Migrated the project to CMake and tried compiling it on my ancient linux netbook. Had to shrink the window, other than that it worked fine!
Here you'll also see a glimpse of my ascii smoke and text layout code…
White laptop to the left is running Lubuntu and the laptop to the right is running Windows 11.
I love particles in ascii, and started prototyping on a first-look on a fire/explosion type of effect. So far it's hard coded to explore the kind of style I'm after and see what the requirements are… Here's the process it went through!
First try. Yellow to black. Delay per cell based on distance from center with a small offset to not have it ‘too symmetric’.
Second try. Red to yellow to black.
Third try. Kick up the offset and make it longer.
Fourth try. LoL, explosion should start with yellow then fade to red (doh). Added in smoke and lowered that offset again.
Fifth try. Minor changes and tweaking. I really liked this one!
Here it is together with a fire-trail and damage implementation, how it currently looks in the game.
In order to proceed with all features, I figured I need to know how my UI should look and behave. Sat down and tried to do a mockup. Damn design is hard and time consuming (I just want to code). Well, I'm happy enough with how this turned out.
Although it is a bit too much Demeo rip-off right now. Don't worry too much about it, I'll move away from that soon enough =)
Demeo managed to win grand slam in UploadVRs Best Of 2021 Awards where it did not only win every single category it was nominated in, it also won the very prestigeful Game of the year!
Demeo won these awards:
And on top of it all, Resolution Games won Best VR Developer.
Very, very, VERY happy about this =D
Among some pretty firece competition, including:
My old, dear, 3.5 years in the making, pet project Demeo managed to take home the prestigeful VR Game of the Year Award. I cannot express how proud and happy I was to receive these news. Me and my awesome team members has worked so hard to make this experience be something really amazing, and both the engagement from our community, and awards like this, makes it feel like it was truly worth it.
I needed to refactor my rendering pipeline for improved flexibility (adding a speed improvement in the process). But sometthing went a little wrong resulting in the following images…
This might be one of the coolest bug of my entire career!!
Tiny update this time.
TICK is the number of milliseconds for main update loop
BUFF is when we process our graphics buffer and create the SDL commands to draw it
REND is when SDL actually renders to screen (it's so high because of VSYNC)
The first value is actually quite high right now, because I'm very wasteful and calculate shadowcasting and A* every frame even when nothing changes.
Just a few months after the initial release, and some very hard work from everyone on the team, we managed to release our second module “Realm of the Rat King”, which added a few new interesting game mechanics (like how darkness limits your view range, which adds the need of torches), which turned out to be brutally difficult.
But with a huge and active community, players soon managed to figure out strategies to help defeat the infamous Rat King.
We finally released this amazing project: a multiplayer boardgame in VR, that I've been working on for the past three years. And the result and the reception has been outstanding!
Here is the teaser trailer
First impressions by some pretty famous persons… :-O
Click below to read about my part in the project.
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Haven't written about this in a while, but there is a ton of new stuff going on…
(oh, and those red dudes are not ascii… did some experimentation but did not really like it)
…more to come, I promise =D
Been working a couple of evenings on this little Super Mario Run-clone for my kids to play with. It's obviously quite early in development, but they love it anyway!
Godot has a pretty decent physics system, but as usual I prefer to do the physics myself. Starting to feel pretty good.
Been a while since I worked on this one. But I have some very intriguing ideas, so I wanted to pick this up again. New features since last time:
More to come…
Been talking with my kids for quite some time that it would be fun to make a game together, Now Edda has started actively talking about it, so during the holidays I went ahead and made one.
Funny thing is that Sigrid is the one who made the graphics so far. It's placeholder though, as she wants her graphics for another game (not supposed to be a jumping crab!!!)
Starting to refactor systems. Split out the enemy wave manager into a ship builder class (build and configure enemies based on type), spawn position solver, and a waveManager (that decides WHEN to spawn WHAT ship). Turns out I need to put more effort in the last part, while the two former worked pretty well.
Did a new enemy type as well. A re-make of the shotgun turret from pewpew5 (that never made it into the game).
It is supposed to be a bullet hell after all =D
Lets cut it short! Ripple Dot Zero is my Magnum Opus! For five years me and my childhood friend, Simon Stålenhag, worked on this in our spare times. It's an action platformer, heavily inspired by our favourite childhood Sega Genesis game titles such as Sonic the hedgehog, Strider, Wonderboy in Monster World…
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