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Unirse Started by u/pimathbrainiac • November 23, 2014, 12:53:54 AM

pimath's VM - Twilight The Arch Mage (or Twilight, for short)

So I'm VM'ing Arch!This is the one I set up on my PC at home. As you see, it has mate, and that's about it. I'll take suggestions here for what I should do with it. I also set one up at school (with the teacher's permission, no less). I'll get pics of that once it is fully operational.

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • January 01, 2015, 02:54:39 PM

java binpac8x

Hello,a while ago i started doing some C for the ti 84 and since it was like7 commands to compile it, i decided to make some kind of sdk. I wanted to use a minimal amount of windows commands, so i made this java implementation of binpac8x. it doesn't have support for any other type than 8xp, maybe i'll add it later.Source is available here: also contains a windows executable made with launch4j

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Unirse Started by u/Scipi • December 10, 2014, 10:13:39 PM

Chess Wars (Chess themed Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars clone)

Since I am going to continue development of my Ludum Dare entry from this thread, I decided to make a dedicated thread for it.Here's a link to the Ludum Dare entry, if you wish to try it out: ;uid=34647 Chess Wars is a Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars style game themed on Chess. Game play is pretty straightforward if you'...

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • January 13, 2015, 11:19:15 PM

C windows api

So im trying to send some bytes trough an usb port in C. i'm using somelibrary ( ) which does most ofthe work. At least it should be. When i put the c file for windows inmy project, it gives some errors under "SetupDiGetClassDevsA"and more from "setupapi". Apparently i need to link this DLL with my project.I'm using MinGW and code in Eclipse (pls no h8). Note that ive neverdone PC C before (only some GLSL and SDCC).[i...

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Unirse Started by u/James Oldiges • January 14, 2015, 02:11:23 PM

question about C

Int a Int b a = 5 OK, my professor heavily implied that will always result/be the same thing as b =5. Can anyone confirm this, as I'm 99% sure that it's not true...Thanks!

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Unirse Started by u/iconmaster • January 21, 2015, 10:51:10 PM

[PC] IconusCalc - The world's first AutoRPN (tm) calculator!

I was working on this a while ago. I don't think I have the time to keep working on this project, but here it is anyways.IconusCalc is a calculator written in Java. It's biggest feature is something I call AutoRPN. It can accept input in all 3 major notation formats: Infix, polish, and reverse polish. Of course, this means sometimes you have to use parenthesis in RPN expression ('sacrilege,' RPN enthusiasts cry), but it's generally a lot more convenient than any one input method. Screenshots[/...

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Unirse Started by u/Thecoder1998 • January 23, 2015, 09:25:41 AM

Infagon Codewalrus Information Modeling

So during computer science class we're doing information modelingAnd we decided to use codewalrus for our diagram Pretty cool eh?

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Unirse Started by u/Scipi • December 05, 2014, 11:56:03 PM

Ludum Dare 31

Hey everyone. Ludum Dare 31 is about to kick off and I'm streaming development of my entry.If you don't know what Ludum dare is, it's a competition held every four months with the objective to make a game from scratch within 48 hours based on a given theme voted on by the community.This time I'm hoping to make a fighting game of some sort, since I'm really bad at playing fighters and don't like the genre. If you want to drop on by my stream and see how development is going, I'll be streaming her...

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Unirse Started by u/unknownloner • January 20, 2015, 06:56:03 AM

Haskell Audio Synthesizer

I decided I wanted to learn the ins and outs of how audio actually works, and figured I could get some more experience with Haskell at the same time.Anyhow, here's some code some sample output (though it's pretty easy to modify it to play something else) 's not exactly the most sophisticated synthesizer, but it's something, and is kinda neat to play with it.I've got basic tones playing, but I want to create an Attack-Deca...

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • February 10, 2015, 07:56:06 PM

Raymarch Shaders

Apart from making particle systems i do more with shaders, and that is mainly raymarching.For those of you who don't know, raymarching is a rendering technique (like rasterizing).for every pixel a ray is casted from the camera and folowed until it hits an object, mostlydone by having a distance formula (which surprisingly returns the distance to a surface) andmoving forward until the distance is smaller than a certain number (like 0.0001).I've whipped up a program to load and draw the shader on ...

