Starting to use some of the neat window stuff I built into #maug now that I reworked it to not eat all the VRAM on the PSX... This is the SDL port, tho. But now I can have my little #goblin give the tutorial. Also added proper fields that react to the sprayer... but I still need to add a sprite for when the sprayer is on... and smooth out all of the scrolling glitches and fix the field corners and add actual mechanics and and...

But... it's progress on an actual game! Not just engine work! 😌

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fergycool/116261124531604297

it always amazes me seeing photos of the physical edition, which i spent weeks designing the cover and layout for. every object i photographed for the cover is from the games and computer junk i grew up with - even that cocktail napkin from Leisure Suit Larry :D

for new followers or anyone else as excited as i am about 80s and 90s computing, Mages & Modems can be found here in print and ebook editions: https://tomotama.com/books

if you're wondering about the cover design: it's a re-imagining of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.1, full of my childhood clutter. at the top are diskettes i grew up with, like Stunts, PKWare Utilities (shareware), MS-DOS 3.3 for Amstrad, Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego, Leisure Suit Larry 1, and a free copy of F-PROT Anti-Virus i got in a box of blank disks :)

#books #bookstodon #retrocomputing #macintosh #dosGaming #vintageComputing #history

NEW BLOG POST

You weren't doing anything on a Friday afternoon were you?

Here's 4 thousand words about the new and improved Chronicles behavior planning and how I leveraged reinforcement learning techniques used by Chess and Go algorithms to make my baddies smart and efficient. Enjoy!

https://blog.brianna.town/the-bigger-better-chronicles-npc-behavior-system

#gamedev #indiedev #blog

This is back open; if you're part of a (massive) layoff in the game industry you can request a product of mine for free. It's not much, but it might help you in your journey ahead. 🫂

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYspypDT6kty59HKETAcf2EleON18OUBUbjEx3lj4I8LYz-Q/viewform

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116294846594582444

I like that this is made in C in a platform agnostic manner so theoretically it could be ported to pretty much anything

New blog post! I've been using enthusiast-developed lower-level CD reading techniques for awhile, and I think institutional archivists would benefit from trying them out. Wrote up a summary of what it is, how it works, and how it could be useful for you.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/09/13/the-working-archivists-guide-to-enthusiast-cd-rom-archiving-tools/