LD46: Score, Scaling, and BURNING! Oh my.

2020-04-19 in Programming

Got some sleep and BACK AT IT!

Big changes:

We have scores now!
And proper scaling (which also fixes the performance issue, at least on my machine, turns out 1/16 as many updates helps)
Proper resetting

LD46: IT'S WORKING!

2020-04-18 in Programming

IT’S WORKING!

The performance is terrible (sub 10 FPS on a pretty decent desktop and I want to try to run it in a browser…), but it’s working.

LD46: Particles!

2020-04-18 in Programming

I’ve got particles working!

It’s probably not nearly as efficient as it’s going to have to be, but it’s a start?

LD46: Squishy squishy

2020-04-18 in Programming

It’s so squish!

That is not at all what I intended, but I kind of love it, so for the moment, it stays in.

To get this far, I had a heck of a time trying to figure out Godot’s physics engine, but I’m learning quickly!

LD46: Tetris is working! (sort of)

2020-04-18 in Programming

Update!

I have basic blocks that fall by themselves and that I can move around with left/right on the keyboard. They will collide with each other and the walls/floor, and once they stick, a new block will spawn.

Ludum Dare 46: Tetris Sand

2020-04-17 in Programming

It’s been a while since I’ve last done a Ludum Dare. I felt the itch though, so let’s do it again.

Ludum Dare is an online event where games are made from scratch in a weekend. Check us out every April and October!

The theme this time: Keep it alive

I don’t know if I’ll make it all the way through or actually finish a game. But I’m going to give it a try!

Invader Fractals

2014-09-17 in Programming

First we had Procedural Invaders. Then we used them fill up space with Fractal Invaders. But we’re not quite done yet! This time, let’s mix things up a bit and make Invader Fractals.

Fractal Invaders

2014-09-16 in Programming

Today’s post is a follow up to Sunday’s post Procedural Invaders. This time around, we’re going to work through two different space filling algorithms in order to eventually generate something like this:

Procedural Invaders

2014-09-14 in Programming

Today’s post comes from a long line of ‘inspired by posts’ all pretty much leading back (so far as I can tell) to this post by j.tarbell: invader.procedural from 2003.

The basic idea is that we want to generate ‘invaders’ in the style of space invaders. Except we don’t want 10 or 20, we want tens of thousands. So how do we do it? Well, take a look at this: