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Game Tech Discussion Devlogs Page 3

Adaptive Music: How the Music System in "Just Keep Running" Works
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Written by Victor Ahlin, creator of "Just Keep Running" PLEASE NOTE: This article contains spoilers for Level 1-3 of the game. You have been warned Intro Before...
Dev Log: Cutscene Editor
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In this video, I show off how I create cutscenes for Super Sol Standard in preparation for the second demo I’m working on in preparation for this Summer. Chec...
Branching WIP #2
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More progress on the mission branching. Waves are now "graded" so generating branches is more structured with an even spread of different difficulties and no du...
Send units to cities
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In my development version, a new comfort function has now been completed. In the next version of the game, it will be possible to send units directly to a speci...
Tech Discussion: Engine switch to Unigine or...?
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Why? With default Unity you get floating point precision issues as soon as 3000 units from the origin of the world. That's where the Starbase Build Site is loca...
Loading WIP
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Hasn't been an update for a while so here's a peek at what I'm currently working on. The multiblock update has highlighted the long loading times issues. On tha...
Transparent Source (Source Code Amnesty Day)
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I'm a little late for Source Code Amnesty Day on the intfiction.org forums, but I actually found the HTML prettified source text for Transparent . The best way...
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How to build the Resonatorium
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When I was sharing in-progress shots of some of the backgrounds some people thought I ripped the models from FFXIV itself (which I took as a huge compliment omg...
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Development Notes #4 | Technical Blind-Spots and What the Game Maker Profiler Doesn't Tell You
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Hello, this is Garrett Thompson, sole member of Act-Novel. In the last Development Notes entry , I wrote a bit at the end about a potential VRAM bottleneck disc...
performance of a custom engine on a standalone vr headset
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When I started to work on Tea For God I had no idea that in a few years, there will be a standalone VR headset and what will be inside it. I decided to go with...
#5 - Toaster starts cooking
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Recently I finished the enemy robot rework I was planning to do. It was successful, the first type of robot is mostly finished, and the other types can be more...
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About "TinyWar high-speed" Programing
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I made "TinyWar high-speed" with only the basic functions of HTML5 and JavaScript. I often build games with basic functions in some programming languages. "Tiny...
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In-game model viewer
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Bad Pixels uses a custom rendering engine, so it is a bit tricky to see models working how they should without running the game. Then I have move around the lev...
Development Hardware Setup
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Previously I posted a brief article about the software tools I’m using to develop my game on a Rainbow 100. Today, I’ll walk through my hardware setup. Main...
Obstruction of Visibility - Beer's Law
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No no no, Beer’s law is an actual thing that exists in actual physics - and I used it in Asteroid Arena. In this tech blog I’ll share with you how the cloud...
Controller Support
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Hello there! I should keep this page more updated hehe. I finally added controller support, since some people asked me to add it. There's not key binding yet, b...
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Rebuild in C++
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After migrating my library/engine to C++, it's time to recreate this Java game using the new C++ engine. Graphic elements will be reused, the rest will be creat...
Tech Devlog - The Projection
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Hello, my name is Ali, one of the programmer of the chef's shift. Now I want to talk a little bit behind the scene of this game. Basically when we start a proje...
Tiny Technicalities: What's in an Action?
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Hi everyone! I’m Ell, the creator and lead developer of Tiny Life, and this is a new sort of series of devlogs that we’re starting. We’re calling it Tiny...
Development Tools on a Rainbow 100
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While Six/Six is “almost done,” with just a few theoretical days of playtesting before a release, I thought it might be fun to talk a bit about development...
Generating Procedural Video Game Dialog With the OpenAI API and Real-Time Text-to-Speech
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NPC dialog lines are generated on the fly, different every time, facilitated by a custom prompt for each line in our custom Unity dialog editor. Instead of writ...
Flying Fun
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The most noticeable difference between many other flying games and Loren Logic's flying engine, as found in the Flyland Wars genre of games on Steam.com and Fly...
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Traffic Brains 2 is coming to Steam!
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So I decided, that Windows is the way for my game to reach more players. Especially with this type of game. Since this game is on my own c++ engine, it is not a...
Unreal Engine Issues
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Hi investigators! Today, I announce that the project game ''No Signal'' is put on Hold. Due to recent issues with Unreal Engine 4, the main game files have been...
