Wanting to get back into pixel art VFX, scribbled this real quick on the iPad last night before bed

#art #pixelart #vfx #animation

He's SCHMOOVIN'

Working on a custom animated sprite format + conversion scripts, plus writing a bunch of game state management stuff around that executable overlay stuff I was working on

(so for example now you can just call StateManager::PushState(StateType::Field) and it will handle cleaning up the previous state, resetting texture heaps, loading in the correct executable overlay, & creating an instance of the FieldState and calling it)

#programming #homebrew #homebrewgames #retro #SEGASaturn

Hell yeah. Working with Sega Saturn homebrew stuff, got executable overlays working!

Basically: the game code is split into a main "kernel" executable, and then several "overlay" executables. The link script defines all of these overlay sections to reside at the same region in memory, but omits them from the main binary (my makefile instead manually extracts them from the ELF and emits separate binaries for each one)

Then at runtime, the kernel just ensures that the correct overlay binary is loaded into the shared region in memory before it calls into that code.

#gamedev #homebrewgames #SEGASaturn #programming

Working on a sequenced music engine for the Sega Saturn. Got it playing back both PCM samples and 4-op FM patches!

(the screen is turned off in OBS b/c my laptop really struggles and the music timing gets a bit screwey)

#retro #retrogamedev #retrotech #SEGASaturn #homebrewgames #gamedev #chiptune

Wee, my MIDI input/output changes have been merged into Ymir! ^^

https://github.com/StrikerX3/Ymir

https://peoplemaking.games/@glairedaggers/114712877868199909