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Unirse Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • March 05, 2015, 07:08:22 PM

WARNING: Do not set your Java programs minimum version above 7u65!

WARNING: Do not set your Java programs minimum version above 7u65! The reason for this is that after this, Oracle decided to add new security features that will block many third-party Java applications in your browser, but there will be no way to ignore the warning. In addition to that, Java 8 removes the Medium security settings. Java will simply force the setting upon you and then this is what will happen: And here is the problem that arises next: The ...

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Unirse Started by u/岩倉澪 • January 28, 2015, 08:43:25 AM

Piworld

Handmade Hero has inspired me to take another shot at this old project.Piworld was my first project, and it was largly thanks to the calc community that I became a programmer.My interest in calculators faded as PC programming captured my attention, but my dream for piworld was far beyond what I could accomplish back then. I moved on to other things, but I think it is finally time to make that dream from my youth a reality.My vision for this game is an isometric/2.5d adventure game in the spirit ...

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Unirse Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • February 17, 2015, 02:15:23 AM

Your worst programming fails

We all gotta start somewhere. I don't think we should feel ashamed of our past coding mistakes as a result, providing you don't still do those mistakes. Anyway, does anybody here have funny or ridiculous coding mishaps from their past to share?I start this topic because since I am porting a 2002 game to the CSE I just realized how much of a disaster the code in this game can be. For example, the map engine is about 35% of the entire game size despite being very rudimentary.Anyway, here I start ...

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • March 27, 2015, 05:23:17 PM

Game engine structure

I was starting on some simple program today, and when i wanted to draw something, i noticed OpenGL wouldn't reallydraw my lines. Since i used Java with still LWJGL 2.9 i decided to update to LWJGL 3, but this newer version completely changesthings like displays and such, so i decided to make a new engine. Normally i just use the simple engine i made some time ago,which only handles display creation, openGL initialization, and a game loop. And since i want to write a better engine, i'm wonderingh...

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Unirse Started by u/Siapran • April 11, 2015, 05:28:34 PM

Generic container library in C

For some reason I though it would be a good idea to recreate STL in C.Might as well show it off here. There is still a lot of room for improvements, and I'll continue working on it as soon as I get a DESK to put my laptop on.

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Unirse Started by u/Thecoder1998 • April 18, 2015, 04:41:58 PM

[Python 2.7] Quaternion Arithmetic Program

Hi guys, i'm currently learning how to program in Python and i've made a neat little script which can do arithmetic with quaternions from numpy import matrixdef quaternion(a,b,c,d): u = matrix('1.,0.,0.,0.;0.,1.,0.,0.;0.,0.,1.,0.;0.,0.,0.,1.') i = matrix('0.,1.,0.,0.;-1.,0.,0.,0.;0.,0.,0.,-1.;0.,0.,1.,0.') j = matrix('0.,0.,1.,0.;0.,0.,0.,1.;-1.,0.,0.,0.;0.,-1.,0.,0.') k = matrix('0.,0.,0.,1.;0.,0.,-1.,0.;0.,1.,0.,0.;-1.,0.,0.,0.') q = a*u+b*i+c*j+d*k return qdef printqu...

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Unirse Started by u/Ephraim Becker • May 03, 2015, 03:32:24 PM

Visual Studio confusion

There's too many languages to choose from for me to make a universal Windows 10 App (like Visual Basic, XAML, C#, ect.). What's the best language for me to make CalcPlay?

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Unirse Started by u/Ivoah • April 26, 2015, 12:33:29 AM

[PICO-8] 3D demo (maybe library soonish)

I made a simple 3D demo in PICO-8, currently there is only support for drawing wireframe shapes and point clouds. There are also a few bugs, but I think it looks pretty great! (You can see one of the bugs in the screenshot) Demo attached

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Unirse Started by u/Yuki • May 01, 2015, 05:52:31 AM

[PICO-8][Tutorial] How to import pictures into PICO-8

I made a little script that converts a picture into a PICO-8 cartridge. Here how it works:1. Install PHP and its GD library. Works best on Linux and OS X, but can also work on Windows.2. Download this pic2p8.php script and run it like this: php pic2p8.php mypic.jpg 3. Copy the output into a new file with a .p8 extension into your cartridge folder. (Type folder in the PICO-8 prompt, or for you Linux users do this:) php pic2p8.php mypic.jpg > ~/.lexaloffle/pico-8/carts/mypic.p8[/co...

