The Uteen
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my status: very quo
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 5, 2016 11:54:46 GMT
That max title length. Hi. I'm back after NickTheNick did the email equivalent of poking me with a stick. Maybe it was the poke I needed. I'm not sure where I'm going with this metaphor. Not sure how much I'll participate in discussion, since keeping up with everything is hard, keeping up with not-everything makes it harder to post, and I'm quite busy in life at the moment. I'm going to try and stick around a bit, at least. Really impressed by the progress that's been made in the past year, though. The new forums make everything seem more organised (though the dev forum is such a mobile site!). The game's graphics have really improved (though the UI breaks slightly at 2880 × 1800  ). The discussion going on over at the dev forums is very practical, it's good to see how involved everyone is over there. So, I've now got some skills at programming, but with high-level languages (because manual memory management, ugh), and my several attempts at making a game didn't really go anywhere (too overambitious or something), so Thrive is sort of opposite to what I'm any good at. So I'm probably still just an ideas guy, but maybe with more technical knowledge. See you around the forums. EDIT: I'll work on a shorter version of that signature at some point. EDIT2: No unicode support… Shame. |
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 5, 2016 12:01:27 GMT
I won't lie, I was more than unreasonably happy to see The Uteen pop up in the people online list. Welcome back!  Don't worry about having to keep up with discussion - most of us tend not to anyway. The dev forum is indeeed a bit weird by forum standards, but hey, it's nice and clean and has a lot of cool features (besides, the old dev forum is a hidden malware nightmare now). If you want to join there we can send you an invite, but don't feel like you have to. EDIT: Oh, and one thing. We're missing the Uteen image on this page, which is a shame. Any chance you still have it lying around? |
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The Uteen
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my status: very quo
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 5, 2016 12:12:41 GMT
Thanks. I'm quite excited to be back, thanks to the effort you and everyone have been putting into the game in my absence. Well done. To be honest, lots of the posts on the developer forums look very technical, either in terms of science or programming. I'm not sure I'd be able to follow that. I don't really feel fully caught up yet (only had a quick look through everything), so maybe I'd be able to contribute more once I've caught up. So, maybe I could join the tester team as ‘That guy with the unreasonably large monitor’. Is that role open? Is this the one? There's also this one: EDIT: I really made that page. Wow. Past me is actually pretty good. |
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 5, 2016 12:26:37 GMT
Yep, it was the first one. Great!
We'll still need non-science people's opinions on proposed game mechanics, although it'll require some knowledge of what's going on elsewhere. Everybody here can be a tester.
Does the UI breaking involve massive text? I've got a large monitor too (not quite that big) and that's been happening to me for a while.
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The Uteen
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my status: very quo
Posts: 83
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 5, 2016 12:29:52 GMT
Lots of text wrapping in-game, and buttons overlapping in the main menu.
This is without changing the DPI. Usually I'd have the DPI at 1.5× or higher, so I can actually see things, but that causes the game to start rendering offscreen.
EDIT: Does a thread exist for resolution & DPI issues? If not, should it be made in the community forums, or development?
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 5, 2016 12:48:43 GMT
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Post by Aquos on Mar 5, 2016 13:03:01 GMT
sorry i'm late to say this but welcome back i just finished reading the page about the Uteen and i like it vey much  |
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Post by Atrox on Mar 5, 2016 13:22:49 GMT
I remember reading through your posts on the old forum Welcome back Uteen! This is so cool that a lot of the older members are returning |
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Post by Captain McDerp on Mar 5, 2016 13:46:24 GMT
Holy Belgium it's the Uteen.
What year is it?
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Post by StealthStyleL on Mar 5, 2016 14:09:19 GMT
I remember reading your posts on the old forum. It's so cool that you're back!
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The Uteen
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my status: very quo
Posts: 83
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 5, 2016 14:39:26 GMT
Thanks, everyone!
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Post by Narotiza on Mar 5, 2016 17:06:38 GMT
Welcome back! |
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The Uteen
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my status: very quo
Posts: 83
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 9, 2016 21:49:18 GMT
EDIT: I'll work on a shorter version of that signature at some point. So… I've finished a new signature image to match the ‘new’ avatar I made years ago. I still have the original .acorn files. Figured out how to make it resize properly, too, so it doesn't crop on small screens, and hopefully it wont be too tall even on phones. My sig is currently set to scale depending on screen size, so hopefully it shouldn't be too big no matter what your screen. It seems to all be based on HTML & CSS, too, making post-formatting in general pretty flexible. For your web development skills, here's the code I used: [div align="center"][img width="600vw" src="https://i.imgur.com/vC0cgUK.png" alt="Incoming hyperdimensional transitional hypothetical message-o-mat from the ultimate all-powerful mythical Uteen Citadel"][/div]
EDIT: Also, I'm not sure what the Apple-in-recycle-sign was originally about, but it certainly makes sense now that Apple (used to?) emphasise how green their products are. The reason for the segway symbol is obvious - they're cool. I had the chance to try one a while ago, walking is so clumsy in comparison. |
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WaapFu
Multicellular
wow remember when i was an active member of the community
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Post by WaapFu on Mar 22, 2016 14:15:00 GMT
It is good to see you again! |
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Post by untrustedlife on Apr 17, 2016 19:33:10 GMT
Uteen! long time no see, I am back now aswell! |
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Post by StealthStyleL on Apr 17, 2016 19:49:12 GMT
Welcome back!
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). The discussion going on over at the dev forums is very practical, it's good to see how involved everyone is over there.
