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dulsi

Mon, 20 May 2019 17:31:42 +0200

I've released Shippy 1984 1.5.0. I had hoped to get permission from the original author but have not heard back from him. #shippy1984 #gamedev

dulsi

Fri, 17 May 2019 19:35:20 +0200

Breakthough: The Ideas that changed the World is an excellent new show on PBS. I highly recommend it. #pbs

dulsi

Mon, 13 May 2019 01:09:46 +0200

No screenshot again this week but I fixed a bug plaguing Shippy 1984. When running on the arcade machine, starting a game sometimes it got stuck in a bad state. It seemed to occur more often when you entered initials for a high score so I set all high score to zero and kept testing. The "state" in Shippy 1984 is not well managed but I think I fixed it. #gamedev #shippy1984

dulsi

Sun, 12 May 2019 02:45:56 +0200

Query letter for Boy's Life is ready to be sent. Hopefully they find the arcade machine interesting. #arcade #cubscout

dulsi

Fri, 10 May 2019 22:58:02 +0200

As a social media novice, I've been liking posts. Should I be sharing the post instead?

dulsi

Thu, 09 May 2019 22:05:21 +0200

Worcester Linux User Group is doing a meeting about games on May 16th. May have to see if I can make that one.

dulsi

Thu, 16 May 2019 21:33:49 +0200

I should be able to make the meeting. First time I've been to a WLUG meeting in years.

poVoq

Thu, 16 May 2019 21:38:22 +0200

@dulsi any plans to present something there?

dulsi

Fri, 17 May 2019 14:33:15 +0200

@poVoq I didn't present yesterday but I ended up providing a lot of information to the group. The organizer talked a little about steam. I commented on my concerns with steam. I mentioned gog.com and itch.io which he had never heard of. I showed off the pocket arcade and some of my games a little. Also showed opengameart.org and talked about some game engines.

dulsi

Mon, 06 May 2019 15:04:45 +0200

Write up of Star Wars game is online.

dulsi

Sun, 05 May 2019 16:41:29 +0200

Ran a Star Wars game using Tiny Frontiers last night. (I didn't get Tiny Frontiers Revised in time for the game.) The looks on the players' faces when the big bad was revealed was awesome. I had them help a scientist "revive" General Grievous. They didn't know until he awoke.

dulsi

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 03:22:21 +0200

Troll Bridge 0.5.6 has been released. The troll is now completely replaced with the new troll image. #gamedev #trollbridge

dulsi

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 02:32:56 +0200

Troll Bridge has use an image basically taken from Legend of Zelda since it's creation. I've decided to finally correct this mistake. I've started converting the trolls in the game. #gamedev #trollbridge #screenshotsunday

dulsi

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:56:08 +0200

Noticed 3D Dot Game Heroes for the PS3. I bought it a long time ago but never got around to trying it. It has a Legend of Zelda feel. I highly recommend the game. #ps3 #3ddotgameheroes

dulsi

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:22:00 +0200

Played it further. It is now differentiating more from Legend of Zelda although the pits were a nasty surprise. You can play breakout as a minigame. (I hate breakout.)

dulsi

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 01:31:05 +0200 last edited: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 01:31:41 +0200

Bt Builder's editor is ugly. The new multiple attack interface still needs work. It is not released yet as the AI hasn't been updated to handle more than one melee attack and one ranged/spell attack. (Although this image wouldn't work since monsters doing summons just gives the player a new ally.) #btbuilder #gamedev #screenshotsunday

dulsi

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 05:13:03 +0200

To my knowledge "fullscreen" under SDL1 which is used by pygame is underwelming.

I tried out pygame_sdl2. It doesn't stretch the screen the way I want.

Python arcade library does what I want but while 1.3.7 works the latest 2.0.3 does not. #python

dulsi

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:04:48 +0200

Python continues to stymie me. I decided to try the latest version of the arcade library. While I was able to run example programs with 1.3.7, the new 2.0.3 doesn't run any examples. I guess I'll go back to trying pygame. #python

dulsi

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:34:25 +0200

Watching episode 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation tonight with the kids. They have seen all the Star Wars stuff so we are boosting Star Trek now. Starting with Next Gen as I think that is probably easier to start with. #StarTrek

dulsi

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:25:36 +0200 last edited: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:26:00 +0200

One of the things I enjoyed doing as a kid was recoloring superheroes in coloring books. My kids asked to do some coloring so I recolored Wonder Woman. This is a quick prototype I made. It is in the colors of Ghana. I don't have an origin story or super powers for her. Given Wonder Woman's image as a defender of women's rights I suspect she would fight the witch camp in the country. #superhero #WonderWoman

dulsi

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:56:57 +0200

Went to the Metacomet District Roundtable for Cub Scouts last night. The topic was recruiting and got some good ideas. Everyone seemed to think the arcade machine should be a kid magnet for recruiting. #cubscout

dulsi

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 02:45:13 +0200 last edited: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 02:45:40 +0200

In my mind Debian is distribution with everything. Recently I found it didn't have Shippy 1984. I'm surprised to find something pretty easy to package in Fedora and not Debian. Search for Bt Builder and Ostrich Riders also failed to find anything in Debian. Guess maybe it doesn't have as much as I thought. #linux #fedora #debian

dulsi

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:06:15 +0200

Shippy 1984 now has support for 2 players. #gamedev #shippy1984 #screenshotsunday

dulsi

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 14:53:48 +0100

The problem with the cub scout built arcade machine has a workaround. For whatever reason EmulationStation brings you to the login screen instead of running a game if no mouse is plugged in. Why a mouse is needed, I don't know.