Server Fixes, New Pets & Capes
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Today I've been working on the February update of Eterspire. I did quite a lot of things so let's see... Server Crashes One of the main issues we ran into once...
Sinathir and AI
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This post will be a little different from the usual ones. I won't be talking about sinathir updates directly. Instead, I will talk about my experience with expe...
Coding
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For those that were wondering about #Commodore64 development, this is a video of me in the coding zone working through a few TODO items for my new game "Tusari...
Dream & Sugar DevLog 01/22/23
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(Time Range: 2021-11-11 11:14:49 -0500 to 2021-12-31 4:15:09 -0500) Chapter 4: Painting Ourselves Into A Cliffhanger v1.1.4: NOVEMBER 11 - 14 On 11-11-21 at aro...
Development Tools
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To make Bad Pixels look and sound like it is from a computer of old, we had to use various specialist tools to make the assets. Here are some of the various too...
The C64 status bar challenge
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Clicca qui per la versione italiana. ;-) When I chose to make an interactive fiction game, I knew I wanted a nice status bar at the top of the screen. Easy peas...
[002] - The Autocuber: A Tool for Making 3D Levels!
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Follow updates on my Substack: https://melodicambient.substack.com/ In Devlog 1, I mentioned the Autocuber. When it comes to making games in small teams, it's a...
Game size fix
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After 13 days (sorry, incompetence) I noticed that the zip archive from Slendertubbies contains 2 copies of the game. An update is just flying around that bring...
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Sculpting Side B: Generating the terrain of Alpha Periphery C2
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Greetings surveyors! In the upcoming free content expansion for Periphery Synthetic EP, you will scale the icy vistas of Alpha Periphery C2 to unlock new abilit...
Looking for help!
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if a have many comments and downloads I will release a reboot! Reboot will be more detailed will be remade movement, camera system, ai improvements i will no lo...
Please Excuse The Mess
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Hey there everyone this is Rob from Clay Brick Entertainment! Granted, this is not the article I want to be writing today, but it'll do. I fell behind on a lot...
My response to... "please, do not use AI Art."
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My response to: "If you respect the art of game development in any way, please, do not use AI Art." https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGMaker/comments/zn61ki/comment/j...
Custom made Entity Component System for Playdate
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This is a screenshot of how the ECS system is built for the game Elf Factory , and it is a copy of what I did in Jewel Defender (though I cleaned up the code a...
Jigsaw Puzzle Mechanics
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Hey! I'm again a little late for the weekly Friday update. I thought I'd do a bit of a deeper dive this time, into the new lore-related features. Most of the wo...
performance
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Since I implemented support for OpenXR, the performance of the game went down. Enough to be noticable. I decided not to investigate it immediately as I knew tha...
other clip showing performnce
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video showing performance improvements.
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it runs much faster now...
Request: Sprites
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Does anyone have the gamejolt official sprite pack from mairusu? Unofrtunately, his gamejolt page was banned. Therefore, spritepack go poof. Contact me on disco...
#12: Localizing a low resolution pixel art game
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This post was originally written in July 2022 Languages This game supports 12 languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russia...
#10: Audio tech
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This post was originally written in May 2020. At the time the game was still called Hook, Line and Thinker The previous devlog was about 1 audiophile. This devl...
#09: Interview with sound designer Andrew Dodds
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This post was originally written in May 2020. At the time the game was still called Hook, Line and Thinker I recently read an article called A Swimmer’s View...
Switched Over To URP
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NEW FEATURES Bears spawn in the world that your units can kill for lots of resources CHANGES Teammates now spawn together in the team corner they choose Map is...
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#06: Undo
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This post was originally written in December 2018. At the time the game was still called Hook, Line and Thinker There is a single dedicated button in Hook which...
#05: Case anatomy and pixel-perfect rendering
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This post was originally written in August 2018. At the time the game was still called Hook, Line and Thinker I have just finished the very long and very painfu...
#04: Bootstrapping, menu transitions and level loading
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This post was originally written in April 2018. At the time the game was still called Hook, Line and Thinker There are 6 main screens in Hook: the title screen...
The Sound of TotS - Devlog #10
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Another week has passed and we have been hard at work… While giving the last touch-ups to dialogue and balance, we also think a lot about the soundscape we wa...
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