Raptor :gamedev: / is on Nostr

Just making the games I want to, linux/gentoo enthusiast, addicted to C++.

I block stupid people, life isn't long enough to talk to a brick wall.

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2024-09-11 13:58:11

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some off the shelf canned brands have caffeinated ones (all the bubblr, some of the Aha, some of the Perrier) but you can also get caffeinated drops or powder singles to mix in if you have your own.

2024-09-11 13:47:56

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I'll drink sparkling water with lemon or mint in it over soda any day.
Caffinated sparkling water is very much a thing btw, I enjoy it especially on long work days.

2024-08-30 20:32:31

One thing everyone misses out on when not writing their own movement code is all the weird lil bugs that make you laugh. Like apparently for the past 4 weeks or so I had a sign issue in my rotation code that was only affecting left turns (a left turn of, say, 10 degrees would instead rotate you 350 degrees right, technically correct I guess 😂..basically zoolander turns)
I just never noticed it as i never turned left when testing after adding interpolation
#gamedev #indiedev

2024-08-23 01:23:41

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it's two plastic wheels with slots and light sensors that detect as each slot passes, the ball itself is just a ball that pushes them (usually by smaller rollers geared to the bigger wheels). A pretty simple machine you can build with off the shelf parts. I hated cleaning those things though, the gunk always went inside and it was a pain...

2024-08-13 15:59:39

I wish there were more game jams I could participate in. Annoyingly all the big ones (and most of the small ones) make super restrictive choices like requiring a windows build during the time of the jam, which means you can't do interesting platforms and for those of us not on windows even doing a desktop build means burning 50% of the time on porting. I wish more jams allowed porting to happen post-submission like ludum dare does.
#gamejam #indiedev #gamedev

2024-08-11 18:52:16

Finished the Elden Ring DLC last night, that final boss felt straight up romhack level bullshit. (disappointing because the rest of the DLC was extremely good) It's difficult but for all the wrong reasons, it's honestly interesting how different it is from everything else in the game.
(breaking up into thread below)
#eldenring #gaming #boss #design #gamedev #indiedev

2024-08-05 20:02:31

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please see thread above, the admins comments honestly go even worse than the people he's defending, not only did he publicly post everyone's name who reported the offending accounts so that they could be retaliated against, he also has a pretty nasty thread calling for the beheading of anyone getting an abortion...this is no longer even resembling a linux community, it's just a nazi bar now

2024-07-07 02:10:36

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yeah, i do remember the rebirth curse, but man, it seems even in life link is cursed even after defeating ganon each time :/

2024-07-07 02:05:48

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kinda funny how in each zelda game where you revisit a link from a previous game it never seemed to end well for him (never has a childhood+turned to a stalfos, immediately mugged by fairies from another world, shipwrecked at sea, etc). Even outside of the initial peril being a "Link" just seems to be a cursed existence in general.

2024-06-11 09:25:26

And now my little engine supports any resolution I throw at it, behold, ultra super widescreen.
#gamedev #indiedev #sdl #sdl3
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2024-06-03 20:49:29

More fun with math, the texture mapping isn't perfect, I have some corrections to do to it still, but my little renderer now supports off-grid objects of arbitrary sizes and positions (only real restriction is they have to be convex). While the game itself is intended to be grid based I thought it'd be nice to be able to do some more complex scenery outside of billboards, sprites, and texture tricks.
#raycaster #gamedev #indiedev #sdl #sdl3
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/554/628/093/073/579/original/019b7592122b0646.png
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