John Hattan

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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 Mastodobbshttps://dobbs.town/@johnhattan
My old CD-ROM game pack stuffhttps://thecodezone.itch.io/
@rcarmo what's it for?
@patrickd VR? What’s the tech stack?

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.

@GossiTheDog nice emojis. I see prayers, but no thoughts.

@patrickd @isaackuo I got reminded of this obscure Archon knockoff. I liked it because the outcomes weren't predetermined like chess. You can attack a queen with a pawn, but you're going to have to be very lucky.

Also the characters have a little 3d thunderdome :)

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/xroar-online/?machine=cocous&basic=DOS%5cr&joy_right=mjoy0&cart=rsdos&disk0=/unzip%3Ffile%3DDisks/Games/Varloc%20(Tandy).zip/varloc.dsk

TRS-80 Color Computer Archive

TRS-80 Color Computer Archive

@isaackuo @patrickd the number in the cell is the combined strength of all monsters touching that space. If you click a monster higher than your level, you take damage.

basically, look for 1's until you hit level 2.

@patrickd @isaackuo it's as polished as most other 15 year-old Flash games I know :)

@patrickd @isaackuo how does it compare to Mamono Sweeper?

https://hojamaka.com/games/mamono_sweeper

マモノスイーパー - Hojamaka Games

マインスイーパー+RPG

@waysideollie sucks that it took a year to finally indict the scumbag, but I'll take it.