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grumpygamer

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.

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Come on kids, let's make a thing!

grumpygamer, to random
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There are no comments because the code is self-documenting.

djlink, to random
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the more lights are blinking, the more powerful the computer is.

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grumpygamer,
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@djlink It's thinking.

mixnmojo, to random
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News from Mojo: "What is this doing in a pirate game?" https://mixnmojo.com/news/What-is-this-doing-in-a-pirate-game

grumpygamer,
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@mixnmojo I was lead designer on this.

grumpygamer, to random
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What puzzles my about the Adobe stuff is if I am not a PS user and I hire an artist that is, all my art IP is given to Adobe by the artist but the artist doesn't and the rights to do that. Adobe is gaining access to art the artist can't legally give.

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We need a Logans Run for billionaires. Once they hit a billion dollars it's off to the carrousel.

grumpygamer, to random
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Wife says she appreciated my help, but next time make it less silly. Noted: less silly.

grumpygamer, to random
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Is there a good online resource where I can upload an image and test it for different kinds of color blindness?

grumpygamer,
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@Tijn Seems to be down.

grumpygamer, (edited ) to pixelart
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Experimenting with different quest icons to move away from the overused ! and ?

  • Sad face: I have a quest for you to do.
  • Neutral face: You took the quest but haven't completed it yet.
  • Happy face: You completed the quest but haven't turned it in yet.

Elastiskalinjen, to gamedev
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Summer is here and so is my mega pico-8 bundle! 🌞
22 games for just 15 € ✨

https://itch.io/s/124272/-pico-8-mega-bundle-summer-sale

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #pico8

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grumpygamer,
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@Elastiskalinjen Fun stuff.

psychicparrot42, to gamedev
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Random game thought: I’ve been thinking about a game controller with three joysticks, but I can’t come up with a good enough reason to have the extra one. Two joysticks seems to cover everything, right? Have we reached peak game controller? What could we map to a third stick? The closest to a good reason I could think of would be radial menus, but you can easily do those with a modifier and one of the other sticks right?

grumpygamer,
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@psychicparrot42 Controllers have too many buttons. It makes designer lazy.

grumpygamer,
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@psychicparrot42 The Atari 2600 joystick was peak-controller. The only thing I'd change is adding a button.

grumpygamer,
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@Jayenkai @psychicparrot42 To the right.

grumpygamer, (edited ) to random
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Thing I use is xcode/vs is visual debugging. I want to set breakpoints, step into and out of code. I don't ever want to use the command line. It's what has kept me from Linux. Friend says vscode will do this... I hope he is right. I'm not interested in goofy solutions... I want an IDE that works and doesn't become a hobby unto itself.

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I finally got my linux machine working again after doing a BIOS reset/magic. A friend told me that VSCode has a good c++ compiler and debugger. Not as good as VS and Xcode, but close. Once I get to NZ I'll spend some time getting it working.

vincentp, to random
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Today I learned about a new way to implement a freelist for an object pool in a GDC presentation from 2010... Instead of an intrusive linked list to track free elements, it stores the list of free (and used!) in a "roster". The length, "partition", keeps track of the first free handle in the roster.
No mentions of generations. It was trivial to add. A few cool things about non-intrusive data structure:

  • Usable on the GPU!
  • Easy to separate your data in multiple arrays
  • Easy to implement in C
grumpygamer,
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@vincentp Link?

mekkaokereke, to random
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The irony of a holiday called "Memorial Day," where people don't even remember how it started. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Anti-Blackness is so powerful.

https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/

This isn't forgetting. It's intentional history erasure, to justify present day racism.

grumpygamer,
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@mekkaokereke I did not know this.

grumpygamer, to random
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Going to be my last baseball game for a while.

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Current status

GrantMeStrength, to random
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I tried to complete the DazzlerII video card and it’s very close to working: it responds to CP/M and executable code, but isn’t displaying what is expected. Hardware issue, software issue or compatibility issue? Does it require a Z80 or should an 8080 suffice? All good questions.

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grumpygamer,
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@GrantMeStrength I still have a few floppy disks full of games that run on it. Brings back so many memories.

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@grumpygamer Hey. I wanted to goof around with DeloresDev, but this (the development version of the engine) 404s: https://thimbleweedpark.com/deloresdev I was following the instructions on GitHub, in case those are outdated.

grumpygamer,
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@KarimAnani Oh, I moved servers a while ago and didn't move that. I'll get it back online today or tomorrow.

leighgraner, to random
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It fascinating to see filmmakers’ personal tropes over time. Both Mad Max (1979) and Fury Road (2015) feature gang members pole vaulting onto moving fuel tankers.

grumpygamer,
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@leighgraner Pole vaulting is the future. Are you ready for the apocalypse?

grumpygamer, to random
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I think the root is my problem is I'm generating floats from n-m. I needs it to be blazing fast and it can't use any libs because I need 100% consistency across platforms.

grumpygamer,
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@remageFrs Nice!

grumpygamer, to random
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Although Return to Monkey Island didn't ship with Dear ImGui, we used it extensively during development. Without a doubt the single greatest debug tool/lib I have used.

/cc @ocornut

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

grumpygamer,
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@ocornut Oh no!

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