Game Developers Refuge

Textures: Krita Editor: Sublime Text All-in-one Libraries: SFML Purpose Specific Libraries: - stb https://github.com/nothings/stb - sokol https://github.com/floooh/sokol - whole list of single header file libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs - more cpp-ish than the rest of these, ...

There's a lot of stuff to go through on Dust. I find sometimes it surprises me, other times it just feels like trite content. I'll share ones as I find them, and try to add some context to see if it's something that might resonate with you. This one does a few things really well, weaving together a ...

If you're into SCP / weird anomaly horror-style content, there's some good fan-made stuff out there. These are all about at that level, very low budget, but all had something to me that made them stick with me. Four part series "There is no antimemetics division" - more cerebral / thinking...

Just finished reading the Three-Body Problem Trilogy. Figured I should add to this thread. I attempt to be largely spoiler-free here, but may be some minor spoilers, so proceed as you will. The first book (Three-Body Problem) - This is kind of a weird one, it stumbles about trying to find itself, we...

what an MVP. really thought I'd be able to scrape together something but it was a month (tm)

awesome! looking forward to seeing what games you make with it

lol should we change the topic title to 'Off topic - 2023 & 2024'?

Day 27 - alien dominoes https://deleter.freqshift.games/content/day27.gif Another sketch with a few idea seeds and room to develop some mechanics. Domino placement mechanics with some made-up alien symbols. Thinking there'd be some rules about the symbol combinations that would allow you to simultan...

Looking great so far. These kinda remind me of 300 mechanics in a way. 300 mechanics is a cool resource. One of the things I did when preparing for the month was to ideate and create a big bucket of things I could use if I didn't have an idea for the day. Once the month is over I plan on reviewing ...

Day 25 - sliding block game https://deleter.freqshift.games/content/day25.gif This is the design I originally did the spline coding for. There was still a fair amount of spline code to write, and not sure my solutions for constraining pieces is the most elegant. Cleaned it up a little bit but there ...