A bit of #Dosember fun. Taking a look in Ghidra to see how Interphase (classic game!) does it's polygon drawing. Think I found it... but x86 and segmented memory is not my forte... but this is a tight loop that's definitely writing to A000 and as I step through the poly gets drawn a little more. 😍

Thunder Helix - wave breakers, I added a table that cycles hidden, light blue, white, and back. A thing that troubled me was obvious popping from the shore back out to sea. Now it hides for a random amount of time and the waves appear to only move forwards. 10x SPEED: #gamedev #lowpoly #flightsim

A sidestep into MSDOS for a bit. I have always wanted to write a gouraud renderer, fast enough for early 386. Friends... Romans... countrymen... I present... THE CUBE. 😂 I'll move some silly >>8 <<8 shifts into A/H x86 ASM and see if it yields more speed. #doscember #retrodev #indiedev

Dropship taking it's job spec a little too literally. Boink! But show-and-tell coming up tomorrow and ran out of time.😅 #screenshotsaturday (not saturday, yolo!) #IndieGameDev

"NOES!! Leave me alone!!!1!1". I've always preferred stress tests to unit tests...🫣(haven't even given them missiles yet...) #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev

Love debug overlays. Need to balance the voxel heights better against Jolt's fixed heightfield triangulation, as we can sometimes disappear inside the terrain.🤨Which goes a little beyond desirable jankiness. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday (yeah, it's Sunday, I care not...)

I’ve tried ebooks, pdfs, mobis… but nothing will ever satisfy me more than picking up a big fat dead tree. Chonky. Substantial. Reassuring. Occasionally inaccurate. #RetroComputing #programminglife

Big shout to the makers of ArchieSDK (on Gitlab), a GCC cross-compiler for early Acorn Archimedes (A3020 here). Very easy porting my Snowscape (Midwinter clone) to it. Can just write C/ASM in VSCode and then cross-compile straight over to the emulator or hardware. Very cool indeed. 😎 #retrogaming

Back to retro for a bit. Got this experimental "PowerMonger" building with GCCSDK rather than Norcroft C, which means cross-compiling in VSCode straight to the Archimedes (A3020 here). Loading level data from the original MSDOS map data file here. #RETROGAMING #archimedes

It's been a surprisingly stressful and unpleasant job pursuading these feckers to stop smacking into mountains but think we're getting close to some ground-hugging predatory danger for our janky tank. #indiegames #gamedev #RETROGAMING

Janky trailer for my 90s-inspired tank game set on a frozen planet. C++, SDL3, Jolt Physics. Coming... err, dunno... possibly never. #IndieGameDev #retrogaming