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Grails - The search is over. - Nightly. Programming. Top game making tutorials. Beginner's guide to Construct 2 Well done for choosing Construct 2! Let's get started making your first HTML5 game. We'll be making the 'Ghost Shooter' demo game. Try it out here first so you know what we're aiming for: a player Read more How to make a Platform game Construct 2 can make all kinds of 2D games. 26th, January 2012 | byAshley Supporting multiple screen sizes Virtually every game has to work on a different sized screen. 29th, October 2011 | byAshley 6 Steps to Play with Players' Minds Open your mind, but be CAREFUL! Delta-time and framerate independence Framerate independent games are games that run at the same speed, no matter the framerate. 10th, October 2011 | byAshley. Programming tools for kids. Teach Kids Programming.
How to Retrieve User Data from Facebook Connect in ASP.NET - Devtacular. Introduction & Prerequisites In previous articles we have focused on integrating with Facebook Connect and authenticating using the most recent version of the Facebook Developer Toolkit, version 2.0. Please review the following two articles before continuing if you are unclear on either of these processes. How to Integrate with Facebook Connect - Bill Konrad How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 - Bill Konrad Assuming that you have read/understand both, this article is the next logical step. We are going to examine how to connect to the Facebook API using the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 when a user successfully authenticates with Facebook Connect from your 3rd party site. While the process is not complicated, it does require a bit of trickery.
Getting Started We are going to use the barebones project we created in How to Integrate with Facebook Connect for the basis of this project. Default.aspx Capturing the Facebook Connect Authentication Results APIKEY_user APIKEY_session_key. Name Generators for NPCs to populate your RPG (or any other game) - Nightly. This post will go over some name generation algorithms. As humans beings we can easily make up names - watch: Bob, Orthur, Sonstig, Rachon How can we make the computer do something similar?
1. A Really Big List Open notepad, start typing names. At the very least we'll want two lists one for female names and one for male. When you create a NPC you check gender, choose the correct list then randomly choose an entry. Advantages Names will always be sensible (no "wwprojh" or offensive words)No CPU cycles are spent on generation algorithms. Disadvantages Takes a lot of time and effort. *stratification: Perhaps you'd like names associated by birth place. The big list approach has enough drawbacks for us to want something better. 2. By using a markov chaining algorithm we recieve a data structure that can produce many different names.
A markov algorithm has two important parameters, the first is the data sequence. Example 1. The data sequence will be the following three words. bagbatate b -> aa -> g a ag.
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