Jet Set Willy: Redux was briefly featured in the #RGDS podcast. You can see it here youtu.be/qgkeVYZ9Qto?... at about the 2m30s mark. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Some of the special baddies from the original Melkhior's Mansion will be making an appearance in Melkhior's Tower. Not 100% sure what they'll do yet, I need to figure that out. bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to... #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Good test session today! Most of the networking issues are fixed, and it's mostly just tweaks to gameplay modes needed. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Mines! Players can now drop mines in multiplayer mode. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Excuse the crappy phone video, but I put a bit of effort into solving the network drift problem today, ensuring guardians stay synced across different clients without bogging down the network with excessive traffic. This one's been running an hour or so. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Milestone reached! The Raspberry Pi 4 client is reaching acceptable levels of performance; a few dropped frames and network stutters to investigate, but it's getting there! #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Currently working on a Bugaboo type of game - can you get to the end of the level in time? Lots of scope for showing some classic Spectrum levels. #gamedev #godot #zxspectrum

Aside from a bunch of optimisations for running on the Raspberry Pi 4 target, I decided to have a bit of fun with an alternative server authentication scheme. This should cause the nostalgia glands to start pumping for players of the originals. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Got the networking issues sorted. And I think I've pretty much wrapped up the web dashboard. More details are in the alt text. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Guess who just found out that JetSetWilly.net was available?

This evening continued the theme of doing the fun/easy bits... A built-in web page on the server showing live server state information, updated in real time. Player info is redacted for games where revealing it location would give an unfair advantage. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

Correct link to dev log... bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

I decided to rewrite the core audio systems in Rust today to eliminate some Python GIL issues affecting performance. After that, I decided to tackle something a little easier. Behold... The in-game Willypedia! #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

First (real) playthrough of StarQuake. Need to play it a few more times till I'm happy with it (plus I'm really crap at it !) #GameDev #Pico8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jwx...

Been tinkering with the title screen and screen transitions in Melkhior's Tower. More info about the game in the devlog: itch.io/dashboard/ga... #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Someone asked about whether JSWR ran on the Raspberry Pi 4 the other day. I said no, because there were some GL compatibility issues, but then I got to thinking: If it ran on the RPi4, that would mean it would be pretty well optimized for other platforms. So... #JetSetWilly #Retro #GameDev #Python

I managed to get the first "official" test session going today thanks to the #JSWO crew at the #RGDS Discord. It went about as disastrously as expected, of course, but on the bright side I did gather lots of juicy diagnostics. I still detest network code. #JetSetWilly #Retro #GameDev #Python

I still despise debugging network code, but at least I got the multiplayer victory screen working... (I managed to break a bunch of stuff related to teams, and I also found a weird bug where 3/4 players froze and forgot to have logging turned on. Sigh.) #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

If there's one thing I've truly come to despise, it's debugging network code.

So, I spent a lot of today writing a unified build script to build the game for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac and Steamdeck), but I did get to do some fun stuff too. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

This is the most extreme crt shaded room in the game. It looks just as awful as I remember from the original back in '84. #JetSetWilly #Retro #Gamedev #Python

I've got the headless server fully on par with the in-process host server. The plan is to replace the host server with the headless in-process, eliminating a bunch of duplicate code. In other news, I took a break today and started on the animated title screen. #JetSetWilly #Gamedev #Python #Retro

A screenshot of the standalone server (optional) showing the flashy ASCII art logo. #JetSetWilly #Gamedev #Python

Testing headless sync via a transatlantic server. Multi-player part has two modes: "host" where a player hosts the server in-process and "headless" where a server runs separately. It's not as clean as I'd like, but can be tidied. #ScreenshotSaturday #JetSetWilly #GameDev #ZXSpectrum #Remake #Redux

After finishing the color clash shader, I got the shader bug and implemented an approximation of an old school TV display. #JetSetWilly #gamedev #python

I added a ZX graphics mode with authentic(ish) colo(u)r clash shader. Only 2 colors permitted per 8x8 pixel block. #JetSetWilly #gamedev #python

More #JetSetWilly. This time with alternative graphics from a mobile conversion from about twenty years ago.

Implementing a replay mode is a lot more complicated than you'd think when you want it to adjust the replay on the fly in what I've turned into a semi- nondeterministic environment... #JetSetWilly #GameDev #Python

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