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Need help with functions... Would you prefer that I give you nicely formatted examples or just long drawout formless stream-of-c... read more 01/02/2008 (6:04 pm)
How about a little "Show off your music" thread... [quote]I should probably share some of my music as well. http://www.seanbeeson.com [/quote] I... read more 01/02/2008 (11:08 am)
Tourque installation Problem Which type of video card are you using?... read more 01/02/2008 (10:07 am)
Obsolete Marketplace Profiles Why not just go by a date thing? Manually would be a nightmare, I concur. Maybe, this would be bet... read more 01/02/2008 (10:06 am)
Really need to add DOB to profile From a legal standpoint, dealing with a minor is quite different than dealing with a non-minor. The... read more 01/02/2008 (9:04 am)
In-Game Ads - A Great Opportunity if Indies Stay Away? I wouldn't be averse to advertisements in my games, but I'm fine without them. Unlike many in this ... read more 01/02/2008 (7:44 am)
How can I make an .exe from TGB? Torque is awesome. Sure, it's not the latest and greatest engine out there, but it's affordable and... read more 12/31/2007 (10:04 am)
Overlapping t2dSceneWindows and mouse input For what it's worth, I went back and fixed our code as well using "GuiModelessDialogProfile" on the ... read more 12/31/2007 (6:25 am)
Seeking HIGHLY motivated programmers/designers Having a long term relationship with a contractor, especially one from which you request a significa... read more 12/31/2007 (5:41 am)
How can I make an .exe from TGB? Your right, it's not a simple endeavor. There will be quite a learning curve, regardless of which t... read more 12/30/2007 (9:36 pm)
Overlapping t2dSceneWindows and mouse input To be brief, don't do that. This was one of those things that cost me a bit of time as well, it was... read more 12/30/2007 (9:33 pm)
First Team Forming Now (don't be left behind) ... Is this a paid position? If so, what's the location? What's your experience and the experience lev... read more 12/30/2007 (7:11 pm)
Multiple Worlds You'll need to expand on that question. What do you consider "multiple worlds"?... read more 12/29/2007 (1:58 pm)
Fury of the North [i] Hopefully, I'll actually start on this game, unlike my other ideas. [/i] One has to appreci... read more 12/28/2007 (9:34 am)
Fury of the North Now that I've slept on it a bit, maybe a hybrid RBS/RTS like Total War would work. It reminds me a ... read more 12/28/2007 (6:39 am)
Game Thats Good Go I'm not sure he needs three replies about his presentation. It understandably went nearly 4 months ... read more 12/28/2007 (6:38 am)
Begginer Team Needed I've spent a lot of time helping people from here and Gamedev.net work on their projects, so one mor... read more 12/28/2007 (6:36 am)
Dead company and Obtaining licence? For this, you really should contact an IP lawyer. You should also consider a search of the US PTO f... read more 12/28/2007 (6:34 am)
Script not updating, help needed It's no big deal. It happens to everybody.... read more 12/27/2007 (9:00 pm)
Script not updating, help needed If it's not there, then it won't show up in the log file. Be absolutely sure that you're posting th... read more 12/27/2007 (8:31 pm)
Mario Galaxy The controls are easy to learn? I played it for a few minutes at Best Buy and I can't recall [i]lea... read more 12/27/2007 (7:12 pm)
Fury of the North This should be an RTS, kind of like a city simulator. Then, when you get to the raiding, stop the c... read more 12/27/2007 (7:10 pm)
Script not updating, help needed Post the whole thing and we can fix it together. I need to go to the gym soon, so you may have to w... read more 12/27/2007 (6:35 pm)
Script not updating, help needed Since you're having trouble with your console for some reason, try your log file.... read more 12/27/2007 (5:59 pm)
American Express Gift Cards I think you can log into the site and then set up your ZIP and stuff. That reminds me, I still have... read more 12/27/2007 (10:56 am)
Sprite sizes? Honestly, I'm not sure what's so complicated about 2D art. At this point, I can be of no further as... read more 12/27/2007 (10:08 am)
I can make games You sound like you're more about the technical side of things instead of the creative. That's a ref... read more 12/27/2007 (8:01 am)
Where could 500K + take me? Honestly, $500,000 isn't all that much money. You could hire 4 programmers with it, for a year. Wi... read more 12/27/2007 (7:54 am)
CS File Help If you're using Notepad, you'll have to double-check that you aren't saving it as a .txt file. Wind... read more 12/27/2007 (6:41 am)
Sprite sizes? If you want to make games, you'll have to do some research on your own. So far, all of your questio... read more 12/27/2007 (6:27 am)
I can make games How can one know that you're not also a person with "a million ideas and limited skillz"?... read more 12/26/2007 (8:21 pm)
Sprite sizes? If everything is exactly the same size, you could make it 1x1 if you really wanted to do that. If t... read more 12/26/2007 (8:18 pm)
Sprite sizes? Looking at another thread gave me a capital idea. Use the setscreenmode function to see it in actio... read more 12/26/2007 (10:13 am)
Sprite sizes? No, it's there because it keeps things in scale despite resolution changes. Let's set up a simple s... read more 12/26/2007 (6:43 am)
Sprite sizes? Torque doesn't do sizes in pixels, it does them in an internal sizing scheme using the scale and asp... read more 12/25/2007 (8:21 pm)
Sprite sizes? Well, a 128^2 sprite shouldn't be larger than 128^2 on the screen. Higher fidelity won't make it lo... read more 12/25/2007 (7:10 am)
Sprite sizes? When you say 5x5, do you mean that in terms of your game's measurements or in absolute pixel sizes?... read more 12/24/2007 (10:30 pm)
Sprite sizes? That's interesting. I'd like to know more about these numbers, but I haven't found much and I've be... read more 12/24/2007 (9:36 pm)
Sprite sizes? Where did you get that 79% number? Was there a survey someplace?... read more 12/24/2007 (5:22 pm)
Sokoban Clone That the site is using "Sokoban" and advertising itself as such is legally questionable. So people ... read more 12/21/2007 (10:12 am)
Offered 3d artist FREE Why not put up a portfolio of your work? We're doing something board-game like, maybe you could hel... read more 12/21/2007 (6:00 am)
Sokoban Clone Apparently the last "official" Sokoban was made in 2000, and it is a registered trademark. Still, t... read more 12/20/2007 (9:43 am)
Database How would the file be updated? You say that if a person makes 10 of some item, you want it to upd... read more 12/15/2007 (2:34 pm)
Config Datablock problem As much as I whine about the editor being a crutch in many cases, this was a massive help in setting... read more 12/05/2007 (3:33 pm)
How to load a level? You really just use it with the filename as the argument. The problem most people seem to have is w... read more 12/04/2007 (6:49 pm)
Lost in TGB If you're on a Mac, I'm not sure how well things will work since I don't have access to one. Still,... read more 12/01/2007 (6:55 am)
Fullscreen in editor I just mentioned this in another thread, but maybe you can manually adjust things in C:\Documents an... read more 11/30/2007 (5:42 pm)
Resolution Problem Yeah, I would like to hear about you having it running. I dropped my resolution down to 1680x1050 ... read more 11/30/2007 (5:37 pm)
Resolution Problem Oh, jeez. That's a bit of a pickle, because now I'm not sure without actually sitting in front of t... read more 11/30/2007 (11:43 am)
Non-resizeable window? I'm usually not terse, but I wholly understood that I was only answering the first question. Peopl... read more 11/30/2007 (11:36 am)