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Topic: Game Builder Garage - Any Thoughts on its Maths? (Or lack thereof?)

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stinky_t

To get it out the way, yes, I understand this is a game for kids, and is about making games, and is certainly NOT there for help you on your Calc 2 paper. Having said that... isn't it fun to try?

TL;DR - I'm (irrationally! I admit!) annoyed that this game lacks any way to (explicitly) do powers, and, worst of all, how it can only give you two decimal places. Am I wrong to think this? SHould there be more maths bits?

With this in mind, I've been trying to get it to calculate a sine of an angle from -180 to 180 degrees. Not the most difficult thing ever, my plan was to take an input in degrees from your control stick, convert that to radians, then use the Taylor series to give a sine value. First off, I noticed that there's no kind of way to do powers here, but I can appreciate that, especially since you can probably do something like that with some kind of (makeshift, I'm new to programming) for loop. The bit that stopped me was on my conversion to radians, when I tried to multiply by 0.017453, since this is pretty much pi/180, and its the most digits that fit into the calculator. When I backed out into the game, my constant was 0.02. Which is waaaaayyyy to far off for any kind of decent calculation. I'm wondering whether its worth even finishing this (although I probably will.) I'm wondering if I'm being irrationally crazy over this (I am), or if anyone else has similar problems. Should they have allowed more decimal places, and more maths functions in general?

stinky_t

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