Handling Multiple Metagame Modes | Episode Guide

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0:03Intro, plans

1:19Description of the 'meta-game' elements that Handmade Hero needs

4:54Setting up, compiling and running the current state of the game

6:21Choosing the first programming task for today

7:30Reviewing the cut-scene code

11:36Adding the concept of game modes

14:32Adding a union to game_state to hold individual state for each game mode

16:54Changing UpdateAndRenderGame to dispatch to other functions based on the current game mode

21:33Modifying the cut-scene code to use the new game mode concept

25:37Begin implementing the switching between game modes

27:27Changing the WorldArena in the game_state to ModeArena, to be used by all game modes

29:34Determining how parameters will be passed to game modes when switching between them

31:03Letting the caller of SetGameMode do the initialization of the new mode, to avoid having to pass unnecessary parameters

33:40Creating an arena in the World struct, for exclusive use by the main World game mode, instead of having it use the arena in the game_state struct

35:46Exposing the SetGameMode function, and updating PlayIntroCutscene and PlayTitleScreen to use the ModeArena

36:18Making world based functions use the new world-specific arena

37:21Finish implementing the game mode switch statement in UpdateAndRenderGame

38:34Adding initialization code for the world-specific arena

41:06Re-organising the main World game code to be in functions specific to the new World game mode

44:01Running the game to see how the new code is working

45:02Separating out the persistent elements of game_state from those specific to the World game mode

48:23Moving things around to more appropriate files and to appease the compiler

53:59Changing many world-specific functions to work with a game_mode_world struct instead of the game_state struct

1:01:46Adjusting the creation of memory arenas in the initialization code

1:05:14Fixing the remaining compile errors

1:06:41Out of time, running the game with the world mode currently inaccessible until the cleanup work is completed at a later date

1:07:08Q&A

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1:07:08Q&A

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1:08:07actbinary How do the memory areas work?

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1:08:07actbinary How do the memory areas work?

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1:08:07actbinary How do the memory areas work?

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1:08:31blah238 Well since no one's asking, have you heard about AMD open sourcing a lot of their GPU stuff?

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1:08:31blah238 Well since no one's asking, have you heard about AMD open sourcing a lot of their GPU stuff?

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1:08:31blah238 Well since no one's asking, have you heard about AMD open sourcing a lot of their GPU stuff?

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1:09:48XEnDash Should the world mode changing be prefetched like the cut-scenes changing?

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1:09:48XEnDash Should the world mode changing be prefetched like the cut-scenes changing?

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1:09:48XEnDash Should the world mode changing be prefetched like the cut-scenes changing?

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1:10:21elxenoaizd So by 'meta-game' do you mean like the pre-game stuff?

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1:10:21elxenoaizd So by 'meta-game' do you mean like the pre-game stuff?

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1:10:21elxenoaizd So by 'meta-game' do you mean like the pre-game stuff?

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1:10:31thehappypumpkin Hi! I just finished my first semester of computer science in school! Just learned some basic Java, but I was wondering on if you have any tips moving forward. Also, do you know of any colleges that have good computer science departments?

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1:10:31thehappypumpkin Hi! I just finished my first semester of computer science in school! Just learned some basic Java, but I was wondering on if you have any tips moving forward. Also, do you know of any colleges that have good computer science departments?

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1:10:31thehappypumpkin Hi! I just finished my first semester of computer science in school! Just learned some basic Java, but I was wondering on if you have any tips moving forward. Also, do you know of any colleges that have good computer science departments?

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1:11:18evraire Sorry slow night, the chat erupted into a flame war over the exclusion of option menus in games :-P

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1:11:18evraire Sorry slow night, the chat erupted into a flame war over the exclusion of option menus in games :-P

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1:11:18evraire Sorry slow night, the chat erupted into a flame war over the exclusion of option menus in games :-P

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1:11:36Culver_Fly I wonder if there's a specific reason you put the 3 game_mode structs into a union?

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1:11:36Culver_Fly I wonder if there's a specific reason you put the 3 game_mode structs into a union?

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1:11:36Culver_Fly I wonder if there's a specific reason you put the 3 game_mode structs into a union?

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1:11:48elxenoaizd So I have this generic USB controller that's not being detected by XInput, any ideas how to go about detecting it? Use DirectInput? Or try to use an Xbox controller emulator or something?

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1:11:48elxenoaizd So I have this generic USB controller that's not being detected by XInput, any ideas how to go about detecting it? Use DirectInput? Or try to use an Xbox controller emulator or something?

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1:11:48elxenoaizd So I have this generic USB controller that's not being detected by XInput, any ideas how to go about detecting it? Use DirectInput? Or try to use an Xbox controller emulator or something?

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1:12:53Wrap up

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1:12:53Wrap up

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1:12:53Wrap up

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