Phew! You may have noticed the domain for this blog has changed. I am still in the process of moving all files and making changes to the database so several difficulties may appear. I would like to apologize for any inconvenience during this time. And there are still some images which are just placeholders.
If you experience any flaws please do not hesitate to contact me (it’s kegogrog @ yarrcade . com (without the spaces)).
Thanks and Yoho!
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Nice. New installation, activated Akismet, BOOM: notices everywhere. The functions register_sidebar_widget, register_widget_control, clean_url and _c are depreceated. I just edited the akismet.php to get rid of those errors.
If you like, download it here, unpack (.zip) and copy it to your wp-content/plugins/akismet folder:
ZIP.
As a follow up to the rather pessimistic first year review I experienced something that rewarded my efforts. The following is a little story in pictures just to show you the influence that one big portal can have on your earnings.
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The task was to use text files that are created by an external program on a daily basis to create a workbook that contains those files’ data in monthly spreadsheets. The good thing is, the text files were named ‘DATAYYMMDD’, so there is a keyword (“DATA”) and the actual date in year, month and day form.
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Alright, the most important part of that mazing type tower defence game must be the pathfinding. Completely different from the given path games, a constant ‘re-pathing’ is neccessary. What we’ll do here is the basic thing. A backwards pathfinding with all nodes to create a flowfield. Heuristics are included to later check if there is a possible path (using the shortest path). There is a number of end nodes taken into account but only one start node yet. Creeps will later use the given direction of the node they are on.
Here is what we are going to create, have a little test:
This post enhances the previous post by the ability of actually placing obstacles which somewhen may become towers.
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I know this may look like a call to clone. But the intention of this post is more like look and learn. Once you can do the same, make it better. We’ll have a look at Desktop Tower Defence and try to understand the basic methods of that game.
This post will cover the creation of the square grid in different colors and a method to obtain the actual position to build a tower.
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I played a bit with the settlers-like map of that post to give it a more like terrain look. Therefore the triangle faces are colored now depending on their orientation.
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