l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

Subtleties of animation...
Had to slice the effect sprite into fg/bg parts and put them on different layers. And synchronize everything manually 😓

#haskell #gamedev

Looks like this is the reason why Opus, the next-gen Xiph codec, was failed to overtake its predecessor Vorbis despide being pareto-superior to it.

The author of `stb_vorbis.h` that gets shipped far and wide found that they can't make the same for Opus due to licensing shenanigans.

https://nothings.org/stb/stb_opus.html

#gamedev #fail

*takes notes*

But what if...

#gamedev

Extracted tile "proxy" data from Tilesetter projects. Makes maps a little less bland.
#Haskell #gamedev

Visibility is surprisingly tricky. Lots of implementation options, semantic options and how to combine those

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Switched to map and contour generation from quad tree cells. Those are now correctly represent terrain transitions, not only passable regions.

The thing is more costly to construct, but the map filling is much faster than sampling each tile corner - less duplicate work and big chunks of uniform terrain are naturally aggregated and can be dispatched as one job.

Out of 1M tiles only ~75k are 1-tile transitions that are processed sequentially (presumably while some bigger jobs are chugging in background).

#Haskell #gamedev

Awww yisss! Everything* I wanted feature-wise from this tileset:
- Map declared in Multicolor SDF (lava is the base layer, everything else is boolean'd together)
- 4-corner Wang tiles extracted from TileSetter project (no, I didn't do those 96 tiles by hand) (package pending)
- Per-tile attributes in the "free" vec4 slot. Here - tile speed (also used for passability).
- A* path-finding with per-tile travel costs (the truck on the screenshot prefers flat terrain as ridges are slow to crawl).

#ludumdare #Haskell #gamedev

* I have unused alternative biome tiles... to spice up the landscape 😏

Reading Wikipedia resulted in a slightly different path-finding algorithm than intended.

Behold: A-A-A-A-A*!

(At least it doesn't jump straight into lava.)

#ludumdare #haskell #gamedev

End of #LudumDare day 1:
https://youtube.com/shorts/zLGhr3dtoRY

Not yet playable, just no-engine basics.

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The floor and lava

(There are some kinky borders. Most likely the fix would end up involving a rewrite of the quad-tree structure or something like that.)

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Adventures in the BitIndexLand

With no wang-compatible tileset at hand, the tiles are indices themselves.

#haskell #gamedev

Keep your friends close (but not closer)

#Haskell #gamedev

I love #vulkan (spir-v) specialization constants! So much better than mashing strings or macroing defines. Just write your ubershader and let the driver fold, prune and unfold producing a fastest smallest program without sweating a brow at optimization.

#gamedev

Tried to design a non-violent game with #ChatGPT. It is suprisingly an uphill battle.

I understand that majority of the games are quite adversarial, but can't it just pin it somewhere, that, no "defending against monster hordes" is still "combat"?

#gamedev

Implemented a 9-patch sprite slicer to make fancy viewport frames.

#Haskell #gamedev

All the pieces so far:
- Dynamic tilemap.
- A minimap view synced to it (using 1px tile atlas for colors).
- Draggable viewport.
- Some animated sprites in world-space.
- Screen-space (yellow) and tile-space (blue) selection boxes.
- Status frames for sprites caught in selection.
- The window is still resizable (tilemap re-center appropriately and minimap sticks to its corner with a small padding).

#Haskell #gamedev

Animating all ~~you can eat~~ sprites by cranking just one field in uniform. iGPU chews through 10k jumping things at full FPS while remaining responsible (i.e. not CPU-chocked) up into 100k.

(Dynamically updated tilemap chugging in the background.)

#vulkan #haskell #gamedev