One thing I am quite proud of is how I managed to translate classic Resident Evil enemies into super low-res sprites. Here's a Cerberus for an example. From about 1000px to just 32px (in height). #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #mansionmalevolence #indiedev

Finished Halo 1 for the first time and oh well... it's a game that exists I guess. The level after Silent Cartographer is the absolute worst drag, even worse than the Library and the Two Betrayals revisit. Somehow, I pushed through. Now onto Halo 2! #halo #gaming

Are you familiar with the Observer design pattern? It is a nice tool to prevent certain kinds of bugs - I use it my game to make sure setting change is handled, no matter when or where the change happens. The C++ implementation might seem trivial at first, but there are many interesting […]

How it started vs how it is going - my friend made me completely redesign the UI for the game and I am pretty content with how it turned out. In other news, while I wasn't able to post in past month or so, I actually got the game close to the release, so stay […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Donald Trump's cameo on The Nanny didn't age well...

It is hard to justify usage of clang-tidy when it takes longer than clean compilation of analyzed project. Certainly not on each compile, when it takes few minutes to complete (on measly 37 files) 😞 #cpp #clangtidy

The most pathetic form of human existence is a professional investor.

Are you using std::ranges in your C++ code? If not, what is stopping you? Ranges introduced a huge paradigm shift in the way we can write our C++ code. They can make the code way shorter, way better separated, and what's best - way more resilient to both logical and memory-related bugs. 🐞 If […]

Cleanly installed #zorinos, HDMI cable plugged into a GPU (old desktop PC), certain windows (File explorer, terminal) render okay, others like Brave Browser, Zorin Appearance or Desktop render in this broken way. Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong? #ubuntu #linux

My survival-horror solitaire card game #mansionmalevolence is shaping up nicely. It still needs some UX refinement so the player has immediate feedback about dodge chances or what happens when doors are opened, but the core gameplay loop is there and is fun! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Seems like the user backlash made Google somewhat rethink their approach to banning sideloading of apps from unverified sources: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install-unverified-apps-3615310/ Still, I think they're fixing a problem that doesn't exist, since Play Protect […]

What do you think about this shotgun sprite? #mansionmalevolence #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Each time I am in a city with a historic city centre, I start imagining what kind of Warren Spector's "city block RPG" I could place in that setting. Then I remind myself I have zero 3D production skills and zero writing skills and get back to my pixel art Pico8-styled projects 😅 #gamedev

#steam should get into the mobile space now. After Google announced they're going to require developer registration in order for the app to be installable, I am really missing an open mobile platform right now 😞

Being late to #ScreenshotSaturday. I made the core three animations for my solitaire survival-horror game Mansion Malevolence - taking a card, skipping a card and the enemy attacking. I also have drag drop system for using inventory cards implemented, now I […] [Original post on techhub.social]

To implement drag n drop in my upcoming card game, I made a virtual joystick over the whole screen and when its value is nonzero, it means that user is dragging. I could just listen to touch/mouse events, but going through virtual joystick means that I don't get fingers mixed up when user taps […]

When I install VS Code from Flathub, why does the terminal opened inside VS Code have a different content of $PATH than a normally opened term? And why can't I just type 'code filename' to open a file in VS Code from terminal?

In other news, #halo Combat Evolved (the original one, not Campaign Evolved) is playable on Android through Winlator, supports gamepad. #gaming #haloce

I am trying to use chatbot as a buddy for brainstorming funny comic strip ideas. About half of our conversations are like this: 1) me: giving an initial prompt 2) chatbot: sorry, it is forbidden to discuss this topic (like cat pooping in its owner's bed) 3) me why is this prohibited 4) chatbot […]

I've been thinkering with #zorinos and I am amazed how great is support of Windows apps in #linux ecosystem! (I am 99% Windows user). Like with Bottles, I've got to run both of my games - Rend (https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend) and MagRider (https://nerudaj.itch.io/Magrider) with 0 hassle. So far […]

By this point, we can start calling "BigTech" companies "ShitTech" for their contributions to enshitification of everyday-use tech products.

Today I learned - Ctrl+Shift+C copies full path to file, including the filename and extension in Windows Explorer 👍

I recently discovered a website called RetroAchievements and I must say it is astonishing how well it integrates with emulators! It is part amazing and part depressing to see how toxic is the mainline gaming discourse versus what the hobby community can achieve. #gaming #retrogaming

This is the first time I am playing #metroidzeromission in reverse order - first Ridley, then Kraid. Did you know you can actually kill Kraid in phase 1 with just four super missiles? What a pushover! Also, I never skipped on Wave Beam, Varia Suit or Screw Attack, hope in won't bite me in the […]

Can somebody explain to me, why the last static assert fails? The value type has <=> operator returning strong ordering and std::map is clearly capable of having strong-ordered <=> operator. Godbolt link: https://godbolt.org/z/xnaaoWxaq #cpp #cpp23 #programming #help

Somewhere at the bottom of old boxes in the cellar, I have a game magazine with a preview of the first #borderlands with screenshots before they switched to cell shade. Back when I first read it, it left no lasting impression on me. Some time later, in other mag, I read a preview after the […]

