benbradley

benbradley, 22 days ago to random

Spending my time programming for a living sure gets in the way of spending my time programming for fun.

bitinn, 1 month ago (edited 29 days ago) to gamedev

Dear #gamedev, what’s the default monitor(s) resolution in your office?

For larger studio, take the average among your colleagues and round to the nearest.

benbradley, 1 month ago to gamedev

Plenty of bullets now in my Gameboy game.

This is a demake of Geometry Wars, which is a twin stick shooter - you may have noticed that the Gameboy does not have twin sticks. ➕ 🔴🔴

But I have some ideas for that to try out, either before or after I make the first enemies. I'm starting to get the hang of the hardware and thinking in assembly now, and I have more reusable functions. Progress!

#GameDev #Demake #GeometryWars #Gameboy #Assembly

Emulicious Gameboy emulator running a game where a little C-shaped spaceship whizzing around over a grid background, firing bullets in all directions.

benbradley, 1 month ago to gamedev

Geometry Wars Gameboy demake update:

After the kids are in bed I might get two hours where I have the brain function to get stuck into assembly coding. When I hit a problem bigger than two hours I get stuck for a while. This was the case moving specific movement and render code I wrote for the player to be more generic for entities including bullets and enemies. Now I'm unstuck this is looking more like a game.

#gamedev #gameboy #demake #homebrew #assembly #geometrywars #dmg

An animated gif of a gameboy emulator showing a little spaceship flying around on a grid shooting bullets in different directions. The bullets get stuck and slide along walls.

Ericbomb, 3 months ago to gamedev

Hi everyone! I'm trying to get more people signed up for Games for Blind Gamers 3! We still have less sign ups than the 2nd, so if you can help spread the word about this jam it'd be greatly appreciated! It's all about making blind accessible video games! https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3 #GameDev #indiedev #A11y

benbradley, 4 months ago to tetris

At the end of last year a 13-year old was the first person in history to "beat" Tetris on the NES, by getting so far that the game crashed.

This is a neat explainer on why the game crashes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpEcjdr_YDo

#tetris #nes #gamedev

fell, 6 months ago to gamedev

Engine programmers literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting:

> The game has PASSED the Hardware/Software Compatibility and Performance Check with a great majority of systems obtaining excellent performance results.

(Actual results of my work, I am SO proud!!! 🥳)

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #GameProgramming #Gaming #Programming #CPlusPlus #CPP #CPP20 #OpenGL #GameEngine #Performance #Hardware #Software #Compatibility #Graphics #ComputerGraphics

benbradley, 6 months ago to gamedev

#GameDev people - does anybody know of a pixel art tool that let's you have a high resolution image as a background and trace a much lower resolution over the top of it, please? (I'm way more programmer than artist, typically).

glassbottommeg, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to gamedev

Do you (a developer), when starting on a new feature, have a time box that magically scales to at least half a day, wherein you just stare at it while going "hmmm" before you even start?

Allegedly to plan, but as if by magic, you figure it all out right at the end of the slot of time (right before lunch / before going home)? Yet your brain does NOT let you skip this sacred staring-at-codebase time to the last 30 seconds of "let's just start here"?

#GameDev #developer

foone, 7 months ago to random

Apple II-bottom jeans

zombierustpunk, 10 months ago to random

I don’t even like it when the IDE puts closing braces in for me, and now they’re trying to shove AI in there to “help” me write code?

Listen, if I wanted an intelligent agent of questionable intent inserting subtle bugs into my code, I’d still be doing projects with my college roommate.

Raspberry_Pi, 10 months ago to RaspberryPi

🚨SOUTHAMPTON🚨

What are you doing on 3rd August?

Young tech enthusiasts and beginners should join this CoderDojo for two hours of fun, coding, problem solving, teamwork, and a finale that parents and guardians may attend:

https://events.raspberrypi.com/community/16e7d347-2979-4e3c-bc5d-de41de52828e

#RaspberryPi #coding