#asteroidians — Public Fediverse posts

I just published a #blog post. It's about a #csharp #data system I wrote for my #Asteroidians game, which I call the Edict Rules system.

It uses generics, polymorphism & enums to answer the problem of:
How do you systematically store many hardcoded types of user-defined data, while keeping aspects of the code maintainable?

Read the post: https://bamboy360.com/blog/edict-rules/

(Video is a raw string output of this system)

#gamedev #indiedev #programming

Did I ever publicly mention I've been (slowly) working on porting my #Asteroidians codebase from #Unity to #Monogame ?

Apparently that started June. 🙄

I spent today working on my replacement Coroutine sys, which has gotten some 👀❓from the Monogame discord.

I have specific needs for Coroutines though, for running game-simulation code over-time with my "deterministic lockstep sync" based #multiplayer architecture.
And it keeps code tidy!

#selftaught #gamedev #indiedev #programming #csharp

Just discovered #JetBrainsRider feature of making code diagrams!
Got inspired to use it to document my game's asset loading pipeline.

I think this reflection method for loading content could be used for modding as well. (I wrote this system probably over a year ago >_<)

#Asteroidians #gamedev #indiedev #csharp #dotnet #programming

Finally making a second pass at #Asteroidians Grapple rope-wrapping logic.

I've switched to generating a convex hull from the set of contour-traced solid pixels.
This results in an array of positions that are significant geometrical corners we need to check as valid "anchor" positions.

Keep in mind, *everything* I'm doing here is based on a custom binary-pixel collision system! No polygons in this here #gamelogic !

#wip #solodev #gamedev #indiedev #gameprogramming #devtools

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The only #Unity specific thing I needed to do today for #Asteroidians was to serialize a Guid in a ScriptableObject (The rest was all raw C#)

Unity refused to do this for me, which is really dumb because internally unity uses and serializes Guids for tracking project files. (It's what they're for! Unique identifiers!)

I managed a workaround (string) but it's the little engine frustrations that make me want to leave even more, on top of my mistrust of them as a company.

#gamedev #indiedev

I finally got back on the horse and am working on #Asteroidians again. (Haven't since #Unity 's nonsense in Sept)

Sometime I should toot in-depth about the data system I have been building that allows players in my multiplayer game to customize game rules to a high degree, while also keeping it manageable and maintainable for me as a developer as the project grows

This customization feature has been on my list since I started this project in 2016

#gamedev #indiedev #csharp #screenshotsaturday

Me screwing around after finally getting proximity-based mines working the way I want in my #Asteroidians game.

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #worms #madewithunity #game

After a year with no official updates, #Asteroidians release v0.5.0.213 is here! This release comes with #multiplayer matchmaking!
Full changelog and #free game download here: https://bamboy.itch.io/asteroidians/devlog/463057/multiplayer-matchmaking-asteroidains-release-v050213

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #release #worms #madewithunity #itchio #game

Was stumbling around with edge detection #rendering via #shader, and after I was successful, I stumbled upon this interesting look for #Asteroidians terrain.
#gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #shaders #screenshotsaturday

By the way, #Asteroidians as of today is v0.4.1.200!

I am going to be doing an open #multiplayer #playtest of my game #Asteroidians today at around Noon PST!

If you want to try the game out, join my #discord https://discord.gg/wSJqhFe

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev