Jason Barnes

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in the middle of Covid I converted out dining table into a boardgame table. my wife encouraged it mostly because she it meant getting a new dining table. I had no idea what I was doing.
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played a fun game of Celestia with the fam.
push your luck or abandon ship!
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and like moving to Phoenix in March. worth it though. 🌞

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman New Alternatives to Windows 11 Explorer - Files and File Pilot!

Two AMAZING *alternatives* to Windows 11 Explorer that you should download and try NOW. One is just 1.8 megs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUQ...

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1 Godot 4.4 is on its way! Please lend a hand by testing this beta release and reporting your findings.

Godot 4.4 beta 1 is finally here! This release had tons of editor quality of life features as well as performance improvements, we know you are going to love it. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, we added embedded game debugging inside the editor! #godotengine

godotengine.org/article/dev-...

"Models" are IF statements. "Agents" are Loops.

Got a native Godot app to host a game instance and communicate over WebSockets to multiple React web app players. Designed as a platform to easily add new types of games. Quite a stack of tech. Godot, C#, ASP.NET, JWT, SignalR, Azure, SQL Server, React/Vite, TanStack Router, shadcd/ui. #gamedev

Guid Version 7 in .NET 9 .NET 9 introduces a GUID version 7 implementation. Find out the differences with GUID version 4.

By the way, @okyrylchuk.dev has a nice blog post about UUID V7. okyrylchuk.dev/blog/guid-ve...

I completely missed that this was added in .NET 9!

This whole project will be quite the mash-up of tech. Luckily I'm more familiar with the tech than the actual game making. I'm pretty pumped to use C# with Godot. Look at all that typing and debugging goodness.

With how simple the mobile side is, I'm considering using Rive. It would let me make some juicy visuals with quick load times.

Good News. Godot HTML export was the only reason I was using GDScript. I'm now free to use C# on the Host TV/PC/Console side! Immediately 100x more productive. And the server for mobile participants will be C# too. This should let me use SignalR for communication now too!

GameDev Update. Did some device and websocket testing.

Bad News. HTML exported Godot games are really buggy on mobile browsers. I'm switching to traditional web tech for the the participants. Won't be able to "write once, run everywhere". Will have to use React, HTMX, or something.

My latest Godot adventure. Room code based WebSocket messaging over the actual internet (not localhost). Uses Azure AppService and WebPubSub to auth and manage the channels. Simple chat app for now. New JackBoxTV style game prototype coming soon. #gamedev #godot

Just felt stalled I guess. I haven't seen others talk about getting it in a while. And I've been waiting for forever!

I'm more of a daily shot of balsamic vinegar guy.

so uh, what happened to releasing Windows 24H2?

Spending the day debugging a crashing ffmpeg process made from C# on Azure Functions through WSL2 on Windows in Visual Studio. It's abstractions all the way down. 🐢🐢 🫠

A trashcard with a deck of pokemon cards around the top in a ring

Thinking about when I saw this at the park with no one around. My kids had some interesting theories about what happened here.

I heard the dev of "the game" moved on to a new idea.

Sidebar A composable, themeable and customizable sidebar component.

It's here!
ui.shadcn.com/docs/compone...

Time to find all the indie game devs on here.
#gamedev #godotengine

Godot's GDScript normally allows both typed and untyped variables. However, if you want to enforce ONLY typed (static), here's how! #godot #godotengine #gamedev

I thought I beat Inscryption today. This game is an amazing and unpredictable ride. Is it just starting?! 😵‍💫

Imagine anyone sending any money to Twitter for anything. 🙃

Welp, already throttled by Twitter. The madman is actually going to do it. He's going to kill Twitter.

Here's a hit of 90s gaming & internet nostalgia. My parents cleared out some boxes and gave me some of my old stuff which included a stack a gaming magazines.

We recently took family photos. The wife and kids looked great! But we all agreed on who the real star was.

TIL about the "MicroMouse" robotics competition. A bunch of fun tech and ingenuity packed into these little things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

#MSBuild