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Just thinking about general programming concepts (I know it's not my domain  ) and was just thinking that a list of recently changed variables might be useful, so the scripts that update based on variables don't have to update continuously.  Just an idea.

I just came up with 2 REALLY GOOD IDEAS!!! Maybe people have already thought of this, but maybe we could have games- individual and head to head. The individual games would have high score boards, and every time you play one, you get a certain amount of "Club Cash" or something. The head to head games would not give you any Club Cash, but you could still have fun playing with another user. These games could be in an arcade, a public plaza, (maybe we could even have an arcade game that you can buy as a furniture item)! And here's the other thing- with the "Club Cash" you can buy things in shops- either new colors for your character, new clothing items, new furniture items or wallpaper, etc. Maybe we could even have people create their own stores!



So, what do you guys think? Please look at this post, it really does have some good ideas.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Just thinking about general programming concepts (I know it's not my domain  ) and was just thinking that a list of recently changed variables might be useful, so the scripts that update based on variables don't have to update continuously.  Just an idea.

I totally agree! I was thinking the same thing! (i just wish someone would get back to me about whether I can join or make a website..    )

Hi!
I was thinking up an idea like this in my head, and it looks like some other people have too! I'd like to help with programming or ideas- I have some basic concepts involving cloud data storing in lists, and cloning, and some other ideas that I think will fit this project well. if i could be in on ideas and programming, I would be so grateful.  By the way, how are we all going to collaborate on this? With the new 2.0 features?

P.S.
When will 2.0 officially come out? Does anybody know?

Here's a basic concept that I had- maybe once a user enters their username and password, and all of the other info, their data is officially added to a huge list- it includes their username, password, customization, etc., used for login. Then, on the same or another list, info about them that is constantly updated- their position in the world, who they are chatting with, their status (online/offline), their friends, etc. are constantly being updated, and that data on other people's computers is being updated every 0.5 seconds or so. I'm sure this is somewhere along the lines of what you guys were thinking of. By the way, maybe we should make a website (if you guys don't already have one) or an email list, so we can easily keep updated outside of scratch.

By the way, I can make a website for us with updates, a chat room, etc. all I need is a company name (square1 or square2?) and a company logo.

BTW, Maybe all of the programmers could do a different stage. I would want to create, perfect and/or finalize the cloud data creation and reception. I could maybe even lead the cloud data team, or something. I'm pretty good at programming. I would be really good at that.

I just came up with 2 REALLY GOOD IDEAS!!! Maybe people have already thought of this, but maybe we could have games- individual and head to head. The individual games would have high score boards, and every time you play one, you get a certain amount of "Club Cash" or something. The head to head games would not give you any Club Cash, but you could still have fun playing with another user. These games could be in an arcade, a public plaza, (maybe we could even have an arcade game that you can buy as a furniture item)! And here's the other thing- with the "Club Cash" you can buy things in shops- either new colors for your character, new clothing items, new furniture items or wallpaper, etc. Maybe we could even have people create their own stores!



So, what do you guys think? Please look at this post, it really does have some good ideas.

Last edited by goofball88 (2012-05-18 01:26:02)

Well, can I join? (Or are you not the decider for that?)

wolvesstar97 wrote:

GUYS!!!
YOU CAN SAVE A LOCAL PROJECT OF ALPHA 2.0 PROJECTS!!!!
THAT MEANS WE CAN START OUR MMO RIGHT NOW!
Just under the "More" tab in the alpha editor, select "Save to disk".
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW YEAAA

True, but cloud data is disabled, and once we save it to disk, we can't edit it (plus, only until the 21st will the alpha be available.)

goofball88 wrote:

wolvesstar97 wrote:

GUYS!!!
YOU CAN SAVE A LOCAL PROJECT OF ALPHA 2.0 PROJECTS!!!!
THAT MEANS WE CAN START OUR MMO RIGHT NOW!
Just under the "More" tab in the alpha editor, select "Save to disk".
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW YEAAA

True, but cloud data is disabled, and once we save it to disk, we can't edit it (plus, only until the 21st will the alpha be available.)

*facepalm*
darn.
I forgot.

Clank23 wrote:

jsl decides who joins.

