Game Developers Refuge

Don't beat yourself up too much about it. I feel the same as you re: day job leaving you feeling unmotivated / out of energy at the end of the day. Then the weekend comes and you're like "alright, finally, time to relax! oh wait! i should work on $project ... but i am le tired :'(" and the...

That Apple IIc is almost red enough that it could pass for an actual apple! (ok, no, not quite, but still, holy moley!) I would love to get one of the classic Macintosh systems (System 7 era) again. My step dad had one back in the day, and I remember playing all kinds of games on it. Dark Castle sta...

Alright! I am "done" . Quotes because it'll never really be done in my mind, but as far as this month-long compo is concerned, it is submission-worthy I think! 'Twas a long day of building menus and selection screens and stringing it all together. I used a DOS-compatible ArtPad tablet that...

Oh dear! Only 24 hours left. For me anyway. The deadline has been extended for others, but Monday the 5th is going to be a very, very, very long first day at a new job for me and it is incredibly unlikely I will feel like doing any coding when I get home. My new job is 99% remote, but as it is the f...

Alright, well, after eating some dinner, I decided I couldn't let it go that easily as I was really curious how much of a performance hit this was going to be. Should've thought of this right away when the motherboard stopped POSTing with no beeps at all, but grabbed a spare AT PSU and janky-rebuilt...

The idea being to make ourselves explore strange, new game ideas, and have fun while doing it. So I'd say "mission accomplished." The overall level of challenge is up to each entrant. And if you finish with plenty of time left, you can always polish the entry, or take it further than just...

Tomorrow - fruit popping will be added! :lol: I should know better than to write things such as this. Anyway, after some procrastination, fruit popping is now in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_mCQFS50o This is now aaaallllmost at the basic game loop that I guess I was aiming for. And it does f...

Just a very quick silly update. Because I wanted to share something silly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqoEB-x59qA In reality, I do not plan on ever having that many fruit visible on screen at once, but I was just toying around with things here this evening and thought it would look silly to hav...

CRT flicker! Greater than 60Hz refresh rate! Curved screen! :lol: You know ... I'm almost to the point where I'm fully convinced that photographing / video-recording a CRT without flicker, etc is a quirky, black-magic, art form. Of course the first step to mastering this (for VGA mode 13h anyway) i...

Alrighty, some seemingly basic progress. I got the basic tile engine up and running and can move the main player (what will be the first player, or the "Tomato popper" player) around my single basic test level. Starting to code a new game project is always weird for me. In theory it should...