I said I''d make a little update in the "Did this die?" thread, but instead of listing features I''ll just post a screenshot of one of the GDA GUI''s. You can get an idea of the features from it.. I literally just started working on it a day or so ago, but maybe you can see where it''s headed. I have several pages of improvements and features to add or fix, so we''re looking at around a start of summertime contest. At least this time I have a vision from the very start. The first go around was more of a hybrid of another project I was working on that morphed into the beta contest GDA. Anyway, enjoy and speculate. Kevin "Khawk" Hawkins
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I CANNOT WAIT!

Dillon "Toxic Hippo" Cower
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Crap I knew I should have left windows installed on here for one reason or another ...

[edited by - The Reindeer Effect on February 20, 2004 1:53:08 AM]

WHEW!!! I can''t wait...


(Stolen from Programmer One)
UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus

O_o

Whoa.

You all are goin'' down this time around...

Yes... VB6 is here to steal your minds. Very slowly.

This might be a stupid question, but will all of the programming functionality from the previous versions still be roughly the same? I ask because I wanted to get involved in the beta contest but just didn''t have time and was wondering if I could be working on a bot between now and the new contest and all my work be easily transferable.

quote: Original post by caffeineaddict
This might be a stupid question, but will all of the programming functionality from the previous versions still be roughly the same? I ask because I wanted to get involved in the beta contest but just didn''t have time and was wondering if I could be working on a bot between now and the new contest and all my work be easily transferable.

Roughly, yes, but I expect you will have to make changes no matter what you do. The concept remains the same, however.

I''ll let out more details as I go along. Right now I''m doing some technology experimentation for the various new feature ideas and changes for making things better.

ok ok, so from what I gather gamedev::arena is either a programming or a gaming competition or both?

quote: Original post by picklejuice
ok ok, so from what I gather gamedev::arena is either a programming or a gaming competition or both?

In a nutshel, you program little cave people to kill eachother with invisible guns. It''s fun.


"Unfortunatly, when I sent the email, instead of writing "Best Regards" I ended up writing "Best Retards." - boolean

Will we be able to compile bots from something other than MSVC++ this time? The lack of support last contest was really annoying.

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