Big Milestone - generated a simple random mission, with all the plumbing in place. Still missing air defenses and CAPs, but it is a proper mission based on user-provided parameters. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #flightsim #ww2 #wwii #retrogaming

Excellent read for the season and time we live in. "Regney and Shayne penned the song as a call for peace during [the Cuban missile crisis]. The song’s message was so poignant that the pair had difficulty singing through it without crying." thebulletin.org/2022/12/do-y...

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Keep cranking’

She loved the trip to the Christmas tree farm.

Allegro 5.2.11.1 is released! This fixes some regressions in Allegro 5.2.11. Whoops! Read the full announcement for more details: liballeg.org #gamedev #allegro5

Xmas tree farm visit in Redmond (sound up!)

Many thanks @siegelordex.bsky.social for helping me with my Allegro issues! I can now do anti-aliasing, and even got a nice FPS boost for very little work. I've been using Allegro since it was DOS only in 1995, turns out I still have a couple tricks to learn! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Still working on campaign narrative events. Spent the day finding and fixing a nasty double delete bug. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #flightsim #ww2 #wwii #retrogaming #screenshotsaturday

Autumn in the PNW is hard to beat

#screenshotsaturday time again! Flying a dogfight against 12 Ju-88s. Got 2, then crashed. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #flightsim #ww2 #wwii #retrogaming

Gamedev? Only a distant memory now 😀

Hey @kennylauderdale.bsky.social - there is a toy expo/museum display just outside Kyobashi station in Tokyo and Golden Bat is prominently featured!

Everyone going on about Hachiko when Chirori was the real hero #corgicrew

About to head off on a little break, spent the morning tweaking some config files, so not much in the exciting graphics department to show #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogaming

Lots of back and forth trying to decide how to show the current campaign state. Landed on this text heavy version which looks a bit like period film titles. #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogaming #screenshotsaturday

Ok, not much of a #screenshotsaturday post but now I have the data structures for campaigns, and you can create one for your profile. #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogaming

Who's happy it's autum? #fall #corgicrew #corgi #redmond

Not feeling great this week, so no code. But I did realize in a WWII game you need to be able to blow up Nazi generals, so I added an actor for that purpose. #indiedev #solodev #ww2 #retrogaming #flightsim #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

September all work stalled due to other priorities, but I am back in the saddle. What does every WWII game need? Halftracks of course! Added the SDKfz 215 in two versions, and a new MG42 turret to add some spicy targets and adversaries. #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #indiedev #retrogaming #flightsim

Can you imagine releasing you game on THREE TAPES. The patience you used to need to play roguelikes. #roguelike #retrogaming

Working on automatically generating realistic flight paths. Close, not quite there. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #retrogaming #fligthsim #indiedev

Having a walk before it gets too hot #corgicrew #corgi

Get a game state to do mission brief and arming now! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #retrogaming #fligthsim #indiedev

The ultimate #gamedev notebook.

Thanks to discovering macros in Audacity, I now have 7 different voices for the radio, which helps with telling apart your voice from that of your wingmen and ground control. You can now pick the voice you want when creating a profile #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #flightsim

Action sequence! #corgi #corgicrew #corgilife

Well, one of the Azure services I work on implements this for CoDBlOps. Does that make me a AAA dev now?

The laziness cycle. #corgi #corgicrew

Heavy week at work so not much #gamedev happened. Managed to finish the Condor and close a couple bugs. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #solodev #flightsim #retrogame

Stop taking pictures dad #corgicrew #corgi

#screenshotsaturday ahead of schedule - been a rough week, trying to give it a good send off by adding a new bad guy and some Black Sabbath #indiedev #solodev #flightsim #indiegame

More testing, added something like a photo mode and got some nice pics for #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogaming #flightsim #ww2

Flight testing today. Amazing how so many bugs still remain after years of tweaking the same code! #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #flightsim

Seattle is the spot to be if you're an #avgeek. Took these two shots in the same week (Museum of Flight and Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum)

NEW COMIC! Holding Pattern Lulu really does love the water. It’s the heights that concern her. As usual Lulu would love a like, comment, and share if you can spare it. Fan art is always welcome too! #daniandlulucomic

Added a dark color pointer to be less jarring, and also the tooltip now tells you what the hotkey/input is for that switch #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #retrogaming

Improving the cockpit, and working on environment lighting #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #flightsim #ww2

Volume up! Spirit of ‘76 is alive in Redmond

Added hints to the panels for accessibility and to make it easier to learn the game. Mouse over a switch/instrument and you get a label of what it is/does. If it is usable, you can click it directly (no need to memorize all the keys) #indiedev #solodev #flightsim #indiegame #flightsim #ww2

Look at this little sleeping guy

Adding actors to the historically correct spots today. It's super fun to see the world shape up #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogaming #flightsim #ww2 #wwii

Nap time #corgicrew

Added radars today - still deciding how big a role electronic warfare will play in the game. #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #ww2 #flightsim #retrogaming

Squashing bugs this weekend, but it's getting harder to concentrate on my silly little virtual war with all the real ones going on #indiedev #solodev #flightsim #indiegame #retrogaming

Finished adding detail to the map. Now includes a little over 700 towns, cities and points of interest. Left is before, right is after #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #flightsim

Summer fit check #corgi

Working on the map this weekend. There are already 500 cities and points of interest, need to bump that up as there are still lots of boring open areas. It's 2.5D, starts with a landclass bitmap, a heightmap, a bunch of data layers and presto. #flightsim #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #retrogaming

Time for some relaxing #gamedev Heap corruption on delete? It's not consistent? Debugger won't let me trap it? 100 printfs and 3 hours later, got it down using the wrong variable as an index to an array during load - the fix is changing a single character. #indiedev #solodev

#throwbackthursday Two years ago Lulu making sure we knew she was leaving it when we ask her to leave it. #corgicrew