Colin Bellino
Hello there fellow #gamedev 👋
I recently started to participate in a gamedev challenge (#100daysofgamedev) to try to keep me motivated and forcing me to post updates somewhat regularly.
Until now, i posted only on discord, but i think it might be better to do it in here instead. I don't really like that stuff like that gets lost on hard to search, not indexable discord servers...
So i'll try to duplicate the first days here in a thread (maybe?) and keep adding new ones as i go :)
Cheers
Colin Bellino
Day 003 (2/3): The platform and rendering layers are "good enough for now" ™ so i started working on recreating of my old jam games (https://colinbellino.itch.io/snowball) in the new codebase. The game is a very simple tactical RPG so it's a good fit (not too big, not too small).
Colin Bellino
Day 003 (1/3): For the past few months i've been working on my own game engine that fits my very specific needs: small, 2d games, mainly pixel art, low level language (odin & c), etc
The goal is to learn as much stuff as possible for the engine side, and be able to then make all my future games in a codebase i own myself (i don't plan on making it public).
I should be able to start working on that full time in the following weeks, so this is exciting 😉
Colin Bellino
Day 002: Deep dive into the Playdate SDK, reading hardware specs & design docs, code hot reload.
Not a lot of visible progress today, but managed to implement a basic code hot reload feature so i don't have to reopen the simulator every time i change some code. Slowly but surely getting back into it ^^
Related links:
- Designing for playdate: https://help.play.date/developer/designing-for-playdate/
- C API: - https://sdk.play.date/2.0.3/Inside%20Playdate%20with%20C.html
Colin Bellino
Day 001: Hello world.
My order is on the way so i thought i'd start this challenge by playing around with the Playdate (an indie handheld game system) and their SDK.
So i've made a small hello world example using the Odin language (via their C API) and i'll keep going from there for a couple of weeks and see where this goes, nothing huge planned for now 😉
If anyone is curious, here is the hello world code: https://github.com/colinbellino/playdate-odin-hello-world
Colin Bellino
Day 017: Lost half the day trying to open a 2 years old Unity project because everything that could go wrong, did just that (multiple crashes, asset references lost, bugs, missing packages, etc). Finally got it running after 3 hours of madness.. I do not miss working with Unity haha.
Rest of the day i spent working on my server, slowly starting to move my git projects to it because i don't want to depend on Microsoft for that anymore...
Colin Bellino
Day 014-015: Fixed some rendering issues, memory leaks, and upgraded DearImGUI to the "docked" branch.
Day 016: Updated the engine to allow nesting transforms components into their parents so i can scale/move only the parent (unit) and have the children (hands) scale and move accordingly.
Also got back to unit walk animation which i'll be able to showcase here soon.
Colin Bellino
Day 012-013: Making the animation system work on units and plug that into the battle system to have some (very) crude unit movement. The pathfinding isn't plugged in and the animations are obviously placeholders, but hey, it's progress 😉
Colin Bellino
Day 010-011: Plug the animation system with my entity system so i can animate units. Animation works for color, scale, position and sprite/texture, still haven't done rotation because i'm not sure i actually need that.
Still chipping at the project 1 hour at the time, I can't wait to be able to spend more time on this haha.
Colin Bellino
Day 009: I now have working animation for sprites and colors and with different easing methods.
Next i want to animate transforms (position, scale & rotate) but i'll probably want to change how my entities are stored if i want the parent transforms to affect their children 🤔 But that's a problem for future me!
Colin Bellino
Day 008: More animation code work.
Also updated my editor theme and fixed some memory leaks in it. Color scheme "totally not stolen" from Isa's IMGUI config in https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder
Colin Bellino
Day 007: A couple of hours implementing the logic to a bare-bone animation system and some debug UI for it.
Colin Bellino
Day 005-006: Not much gamedev done, mainly debugging/fixing bugs and working on animation system (easing between values, changing sprites, etc).
Colin Bellino
Day 004: Didn't get much time to work this week but i'm still working on the battle systems.
Today was move/cast range and some code underneath to search/filter tiles with some conditions.
Also added more dev tools and in game cheats so i can test this stuff quickly while still implementing real constraints (like valid targets for abilities, range, etc).
Colin Bellino
Day 003 (3/3): Today was spent mostly coding some battle systems like a turn order for the units and starting to prepare stuff for player movement and targeting. Trying to think of a better control scheme that works well with mouse, keyboard and gamepad.
I still have a good chunk of my day tweaking the engine more than the game code, but that's the point: dogfooding so i can make it better for myself later.
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