From me to you, a big haloo?
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:44 am
Somewhere around the comma is about where I would be wishing that I didn't believe that Voice in my head that tells me "Everything you think sounds awesome in real life. Just say it!"
I am new to Love, and will likely be asking a lot of strange questions. I picked it up because I have had this itch in my skull of a game idea for a few years. I have turned one version of it into a functional board game that kept some of my friends and I entertained for a few evenings (that is, until I moved suddenly and lost the hardcopy.) I have had lots of pages of design documents for this too. Until some move or another.
You know, I always assumed that you lost some random subset of your belongings to the moving gnomes, but apparently they have a taste for important and irreplaceable documents. Go figure. This is the last sentence of this paragraph.
So, yeah, back on topic. Love newbie, and the only Lua experience that I have is looking over bits and pieces of Garry's Mod and the various extensions for that. I do have experience in some other languages like PHP (I was more interested in visual design then,) and Ruby (never really did much with that, lost interest part way through because I wasn't trying to develop a web app.) Needless to say, I am buckling down and writing reference sheets for myself (which worked for me and PHP, as well as me and CSS, XHTML, etc.) so that I will have an easy-to-use reference that will make sense to me (and no-one else.)
Oh, and I was going over some of my more recent design docs today while browsing the forums here to look at projects. Guess what I discovered? Roughly half of the "Wow, cool!" elements of the design being implemented elsewhere. I was simultaneously enthused ("Cool, I can ask for help, and _they will know what I am saying!_",) and saddened ("Oh, wait. My ideas aren't so unique then...".)
So, yeah. Hi. How be thee?
I am new to Love, and will likely be asking a lot of strange questions. I picked it up because I have had this itch in my skull of a game idea for a few years. I have turned one version of it into a functional board game that kept some of my friends and I entertained for a few evenings (that is, until I moved suddenly and lost the hardcopy.) I have had lots of pages of design documents for this too. Until some move or another.
You know, I always assumed that you lost some random subset of your belongings to the moving gnomes, but apparently they have a taste for important and irreplaceable documents. Go figure. This is the last sentence of this paragraph.
So, yeah, back on topic. Love newbie, and the only Lua experience that I have is looking over bits and pieces of Garry's Mod and the various extensions for that. I do have experience in some other languages like PHP (I was more interested in visual design then,) and Ruby (never really did much with that, lost interest part way through because I wasn't trying to develop a web app.) Needless to say, I am buckling down and writing reference sheets for myself (which worked for me and PHP, as well as me and CSS, XHTML, etc.) so that I will have an easy-to-use reference that will make sense to me (and no-one else.)
Oh, and I was going over some of my more recent design docs today while browsing the forums here to look at projects. Guess what I discovered? Roughly half of the "Wow, cool!" elements of the design being implemented elsewhere. I was simultaneously enthused ("Cool, I can ask for help, and _they will know what I am saying!_",) and saddened ("Oh, wait. My ideas aren't so unique then...".)
So, yeah. Hi. How be thee?