Tip 92 of #TuesdayCodingTips - Pinning interop memory in C# When interoping C# with, for example, C++, one can send a pointer to the managed memory directly to the native code and work with it without the need to copy it into the local address space. For as […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Second Lace fight ultimate strategy: * Architect crest * Fire spawner, pollip pouch * long pin, cogfly, tacks = almost didn't have to hit Lace with my nail #hollowknightsilksong

This keybinding dialog took way longer to implement than I anticipated, but is generic so I can use it in any project from now on :) #gamedev #sfml #tgui

Originally I wanted to buy #metroidprime4 at launch, but since that open world reveal at the latest Direct, I am probably going to wait for reviews and possibly a price drop 😞

Year 2035 - To hit climatic goals, EU passes a new law that mandates developers to only compile the final releases of their code. All other CI builds can only be compiled in the developer's mind to save on electricity and therefore emissions. Companies have to pay an emission tax for every […]

One of the things a good CMake-powered C++ library should do is to test its own integration - in other words, if others can plug it into their projects. One reason is obvious - nobody will use your library if they can't. The second one is pragmatic - the tests act as documentation for the users […]

PSA: Get protector caps for your #nintendoswitch2 thumbsticks. After 3 months and roughly 100 hours of usage time, the rubber on the left stick is falling apart. Meanwhile my 7 years old Nintendo Switch 1 thumbsticks are pretty much okay. #psa #gaming

We're doing some natural language processing at Safetica, so we had to integrate a tokenizer. First, we started with HF tokenizers that use Rust as the underlying implementation. Since we consume it as a C# package and native runtimes are not shipped for Mac (thanks Apple for preventing […]

If you hate Hornet's 45° angle downwards slash, there's a way to get OG Hollow Knight slash early on. So early in fact you don't even have to beat the Bellworm boss. It is a sequence break, yes, but I did it by accident, so not that hard. #hollowknight #hollowknightsilksong #nintendoswitch2 #gaming

A bunch of #hollowknightsilksong spoiler-free beginner tips. Rosary string costs 80, but you'll get back 60 rosary beads on string, which you don't lose on death. (so you only really pay 20) There is a bench next to the first mapmaker spot. To the left of it is a room with 5 bugs you can grind […]

You cannot pet the travelbug in #hollowknightsilksong, 0/5 game. Jokes aside, the game's amazing. #gaming #nintendoswitch2

Valve screwed up with Half-Life franchise naming. They should've start with 4, then 2, then 1. And maintain a constant time window between releases of course.

Fifth episode of #alienearth is cool, but doesn't contribute in any way to the overall story. Two mildly-important bits of information could be shrugged of as two single sentences during the main course of the events. It should've been the first episode of the series instead of a flashback one […]

In the case you live under a rock, #hollowknightsilksong is now available on #nintendoswitch2 store for 20$! Insta-buy for me. #gaming #hollow_knight_silksong

Tip 91 of #TuesdayCodingTips - String or StringBuilder? If you're a C++ programmer, you can easily troll yourself while working with C#'s `string` objects. In C++, they are optimized vectors of bytes and can be dynamically resized at will through […] [Original post on techhub.social]

#android 15 problems on #motorola G84 - Investigation continues I suspect Google did something with regards to USB permissions. My #backboneone controller is a device that controls the phone, but should be charged by the phone. While trying to connect it, it sometimes registers as a connected […]

So let me get this straight. If you buy a #SteamDeck, you can play PC games and stream your physical #xbox console onto your deck as an added bonus. And there is bound to be a way to pay for Game Pass and stream the games from cloud. If you buy #xboxrogally, you can play PC games and you need […]

Summer is almost over and I'm releasing my summer-long project - MagRider! A simple-to-learn, hard-to-master 2D platformer where you move by magnetizing your avatar - a cutsy round ball. Build by hand in C++, SFML and TGUI, this one also runs on Android and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Summer is almost over and I'm releasing my summer-long project - MagRider! A simple-to-learn, hard-to-master 2D platformer where you move by magnetizing your avatar - a cutsy round ball. Build by hand in C++, SFML and TGUI, this one also runs on Android and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

So far, #alienearth is really good!

Serverless, AWS, lambdas, Graph, Rest, that's all so yesteryear. Let me indulge you with a more sexy, leaner idea - dataless. Simple, efficient, elegant.

Tip 90 of #TuesdayCodingTips - Is enum value defined? In both C++ and C#, enums are mere named numerical constants. Even if they appear to be distinct types, and switch statements can check whether you covered all names within an enum, that's simply not […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Anyone else having issues with #android 15? It has been recently rolled on my #motorola G84 and so far I can see less-smooth scrolling in the launcher, worse battery performance and USBs are not picked up correctly, usually taking up three reconnects and a restart to hook up by Backbone controller 😭

First time playing #cyberpunk2077 - great storytelling, immersion and worldbuilding. But the gameplay is... lacking. I miss Deus Ex :( #gaming