David Walters

Early Spring in the Central Bohemian Uplands

Alone in the Dark
The polygon characters might not have aged extraordinary well, but it is still kinda creepy...especially with that soundtrack.

Had fun today doing a little BASIC type-in on my Speccy (128k Harlequin) and saving/loading to the PC via a little USB sound card + Audacity. Short 30 line programs only take like 5 seconds to record so it's super convenient, and you get a little bit of the computer screaming noise too 😌

Video game logic: Blow up a gas station to get some fuel? I've thought about it for a long time and honestly that totally makes sense to me.
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

The non-Steam installers have been updated, and are available on Discord for the long-time customers still using it.

Thunder Helix - CGA gun tower up-close. Rendered in CGA colours.

.. and up close #screenshotsaturday

Apache (1995)

A gun tower firing at the player in CGA mode.

... and here it is in-game

Thunder Helix - working on CGA conversion for this 'watchtower' building/enemy for a new scenario #lowpoly #gamedev #flightsim 🚁

Childrens homework Bugs make me feel: fine When I see a bug, I say: nothing

Long day debugging

A debug render of a terrain with what looks like white ground fading into black. This grey shade is actually a debug visual representation of the amount of offset to apply to the palette used to render each triangle. The palette is 256 x 32 and has copies of each 256 block with increasing amounts of fog applied.

Terrain optimisation today 🥳
I changed the way I passed the palette info into the shader (second vertex colour instead of a shader constant) and reduced the draw calls from 20-30 to just 1. Entirely pointless on 202X hardware, but it felt satisfying all the same. #gamedev #enginedev

Now live on #steam 👍

Grid Cartographer - porting the work on wheel zooming to mouse position from Deluxe Poly back into this software. It's been on my todo list for many years - uhm, better late than never 😅
#gamedev #crpg #tabletop #dungeoncrawlers

Hard to say. I would probably say it's ... middling quality. Since there's probably ways to improve it. You can always go in aftee and manually fix a pencil curve.

It's a parameter to the function. I'll no doubt add an option to control it one day. And yeah it's using the dot product so both left and right bends count.

I just remembered I had made this nice demo video for Pollen :)

Microsoft Arcade
A compilation released 1993 for Win3.1

This is good. It's really good to
have this exist. But I used Flash professionally for 2 years and I just can't quite handle the thought of going back 😅 ... tbf maybe this one crashes less, because that was a bit part of it.

In your example the black line object would also be selected, yes. You could then shift click to deselect it, alternatively, drag a smaller box around green as it only needed a partial hit on there.

Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro Index of all deep dive articles about The Sentinel

Just released: 6 brand new deep dives into The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro and #C64

This is where it gets interesting!

Generating 10,000 3D landscapes; tile data and shapes; enemies and trees; secret codes

thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives#latest

Batch #4 coming soon

Enjoy!

#retrocomputing

For poly lines I'm doing box vs line-segment tests along the whole path, to get nice precise collisions that only count if you cross an edge.

Not written that yet :D --- in the current build, if you draw a selection over the middle of a box, it won't register as I only have a simple box-vertex check. Working on it !

Deluxe Poly is still missing many of the fundamentals, so today I added a box select to object mode. I see Ai CS4 and Affinity Designer 2 both use <Shift> for multi-select so I've changed over to that from <Ctrl>. Industry conventions are important! #pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev

Thank you, I'll take a look ! - my algorithm is a lot simpler :)

Image showing the optimised vertices created by the pencil. A curvy stroke with many redundent vertices missing.

Image showing the optimised vertices created by the pencil.

Deluxe Poly - made the pencil tool optimise the curve a bit by removing points within a 15 degree 'bend tolerance'.

Ah, it might be because I make flight sims - so they're more keen on self promoting new projects because they're rare 😅
I can't remember how I got linked up with them, maybe a friend's recommendation, I said hi and they welcomed me in and gave me a channel. Wish that experience for all indie devs 🙏

Chthonic Masonry by Mrmo Tarius A dungeon-oriented two-bit tileset

Well, I finally updated Chthonic Masonry with an entire bunch of new stuff.

mrmotarius.itch.io/chthonic

Also over at my Ko-Fi :)

ko-fi.com/Post/Chthoni...

Roland50.studio Emulate the sound of Roland's most famous and influential musical instruments from Yuri Suzuki and Roland.

A squelchy 303 Day to one and all!

To celebrate, why not go and have a play with this web experience we made for Roland with Yuri Suzuki a few years ago.

roland50.studio

IMO better to be hosted on other servers (i.e. one with a focus on your game's genre) so you're getting fresh eyes and also not having the 24/7 admin burden. I'm on a couple of servers that have been very welcoming of that relationship. That plus quiet server of just friends for moral support, etc.