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britown, 1 day ago to random

Time to innovate and really think outside the box for some new UI design for my game

britown, 1 day ago to gamedev

#GameDev Wisdom: Create all asset editors by hand from scratch. Learn how to write music and then create composition software for writing it. Use your own asset file format backed by your own code generated reflection. Use only single file header dependencies. Rasterize in software. Draw every pixel one at a time. Make your own Aseprite. Emulate 1980's graphics cards. Write your own Steam. Grow your own transistors. Raise a family of players. Become as a rock o'er the island mountains.

britown, 2 days ago to gamedev

The way the enemy behavior works evaluates value and cost from resulting game state so enemies automatically attempt to utilize fire and ice hazards effectively without any additional code.

Combat is going to get very wacky. Using yourself as a curling stone will be an effective strategy 😅

#gamedev #curling

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grumpygamer, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

I don't get World of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic. Cataclysm is where WoW started to go off the rails. What I really really want is a new WoW Classic expansion, not a rehash of everything that made us want Classic in the first place. After Lich King would have been the perfect place.

britown, 7 days ago to random

Game design evening going over notes and writing a lot. Realized that you probably want to be able to douse fires and torches with water for stealth reasons and that I'm just making Thief now

britown, 8 days ago to random

Watching 65 the Adam Driver scifi dinosaur movie from last year and holy god how did this get made

britown, 9 days ago to gamedev

Light sources are now independent of player vision and the torches flicker.

There's still some wackiness of being able to see walls as lit when lit from the other side, but the progress feels great here considering how little time I've had to devote since the weekend.

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike

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britown, 11 days ago to random

So happy with how the dithered lighting looks. Who even needs an alpha channel??

britown, 12 days ago to gamedev

My late (second) entry to #screenshotsaturday I got my shadowcasting working!

Looking forward to combining both a lighting model with a vision model along with fog of war 😊

#gamedev

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britown, 12 days ago to gamedev

Some great impostor syndrome going on today trying to wrap my head around recursive shadowcasting, but finally getting somewhere

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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britown, 14 days ago to gamedev

A lot of features with the editor this week but the main triumph is now all of the map layers are compiled when the game starts and a player character is spawned at a specified origin point.

All locations game-wide are in world coordinates now, all buildings and dungeons in the entire game will be on the same coordinate system, no transitions!

#gamedev

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britown, 14 days ago to random

Never go to bed angry but never EVER go to bed when your code's not working

britown, 16 days ago to gamedev

I can't stress enough how important it is to have a central API for coordinate transformations.

Tile grid coords, pixel coords, internal buffer pixel, screen pixel, viewport, world, zoomed/unzoomed, you never want to just transform these in-line anywhere. Take the time to write functions for going between them all especially if you're making a something like a map editor.

I also use typedefs to help document what function signatures expect and return.

#gamedev

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britown, 17 days ago to gamedev

The new world map system is finally working 🤩

Rather than a rpg-make style system where maps are standalone, there is now a tree of map layers on a unified coordinate system.

Layers are relative to their parent, allowing easy repositioning, and most importantly layers will be able to be conditional to world state to change the world between runs.

This is all using live tile rendering magic from last year's quadtree travels.

#gamedev

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aeva, 22 days ago to random

The indie game and the three inspirations behind it!

1st photo: I dropped it and now there's C++ all over the floor.

2nd photo: a blurry figure and a cab driver without a shared language are enjoying a bag of tangerines during a long drive through a vast desert

3rd photo: a sleepless young woman standing on a train platform sees another world in the shadows, erased by the harsh light of day

4th photo: the procession of seasons. colors that cannot be remembered. an indistinct longing.

britown, 26 days ago to random

"First time I had a chimichanga it was 1956! Before it was popular!"

~ table of old men at this restaurant near the border

eniko, 1 month ago to random

wow i wonder why so many people are getting sick and chronically ill now and why so many kids are missing so much school. couldn't possibly be the disabling plague that we've collectively decided is no biggie despite all scientific evidence to the contrary

britown, 1 month ago to gamedev

My close friend just got their Steam page approved for the game they've been putting nights and weekends into for over 8 years!

I think it's a truly special game, with great puzzles and an absurd amount of hidden content to discover. It has a cute artstyle and a banger original soundtrack.

Wishlist today to appease the steam algorithm and tell your friends!!

Boosts greatly appreciated!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2650350/Super_Puzzled_Cat/

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #steam #wishlist

britown, 2 months ago to random

The audio channels were wrong in my theatre showing of Dune 2 for the first hour so you couldnt hear what anyone was saying and they didn't fade the house lights all the way down so you couldnt see what was happening in dark scenes and my brain was wracked with rage through the whole experience but other than all of that the movie seemed pretty good!

#dune

britown, 2 months ago to random

Maybe I don't have all the information but my gut feeling is that there's a lot of rush to blame the Boeing stuff on bad engineering and bad programming instead of on a systemic rot stemming from decades of executive and managerial malfeasance

britown, 2 months ago to random

Welcome back, Pacific-Coast US, to Arizona time.

grumpygamer, 3 months ago to random

Breaking news! Sometime this summer I am moving to New Zealand to start a new life adventure. Hoping there is a good tutorial. And maybe some achievements.