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • May 05, 2015, 10:46:20 AM

[pico-8] Raymarcher

So i downloaded pico-8 a few days ago, and i made a shader-like thingy (basically it loops through every pixel and runs a function to get the color).Ofcourse, i had to make a raymarcher with it: It contains some vector functions, a few raymarch primitives (only 2 atm), atan, acos, sqrt (which i didnt make), and rgb-to-16-color converter, and some functions for the raymarcher lie getting normals and calculating a diffuse value.The function "f" in th...

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Unirse Started by u/Thecoder1998 • May 06, 2015, 01:46:11 PM

[Python 2.7] I made a vector library :3

hi guys, i made a vectory library in python i'm looking for some more things to implement, maybe you guys could come up with some ideas from numpy import matrix, arctan, arccos, sqrtdef vec(a, b, c = None, d = None): if c == None and d == None: return matrix('%s;%s' % (a, b)) elif c != None and d == None: return matrix('%s;%s;%s' % (a, b, c)) else: return matrix('%s;%s;%s;%s' % (a, b, c, d))def dim(v): return v.shape def comp(v, a): return v.item(a - 1,...

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Unirse Started by u/Ephraim Becker • March 24, 2015, 12:19:55 AM

CalcPlay for Windows

I feel like making a calculator linking software App for Windows 8\10 in Visual Basic that would compete with TI-Connect and TILP. I'm calling it CalcPlay. I'll try to post a mockup of CalcPlay later.

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Unirse Started by u/Ephraim Becker • May 14, 2015, 01:44:36 PM

Where to buy a projector kit

I'm trying to look for a projector kit all over the web. My principal wants me to find one for a project I'm doing with another boy in my school. Where can I buy the best projector kit?

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Unirse Started by u/Ivoah • May 12, 2015, 12:10:11 AM

Business card Menger Sponge

(I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this topic, feel free to move it mods)A few years ago I started to work on building a Menger Sponge entirely out of business cards. [url= ...

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Unirse Started by u/pimathbrainiac • May 28, 2015, 01:30:43 AM

Quest for the Golden Plunger

So a guy who sat next to me in AP Computer Science and I made a roguelike for our final project. You are a man in a maze with randomly placed torches. You have to find the golden plunger before the "minotaur" (actually a dancing ditto) catches you.Source here . Screenies soon.WARNING: This is a project with SDL as its dependency and also has a windows-specific makefile atm (blame netbeans). If you want to make, I'll figure out how to m...

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Unirse Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • June 08, 2015, 02:48:44 AM

MOVED: CodeWalr.us Post Notifier [Windows] [Mac] [Linux]

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Unirse Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • June 08, 2015, 02:48:52 AM

MOVED: [Android] CodeWalrus Post Notifier

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Unirse Started by u/guicrith • June 09, 2015, 04:49:10 AM

Cant decide a new project.

I cant decide so i am just asking.(I wanted to do a casio prizm emulator but i dont have the patience to go all the way.)Number 1 is pretty self explanitory.(mainly for rom hackers to convert the game engine to javascript and make new games with it.(a nes ppu(the 80s version of the gpu/Picture Processing Unit) emulator would be included so you could keep the existing graphics if you wanted))Number 2 is a platformer with a 1d viewpoint.(In a 3d world you see a 2d picture so in a 2d world you woul...

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Unirse Started by u/guicrith • June 13, 2015, 02:49:48 AM

First person 2d platformer

The project has just been started and I cant find any good tutorials on how to rotate and move the camera for 3d rendering.(I still need a camera for projecting 2d to 1d)I only know math up to geometry no trig.(aside for sin,cos,tan)This is likely the biggest challenge the project will face.(the project should only take 2 months after this)Picture of what I am trying to do.(I know my writing sucks and no I am not in kindergarten) ...

