egg boy color

My freelance gig ran into funding issues, so I need new work soon. Anyone need a programmer?

Games, apps, ports, reverse eng/disasm, web. Multiple shipped games (programmer on TMNT:SR, Panzer Paladin, Flinthook. Enhancement+reverse eng. for Sugoro Quest). Montreal-based, remote/contract preferred.

magic sword on its surface seems like an epic quest to destroy the blackorb, but it's really about a very hungry guy with an overactive stomach who must constantly fuel up on chicken and grapes every few minutes to ward off dying.

I love the SaGa series, so I enjoyed what I played of FF2 a lot (played quite a bit into the PS1 Origins version), save for not being able to use lower level magic to save MP. Later on need to constantly refill with Osmose because everything costs too much MP and ethers are super expensive.

"I've got Harb." An informative screenshot from Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

I've got Harb.

pantagruel frog boss veryWIP

Scott Pilgrim EX on the Summer Game Fest showcase stage from the audience

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion on the Summer Game Fest showcase stage from the audience

The MARVEL Cosmic Invasion booth at Summer Game Fest Play Days

Tribute Games team selfie, all smiles at Summer Game Fest

What an unforgettable #SummerGameFest ☀️

🌀🎸 Scott Pilgrim EX officially revealed!
💚🦝 Rocket & She-Hulk join the fight
🎮🌌 Hands-on MARVEL Cosmic Invasion demo at Play Days with @dotemu.bsky.social

Huge thanks for all the love around both reveals 🤩
#ScottPilgrimEX #MARVELCosmicInvasion

rendering experiment synopsis:

for the past few days i've been prototyping a zero polygon renderer. it's a raycaster, in the vein of Wolfenstein, but it has displacement mapped walls.

i'm currently tinkering with a related technique for rendering "sprites' with multiple displacement mapped flats.

we are making a video game

easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features!

create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org

Well, that and designing the data protocol to fit in a small bandwidth the GB has to update VRAM during vblank. I make all data fit in a single 160x8 row that the SNES can DMA from the ICD2 screen tile buffer, and by repeating this pattern, it means less scanline sync requirements on the SNES.

Yeah, very much feels like magic! It works in a couple up-to-date emulators + hw. The idea to use the Game Boy screen data to communicate was something I had for a while, but was happy to find out it worked. Main challenge is ensuring you buffer enough, since GB and SNES always run at their own rate

Here's a visualization showing the communication between the GB and SNES of this custom SGB driver. Later in this video, it shows a slowed down preview with a Mesen Lua script visualizing of how the GB-produced buffers are being synchronized to the SNES.

Here's a Super Game Boy enhancement driver I need to finish some day. It uses a circular buffer in VRAM to communicate with the SNES at 60fps via a combination of command data and per-frame data, rather than joypad packets. This particular version allowed a Game Boy game to reuse Game Boy Color art.

a starfield with sort of coincidental-but-not-intentional 'jazz cup' aesthetics, a moon with a face, a cat-shaped blob/planet, some eyes, some stars, clouds, birds some crystals, some stars, some swirls everything uses 4 colors - yellow, teal, magenta, dark purple

another pixel scribble. this one uses 4 colors

A grassy swampy desaturated landscape, tree, rocks, puffy clouds, water. This is somewhat cleaned up like a pixel piece, but not everywhere received this treatment since it became tiring to render. Still, a fun exercise to draw a larger piece! 12 colors total, but not really particularly optimized for ths. two characters on the terrain. one with a short-sleeved black shirt, long reddish hair and bangs. another with a shorter purple hair, tied in small braids, magical green robe. stair tiles.

grassy swamp adventure.

12 colors. it was made to look like a "pixel painting" of sorts. I didn't end up cleaning this piece up fully before I moved on with it, but this was still a fun exercise!

What you see so far, but I'd like to continue it someday! Some other projects took over my attention, and there were some design things to figure out before I could continue. I wanted the grid to give you bonuses if you lined up certain shapes, and you could use parts you didn't equip as bombs.

I prototyped a shmup in Picotron at one point. I was still trying to come up with enemies. To test, I randomized wave arrangements until I did stage design. It was fun to put together some of the HUD and animation effects in this. I had plans for a 3x3 "powerup grid" with mix-and-match equipment.

GBC mockup of my "bub-like" game: Contains a few sprites (cat, frog, duck, fries with the letters OK, fruit-filled cookie, ice cream, pizza, egg) over a green checkerboard wall pattern, with a cloudy blue backdrop. There are 3D dropshadow tiles to add some depth between fg/bg, colorful pink and yellow gradient text at bottom with a purple background.

GB mockup of my "bub-like" game: Contains a few sprites (cat, frog, duck, fries with the letters OK, fruit-filled cookie, ice cream, pizza, egg) over a greyscale checkerboard wall pattern, with a cloudy light-grey backdrop. There are 3D dropshadow tiles to add some depth between fg/bg, gradient text at bottom with a dark grey background.

Mocked up a little single-screen "bub-like". with Game Boy Color and original Game Boy versions! Much like Bubble Bobble, I wanted to design it so that the tile pattern for the walls can be easily swapped while sharing common "fake 3D" edges. Meanwhile backdrops could be more detailed.

hi!! hope you're doing good these days

On Saturday, went to an outdoor comics/art festival. Ate a yummy arepa with cheese, plantains and avocado. Sunday I watched a bunch of the anime version of Monster. (Got more interested in checking out other Urasawa stuff after I watched Pluto, which was quite good.) Decent weekend.

The debugger experience is fairly non-existent, so hope you enjoy print-debugging all the time. In rare cases, I ran into UB that didn't get caught in debug builds and only appeared in release (ReleaseSafe made no difference). Messy build errors sometimes as bad/worse than C++. I went back to C++.

Zig seems promising but IMHO it's not really production-ready yet. I stopped because every time Zig updated versions, they deprecated/removed useful language+standard library stuff in the favor of marginal performance or compile-time gains. Didn't want to rewrite my entire codebase every time.

here's a top-down 3D thing I was making earlier this year. I made a game-engine on top of Zig and SDL. Among other stuff, it supported batched triangle meshes, billboard sprites, rich-formatted pixel fonts, render targets+shaders, keyboard/gamepad input+custom binding, cross-platform desktop builds.

Ah, apparently I was following you, but the last post it synced was in 2023. Yeah that's one very unfortunate thing about the federated nature of Masto: whole-server bans prevent you from seeing even 1 person within that server that you follow, and there's no real signalling when it happens either.

I'm at @eggboycolor@mastodon.social nowawdays! How about you? (At various points I've contemplated moving to another instance with different moderation policies, but the scaling problems with smaller Mastodon instances made me stay put in one place)

(Also, I haven't really used Twitter since I left, so apologies I have missed any messages/DMs that happened over there the past two years. Rarely, I skimmed the timeline there, but I pretty much made my interaction on there "read-only". I might try going through what I missed at some point.)

To find my mastodon @eggboycolor@mastodon.social -- I'm hoping to eventually make a website to host my creations as well! (With the caveats around load-balancing that with LLM DDOS spam going on these days)

Hello! Haven't really looked at BlueSky since I initially set things up a while back. I don't use social media the same way I used to since Twitter etc, but I'm semi-active on Mastodon. I see now a lot of people ended up moving here. I may try occasionally sharing my art/projects/game progress here!

Cool to hear that this palette tool still comes in useful all these years later! I would love to get back into Game Boy homebrewing again when I have some more downtime from other things. Would be cool to have more drop-in tools like this for previewing art and dialing in colors on hardware.