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My first 'Visual' product was a ridiculously early version of VB, maybe VB2. I started real life, for money, coding with VB4. It was a hard sell - I felt C++ coded in text only was more 'honest' - doing everything explicitly, yourself.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'm actually kinda glad I no longer code for a living. I've never mastered (or liked) the Visual products, or the drag and drop approach to programming. I started coding microcode for embedded processors and writing system stuff in Assembly, on paper, and never grew out of the habit of analyzing the crap out of every line to eliminate cycles and wasted bytes. And just when Turbo Pascal finally adopted OOP and made human-readable and maintainable code practical, along comes MS and Visual C(rap)++.
Now I can just piddle along with the VS tools and not care - it's a hobby, not something I have to be proud of and hope someone will pay me for doing. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, the WPF designer being one of the most useless pieces of crap MS has ever kept alive this long in their Visual range, nicely takes the Visual aspect out of WPF and lets you hand code all your own XAML. And, IMO, the framework is simply outstanding.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'll have to find a reason to look into that, Brady!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Now here we have something I would upvote, at least if CP would let me.
Good old machine code is a pleasure. No rules, conventions, best practices, worst practices or whatever. Best of all, no discussions with some eggheads about how you shold write your code.
What part of hexadecimal did they misunderstand? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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My first Visual product was an early version of Visual C++, personally handed to me for free by Bill Gates himself, right after Software Development 91 ended in SF. We were sitting around talking with the David Intersimone from Borland, who'd just given us all free TurboC++ packages, and he called Bill over and introduced us to him as the newest TurboC++ developers. At that point, one of the MS lackeys was summarily dispatched to get copies of Visual C++ for Bill to hand out to us. It was great - both of the new C++ development products for free!
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Since 2010, I think, until 2013, all my copies of VS Pro have been free. I was once a member of MS's WebSiteSpark program, which included a limited MSDN subscription. It was supposed to only last a year, but they emailed me twice afterward and offered me a renewal. I took it. I have legally free copies of Design Studio 4 and Office 2013 by freak accidents along the lines of that program as well.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I have Visual C++ 1.0 (or maybe 1.1 hard to remember that far back) and there is very little that is actually visual. At least compared to today's use of the term.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Just to compound my WTF, while I was pondering said large rey expanse, I accidentally dropped a Windows WPF control on it. VS2013 allowed me to do this!  I then spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out why my service would no longer start. 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I've had a game I was writing for Windows 8 parked on my hard disc for almost 2 years now. It's about 80-90% complete (those familiar with the Parato Principle know what that means) and I think I'm coming to terms with the fact it may never get out into the wild. Alas, most of my waking hours are consumed with development which does important stuff like keeping a roof over my family's heads and simply do not have time to finish it off.
It's a tower defence type game with a politically incorrect edge, the concept being that you are a host of posh society dinners which get gate-crashed by an obtuse rabble, so you have to build your defences to stop them. It's all pretty straight forward C#.
I've uploaded a video of me playing (and losing) my favourite level here: http://youtu.be/I4FU6KU-Hqk[^], it's a lot more fluid than the video purveys.
So, what to do? If anyone from this fine community has some spare time and would be interesting in taking it over and getting it released, then please get in touch, or if you have any ideas of methods to get the thing out there with minimal effort on my part I'd be interested to know what they are.
Any thoughts welcome, really.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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More death animations! And gibs! And a time-acceleration button, if you don't have one, and if it doesn't conflict with some piece of core gameplay.
Minimal effort: just release it. "But it's not finished!" - it's a game, there seems to be a rule that they must be unfinished when released.
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harold aptroot wrote: just release it
I've heard a few people say that. I guess it's an option, I could spend one intensive weekend trying to iron the flow out a bit but in my mind it's not ready yet. Unfortunately, I don't play games like this myself so I don't really know about what's out there...
In terms of more death, good idea! It's done entirely using bitmap composition and as I recall there's already about 11,000 bitmaps taking around 200mb of space, the bitmaps are generated from 3d models and I outsourced that whole part, so at this stage it needs to work within that set.
There is a time displacement device, but does not feature on this level!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Wow, that's looking pretty nice! It's a shame a project like that gets stuck on your computer...
I don't know why you think it's not finished, but I'd say fix that stuff and just release!
My blog[ ^]
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Really glad that song got released!
Anything from Massive Attack for that matter.
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I have the attention span of a flea so I start a project get it just working and before getting it to a pro level I go on to the next thinking yeah I'll go back and finish it later. So I do get back to and some I don't but either way I've got a bunch that are in a half baked stage.
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My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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That's just normal isn't it? I've got so many half-cut things lying around, although as I'm getting older I have a bit more resolve to see things through to conclusion. Not in this case, obviously...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Agreed as I'm getting older I tend to stay focused a little longer, although my son calls it's a power snooze.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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That is a really nice looking game! Good luck on getting it released!
I'd say 90% of my projects are also around 10% unfinished. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Nice!
If I were you, I would focus on implementing some sort of patching mechanism (so you can release updates) and just get it released. Gamers these days are used to starting a game every now and again and waiting while a patch downloads before they can continue.
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Really neat looking - I'd love to see how the animations are done. I've always wanted to do something like that myself.
(I'd love to finish up the game as well, but with a 1 year old, I'm finding myself with very little free time lately).
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Finish it!
That's my advice.
Of course, the question is, "What's finished mean"
I'd just get enough done that you can release a 'beta', for free, and get feedback from it.
Depending on the reactions, you may decide to leave it at that, or decide to spend some more time on it !
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