If we're gonna have a website, I will probably make it and give everyone on the team access to edit the site or put a seperate web development role.

If you want to "lead" the cloud data team, then you would not lead much during this project, simply because the joining, x pos, y pos, and area cloud lists will already be made, simply because my idea of doing it seems the best approach.

if you wondering what the method is, here you go:

Code:

username list       online/offline list     xpos list      ypos list        area list    ECT
  clank23               online                 5               10              town
  jay                   offline                0               0               none
  goofball88            online                 20              -100            beach
  wolvesstar97          online                 60              -70             town 
ECT

As you can see, all of each field will be in one list, this means we avoid all problems.

But we have one problem, with this there would be a friend limit, unless we make some sort of code like:

Friend1||Friend2||Friend3||Friend4 ECT

Edit:I am acctually gonna make a site now because I have time 

I think that will work well. I'll just help with regular programming or "new 2.0 features".

One idea though- maybe it would be easier and more efficient if you did this:

Mega Unchangeable list-

goofball88:goofball88's password:goofball88's character:(etc. with more unchangeable things)
jay:jay's password:jay's character
etc.

Mega Changeable list-

goofball88:goofball88's status:goofball88's xpos:goofball88's ypos:goofball88's color: (etc.)
jay:jay's status:jay's xpos:jay's ypos:jay's color: (etc.)

So there would be one big list with items, separated by colons, periods, or something, that would be constant, and then another list that would be constantly updated.

Whaddya think?

Also, look at my other post about the games, if you haven't already. I think it wuld be a good idea.

Here is another potential background sound.  I know we're kind of over-composing, but I figure that the wider selection we have, the better.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Here is another potential background sound.  I know we're kind of over-composing, but I figure that the wider selection we have, the better.

awesome song! what do you use to make it?

MoreGamesNow wrote:

AgentRoop wrote:

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Here is another potential background sound.  I know we're kind of over-composing, but I figure that the wider selection we have, the better.

awesome song! what do you use to make it?

I use Musescore.  I just found out that it only lets you upload 5 songs though*, so from now on I'm using Sound Cloud to upload the songs.

Some of the instruments are kind of bad (I don't really like the trumpet for instance), but most are good.  It's free and cross-platform too.

Edit:* it only lets you upload 5 if you have a free account.  You can pay for unlimited I believe.

Muescore looks really cool! I watched all of the tutorials and I'm going to download it. I'll see if I can make songs as cool as yours.

Not to be "that guy", but are we going to have a limit on the number of people?  Ever hear the phrase "too many cooks spoil the broth"?  I think we're already in danger of that happening.  I'm all for accepting zubblewu, but I think that closing it after him would be the smart thing to do, unless there are specific positions that need to be filled.  Assuming we accept zubblewu, we'll be at 16 members, which, to me, seems too large.  Maybe we should divide into two or three teams and work on different projects?  Teams of 5 or 6 seem (to me) to be far more manageable, and, if anyone has special talents, they could work across teams.

Here is the current team of 15 (in alphabetical order):

AgentRoop
Bklecka
Clank23
EvilPegasus2274
gbear605
joletole
jslomba
LEGOengineer261,
MoreGamesNow
maxdoss
norty
noseyparka
SciTecCf
wolvestar97
XenoK

Last edited by MoreGamesNow (2012-05-18 21:10:00)

zubblewu wrote:

Hmm. I agree. It sounds like you have already almost 20 people. I think it should be limited. Also, I'm all for accepting me too    I have a lot of ideas for this, but it would be impossible to have a sprite for every player, unless we could make permanent cloud clones.

I was just experimenting with storing individual variables in clones.  It looks like clones can't have private variables, but every clone can have its own volume.  We can use the volumes of the clones of the main sprite as an index to a massive list of account's attributes.

when gf clicked
set [i v] to (1)
forever
wait until <<(ready to clone) = [true]> and <(clone now?) = [true]>>
set [ready to clone v] to [false]
set [clone now? v] to [false]
clone

when I am cloned // don't know actual name off hand :P
set volume to (i) %
set [ready to clone v] to [true]

Last edited by MoreGamesNow (2012-05-18 22:39:11)