| Game | Developer |
| Github | https://github.com/freakdave |
| Bluesky | https://freakdave.bsky.social |
| YouTube | https://youtube.com/@freakdave |
Finally got a handle on bumpmapping for 1998 #dreamcast hardware. The basic idea is to simulate realtime light-responsive surface details on relatively simple geometry by providing a 'map' image that describes how light should interact with the surfaces, as if a lot more surface detail were being drawn.
Super detailed geometry would take up more of the limited RAM and needs much more CPU time to calculate lighting and feed into the graphics pipeline every frame. This is just six faces each with four vertices, a non bumpmapped version would need a mesh with thousands of verts.
(edit: spelt 'game' wrong, amazing)
Special offer this week! Half price on The Storied Sword and Chew Chew Mimic for #dreamcast over at the Orc Face Games store:
https://orcface.com/the-storied-sword
https://orcface.com/chew-chew-mimic
You can also pre-order Dream Disc '24 for free and we'll ship everything together when it arrives :)
Dream Disc '24, the free game jam disc for the #dreamcast, is now available for pre-order on our store! You only need to pay shipping.
https://orcface.com/dream-disc-24
The discs should arrive this month, so if you pick up any other games we'll wait and then ship everything at once :)
A small but significant design change in HarleQuest!'s HUD is to move the player's stamina to a wheel directly above them instead of a bar on the top left. It's way easier at a glance to see how much stamina you have left!
The winners of Dream Disc '24 have been announced! Every #Dreamcast game on this list will be on the first ever Dream Disc CD-ROM, coming soon to the Orc Face store 😀
My Dreamcast #DreamDisc24 game jam entry can be downloaded now from Itch!
Dream Disc '24 day 5, and happy Christmas Eve! Today's featured #dreamcast submission is the 3D Defuseball from @davereichelt
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Submissions: https://itch.io/jam/dream-disc-24/entries
Dream Disc '24 day 4! (I missed day 3, sorry!) Here are two WIP #dreamcast games submitted by Discord user wuuff: Sky Pirates of Etalmar and Trick Truck 🏴☠️🛻
Submissions: https://itch.io/jam/dream-disc-24/entries
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Orc Face Games
Luke Benstead
