Mr. Phil Games Blog

Iron Roads Goes to New Orleans

MrPhil — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:07:17 +0000

Iron Roads Progress 1/23/2012

- Figured out how to drawn lines using sprites, Thank you to XNA wiki
- Rail links between cities drawn
- Added a bunch of cities: Springfield, Memphis, Little Rock, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans
- Cleaned up the map some, including better lakes around New Orleans: Lake Maurepus, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne

SOPA BLACKOUT

MrPhil — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:58:53 +0000

The Greatest Video Game Made

Kickstarter: The Last Sleeper

MrPhil — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:02:50 +0000

I added The Last Sleeper to my list of Kickstart projects today. I really think the music by Erik Aadahl is well done. The latest update has a nice track, you should take a listen I’m also intrigued by the story of the game, and it sounds like the game designer has face some serious adversity getting the project this far. Add your support, only a few hours left!

The Last Sleeper

Kickstarter Projects Worthy of Your Support

MrPhil — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:02:59 +0000

Here’s another batch of interesting game project I’ve supporting on Kickstarter. They a look they need more support:

UFHO2 – A Turn-based Strategy Game

Organ Trail: Director’s Cut

LangGuini a Card Game!

Puzzle Me! – A Family-Friendly Board Game

Unity3D #pragma strict Gotch

MrPhil — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:27:28 +0000

I was working with some code in a book today and could not figure out why a variable was giving me problems.

Unknown idenifier: ‘mesh’. (BCE0005)

I don’t usually program using JavaScript much less with MonoDevlop, so it took me a while. Turns out, it’s a little thing:

#pragma strict

I was using it, and the book wasn’t. They didn’t declare the variable in the example unlike ALL the other ones! That’s why it is unknown, it IS unknown. The sample code that came with the book compiled because it doesn’t have the #pragma strict.

2011 Indie of the Year

MrPhil — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:41:11 +0000

GO VOTE NOW!

Venus Patrol – Kickstarter

MrPhil — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:41:14 +0000

I’ve added Venus Patrol to my stable of Kickstarter projects. It’s basically rebooting Offworld for Boing Boing which went silent back in 2009.

September 13, 2011

MrPhil — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:01:23 +0000

Bulk Insert Tip and Gotchas

A follow up tip to using the Bulk Insert trick with SQL Server. You can edit the files using Excel and get around the broken comma escape problem by change the Windows setting for what a list delimiters is and using the pipe character, |, instead. Source: Change Delimiter For Csv Export – Tip

Another gotcha I ran into is that the Bulk Insert doesn’t always use the id in the Identity columns and you can run into weird foegirn key problems. You have to add the KEEPIDENTITY setting, for example:

BULK INSERT [dbo].[tablename]
FROM ‘C:tabeldatatablename.csv’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR =’|’,
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘n’,
FIRSTROW = 2,
KEEPIDENTITY
)

Role Base Custom Errors

Interesting way to use aspnetdb Roles to give developers detailed errors reports: Tip/Trick: Show Detailed ASP.NET Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)

September 6, 2011

MrPhil — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:32:10 +0000

Here’s an interesting way to populate a table with data from a script:

BULK INSERT [dbo].[tablename]
FROM ‘C:tabeldatatablename.csv’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR =’|',
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘n’,
FIRSTROW = 2
)

One gotcha, is the server running the sql instance has to have access permissions to that directory and file. Otherwise, you will get some errors like:

Cannot bulk load file ‘C:tabeldatatablename.csv’ could not be opened. Operating system error code 3(The system cannot find the path specified.)

Cannot bulk load file ‘C:tabeldatatablename.csv’ could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied)

Here’s the helpful post that clued me in: BULK insert error with UNC path and windows Authentication

Americana Dawn: The Long Goodbye

MrPhil — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:50:55 +0000

Here’s another small project I’m funding over at 8-Bit Funding: Americana Dawn: The Long Goodbye It’s an interesting freeware project with an early America setting.