Fedor @fedor@mastodon.gamedev.place

Or I am just projecting my dream game on everything :D

Through the movie, I was dreaming about the game with the same setting and ideas

- lots of technical details and terms, "overhaul", "heave to"
- tight economy, gas is limited and overhaul is expensive
- logistics. Put your loot on a raft and tow back to the base. Or throw it on a ship
- harbors/islands. Hideouts and territory claims
- a bit of magic and mystery
- weather, storms, clouds. Plan a fight in the weather that works for your plane. Zoom-bomb a hauler ship from a cloud!

- piracy!

Just watched "Porco Rosso" again.

I forgot everything! Thankfully - managed to get the whole experience for the second time.

Such a beautiful thing!

oh, wrong hackmd link, this one should be public: https://hackmd.io/@nTA5UhF8RWCoIczXi77w6A/r1WZv4MJF

At least I really like the GIF from the post :D

I think the main problem with this post - I am trying to fit too many things into one post and I do not have a clear goal to achieve with the post.
And also not 100% sure about things I am writing :/ And the balance between unsolicited self-indulgence and overly dried text is a tough one.

Anyway, done with the post, for now.

And, finally, I published my "Status update" patreon post.

Writing is super hard, still little unhappy about the content of the post :/ I will keep it patrons-only for a little while, maybe will get some ideas on how to make it better.

And then will make it public for a birdsite/reddit

Post's content(just for mastodon 🤫): https://hackmd.io/0xwxR3YNQL66JjTzqAxOww?view
Same thing, but on patreon and paywalled: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54450505

and thanks to "cargo quad" I just published macroquad 0.3.8.

The biggest change - moving to new quad-snd. Also lots of minor fixes like no more version complains on wasm

Ohh, I love "cargo quad". Went through all the wasm bugs, run tons of very different projects.

It really works!

Oh, forgot to link the toot: https://mastodon.social/@unfa/106411637796499618

I am using kdenlive for all my videos, for years already. It gets the job done, but sometimes I wish to have things little more usable

Going to try OliveEditor, the fediverse just gave me a really nice blogpost on it

A little write-up on "cargo subcommand", what they are, and how to make your own one.

https://gist.github.com/not-fl3/4eefc5ffc4adc6b9c1ded88ea8bfeae6

#RustLang

Looks pretty neat - allows running macroquad's examples in the browser with just one command and one click.

Source: https://git.sr.ht/~not-fl3/cargo-quad

So today I spent a day figuring what can I do within "cargo subcommands".

Still not sure if this is a good idea, but, maybe, I will do a "cargo quad" subcommand - kinda similar to 'cargo apk", but for all the platforms + with some assets postprocessing.

Right now I made a prototype that works for WASM and it actually looks nice

And I had a second problem - assets automation. Would be nice if atlases will somehow build themselves, under-compressed data will compress, overly-compressed - uncompress.

All the engines are doing this one way or another, so it was pretty clear I will need something for this sooner or later

Macroquad's web build process is ridiculously simple - run `cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown`, get a very simple .html, copy .wasm close to this .html, serve static data from some webserver. Done.

Buuut this copy-pasting files is not that cool, actually. I guess most people ended up with some ~4lines bash file to simplify this

Jumping across multiple projects ("hey, could you try this, it is broken on web" - happens very often :D) made this bash invocation little annoying

#ScreenshotSaturday time

Working on a long "status update" patreon - it was almost a year already since the last one, shame on me!

For the fish section, I did a little compilation of previously posted gifs.
I think it turned out pretty good!

Inventing fantasy game genres is actually fun.

Maybe I should run a "zzt-like" gamejam?

I probably can get some interest by calling it a "quad-jam", prepare asome templates.. It may be actually quite a good jam!