britown

britown, 4 hours 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, 1 day 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, 1 day ago to random

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

britown, 3 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, 4 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, 9 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, 13 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, 1 month 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.

britown, 2 months ago to random

I drive 15 minutes in the morning to buy an iced coffee and then I sit it next to my monitor and forget about it in hopes that the caffeine will transfer wirelessly

grumpygamer, 2 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.

britown, 2 months ago to random

{} are actually called 'squiggly brigglies'

britown, 3 months ago to random

Please remember to drink water, tell someone how much you love them, and also eat as many Taiwanese wheel cakes as you can.

vga256, 3 months ago to retrogaming

i am playing déjà vu for the first time and i seriously think i missed out on a crucial childhood experience 🤣

#vintageApple #1bitArt #retroGaming #hypercard

britown, 3 months ago to random

life hack: if there's a long list of responsibilities preventing you from feeling comfortable doing creative work, just do nothing every day and carry this guilt and failure into each new sunrise 👍👍👍👍

britown, 3 months ago to gamedev

Happy to announce that I'm planning on my game having good game design and not bad game design

#gamedev

britown, 3 months ago to gamedev

Finally getting back going on #gamedev this week so I have some design thoughts on my brain and wrote a little about how the "Faction Turn" and world traversal interplay within the game's overall structure

https://cohost.org/britown/post/4261534-chronicles-design-o

britown, 3 months ago to random

I can't really hate palworld, regardless of the content. 3D, physics, multiplayer, decent performance, a nice presentation, nice UI, giant world clearly a ton of people enjoy running around in.

Tick any two of those boxes and I'm pretty much out. Video games are very hard to make, even the ones accused of being low-effort, soulless, or uncreative.

The primordial soup of assets and mechanics sloshing around the steam cistern produces new popular things regularly.