#picolove — Public Fediverse posts

Had too many cutscenes where characters talk while driving, so here they just wait for a freight train to pass.

Schifahren game

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getting there

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The idea of a game console has fascinated me since Quake, and for some reason I keep pushing more and more logic into these simple string-parsing functions. Today, I added SQL-like SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE.

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the story in #schifahren is sad enough. traumatizing players even more with nvidia's DSLL 5 would be utter cruelty

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"does yours eat over the sink too?"
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sometimes, instead of moving forward with Schifahren's story, I procrastinate and work on things like camels and cell towers
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to frustrate players even more, some NPCs in "Schifahren" will call hero names that will stick on the HUD #schifahren game #picolove #pico8 #love2d #gamedev #screenshotsunday

"Schifahren" will feature more than just the Alps #schifahren game #picolove #pico8 #love2d #gamedev #screenshotsunday

fast forward of 10 glocks vs 10 shotguns combat to assess the gun stats
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casually checking how line segments slide in #schifahren game
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Schifahren game has a car market where people can buy cars, kebabs and tombstones
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map looks hardly organic unless you write OSM importer. below is Schifahren game cutscene map, where I needed road long enough so characters can have a conversation while driving through countryside.

oh, current game playable area is ~10x4km

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The atmosphere of my game
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Schifahren update: The game's first act is complete. There's still the second act to make, but it will be much shorter. Despite the game being unreleased, I'm already receiving fan art.

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Schifahren update: reworked the ice reflections and added some lonely strangers you can listen to.

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Schifahren update: Added enemies logic to track target to its last known position. A* pathfinding is based on massive 2D bitmap representing solid areas.
Oh, the town is a just debug level

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"The Deer Hunter"
after genuary and lovebyte I am back to coding of my Schifahren game (which I started to hate a little)

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Here's a little skilift prototype I made for Schifahren game. And yes, everything here is #generative

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Question: should rocks have grey or white caps?

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Schifahren progress: I seem to have encountered a #gamedev block. I am really happy with skiing and driving control scheme (arrows only). But have trouble with shooting which, without mouse, is hell.

For keys only scheme I tried slow-mo targeting but it just feels awkward.
So, keys for car/skiing and mouse for shooting are OK but force player to switch the scheme in their brain.

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Introducing: the BEAR. I fixed Schifahren's vehicle collisions and focused on sth less relevant. Like everything here, the bear is also fully code-generated.

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some progress on "Schifahren": skiing gameplay is mostly done. here's a sneak peek at the slow-mo function.
next step is to make capsules slide on capsules for car collisions.

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I am using #unity3d as an editor for #love2d / #pico8 game. I have two instances of VSCode one in C# and one in Lua.

Constant switching between these two realms creates a dire resonance that will surely split my personality.

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Schifahren update finally with the actual skiing part

Decided to fully go with #picolove. It's not about tokens; with 13k I've passed #pico8 limit long ago. It's about the 480x270 resolution.

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