Space… bruce!

Should be going faster, but I'm pretty happy with how my project has progressed in the last year. hopefully better health will let me actually get some hustle on in big 26.

I went and integrated it into my game engine~! It doesn't kill the framerate as bad I thought it would, but the console is completely overloaded and many DMA's are getting biffed and dropped. Probably solvable.

It was my birthday today and I was gifted 3 lovely drawings from friends, very grateful to know so many kind and talented people. 1. My game OC; x.com/lucky_nanaban (Private account) 2. Minky Momo; x.com/torisakana_0Go 3. Noa / Alphonse Patlabor; www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/... (NSFW account)

My own two cents on spotting genAI crap within retro game modding/hacking & homebrew communities: One of the easiest telltale signs of something being vibecoded is if the "project"/"mod"/"hack" in question uses a particular faux "pixel font" with zero variation:

finally remade it

building up a few event sequences now the scripting is mostly working. The textbox uses a lot of CPU so scrolling around at the same time is a problem.

it doesn't look like much but desperately trying to keep my scene, all assets and scripts in the 2MB of memory and maintaining good performance, doing a lot of tricks to show and hide objects in the scene at runtime based on triggers #indiedev #gamedev #playstation #ps1 #psx #psxsplash #unity

Some kinda annotation

It's totally safe to switch the Megadrive's background plane address mid-frame, testing that out with some hastily scribbled cloud graphics. Combining that with a raster palette swap and some sprite duplication to make a nice water effect. This console is fun to tinker with.

I want the charge melee attack to feel like this

I promised a new BlastEm release on September 11th... and it's still September 11th here in PST... by 16 minutes anyway. Presenting BlastEm 1.0.0 - supporting most of Sega's 16 and 8-bit hardware. It includes some new features and debugging improvements too www.retrodev.com/blastem/anno...

harassing a tortle

The console I'm using for testing is uh not happy, cracks and pops coming from my TV speakers and video dropouts.

I will now be using titles and graphics such as these to supplement my video demonstrations

Razing Core for SEGA Master System is now available. The full version and demo are here: badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core

Character design for reference, image is old (need to redo the staff face) #gamedev #characterdesign

this was well worth putting a few hours into making

this is cool. I compel you all to observe. look:

I've been optimizing my collision code and enemy AI system. I gained 10 - 30 FPS depending on the level and everything is running great now! I also overhauled the weapons. Check out my free Patreon post for a video and details... www.patreon.com/mechazone/po... #IndieGame #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive

fish in my little fantasy world are wireframe creatures, that's not an art style abstraction, they actually just look like that

yeah this is still stupid

Today I've been making improvements and fixing palette bugs. Had a problem where an object wouldn't share their slot properly and end up claiming a second, evicting lower priority objects such as this NPC, causing them to draw with the wrong palette data.

Been drilling into how an actual game works today, so level flow, progression stuff, what do where when why. lots to think about. Currently have a save point working on the PC build, tracks stats and what level you're in, autosaving on level entry, the "Retry" button hooks into this properly.

remember this guy? he's blue now and causing a different sort of graphics error.

It's good to be back :D tcrf.net/The_Cutting_...

rough bossfight flow, this is working pretty close to how I planned it! Player combat needs a lot of work, haven't merged some good changes in yet.

needs a lot of improvements like a working hitbox and some proper patterns, but this guy was fun to work on

scribbly doodle

I made it into a youtube video, thank you mr PigsyRetro! He's remaking/demaking Symphony of the Night and I leant him some code to handle 3D props. Video series here, my cameo is in the latest one :) > www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... <

sorry to upstage rockstar in their moment of glory, but check this out *does a little jig*

awesome megadrive horizontal span rendering thing I occasionally work on in-between other things

Back on SNESJAM grind, the hud minimap works exactly how I want, infinite scroll left and right.

weird button that makes things worse

Polishing this stage up, using every megadrive trick I know. It's a short little interstitial area where you'll be attacked by birds while travelling. featuring two framebuffer effects at once using a task scheduler and a big wobbly carriage sprite that drops a shadow (and needs a redraw).