Pyral

DinoleafStream - Twitch We make games with creatures. Current project is dragon Adventure-RPG Crop and Claw 2.

twitch.tv/dinoleafstream Sure. One day I'll remember to post streams on here. #dragon #jrpg #gamedev tagspam. Probably a low energy content grind.

Day 18: Ratsistent

Honestly this typing feels targeted against me...
Featuring Crop and Claw's Glist and a Vine Viper via @dinoleaf.com

[ #rattober #rattober2025 ]

I always forget to throw around when I stream. Oops. Crop and Claw 2 #dragons and #kobolds JRPG development keyword soup.

twitch.tv/dinoleafstream

YouTube video by Dinoleaf Running Godot Games on RG Handhelds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCY... Have RG handhelds? Anbernic, Retroid, whatever? Use #GodotEngine? I've finally made and released a video guide to getting Godot games running under Portmaster with only half a headache. And yes, for those Unity refugees, C# support for 4.2 is available.

If you see this, post a #kobold.

It tends to depend. The main benefit from this is making a quick template for running on a target handheld. Otherwise, it's copying a prior one, renaming, and replacing the PCK files. Something like CnC2 I use shell scripts for its weird exporting. Eventually I'll do custom editor exports.

YouTube video by Dinoleaf A Primer on Game Dev on Cheap Retro Gaming Handhelds

Writer of that here. New guide's coming soon™. There've been some minor improvements.

In the meantime, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTr... is also a generalized intro to these for those not aware of this scene, but doesn't give any specific steps for any engines in particular.

I'm going to be doing a video guide on porting Godot games in general soon. Progress was made on certain versions of Mono so stabilizing that.

It's possible to partially automate. Using a template zip to auto-setup an export package is feasible.

Portmaster server's best bet discord.gg/JxYBp9HTAY

DinoleafStream - Twitch We make games with creatures. Current project is dragon Adventure-RPG Crop and Claw 2.

www.twitch.tv/dinoleafstream Testing a custom Godot build on RG34XX-SP with Ono. #kobold gaming here at last.

Blame @radiantrodent.bsky.social and @goldquiver.bsky.social

goldquiver.itch.io/ono-a-dragon...

For #ScreenshotSaturday. Mostly been polishing out bugs and minor edges. Pay no mind to the broken level-up menu. That gets fixed soon. The math formulas are improving.

Wishlist on #Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3065270/

#dragon #kobold #furrygame #jrpg #rpg #godotengine

@binarycounter.net gets a slice of the pie as well. He does a lot of the compatibility layers Portmaster uses. I'd suggested ZA since it would stress test AGS on hardware and turns out it was much easier than it used to be to port. He was all "oh I have like 7 ports working with no effort now."

I hate @goldquiver.bsky.social and @radiantrodent.bsky.social for using Spine in Godot, but I compiled a custom ARM64 Linux build for it which works on the Anbernic RG34XX-SP.

If I can confirm it runs on ArkOS's ancient Linux kernel, may push to Portmaster.

goldquiver.itch.io/ono-a-dragon...

Finally implemented CTB turn delay to CnC2. FFX is now outclassed by this framework both because dragons, but also because this actually shows a popup when a creature's delayed so some big enemy attack doesn't just delay everyone four times and kill me without giving me a turn yes I'm mad.

These aren't so much retro as retro-like. These handhelds are primarily low budget ARM Linux devices jammed into various videogamey frames and sold cheap. This one's the Anbernic RG34XX-SP.

@dreamcube.bsky.social was another victim of worming through the code to prototype Anbernic Portmaster tests of Chirax's Fortress. The game runs fine, but there's some nuance with the current setup (I decomp PCKs for these tests, Blender auto-gltfing don't work well here.) But it's possible.

Screw it. Kao 2 stream.

twitch.tv/dinoleafstream

Okay but what if a command pauser and previewer for #ScreenshotSaturday even though I'm supposed to be on weekend break.

#dragons #jrpg

That's the RG34XX-SP. Tested with RG35XX-SP since less RAM and I've got samba live on it, but this is more photogenic.

Chirax's Fortress on Steam Play as a hydra in this classic-inspired 16-bit 2D platformer with Super-FX-style 3D visuals!

Streaming @dreamcube.bsky.social's Chirax's Fortress and only realized I forgot to post this lmao.

hydra

twitch.tv/dinoleafstream

store.steampowered.com/app/3798540/...

For #ScreenshotSaturday. Make your debug tools good. Developed the combat debug menu. Most importantly targeting was refactored to work and now resurrection works. In-game fast-forward is good too.

Wishlist on #Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3065270/...

#dragons #kobolds #GodotEngine #jrpg

YouTube video by Dinoleaf Dragon RPG Crop and Claw 2 RG35XX-SP Testing

In theory it could, as it uses common Godot runtimes and no GDExtension code. The main issue is I don't have a test unit, since Apple hardware's abysmally overpriced. x86_64 and ARM64 Linux is the primary platform (see youtu.be/WnjYLPEsSnk) with Windows having shrug-and-hope support.

For #ScreenshotSaturday. Make your debug tools good. Developed the combat debug menu. Most importantly targeting was refactored to work and now resurrection works. In-game fast-forward is good too.

Wishlist on #Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3065270/...

#dragons #kobolds #GodotEngine #jrpg

"Can I run FFX HD on Portmaster R36S?"
"We have FFX at home"

Final Fantasy X fans rejoice as the CTB gauge works in Crop and Claw 2. Combat clip as I've been refactoring menus.

Might need a new teaser trailer soon.

Wishlist on #Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3065270/...

#dragon #jrpg #kobold

Being cheesy with GDScript and dynamic compilation so I don't hate my life.

#GodotSteam isn't bad, but GDExtension PCK issues made it hard for CnC1 to be exported with conditional Steam support. ARM Linux PCKs required commenting Steam out every update.
So I wrote an achievement abstraction that uses Steam only if on a Steam runtime for CnC2
dev.dinoleaf.com/pyral/dl_ach...

wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ Time to put Crash to work on installing Lineage.

More pocket #dinosaur gaming update. Zniw Adventure still baking but Zid Journey also runs on Portmaster. Testing with the Anbernic RG34XX-SP as well since it has more memory. RAM is tight on the 35 with EmulationStation hogging memory on some CFWs. 1GB works well, it just runs OOM.

Pocket #ZniwAdventure. A #dinosaur point 'n click in the palm of your hand.

Working with #Portmaster to see if the full game can run on Anbernic's 1GB hardware. 60 FPS on the RG35XX-SP so far.

AGS games may be generally portable soon, too.

Also buy @zidandzniw.bsky.social's games.

Zniw Adventure sale promo banner with Zniw, Tra, Albert and Agu. "-20%" is very crudely edited on top of the artwork

Want to celebrate the end of August in style?
Why not in a true dinosaur fashion with Zniw (Adventure mandatory) - currently 20% off on GOG! 🦕💛

www.gog.com/en/game/zniw...

(please excuse my programmer edit - graphic design is my passion after all)

Skimming through, it doesn't seem to fit our need. They call for a 19px font, but we need 10px. Gorbash/CnC2 is low rez (320x240 for 4:3 and similar variants) so that would just eat up the pixel budget. Not feasible to look in and swap them out. Maybe when we double the resolutions but who knows.

Less dependencies and lighter performance for RG handhelds, mostly. Godot is fine for 95% of 2D on these handhelds but 3D requires care. 3D I need to do more GLES research, but I also can't do math. We'll see. Godot's hard to get away from due to its UI tools being godly and we do UI heavy games.