About two weeks ago, I thought “How about I make a Pong-like game where the users draw their paddle.” That led to looking at a YouTube video where a guy made a simple line drawing game out of the Godot engine. This led to figuring out how to generate a collision polygon along the drawn […]
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A procedurally generated, speedrunning game
Get to the End, where the player has to run to the goal post of a procedurally generated course. Interested? The details are inside.
Quotes from Jordan Cwang of Linux Game Cast
Jordan Cwang, the Canadian host of Linux Game Cast, has quite a bit of knowledge about, uh, things. He’s worked in I.T., app development, gaming journalism, and lots of other stuff. Here, I’ve compiled some of the most interesting quotes from the stuttering DevOps guy, for your reading pleasure. Jordan, when asked what he would […]
Extracting and applying materials in the Godot engine
I have been doing a fair amount of development with the Godot engine. I have gone so far as to make 3D stuff with it. In my pursuit of making a 3D game, I have found various assets to use in the engine. Usually these come from Open Game Art (which is run by a […]
My Interests This Week podcast – Episode 11
This week, I talk about how your software may go away, how I made an NES mini (sorta), and an update to that little NAS I’ve been trying to build. Show notes When that software eventually goes away We currently have all the necessary software we need running on our devices (PCs, laptops, and mobile […]
My Interests This Week podcast – Episode 9
In this week’s episode (for the week ended November 21, 2020), I struggle to get a small computer to do big things, and talk about designing multiplayer maps. Show notes Trying to get a Raspberry Pi to use ZFS Site with a tutorial on setting up a Raspberry Pi as a NAS. Been a bit […]
My Interests This Week podcast – episode 7
This week (for the week ended November 7, 2020), I squash some bugs in my indie game, try to get Diablo 2 to run on my old, dinky Linux laptop, and be amazed at how Diablo was made. Show notes 1. Progress on game Refactored some code, made some of the animations better. Changed the […]
My Interests This Week podcast – episode 6
This week, I talk about where I’m not a good fit for volunteering (and where I am), thoughts of starting my own business, and progress on my game Block Wars.
My Interests This Week podcast – episode 1
This is the “soft reboot” of this thing, and it’s for the week ended September 26, 2020. Also, here’s some stuff that I discuss in the episode: The Godot engine AI Dungeon Block Wars playlist Bake Your Own 3D Dungeons With Procedural Recipes by Marcin Seredynski Twitter and Mastodon pages
Trying to Run the Godot Engine’s Vulkan Implementation on the Raspberry Pi 4
Can a gaming engine be built and ran on the Raspberry Pi 4? Eh, with the Raspberry Pi vulkan drivers and a new rendering engine, it might.