Vlad Batyrenko

So I refactored my game systems a bit to introduce AI... And well, now I have some issues to fix 🥴

This is now my favourite Stack Overflow question

The build is already available publicly, but for the time being I publish the link only to my Discord, before I'm ready to show the game to more people.

If you are interested in early updates, and playtests, I'll be really happy to see you there:
discord.com/invite/uk7nM...

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I recently recorded 1 hour of Mine Crawler prototype gameplay with my wife and made a short trailer ☺️

It showcases both "open-world" wandering around and the duel mode, which I've been developing for the last couple of months.

If you want to try it out, see below! 1/2

> 58 files changed, 2588 insertions(+), 1603 deletions(-)

So it takes this much code and a week of time, and I still haven't got anything to show off yet. So here's my cat instead, she knows how to chill while also waiting

Well at least you've got your loop unrolled!

Wow, that's nice, congratulations!

Being able to iterate on games and UIs while running a @bevy.org app with dioxus hot-patching is MENTAL. Love it so much!

Testing in on a fractal clock example from @ernerfeldt.bsky.social's egui

So here goes my first productive day after wisdom teeth extraction: have done some stuff for bevy_egui that I've procrastinated for a while, and fixed a pretty silly bug with duels in Mine Crawler that caused movement desync 🫣

Now it's time submit myself to my new Megabonk addiction 🙃

I love this random nickname generator already

This is definitely one of the random name generators of all time

If you are interested, you'll need the following to participate:
- Discord (discord.gg/uk7nMuan63)
- Google Chrome browser (PC)
- A duel partner (bring your friend, find someone in the discord server, or reach out to me)

And nice to have but optional:
- Screen recorder

Hi! I'd like to show what I've been cooking for the last few weeks: this is a duel mode for my minesweeper-dungeon-cralwer game (don't even ask me why there's multiplayer, let alone PvP).

This is an early prototype, but I'd like to invite people for some playtesting (see below)

✨ gamedev ✨

Yeah I feel you fellow wheel

quaternions are hard

I realised I can't just have `BTreeMap<Priority, Item>` and call it a priority queue 🎉
Imagine a task scheduler, which would allow only a single task in a queue with a certain priority. Useful, right?

So with that I learnt that a trolleybus is def my reflection spot

a priority queue with BTreeMap (of my own design; spoiler: it was utterly broken).

Next day, I had to finish some paperwork at my previous job, so I hopped on a trolleybus to the office and just started going through the algorithm in my head...

The revelation came as AAAA****

but I should also do some adjustments to the logic and data structures. The wiki page mentioned that openSet should be a min-heap or priority queue rather than a hash-set.
Since Rust's BinaryHeap wasn't flexible enough for my needs, I went with some lame-ass implementation of

the general idea with heuristics, hence I still needed a reference. The wikipedia page had a pretty nice pseudocode implementation, so I started translating it into Rust. But surely, on my 7'th hour of coding that day, I decided it's not enough just to code it as is,

What's everyone's best place to reflect on problems or.. code bugs? Turns out, mine is public transport.

A few days ago, I was implementing the A* algorithm for my minesweeper game. I can implement the Dijkstra's one from memory, but for A*, I just roughly remember

Productivity's skyrocketing

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Oh my god, you're also doing a minesweeper roguelike!

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Had 4-5 different viewers today, some of them left almost immediately though, since I code in complete silence 😅 But I do answer questions, either in voice or chat (depends on whether my wife is in a zoom meeting 🙃).

If you are interested, do hop in! www.twitch.tv/vladbat00/sc...

I tried a new productivity trick today: streaming on twitch 😄
Works great to avoid getting distracted (since I'm being watched 👀), had some really good progress today!

Now, this is how duel arena generation looks like (yet to sort out the bug with SW and NE directions).

The most time consuming thing was, ofc, action synchronisation via the network. It's practically finished now, you may have noticed that actions are exchanged after each player has spent 5 actions points, then server broadcasts those actions and clients replay them respectively

Working on a prototype of player duels in my dungeon-crawler-minesweeper game. It's turn-based, where the goal is to reach the center while avoiding mines and navigating yourself through the labyrinth.
I hope to playtest it next month after finishing layout gen, abilities and ui

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ok, but it's there source code somewhere open? 😊

this is so awesome 😍