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Geek Culture / January Newsletter # 108 is out!

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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 12:07
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Happy New Year to everyone!

January's newsletter is available to read: http://www.thegamecreators.com/pages/newsletters/newsletter_issue_108.html
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Fuzz
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 12:21
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Awesome and happy new year!

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Ched80
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 12:22
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Another great issue. Here's to a great 2012 for all things TGC related. My resolution is to.get my first app completed and the sprite packs will certainly help me there!

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MrValentine
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 14:31
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Another great read... Appy New Year!

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xplosys
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 16:12
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Awesome newsletter! Congrats again to Seppuku Arts and Hodgey and a big thanks to Josh for the cool sprites.

Brian.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

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baxslash
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 16:27
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Well done Mr. Vink another great newsletter

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KeithC
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Posted: 1st Jan 2012 17:20
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Another great one!

-Keith

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The Slayer
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 12:25
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Great read to start of the new year, guys! Well done.

The 'Bitesize' tutorials are a great idea, bax! Thank you for that.

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baxslash
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 19:26
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Thanks The Slayer!

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 22:28
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Great issue. I have a problem going through the AppGameKit bitesize tutorial, however.

With these two lines:


I get an error "Sprite 0 does not exist at line 10". It doesn't like using setSpriteSize on a sprite created from no image? I'm still learning AppGameKit so I'm new to this, and I probably did something wrong.


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Hodgey
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 01:21
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Quote: "Congrats again to Seppuku Arts and Hodgey"

Thanks Xplosys and my congratulations to Seppuku Arts!

Another excellent issue BatVink and a very nice tutorial baxslash!

Quote: "I get an error "Sprite 0 does not exist at line 10". It doesn't like using setSpriteSize on a sprite created from no image?"

Works on this end. Have you installed the latest version of AppGameKit (1065)? You could also try placing this:

Global spr as integer

right before the CreateSprite() line.

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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 05:50
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Yes, I'm using the newest AppGameKit, just installed fresh today. The error still appears with the following code:




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Hodgey
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 06:24
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Ah, there's a typo on the SetSpriteOffset line. You've added a 't' to the variable thus creating a new one with a value of 0.

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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 07:11
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Oh..... my.... how embarrassing. Thanks Hodgey


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baxslash
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 10:26
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Nice catch Hodgey, I was just looking through these posts to find the answer! "Syntax Error" I guess how many times have I done that? Too many to count!!

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Hodgey
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 11:27
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You're welcome Jeku.

Yeah, I'm only speaking from experience. I've had more than my fair share of typos.

Actually, I think someone mentioned a request for adding an option where people can choose to have compulsory variable declaration. It would certainly make finding typos a lot easier.

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Teh Stone
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 21:20
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Is there a thread anywhere for Josh mooneys sprite packs, had a quick look but couldn't see one
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Hodgey
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 22:38
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It's on the AppGameKit board, right here.

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Teh Stone
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Posted: 4th Jan 2012 01:31
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Thanks hodge
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JLMoondog
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Posted: 4th Jan 2012 08:55
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Great newsletter as always.

Here's the original thread with all of the sprite packs so far. Lot more is planned and I"ll be picking this back up in the next few days.

2D Pack Thread

http://www.jlmoondog.com/
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Morcilla
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Posted: 15th Jan 2012 16:41
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Thank you very much for the MPL3D acknowledgement.
I wish the best for 2012 to this fantastic community, that every year keeps getting better and better

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