David Walters

Hope you don't need to use the cursor keys 🤢

Forget Half-Life 3, I'm still waiting for SiN Episodes 2 💀⏳️

game character is at the bottom of what looks like some stone steps, close to some trees. they are saying: this looks like a tree from far away, but it's just more of that computer generated crap. this comes from the point and click command 'look at the trees'. down the bottom of the screen is a face portrait of the character and the point and click commands: walk to, look at (highlighted), take, use, talk to, swallow, give, push. to the right of this is mostly blank boxes for inventory.

harlan ellison: i have no mouth, and i must scream, screenshot, macintosh (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/617/har...

Deluxe Poly - Added a wireframe preview mode for object movement. I find it's sometimes useful for relative movements. But if it's annoying you can go back to real-time movement.
#lowpoly #gamedev #pixelart

Even if nobody draws Deus Ex anymore I will be the one to do it. #JCDenton

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.