Frederic Souchu

I have a T-rex that begs to differ

did you start from original codebase?
would be interesting to read a post mortem on how to resurrect dead games!

next : realize you need a z-buffer 😬

she looks positively pissed off 👌

the plan / the outcome (note the lil 50)
or how to improve from 16fps to 50 (with some slack)😬
codebase credit Tengu + bizqwit
#playdate #gamedev

nice minimal design - SU-27 Flanker style never gets old

Got my copies of Cranko! in mail!
Excellent print quality & content looks positively good
@cranknockout.bsky.social
#playdate

ah and don’t forget batched operations for drawing- eg mixing userdata and rasterization
see Ablebody ‘Blade3d’ codebase on BBS

you can - it’s a bit convoluted and requires fiddling with userdata stride, span, length… parameters.
tbh most of the picotron action happens on Discord, Bluesky is not really a place to discuss code imho!

nice review of my game 😙
(and not even sponsored!)

hey nice - got to use picotron specifics (say userdata)?

black & white actually
🤣

turn around - movement is focused on crank usage

very nice gfx 👌

🙏

boing boing!
#playdate

thanks - if you have a Playdate, stay tuned!

@saffroncr.bsky.social fyi - latest gif of my engine

Having a lot of fun building rooms lately.
I certainly have to keep my own "playtesting" time in check!

the multiple layers are 😋

Preview of upcoming #playdate demo level
Removed support for sky for now to remove a huge perf bottleneck (and using #quake sunlight settings to the max!)
note: captured on device

ah yeah - totally!!

do you have a clear picture of where time is spent now?

floats are fine until not
eg. not in rasterization loop
my version uses a z-buffer only for sprites, main geometry is write-only (as in software quake)

and… love the style 👌

and fyi - Playdate ram is incredibly slow, maximise use of stack memory (but limited to ~10kb)

and suggest to generate outline as a precomputation step
read bsp geometry - mark edges of faces that are not coplanar and form a hard edge with neighboring faces
the quake bsp format contains all the info needed

are you aware of the built-in profiler that comes with the sdk?
hit the little ‘clock’ button while running the game on device

a random ‘use the door’ message from within the shop would be hilarious

same here - good luck!