Comments on: Postmortem: Cacodemon’s Barbecue Party in Hell http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon Monthly Experimental Games Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: العاب بنات http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon#comment-112246 العاب بنات Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:35:39 +0000 http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/?p=30#comment-112246 Thanks . That is really an excellent post . Thanks . That is really an excellent post .

]]> By: Roman Alberto http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon#comment-968 Roman Alberto Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:04:40 +0000 http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/?p=30#comment-968 nice site nice site

]]> By: petri.purho http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon#comment-967 petri.purho Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:12:33 +0000 http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/?p=30#comment-967 It might be SDL_rotozoom, but it should really be that slow. I know that software is pretty slow when compared to hardware accelerated 2d graphics, but I don't that thats the reason why it lags. I suspect it's because of my poorly done resource handling. I change the image of the kitten when it spins at a certain speed and every time I change it I load it from the hard drive. I know that this extremely stupid way of doing it, but at the time of the development my engine didn't support caching of the resources. At this moment there's a interface for doing the caching, but it doesn't have the implementation yet. I'm working at it :) I'll try to get that fixed on the next version of Cacodemon, which I'm also working at the moment. And thanks for the bug report :) It might be SDL_rotozoom, but it should really be that slow. I know that software is pretty slow when compared to hardware accelerated 2d graphics, but I don’t that thats the reason why it lags.

I suspect it’s because of my poorly done resource handling. I change the image of the kitten when it spins at a certain speed and every time I change it I load it from the hard drive. I know that this extremely stupid way of doing it, but at the time of the development my engine didn’t support caching of the resources. At this moment there’s a interface for doing the caching, but it doesn’t have the implementation yet. I’m working at it :)
I’ll try to get that fixed on the next version of Cacodemon, which I’m also working at the moment. And thanks for the bug report :)

]]> By: Decipher http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon#comment-966 Decipher Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:22:31 +0000 http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/?p=30#comment-966 Well as you told it exactly lags from time to time. And I think I also find something. I remarked that when the kitten spins it gets even slower and that has nothing to do with your code but the SDL_rotozoom's code. Well I have used SDL a lot but am not that familiar with SDL_rotozoom, and I pretty much think that < SDL_ Series > suck; I prefer to use my own engine. Well that's it and yeah test build works < almost > perfect :P. Oh, finally, you'd be one great game developer 'cause you pay attention to feedbacks ;) Well as you told it exactly lags from time to time. And I think I also find something. I remarked that when the kitten spins it gets even slower and that has nothing to do with your code but the SDL_rotozoom’s code. Well I have used SDL a lot but am not that familiar with SDL_rotozoom, and I pretty much think that < SDL_ Series > suck; I prefer to use my own engine. Well that’s it and yeah test build works < almost > perfect :P.

Oh, finally, you’d be one great game developer ’cause you pay attention to feedbacks ;)

]]> By: petri.purho http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/postmortems/post-cacodemon#comment-965 petri.purho Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:17:42 +0000 http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/?p=30#comment-965 Ok here's a test build for you to test if it speeds up the game: <a href="http://www.kloonigames.com/temp/cacodemon_testb.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.kloonigames.com/temp/cacodemon_testb.zip</a> I came up with a theory that could explain why cacodemon lags on your computer, but it isn't fixed on this build :) Does the game run smoothly for a while or does it suffer constantly from a bad performance. In other words is it laggish all the time or just from time to time? If it lags from time to time, then I might know the reason... Ok here’s a test build for you to test if it speeds up the game:
http://www.kloonigames.com/temp/cacodemon_testb.zip

I came up with a theory that could explain why cacodemon lags on your computer, but it isn’t fixed on this build :) Does the game run smoothly for a while or does it suffer constantly from a bad performance. In other words is it
laggish all the time or just from time to time?

If it lags from time to time, then I might know the reason…

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