CyMar 13
Learning about video game development be like:
First, the developer wrote a design document bigger than Encyclopedia Britannica
Then they made lifelong friendships with people who'd contribute dozens of hours of work for free because they're basically blood brothers now
Then they filled up 400 sketchbooks full of carefully planned and very well drawn concepts more creative than the entire Rennaissance
They also pioneered a new branch of mathematics to get the game working
Just the basic requirements, really
#vidya #programming #depressed
CyMar 5
New Minetest thread the old one got depressing.

https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1772313123.275392

Alright, now hemp means string. And string means... portable baskets!

#luanti #minetest #vidya #ShareYourGames #gaming #programming
CyFeb 28
Starting a new thread on playing Minetest, since the last one was getting cluttered.

https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1772135254.424057

Anyway, on to the screencaps. These striated biomes are my bane. I can't figure out how to make them out of Voronoi cells, and the Luanti devs used two fractal noise thresholds, which doesn't work. Like you'd think if you varied heat and humidity randomly around the map, there would be patches of each biome, but instead there are long, pinchy stripes, like the biome is a piece of stretched out taffy, which looks frankly ridiculous.

Here for instance, humidity is relatively constant (low), so the biomes are shaped like levels on a mountain range, long stripes around the "mountain" so to speak. Since the slope is (randomly) very steep here, it goes from snow to desert stupidly quickly.

#luanti #minetest #vidya #ShareYourGames #gaming #programming
CyFeb 26
https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1770397662.068706

Still looking for people to play with and/or work on let's plays with, but I haven't given up posting screenshots yet! Not like I have anything better to do like actual gardening. ...

Anyway, thankfully this time I did remember to set my spawn and not dig up the bed that was there. The bad news is I died underwater, far off the coast, don't know what killed me, and now I have to figure out how to go retrieve my bones with no supplies or weaponry.

Also I respawned at a quarter health because a spotted rat spawned in this tiny building and is currently chewing on me.

#minetest #luanti #vidya #ShareYourGames #OpenSource
CyFeb 21
Just fixed beds in Minetest, now they're actually fun. They don't pop up a dialog freezing your action, preventing you from even telling people to get to bed, and they don't force skip the night. So you can chat and fiddle with stuff in bed waiting for other players to lie down or d/c. A second right-click skips the night if enough are asleep. A left-click gets out of bed. Why didn't they design it this way in the first place??

Now I just have to find people to play with... anyone here play Minetest?

#Minetest #Luanti #vidya #gaming #programming
Show thread«lambalicious»Feb 10

@eniko While I know of some games that have managed pretty good visuals in small screens (eg.: Monster Hunter on the 3DS, 224p), 1.- those use a vastly different visual art and engine, highly reliant on zoom and 2.- 100px is still too small for that, IMO.

At that size limitation and if you might be facing redoing all the art for porting to consoles anyway, have you considered switching the art style to "symbolic" and using "symbolic tiles" rather than "graphic tiles"?

Kinda like games such as #ZZT did back in the times of the DOS, when you had to deal with 80×25 terminals (no graphics mode, even).

Symbolic visual art can also give a game a pretty fresh coat of paint depending on the genre, as can be seen in games such as #VVVVVV , and on a console port you could even add a "retro option" switch for the visual engine like how #MonsterBoy does, for extra fancy.

For extra bonus, on symbolic tiles you could even just use fonts for some symbols, since many of them have a 10pt option.

#vidya

CyFeb 6
Well here I am with my very first playthrough of Minetest, because I certainly didn't just die and lose all my gear from trying to tank a full sized African elephant naked. And I would never put the bed that I slept at in my inventory, making me instead spawn at a random location thousands of blocks away. And it's only those fools back at the Institution who think I forgot to set a home location that I could teleport back to. So instead this is my first ever playthrough of Minetest gee what an interesting game. I think I'll go walk a few thousand blocks over that way, where my bones were placed.

...this is the pitts.

#luanti #minetest #programming #OpenSource #vidya #ShareYourGames

https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1770156570.196897
CyFeb 3
Last thread got derailed, so here's a new one. The sunflowers are looking beautiful in the morning light. Wait, is that...

#vidya #gaming #ShareYourGames #minetest #luanti #OpenSource #programming

https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1770063799.355718
CyFeb 2
Lost my thread, so here's a new one. I suddenly awakened from a terrible dream that I'd died out in the middle of nowhere and lost all my gear.

Shit, where's all my gear?

#gameplay #vidya #minetest #luanti #OpenSource #programming

https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1769904139.727099
Show threadCyFeb 1
Another day in Coral Town. Time to see if the potats are yep they're ready. Potats are broken. Best source of food, if you have fuel to cook them. I think grapes are the best if you don't wanna cook.

#games #vidya #minetest #luanti #OpenSource #programming