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Unirse Started by u/DarkestEx • April 06, 2015, 05:51:12 PM

TwoStep - The challenging puzzle game! [Windows] [Mac] [Linux]

TwoStep for PC Features - Fully scriptable, JIT compiled Lua levels with full engine control and all standard .NET framework classes (Web, Sockets, File, Collections, ...)- Custom blocks, Textures, Players and Levels definiable from Lua- Awesome textures from AliceIsDead - Great sounds from DJ Omnimaga - Fast, dynamic game engine- SFML framework, which is written in C++, fast, multiplatform, simple...

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Unirse Started by u/Strontium • April 29, 2015, 11:38:50 PM

Flowers! [withdrew from contest] [ti-nspire cx] [PC]

NOTICE: There is a git repo available here: am creating a game where you program a plants DNA to allow it to survive in the given environment. DNA is edited in segments of four, and each segment does a different thing. So a segment dedicated to leaves could allow you to change the type of leave, wether that means its a light leaf, dark leaf, fuzzy leaf, whatever. (Yes, each type of leaf in nature has its pros and cons, they are not just like that to l...

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Unirse Started by u/matrefeytontias • August 01, 2015, 06:35:12 PM

Strip Bounce (PC / Android if everything goes well)

Hey there,I recently started what will be a small game, and hopefully the first PC game I will officially release (read : actually release) : Strip Bounce.In this game, you are a little square thingy shooting to other geometrical shapes thingies with your death laser of vengence, BUT with a twist : you can't actually fire at enemies. I used pool game as an inspiration for this : different types of enemies require different amounts of your laser bouncing off walls to be killed. If your laser hits...

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Unirse Started by u/rwill • August 21, 2015, 05:14:04 PM

Low memory data decompression

Hello,just in case someone needs to compress data on a powerful machine and then decompress it fast in a low performance low memory environment I made a deflate ( think zip ) like compression/decompression utility in C. The compression part is heavily unoptimized while the decompression part is using below 1kb of memory plus a window of the previously decoded data. The functions for decompression are also kind of optimized for simplicity, a 8 or 16 bit CPU should be enough. Its compressing 4 bit...

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Unirse Started by u/Ivoah • August 28, 2015, 04:02:28 AM

Nyan cat [pico-8]

While on vacation last week, I came to the realization that there was no nyan cat cart for PICO-8. I set out to make a nyan cat program, and here's the end result:

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Unirse Started by u/Snektron • January 22, 2015, 10:31:58 PM

FBO Particle System

Ever since i started programming, i've been interested in particle systems.The mouseattractor ones. I've made several of them, thefirst one on my laptop could'nt even handle a thousand without killing thecomputer (that are the drawbacks of Java i guess :/). Also, this summer became interested in GLSL (Shading) and started learning that.Then after a while i read somewhere that GPU's could be usedfor more than only drawing images on screen (well, i knew that before, but i neverreally knew how such...

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Unirse Started by u/ordelore • October 19, 2015, 10:45:37 PM

[School project] Stress-o-matic

Here's a request for people to check my work for school.This is a video game (More of an interactive fiction) I made for health class explaining stress and how to deal with it.The beginning survey is completely confidential or you can use random numbers if you want.

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Unirse Started by u/Keoni29 • November 19, 2015, 02:00:39 PM

CBS6000 emulator

CBS6000 Emulator I always wanted to write an emulator, but pretty much every device has been emulated already.Then I thought to myself: Why not emulate the computer that I designed and built myself. About the CBS6000 The CBS6000 is an 8 bit microcomputer with a 1MHz 6502 cpu at its core. The user interacts with it using a terminal. About the emulator I did not feel like re-inventing the wheel with the CPU emulator, so I based my emulator on a 6502...

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Unirse Started by u/DarkestEx • May 01, 2015, 03:06:51 PM

Windows 7 Downloads

As you all might have noticed, Microsoft took Windows 7 down from its digitalriver site.But if you still need the image here are some official mirrors of the image (completely legal).Note that even if they say german they all have the option to set them to english when installing them. Windows 7 Home Premium: Windows 7 Professional: hope they're useful to you.

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Unirse Started by u/Ephraim Becker • November 27, 2015, 01:40:30 AM

How to code an mp4 video

Is there a way to code a mp4 video from scratch? How do I do it?

