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grumpygamer

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.

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Elastiskalinjen, to gamedev
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Summer is here and so is my mega pico-8 bundle! 🌞
22 games for just 15 € ✨

https://itch.io/s/124272/-pico-8-mega-bundle-summer-sale

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #pico8

video/mp4

grumpygamer,
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@Elastiskalinjen Fun stuff.

psychicparrot42, to gamedev
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Random game thought: I’ve been thinking about a game controller with three joysticks, but I can’t come up with a good enough reason to have the extra one. Two joysticks seems to cover everything, right? Have we reached peak game controller? What could we map to a third stick? The closest to a good reason I could think of would be radial menus, but you can easily do those with a modifier and one of the other sticks right? #gamedev

grumpygamer,
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@psychicparrot42 Controllers have too many buttons. It makes designer lazy.

grumpygamer,
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@psychicparrot42 The Atari 2600 joystick was peak-controller. The only thing I'd change is adding a button.

grumpygamer,
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@Jayenkai @psychicparrot42 To the right.

grumpygamer, to random
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Thing I use is xcode/vs is visual debugging. I want to set breakpoints, step into and out of code. I don't ever want to use the command line. It's what has kept me from Linux. Friend says vscode will do this... I hope he is right. I'm not interested in goofy solutions... I want an IDE that works and doesn't become a hobby unto itself.

grumpygamer, to random
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I finally got my linux machine working again after doing a BIOS reset/magic. A friend told me that VSCode has a good c++ compiler and debugger. Not as good as VS and Xcode, but close. Once I get to NZ I'll spend some time getting it working.

grumpygamer, to random
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I think the root is my problem is I'm generating floats from n-m. I needs it to be blazing fast and it can't use any libs because I need 100% consistency across platforms.

grumpygamer,
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@TomF That has a time consuming divide.

grumpygamer,
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@arghdos @TomF True. I misunderstood. My real issue is I need floats not ints and I don't think there is a way without a div.

grumpygamer,
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@remageFrs Nice!

grumpygamer, to random
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Although Return to Monkey Island didn't ship with Dear ImGui, we used it extensively during development. Without a doubt the single greatest debug tool/lib I have used.

/cc @ocornut

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

grumpygamer,
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@ocornut Oh no!

grumpygamer, to random
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I guess they don't want us to go in there, which makes me want to go in there even more.

#screenshotsaturday #rpgtbd #pixelart

mekkaokereke, to random
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The irony of a holiday called "Memorial Day," where people don't even remember how it started. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Anti-Blackness is so powerful.

https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/

This isn't forgetting. It's intentional history erasure, to justify present day racism.

grumpygamer,
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@mekkaokereke I did not know this.

vincentp, to random
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Today I learned about a new way to implement a freelist for an object pool in a GDC presentation from 2010... Instead of an intrusive linked list to track free elements, it stores the list of free (and used!) in a "roster". The length, "partition", keeps track of the first free handle in the roster.
No mentions of generations. It was trivial to add. A few cool things about non-intrusive data structure:

  • Usable on the GPU!
  • Easy to separate your data in multiple arrays
  • Easy to implement in C
grumpygamer,
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@vincentp Link?

grumpygamer, to random
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Going to be my last baseball game for a while.

grumpygamer, to random
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Current status

GrantMeStrength, to random
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I tried to complete the DazzlerII video card and it’s very close to working: it responds to CP/M and executable code, but isn’t displaying what is expected. Hardware issue, software issue or compatibility issue? Does it require a Z80 or should an 8080 suffice? All good questions.

Random dots

grumpygamer,
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@GrantMeStrength I still have a few floppy disks full of games that run on it. Brings back so many memories.

KarimAnani, to random
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@grumpygamer Hey. I wanted to goof around with DeloresDev, but this (the development version of the engine) 404s: https://thimbleweedpark.com/deloresdev I was following the instructions on GitHub, in case those are outdated.

grumpygamer,
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@KarimAnani Oh, I moved servers a while ago and didn't move that. I'll get it back online today or tomorrow.

leighgraner, to random
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It fascinating to see filmmakers’ personal tropes over time. Both Mad Max (1979) and Fury Road (2015) feature gang members pole vaulting onto moving fuel tankers.

grumpygamer,
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@leighgraner Pole vaulting is the future. Are you ready for the apocalypse?

octavinavarro, to random
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@grumpygamer My favorite voice actress in Final Fantasy 14, Siobhán Hewlett, just said in a livestream that if she could choose a game to work on, it would be Monkey Island. And she would voice the whole cast of characters xD

grumpygamer,
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@synlogic @octavinavarro Monkey Fantasy.

grumpygamer, to random
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https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/

grumpygamer, to random
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My pseudo-random number generator produces good results over time, but seems to have odd spikes and produces very "un-random" sequences. It's not a one-off, it's consistently wrong. Math is hard.

grumpygamer, (edited ) to random
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I don't get World of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic. Cataclysm is where WoW started to go off the rails. What I really really want is a new WoW Classic expansion, not a rehash of everything that made us want Classic in the first place. After Lich King would have been the perfect place.

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It's a good thing that Apple is really focused on the important macOS bugs.

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