Hi ho, I'm John. I'm a game developer from way back in the heyday. I wrote some games that sold well. I edited some books that sold poorly. I wrote a couple-hundred book reviews for Gamedev.net. And I taught game development to kids for a couple of years.
Nowadays I'm living in middle-of-nowhere Texas with my wife. I still do some development stuff, but it's pretty casual.
I have a far more stupid "fun" mastodon account at dobbs.town. Follow me there for non-technical stuff.
| My Mastodobbs | https://dobbs.town/@johnhattan |
| My old CD-ROM game pack stuff | https://thecodezone.itch.io/ |
Just playing around, seeing if I can wire up all this stuff in HaxeFlixel. Here I'm rendering an LDtk "world" along with some HaxeUI components and a game sprite that I animated in Spine quite some time ago.
Everybody's working and animating nicely on the native and HTML5 target. The native version isn't getting events from the gamepad, but I suspect there's some MacOS witchery that's gotta be done. HTML5 has its own gamepad API's, and that's working fine.
After I de-listed the couple of remaining Android games I had on Google, I started receiving these emails.
So, what's the scam? Is it that it's easier to sell scammy apps if your developer account wasn't created very recently?
Oooh, one game company wrote a pack of FIFTY games. That's quite an accomplishment!
Google : Your app is in violation of icon policies that we adopted years after you submitted. We have de-listed your app.
Me : It was still listed?
http://angriestprogrammer.com has been quietly parked for a year now.
The domain is expiring in about a week if anyone wants the name.
Oh yay, I've earned a scintilla of #slack
After 14 years, my book publisher is going to stop snail-mailing me quarterly statements reminding me that my books didn't cover the advance and never will.
Now they're just gonna send me quarterly emails, which are far easier to ignore.
Quick sketch of a "rules database" showing the rules for a Purplefruit (always increases player's strength) and a Flying Purplefruit (hides and gives no strength if your weapon has charges).
I suppose I could use something like CastleDB or Depot for a fancier interface, but this is pretty easy to read.
...and parse :)
