Look Your Loot aka Hamster

sicher · November 10, 2017, 2:43pm

Awesome!

Dragosha · November 13, 2017, 12:48pm

After Defold’s servers was rebooted (Nov 9) one of extensions that I usage in project no longer compiles in ctrl+B mode (dmengine, win10) .

It works without errors in HTML5 and Android bundle. And it worked before Nov 9.
What could it be?

Extension has no recent changes on github.

Mathias_Westerdahl · November 13, 2017, 1:39pm

Hmm, that sounds extremely unfortunate. What extension is it, DefUnityAds? And what is the error? (I can only see the top of the log in your screenshot)

Dragosha · November 13, 2017, 1:48pm

yes, DefUnityAds
screenshot:

Defold log file:
editor2.2017-11-13.log.zip (15.2 KB)

Mathias_Westerdahl · November 13, 2017, 3:27pm

~~Hmm, It basically complains about missing a symbol “share” which seems extremely generic, and doesn’t sound like a symbol someone would use.~~

I’ve tried this a few times now but cannot reproduce it

Would you mind adding me to your project temporarily, then I could take a look? (mathias.westerdahl at king dot com)

EDIT: I looked through your log even further, and it seems you use a “share” extension? Is it this? That code doesn’t seem to support windows (yet)? Perhaps you can ask (or help) @britzl adding that support?

Dragosha · November 13, 2017, 6:05pm

oops, yes, I added “share” in the same time (Nov 9)

Dragosha · November 13, 2017, 6:05pm

Just modified share.cpp with #else like in this instruction: Native Extensions
and all is correct now. Thanks @Mathias_Westerdahl !

Dragosha · November 14, 2017, 5:07am

It looks like “share” button is working

Dragosha · November 14, 2017, 2:40pm

0.82 is here!

Welcome a new hero - the Thief
Less ad impressions inbetween game sessions
Small improvements (in balance)

Thief
Wearing a face-hiding mask, he always has a bunch of keys in his hand. Attentive and careful to such extent that he likely never meets a monster in a barrel.

p.s. also tried to made small protection from leaderboard cheaters.

Mattias_Hedberg · November 14, 2017, 3:56pm

Is keys really that good? I haven’t tried him out yet but it feels like he will be a lot worse than the Mage for sure and maybe even the Knight. Maybe he can avoid traps too? Being all sneaky and stuff

EDIT: First thing I do after saying that is of course to die from the chest…

Dragosha · November 14, 2017, 6:21pm

barrels, barrels without monsters are goal of this class.

Dragosha · November 15, 2017, 4:51am

It looks like we got new weekly leader! The player from Bulgaria

Also took a first stats from Google Analytics to the Thief:

1426 in average. This value is accurate between average mage and paladin values:

Fixed the unfortunate misunderstanding with the Thief leaderboard. Now there is correct aggregation method: Maximum (always use the highest value) as in other leaderboards.

Dragosha · November 15, 2017, 8:55am

Switched dragosha.com to github static pages. May be unavailable some time.

Dragosha · November 16, 2017, 8:00am

Seems that the dummy-protection from leaderboard cheaters is working. There aren’t new cheats in leaderboard for last day.

How does works “leaderboards hack program for dummy”? I think they just scaning the memory scope to find a score value. If I see on screen 100 - I just search for 100 in memory.
What I did to break this logic? I’ve just hide the value of score variable in code by adding random hash to begining score value and substract this hash from value before sent it to server. Easy? Yep. For crack this young hacker needs for reading the code. It’s hard.

Dragosha · November 16, 2017, 9:01am

I guess, it’s good idea to show the share button with “screenshot” when there is the last turn in game. For moments like this

Dragosha · November 16, 2017, 9:02am

Time to make match-3 game:

Dragosha · November 16, 2017, 5:13pm

Just tried to how 4x4 works:

The game logic a bit hardcoded for 3x3 and needs for refactoring for works properly.

p.s. Also on this video may seen the wrong game speed. Too much fast. Perhaps Vsync don’t works. All ok on my office PC with Nvidia and incorrect on home PC with AMD video card.

Dragosha · November 27, 2017, 6:34pm

Well, I protected coins variable from cheat, but bad guys have found new door for cheating. What the wonderful people, now them add big value to multiplicator variable
2017-11-27_23-25-21

Dev news:

all translations from community people. Awesome!

And some app stats:
85K installs
10K DAU
Retention :

Oleg_The_Evangelist · November 28, 2017, 9:50am

how do you facilitate translation fro the tech side?
Any plugins that you used?

Dragosha · November 29, 2017, 7:09am

There are no magic secrets, I just use the Export Sheet Data plugin for Google.sheets for JSON generation:

and Lua module for geting strings from the code

-- Some gui_script:
local txt = require "main.txt"
....
gui.set_text(gui.get_node("l_achievements"), txt.get.achievements)
...
-----------------
-- txt.lua:
local M={}
M.get={}
M.texts={}

function M.init()
    -- Load level data into a string
    local data = sys.load_resource("/res/LookYourLoot texts - texts.json")
    -- Decode json string to a Lua table
    M.texts = json.decode(data)
    --pprint(data_table)
end

function M.setLanguage(str)
    print("Set language to:",str)
    local ret
    str=string.lower(str)
    if  str=="ru" or str=="hu" or str=="de" or str=="pt" or str=="pl" or str=="uk" or str=="cs" then
            ret=str
    else
            ret="en"
    end
    local lang=string.upper(ret)
    for k,v in pairs(M.texts) do
        M.get[k]=v[lang]
    end

    return ret
end
return M

------------------
-- first init script in the game:
...
	txt.init()
	--
	if game.language==nil or game.language=="" then
		local info = sys.get_sys_info()
		game.language=txt.setLanguage(info.language)
	else
		txt.setLanguage(game.language)
	end
...