazy... The gingerbread tutorial is pretty old as well... I remember messing with it over a year ago, and Bl... read more 07/08/2005 (11:45 am)
What is Nintendo's "Revolutionary" weapon? Heh, Sony doesn't have a large number of fanboys??? I don't believe that at ALL. I still don't th... read more 07/08/2005 (11:41 am)
How many video games have you made? I've only finished ONE game. A very simple one written in QBasic back in 95. Was a single screen s... read more 07/07/2005 (9:18 am)
Too many chiefs, too few indians. I think it'd be a good idea to look at how open source projects handle it. They have had to deal wi... read more 07/06/2005 (5:29 pm)
1944 Indie Game : Using the Reality Engine That's some awesome texture work on those weapons... Impressed.... read more 07/05/2005 (4:23 pm)
Character class methods When creating a scriptobject be sure to assign it a classname. Here's an early version of the code ... read more 07/01/2005 (8:47 pm)
Do linux apps really exist ? Yea, GIMP's interface is not great by any means, though there IS a hack to make it more photoshop li... read more 07/01/2005 (1:58 pm)
Rumble Box - A new indie PC game Yea, I too thought the music suited the game rather well. I think what you should do to increase th... read more 07/01/2005 (1:09 pm)
Rumble Box - A new indie PC game Hehe, fun little game you got there. I think I'll keep an eye out for your future versions, and kee... read more 06/30/2005 (7:41 pm)
---- Also check your local Walmarts. They had some free XBox Live disks at a local one around here as pa... read more 06/25/2005 (6:55 pm)
T2D as a DLL? Would it be possible to do something similar to turn T2D into a browser plugin? Would be cool to do... read more 06/22/2005 (8:14 pm)
MMO game - Shattered Radience Hehe, yea, fantasy MMO's are a bit overdone. I'm still interested in your plans though(I'll admit, ... read more 06/19/2005 (4:24 pm)
Reviving the "Roleplaying experience" thread Wish got around(or would have if they hadn't run out of money) the 'static quest' thing by creating ... read more 06/17/2005 (3:46 pm)
Reviving the "Roleplaying experience" thread I've thought about MMO's many times from different viewpoints and come to the conclusion that there ... read more 06/17/2005 (2:37 pm)
Want to make a MMORPG? Here's the computer for you! *still sad about Wish's cancelation* I don't think this is the first one they've had up for sale. ... read more 06/16/2005 (2:24 pm)
Major GeForce 6600 GT performance issues I have similar performance issues with the default demo on a 6600OC. Seems to only happen when the ... read more 06/16/2005 (3:27 am)
3D Modeling for 2D Games Heh, that's pretty cool... Is it a fully function screensaver? I wonder how easily your program c... read more 06/13/2005 (9:09 pm)
In a slump Yea, I'm in a bit of a slump myself, though not due to lack of ideas, more due to lack of motivation... read more 06/13/2005 (9:06 pm)
Using OpenGL shaders? IIRC, T2D uses OpenGL 1.2(or at least that's what I gathered from browsing through the source)... read more 06/13/2005 (9:03 pm)
State of T2D? Only thing I know for certain will be in 1.1 is the new file system, which should make tilemaps eais... read more 06/13/2005 (5:48 am)
Possible patent infringement by TGE... Hmm, your right, the way it's worded is kinda vague. Of course you have a LOT of prior art, heck Ne... read more 06/12/2005 (5:11 pm)
Possible patent infringement by TGE... After looking over that networked game patent, it SEEMS to cover 'hotfixes' and real-time monitoring... read more 06/12/2005 (4:53 am)
PS3 HD to include Linux. Well, Apple has actualy SAID that MacOS X-Intel will only work on authorized hardware. They don't p... read more 06/11/2005 (3:43 pm)
As a programmer, what game is the most impressive youve seen? Though I haven't played it yet, Spore looks impressive. If they'd only release their character crea... read more 06/11/2005 (4:44 am)
PS3 HD to include Linux. Well, the Slashdot crowd can piss off ANY person with even the slightest amout of logic reasoning. ... read more 06/11/2005 (4:18 am)
PS3 HD to include Linux. @Tom - hehe, yea, as I said, I probably should have said homebrew. @Pat - You just had to crush ... read more 06/10/2005 (8:42 pm)
PS3 HD to include Linux. @Tom, true, wont' be nearly the penetration, but we won't have to worry about 'license' issues like ... read more 06/10/2005 (7:40 pm)
T2d vs. FlashMX? When you say "played online", do you mean 'in a browser window' or 'networked'? You can do the la... read more 06/07/2005 (9:51 pm)
T2d Or Tge? Well, you can use your 3d modeling and animation skills in Torque2D. You'd have to pre-render all y... read more 06/07/2005 (9:44 pm)
The Illinois Law and Indies The problem is HOW do you determine WHERE the action happened. If said person was to say, drive to ... read more 06/03/2005 (8:09 am)
The Illinois Law and Indies Question is, can you be prosecuted for this crime if the server they download from and your self doe... read more 06/02/2005 (7:02 am)
Is torque 2d similar to torque game engine? The GUI subsystem is also pretty much identicle.... read more 05/31/2005 (12:20 am)
In-Game Ads - A Great Opportunity if Indies Stay Away? I thought it was rather tacky seeing all those AXE adds and the adds for EA-Sports games in Burnout ... read more 05/27/2005 (7:10 am)