Also I created my educational hobbyist's YT channel: M5Stack For All (in Russian). Love recording video lessons for motivated kids. www.youtube.com/@M5StackForAll 🤫LikeAndSubScRibe

For the 2nd day in row ima feeling that winter holidays itch to create stuff!!! I wish I could code and play games 24/7 as a school boi. Alas!! My home chores and aging mind poke me into priorities. Coding the original game with my friend brings almost the same vibe as in mah school times except

The 3rd day in row I keep yelling: I FIXED ALL BUGS!! but I was wrong again. This time I made non unit tests but integrated tests in Zabu. It's hard to have unit tests with C code that looks as asm. At least the tests saved the day. It's easy to test 30 cases of certain for regressions.

☮️Happy holidays!🕊️

Merry Holidays1!!😸

Killing my inner grumpy old boi every day.

When I was a school boi, I'd use the new AI stuff for everything in my games. For EVERYTHING11!!!!!! Not sure if it's made my coding/hacking skills worse. I wanted to create worlds wo any obstacles in my path. One of the keys that opened my way for me was ❤️‍🔥RPG MAKER. So

I fixed 2 issues today. A few AI tasks are left. (smarTass AI patterns is a neverending stru story) +1 to my efficiency today

Sup? A screenie from our quite legit prev open source life: SATOFF's balling up RICK ( project ZABUYAKI )

Damn! Gimme the winter holidays now!

Love this Polish guitar gem! (the channel, ofc) www.youtube.com/shorts/HGKI_...

I'm going to share some Lua scripts helping in #SGDK gamedev. Today it's showResources.lua It's parsing your output file for biggest assets and print them in some TOP 20 sections. You may add more filters and adjust the number of the resources. github.com/D0NM/SGDKlua PS Use VSC 'Code Runner'

Well, the date of the Zabu DEMO2 release is easy to guess.

3 hours of pixel hunting in beatemup. U know, when people start using physical engines they forget about the aiming preciseness of classic games.🦵〽️ Talking about myself btw. Glad my friend & me r making our game together and there is someone to bonk the other when it's needed.

Spent some time redoing our sprite engine wrapper over SGDK's... Had to do it again. Needed it for some new game feature. Pushing it up before the release. It's a boring and routine work. Classic games OS saves my mind.

We've finally finished and integrated map tile streaming supporting!! Now you can have large maps that stream directly to VDP as you move!!! ─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ #megadrive #mdengine #homebrew #indiedev #gamedev #sgdk #pixelart

My #RandomGameSaturday this week is technically software, but a cool game related import nonetheless. I pirated a translated version of this back in 2000 and got instantly hooked on making games with it. Would not be where I’m at without RPG Maker 2000, so thanks @zabu-team-don.bsky.social

Got slowpoking win10/11 ? 🐢 use this spiffy script: github.com/Raphire/Win1... I've tested it on 10+ PCs from old to new ones. I skipped AUTO option and just disabled all telemetry and stuff. I haven't meddled with context menu / task bad and explorer. U may!11

@retrodev.com Hey hey!! Love new Pause/Next frame thingies. Here is a question: On running the recent BlastEm on Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon I get a big blank BlasEm Debugger terminal window. Which shows no KPrints. it gets filled with text *AFTER* I close the main BlastEm window. Have u seen it?

Added to Zabu so much today. Helped a colleague to upload his Scala video lecture. Meddling with enemy waves in Zabu. Trying to make gopniks run.

r u reading/watching Sanda by any chance?

I look at any level/map editor trough a prism of the RPG MAKER. Our Zabu's maps resemble it even in OGMO.🥹

On the backtrace you can see the stack of the called functions. It doesn't show the EXACT address of the faulty function, it is offset to some code in the func body) look at the picture (i used my symb . txt🥹) then check next address etc... the 1st of 2nd line is the offset within the crashy func

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Donnie's tip: 🤓 if u r 1ccoding a game with 2 or more player modes then do not forget alternating iteration order among the players. Why? U might remember classic games where P1 had priority over P2 etc becuz of the hardcoded loop order.

Just migrated all available enemies from the old AI to the new one. Very happy. there is much work to do, still

To fix some severe regression I had to run Gens KMod again. Found more memory access errors. It should be a good habit to check roms with good old GENS. #SGDK

My main inanimate helper in gamedev is mr.Baby Steps.

Refactored Zabu AI stuff that let the core splitting heavy tasks of enemies when needed. CPU time is limited here. No fancy OOP shit. I simplify many thing avoiding heavy coding patterns. Also I added profiling tools but I'll do it after the next demo release.

I did about 4 game ports if not more(we don't have to count Tetris and such). We had no Twitter but puberty and some hormonal boost. Glad it's in the past. Oh... I did translate one or three makers after that. The boost wasn't as high as I expected it 😉

- But we have brain rot at home! (in 1992) (w/o any irony, watching old Hungarian flicks and musical clips) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4G...

Speeding up to release the next demo of our beatemup Zabu. We haven't shown anything new for 2 years... Coding it, having fun. Cannot wait to release the demo🥴

Firstly adding some new engine debug features into BizHawk scripts. Secondly adding the new engine features into our SPIFF (beatemup engine😸). #SGDK I wish I did it from the very start.

Before starting our Zabu project on MD we tested SGDK stuff and added our sprites/etc libs for a SHMUP "Oh-My-Gee".

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On a new reactive AI we detected some hidden bugs. Ya know Fighting and Bmup games need some immunity from then cont attacks. Like u cannot keep getting damage on every next frame. So, during some old refactoring I reduced this mechanics only for PLAYER->ENEMY attacks 😌

Trying to debug. Looking at the beautiful debug info. Figuring.🧐

A nice open source tool to record GIFs from da screen www.screentogif.com

It's hard to see but it's like 3 enemies are giving the player some hard time by juggling. They freeze in air repeating this fantastic feeling.🥴 Having less aggressive mobs missed the butt hurt bug before.

I stutter on making enemies dumber by adding some hesitation and pausing.🤪 But it's a must. I'm getting nervous playing my games with a constant "bullet hellish" mood. The 1st task id to make them SMART!!! And u struggle on it. Then u hafta pull the leash off a bit.

Nice 👻 github.com/DrewThomasso...

Coding walking patterns🫠

Better a pig than a fascist

Having a good time debugging new AI.

#MODtober – 'From A Long Distance'. This song was composed by me in 1994. My friend Tarh and I recorded the demo of this tune on two acoustic guitars. Shortly afterwards we formed the music- and #demoscene group called 'The SandS': thesands.ru. In 2005 I recorded this song in form of #Amiga MOD

All our dev tools are present on the taskbar icons. You don't see SGDK, C# and Lua scripts there tho.

Love building debug tools. Especially if they work with ancient HW as Megadrive. I got back to BizHawk for a bit. Looking at its API and at my scripts I just cannot accept it was made in a few days (my scripts, not the BH API) PS BizHawk 2.11 is out. BlastEm is still the same sweet Summer's child.

My Cossacks pals understand word "homebrew" quite literally.🥃

I have nothing against moonwalking but it seems I hafta add a flag to playback looped animations backwards (what a relief, i use custom wrapper around #SGDK sprite engine lib from the beginning and do not rely on its old and recently added flags).

I'd drop everything and play Mother 4. Trying to imagine any other game title that'd worked the same. Nah. Maybe a new FFT A (not a remake).