So what do you do when you can't code?

[LooseCaboose]

Go outside and get some fresh air and/or exercise?

[Z!re]

*gasp*

BLASPHEMY!


outside! *tremble*

fresh air!? *shakes*

EXERCISE!




Get him, he's a spy!

[Ruudboy]

you can fit qb4.5 on a floppy, so then you could carry on, but there is the pen and paper for writing code

[TheBigBasicQ]

you can go out and have some fun!

[Wizard Genius]

Yeah thats another one... I often use pen and paper to write code...

[pr0gger]

Pfft. Fresh air.

Dr. Dav: one would think so, but I have this bad habit of not finishing stuff

As I mentioned, I'm getting into the habit of outlining the entire program before I get started on it... an outline text file would look something like this:

Code:

main.bi (Main module/Menus)
      SUB mainStartupMenu
      SUB mainGameSetupMenu
      SUB mainToolsMenu
      SUB mainOptionsMenu
      SUB mainCreditsScreen
      SUB mainResetGame
      SUB mainStartGame
      SUB mainGameLoop
      SUB mainEndGame
      SUB mainEndProg
      SUB mainError
    ai.bi (Game AI)
      TYPE subCmdr
      SUB aiGeneratePlan
      SUB aiDivideArmy
      SUB aiGuessEnemyPlan
      SUB aiGetTargetForUnit
      SUB aiSetWatchArea
      FUNCTION aiGetWatchArea
    bldg.bi (Buildings)
      TYPE bldg
      TYPE bldgClass
      SUB bldgKill
      SUB bldgUpdate
      FUNCTION bldgSendOrder
      FUNCTION bldgNew
    gamesnd.bi (Game sounds-- independent from UGL's SND module)
      TYPE gsnd
      SUB gsndEnable
      SUB gsndDisable
      SUB gsndLoad

And that's only the first few modules. When printed, it's about two pages in 10pt Lucida Console font. Looking at that, you can guess what type of game I was trying to make. The project was...very...extensive. I think I bit off more than I could chew.

In the meantime, I've read some of Arthur C. CLarke's books, read some Tom Clancy, Orson Scott Card (but those two don't count, I was reading them before), become reimmersed in politics (shakes fist at all our canidates).

At the moment I've gotten back into 3D modelling with Anim8or and DoGA. I've done a sort of starfighter recently; I'll have to post it and get some suggestions on it

--pr0gger

[relsoft]

Yo Progger. Ever read Clarke's "Childhood's End" and "Rendevous with Rama"?

Childhood's End was cool!!!

[pr0gger]

I'm actually reading Childhood's End right now... on page fifty or so. When I first started my mind kept drawing parallels to Independence Day, heh

--pr0gger

[relsoft]

Trust me it get better in the end.:*)

Can you picture out Karellen already?

[Nixon]

I got realllllllllllllly bored in geography once and start writting code in my book. I acually wrote better code for some reason, and it worked the first time I stuck it on the computer. Sure my friends thought I was wacked, but oh well, they don't care to much.