Joram Vandemoortele

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

the best joke in videogames development is replying "ship it" to every broken ass prototype no I will not be taking questions

I'm on a train and the person next to me was following the train route on maps. 5 minutes later I see him looking at the African continent.

I hope I got on the correct train.

Snake drawing in all shape and forms

Making some quick snakes ideas

I have been waiting for somebody to make a c# wrapper for clay. But I don't see it happening and I need UI. So now I'm delving back in the world of dllimport. Wish me luck

I'm always amassed that daily motion still exists all those years.

I think you would like my custom serializer I wrote. it's build to handle json esc data structures and linear binary in the same time.

And I mean that unironacly, I love system design. I'm basically constantly switching between

I want to make this game.
And
I want to be able to make this game.

Creating an micro game engine is fun cause it makes me ask questions like:

"do I really need a hierarchical scene graph" and try to find a good solution for 5 days.
All because you want to attach an entity to another entity

LETS GOO!! I was mixing array indexes.

Imagine the possibilities with this :]
Also, future me is going to hate level designing these. I have done ~some~ level bending puzzle design before and its always turned into a 6D paper drawing.

#gamedev and stuff

Getting this time looping has taken me some time. but I have it!
Now items and original input are correctly transferred in time even if a snake gets stopped.
Going backwards is broken again but that's next and then I have my full input controls.

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Screenshot of an IDE console with the test: "b9, 9b, 63, ..."

I have been looking at this ascii entity-id version of my levels for the last 5 days because I'm building a save and load system.

Needless to say, I'm going insane.

#gamedev #AAAAAAAAAAA

It does still have some issues when you go back to a previous time. But ill cross those bridges one at the time

Thirdly spend a good few hours implementing the option to add multiple snakes. This adds so many options, from time looping, multiple player snakes, snakes that are part of the level and a lot more...

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Code file showing the map layout using asci grid and an assets dictionary for what each character means

Secondary, I have implemented map loading from a file. I have made it very flexible. This is the file of the map above. I still need to implement things like snake colors, background colors and more but the map loading part is there. All the rest can be further expanded upon.
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Some updates to the snake game between the holidays

Firstly, I think I have found the smallest level that I'll be able to use to explain the "go back in time" rule

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yeah! and you can't move backwards in a spot where an item is. So, depending on your length and where you temporarily drop items and have to drop items it becomes this dance.

I have now created snake, but you can also reverse at which point you shrink again. So, I kind of also created the beginning of a Sokoban/Puzzle game.

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Snakes and ladderal thinking

Fun fact, a c# attribute can implement itself. I assumed this wouldn't work.

I have now extended the declarations I check to: field, properties, constructers and operators

and references I check in the body to: field and properties

still some holes but I think I have a decent amount that I can move on for now and just try to be fully "compliant"

Screenshot of the Roslyn rule definitions: Method breaks determinism. Method has unknown determinism and Determinism is undefined.

Screenshot showing the Roslyn rules in action

I'm trying to build my C# simulation/game engine (Vermin) to have full determinism. So, today I have added some Roslyn analyzers that will help me along the way.

This will help me differentiate and force me to consider determinism for every method I make.

You think I want to sit on this info by myself?

The document that defines the rules that c# runs on (cil, ecma-335) is full of comic sans.

I have heard THE song for the first time this year and that means Christmas has started.

Nevermind c# compiler didn't like it :'(

Man I love it when I find some weird esoteric solution to a very specific issue.

Wow I did not realize it looked like that. Yeah it does look like one of those color blind tests

A profiler timeline, where the rendering bar only take 5% of the timeline up

A profiler timeline, where the rendering bar take 40% of the timeline up

My first profiler timeline vs my latest profiler timeline.
The pink box is the actual rendering part.