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Nifflas

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Algorithmic music composer and game developer. My last game is called Ynglet, a game about swimming in the sky like a space dolphin jellyfish!

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Function naming problems!

So, you know floor/ceiling/round

But, what do I name one that given the input 3.25 has a 75% chance of rounding it to 3 and 25% chance of rounding it to 4?

I realize it's going to be an incredibly useful function for adaptive music.

But... what do I call it?

Nifflas,
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Basically, the decimal part determines the weight of the chance it'll be rounded up or down

Nifflas,
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@frozenfire92 That... makes so much sense :)

Nifflas,
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@xeophin Ooh nice! :) Thank you!

Nifflas,
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@Craigp I like it, very catchy! It's like "lerp" which is one of my favorite things to say and type when I make games.

Nifflas,
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@deKay omnomnomnom

I have no cheese in my naming, but all my custom file formats uses the Hotdog library (sort of library? I guess it's a library, I don't know the strict definition), which means the word Hotdog appears a LOT in my code.

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@deKay

Nifflas,
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@deKay Haha :) This one is a key velocity, as in, how hard you play the note on the musical instrument.

Nifflas,
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@runevision @xeophin Yeah, I think the choice for the name of the function is extremely obvious now :)

I'm going for

int StochasticRound(float value)

Nifflas, to random
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Making a 1-button game. Won't have time for rebindable controls because this is a small game, but I can assign any number of buttons to act as the button. Going for Space Bar, Z and X. Should I add more? Which ones?

I want to avoid buttons that trigger stuff like Windows Sticky Keys tho.

Nifflas,
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@Overbern yeah, definitely! adding buttons like , . and some arrow buttons too!

Nifflas,
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@WAHa_06x36 I guess I could do that, but I may want to stay away for anything system related.

Nifflas,
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@araly Oh yeah, I wonder which enum value is ; in Unity

Nifflas,
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@thomastospace I'll do that! I'll also cover keys that are bottom range on azerty/qwertz keyboards

Also I'll put in the arrows, numpad 0, and numpad enter

Nifflas,
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@Sophie It's an option, yeah!

djlink, (edited ) to random
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Only one can exist!

Nifflas,
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@djlink No! All four of them must exist.

Nifflas,
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@djlink Today I make the rules and I'm allowing all of them to exist!

(FF7 remake is done for tho, let's keep the original only)

Nifflas,
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@djlink

Nifflas,
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@djlink

Nifflas, to random
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I said it on bsky too, but OBS, what a nice piece of software. Tried it for the first time for some screen recording today.

I like when I open something and the UI just makes sense (I wouldn't make this point unless I felt this is such a rare occurrence)

Nifflas,
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@spv Haha, it took me long to realize it's for screen recording too!

Nifflas,
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@spv Oh no, I did use it for the first time today. The reason being, I didn't know it was great for just screen recording too! I always associated it with streaming.

I'd probably have used it loooooong before now if I realized this!

Nifflas,
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@duckonaut Oh yeah, might definitely be room for improvements! It was just a very nice first impression for me and I'm generally very negative toward contemporary UI.

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Happy Monday, y'all. How are we doing? Any new releases I should be aware of? What is working on? Send me your links and screenshots! (And hey, if you are working on an and you don't have a person on sound/music yet - talk to me!)

Nifflas,
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@FredrikHathen I'm making a weeeird game! Not ready to send screen shots yet. Want to playtest it tho? It'd take about 30 minutes, screen share + discord would be a good option!

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Only one can exist!

Nifflas,
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@djlink That's the easiest one so far! The Thing!

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