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Unirse Started by u/Yuki • November 05, 2015, 08:18:28 AM

clgui

So I was messing with Ruby today and I did this. It's a Command-Line Graphic User Interface library. As in, it takes a text-only VT100 emulator such as your Linux terminal and turns it into a thing you can draw on, thanks to Unicode Braille characters. It have some drawing functions such as pxl_on, pxl_off, pxl_change, line and many others. Not complete yet but it's a good start. Download the source here:

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Unirse Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 31, 2015, 09:45:44 AM

MOVED: Dynamically generated GIF scrolltext

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Unirse Started by u/Unicorn • July 18, 2015, 05:33:48 PM

Unicorn's Ruby Questions and Programs [Ruby]

So, I decided to make a question/display thread about ruby. I am currently trying to make a guessing game, sticking with the first game I made in TI-BASIC Anyways, I'll ask questions here and showcase my programs, and maybe post downloads. EDIT: A little input and display program: while 1puts 'Type whatever you want here!'text = gets.chompputs textif text == 'Quit' abortendend Also, a guessing game If you have ruby installed, run the attached file.Else, install it [c...

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Unirse Started by u/CVSoft • January 12, 2016, 10:32:38 PM

A Python Library for Uniden DMA Scanner Communication

Because I like RS232, I'm writing a Python library for RS232 communication with Uniden DMA scanners (BR330T, BC346T/XT, BCD396XT). Being 5 lines long in an early stage of development, I don't have a whole lot to say about it, but in the end it should allow complete programming and monitoring of the scanner via serial, and maybe even include a simple bridge for TCP/IP relaying. It'll be more of a SDK with a demo included once it's done. This will be a progress thread as I figure out an inc...

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Unirse Started by u/ordelore • January 19, 2016, 03:49:58 AM

Stoichiometry Solver

My latest project This is a stoichiometry solver I made for chemistry class and is the result of this whole three day weekend's workPlease leave any bug reports if any are found What is stoichiometry? Screenie:

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Unirse Started by u/Araidia • February 05, 2016, 03:06:43 AM

Best programming language to learn?(For beginners)

So, I have a computer programming/game development class next term and I want to know what the best programming language is to learn to "get my feet wet".So far, I've tried learning a little bit of python at codecademy.com So am I choosing the right language to learn first? If not, what should I learn first and are there any good resources to learn it?Finally, I made sure, and the topic closest to this is this

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Unirse Started by u/Ephraim Becker • February 09, 2016, 07:52:07 PM

Best external memory to start my Linux distro on

I had a 64GB 2.0 USB flash drive and I tried reformatting the flash drive to the ext4 file system to put Arch Linux which i'm going to build my distro on. Unfortunately, the flash drive went through a lot of reads\writes due to a lot of errors during partitioning and it's no longer detected by any computer. Is there any other external storage to put Arch Linux on to start work on my Linux distro that doesn't wear out as much as my 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive? Which external storage should I go with...

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Unirse Started by u/Max Leiter • January 17, 2016, 10:17:13 PM

Improved Commandblock GUI, a WIP MC mod

I've decided to try getting back into MC modding, and my current idea is an improved command block editor. Basically, it will be a completely clientside mod that will replace the current (terrible) commandblock GUI with an improved, more "IDE" like one (multiple lines, auto-close parenthesis, etc).I plan to make the mod using MinecraftForge and will use the GuiOpenEvent for launching my GUI. Alternatively, I may use reflection to simply modify the current t...

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Unirse Started by u/novenary • February 18, 2016, 04:03:53 PM

Shogun - A dead simple build system based on Ninja

I grew tired of writing makefiles and I couldn't find a single build system that aimed to be minimalist and had decent scripting support. Ninja does the former but doesn't implement the latter on its own by design so I wrote the complementary part.Github: hacked this together in a few hours so it's not perfect but I can already build a project of mine with it and it works great.

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Unirse Started by u/pimathbrainiac • January 30, 2016, 04:19:38 PM

Unnamed JRPG - For School Project

Hello! This semester, one of my classes is a directed study. In other words, I get to do something I want to do, and there are gradable checkpoints every week or two. As the title of this post suggests, I'm making a JRPG. I have a story concept, but I don't have a name atm Below I'm going to put what the assignments are and when they are due-ish (since it's okay if they are a day or so late, according to the teacher). Stats Outline – A plan for what stats characters may have, how they ...

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