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Hello, this is Tanja, I thought after a few years of vanishing I could pay you a visit

Sorry for leaving so suddenly after I drained so much of your time for my student project Mistraal. I am deeply grateful to everyone who dedicated their time to my problems, and I know, I had a lot. It would have been the least to give you some download of it, but the truth is, the game was never really finished and is still in the state of some lonely demo level. I feel guilty of taking so much of your ressources and didn't give something back. Well, at least the blog still exists and points to the SDGK.
I didn't develop it further because I constantly ran into problems coding the features I wanted (due to my lack of coding + math knowledge). Then, after the big presentation at the end of the semester my projects tend to get dusty....

Well, after some years now I decided I need to learn more about coding and math in general. I found this awesome online class on Coursera.org about Python, and every week you develop a mini game like Guess the number, Stopwatch, Pong and so on. I don't care so much about the language than the understanding of concepts and math. Right now I'm writing this post to procastinate starting the Pong project  

I finished my studies some time ago and work now in Berlin, Germany as a visual designer (freelancing). Life is not bad at all.

How are you guys doing? Would love to hear from you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBKKV2V8eU&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://piratenpartei-bayern.de/Signing_the_e-petition_for_Non-Germans

You might have heard about the German federal government planing to establish a censorship system for the internet. Superficially speaking, they tell you it is to fight child pornography, but they are already thinking out loud about expanding this instruments. Sites about Ego-Shooters have already been announced to be the next target. File sharing sites will surely follow.

A lot of people stood up against it, by signing a petition to the German Parliament ("Deutscher Bundestag"). The right to sign a petition is granted to everyone by our constitution. This means there is no restriction to age, citizenship or residence. So even you people out there in the other countries can sign it, if you want to show, that you do not want a democratic state to employ instruments of censorship. Sadly it's not that easy, since the e-petition-sytem ist only in German.

But please visit the website linked above, for there is more information in English, the text of the petition AND a video showing you how to go through the german procedure to sign the petition!

AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AS FAST AS YOU CAN because you have only time to sign until 16.06.09!

anyone noted how many new "members" this board got the last few days?

durnurd made once this useful ShootInRange-sprite, which detects the player when inside a certain range. i would like to make more sprites than that, but i don't get the used code functions entirely. could someone explain me what the functions do and what all the expressions mean? i mean, i KNOW somehow what they do, but i fail in customize them. simple and plain english please?

// Get Nearest Player Sprite
         playerIdx = this.GetNearestSpriteIndex(ParentLayer.m_SpriteCategories.Player);

// If in range horizontally
            if (((((System.Math.Abs(this.x-(ParentLayer.m_SpriteCategories.Player[playerIdx]).x)) < (HorizontalRange))
                     && ((System.Math.Abs(this.y-(ParentLayer.m_SpriteCategories.Player[playerIdx]).y)) < (SolidHeight*2)))
                     && ((System.Math.Sign(state*-2+1)) == (System.Math.Sign(x - (ParentLayer.m_SpriteCategories.Player[playerIdx]).x)))))
so is the parameter HorizontalRange supposed to be 0? if i increase this number, will the range get bigger?
(unfortunately, i inserted the sprite, but i won't shoot    i downloaded the sprite template again and inserted it into the sample project, but it isn't working here anymore)

i wrote a custom code object i want to share with you. you can download it here: http://sgdk2.enigmadream.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=fileinfo&id=20
using it will provide a function you can add to any sprite. the sprite will then be carried away by conveyors, quicksand, lava, rivers etc with the speed you specify. everything is explained in the pdf-manual with a lot of pictures. i hope the english is not so yoda-ish this time. 

i am open to all suggestions and tips.

i thought i could manage some things with arrays.
for example:
there is a new custom code document called "personal arrays". it holds three empty arrays, named "Marco", "Daniel" and "Joshua". There are three NPCs named the same way. If the player talks to them the value "tree" will be pushed into the array of that NPC. The arrays are used to store global values for various uses.

a friend of mine wrote arrays in PHP, i wonder what the correct C# syntax would be.
$marco = array("tree","topic1");
$daniel = array();
what of these components do i need in the head of the custom code? (using System; using System.ComponentModel; etc.)

and would it look like this?
[code]namespace CustomObjects
{

public class Talking_Array
   {

      public static void PushIntoArray( string my_value, string my_array)     // i don

i bought a gamepad, it is this one: http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*112419/action*2563;jsessionid=3CA5C8ABA49EE0F1857D9EBEF1A290F8.tomcat_de_lin33?lid=12
after pluggin it in, some versions of my game give an error while starting. the old ones run okay, some middle version give a small error, and the newest give the big error message.
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