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While reviewing the "tiled" chapter produced by my blogpress tools, I remembered that landing on a slope still produces odd effects from time to time. And then came an idea to reproduce these conditions in the unit-test environment. Just as I was observing that the "dkp54" branch has been around from a long time and so has been the "cflags" branch and that "right, I promised myself I wouldn't…
Last summer, I started reworking collisions in my game engine. The idea was to be able to define groups, so that e.g. collision-based communications between a stunned blador and its feet would never interfere with a bouncy branch and things it bounces away. Sure, there was way to do that already, by assigning them separate collision flags , but I've long ran out of these, forcing me to make weird…
I'm not considering to add some for these projects at this point, despite I now have a few things on codeberg and codeberg sure comes with some CI/CD option, maybe they'll look like the one of gitlab which I've had to deal with today. Most of gitlab's CI options are tweaked through variables within the .gitlab-ci.yml file of your repository. Most of those variables are free to configure yourself…
Si vous avez un peu essayé n'importe laquelle de mes démos "green zone" ces 20 dernières années, ça n'a pas pu vous échapper: le petit ver jaune - ce croisement entre un combattant dans Worms Armageddon et un poison slug de Commander Keen - est pénible . Jusque là, je ne lui avais jamais fait d'animation "éliminé, le petit ver". On l'assomme, il attend, il repart. Il n'avait qu'un rôle minime dans…
I completely forgot to tell you about that patch from early June that allowed to see clearly the space occupied by larger monsters in LEDS. And I forgot to pull it from "the cube" and to push it on sourceforge , too. It did not work exactly how I hoped though, so there was still some manual tweaking to get those bouncy branches properly aligned with the tiled tree when I assembled the tree , and I…
Ah, yeah. Early this month, while the heatwave had not burnt our energy and house wasn't yet a post-camp-departure-mess, I had that Silly Idea (tm) that I could enter the I would have read https://gbadev.net/resources.html#articles, installed the GBA devkit in addition to the NDS devkitpro (reality: done, but where) and I'd have quickly (ahem) converted the Green Zone graphics into…
Ooops Ooops oops. It's about time I tell you about the releasable nds I uploaded last week ... I wanted something featuring the latest Funky Funghi and applemen improvements that I could share over the not-too-new itch.io page and tried the development log feature to write a blurp about it. But of course, July is always super-crowded to the point I feel like an impostor when just taking time for…
French journalists have a word for that seasonal topic that comes up again in newspapers when every high-end interviewers are on holiday and things are up to interns: "Le marronnier de l'été" ... and it may feel that doing some blog-to-printable/epub conversions pops up every summer here, but hopefully not for the same reason. The motion started with the late-night idea that "tiled" engine…
Bon, oui, le GB studio, c'est rigolo comme concept. Et ça fait pas mal de titres tout à fait sympa comme ce dinosaure de luxe . Mais y convertir du Bilou , je vois mal le truc ... même Badman aurait du mal. .. mais, petit délire de Mars ... j'ai déjà un jeu qui avait été pensé pour le monochrome dès le début: Caliméro! On ne va pas se mentir, par contre, ça n'avait pas vraiment été pensé pour les…
Toujours en mode " post-desktop ". Toujours avec mes carnets qui me servent entre-autres à suivre la progression (lente mais présente) du projet "dreamland". Tout le jeu, avec ce genre de carnet, c'est d'arriver à conserver facilement accessible les choses qui sont encore pertinentes. Souvent, ça passe par un coin de feuille sur lequel je vais me faire une espèce de petit index illustré des pages…
