✨ C/C++ developer✨ she/her ✨ creator of unfinished video games ✨ No idea what I am doing here but just coming in to take a look around. Never ...fedded? before. Current endeavor is a classic roguelike with into-the-breach-inspired deterministic combat set in a non-procedural world. It's called Chronicles IV: Ebonheim and you can read all about it on cohost!
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Last Notes npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend Recorded a nice long gif today of some combat testing, painting a picture of the pace of the game. Need to work on a new tileset soon this one has gotten so stale 😅 https://blog.brianna.town/combat-arena #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #roguelike #pixelart https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/923/430/119/050/497/original/82e5d640ac91149b.mp4 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend I put my foot through my friend's ceiling trying to help them install a ceiling fan so I'm at somewhat of a low point this evening npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend I am drunk with nginx proxy manager power - blog.brianna.town goes to the writefreely container - brianna.town has static nginx container - brianna.town/files directs to a filebrowser container for super easy file management of the public facing files in the brianna.town container - git.brianna.town gitlab instance - chrongame.com new domain with its own SSL certificate pointing to the same container as brianna.town but with a redirect to /chron4 #selfhosting npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend It's #screenshotsaturday ! This week I've been putting together inventory and equipment from the ground up. Still a mountain left to do but I'm quite happy with what I have so far 😁 The item art was pretty fun to make and I got to implement drag-drop generically in the game's "EGAUI" #imgui -like UI framework #gamedev #indiedev https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/581/616/332/509/720/original/62e26c565bb8a4cc.mp4 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1mc3…nkdg tag yourself I'm resigned granny npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1mc3…nkdg always seemed to me that they needed dedicated servers for each expansion that would run the patches like seasons but also despite always thinking about it I have never gone back to classic 😅 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend My late (second) entry to #screenshotsaturday I got my shadowcasting working! Looking forward to combining both a lighting model with a vision model along with fog of war 😊 #gamedev https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/464/067/596/151/462/original/078bf07825486cfe.mp4 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend In the 18th century, French Occultists claimed that the 78 card Italian-suited deck was tied to ancient mysticism, with claims ranging from the Kabbalah to the I Ching. Yes Playing cards may have spread to Europe from Egypt but that was 11th century AD, not BC. The incredibly lucrative claim that the 78 card tarot holds ties to ancient mysticism is one of the most successful frauds perpetrated on modern society! npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend The game spread back down into Italy after economic recession had wiped away card manufacturers and today Piedmontese Tarrocco is played with a 78-card deck except with the Italian suits of Baton, Sword, Cup, and Coin! Additionally, in many italian tarocco games, there is a special rule that Trump 20 The Angel is higher value than Trump 21 The World. Because Catholicism? npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend The 78-card tarot deck spread from the peidmontese region into france and became very popular. This game, French Tarot, features the 21-card trump suit, 4 14-card suits (King, Queen, Knight, Jack, 1-10), the suits were French suits so Hearts Clubs Spades and Diamonds, and a 78th card The Fool which had special rules. Every soldier in Napoleon's army carried a tarot deck standard issue, which is credited for spreading the game throughout France. npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend As the cards and trick-taking games spread into the Iberian peninsula and Italy, the suits went through further changes as they continued to be reinterpreted by different cultures https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/282/009/831/585/662/original/d5686b05a8412e1f.png npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend I fell down a deep Wikipedia hole last month because the history of the playing card is so interesting! What started as 9th Century Tang Dynasty block-printed money cards spread through the Islamic world through Persia all the way to Egypt. It's believed that the symbols for the Chinese money suits: Coin (o), String of Coins (|), Myriad (万), and Ten Myriads (十) were re-interpreted by the Muslims as: Coin, Baton, Cup, and Sword respectively. <thread> #cards #history #tarot npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1nhw…g2sy cute!!! I love it 😅 great job getting it done!!! npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend Today is the day to watch Slaughter High, the April Fools-themed slasher movie featuring a group of UK adults attempting to portray American teenagers Free on Tubi! #film #aprilfoolsday https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/197/240/919/063/819/original/17fa2b0f424c04a3.jpg npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1aw2…8vv5 have you tried imnodes? it has its quirks but mostly just drops in :) https://github.com/Nelarius/imnodes npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1aw2…8vv5 for this exact reason I've been making a lightweight version of imgui for my game's UI 😂 https://cohost.org/britown/post/2597163-popups npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend And here's a listing I'm putting together of C++ zero-dependency portable libraries made by smart people with good API's that do most of the hard "game engine" work for you: https://cohost.org/britown/post/2853844-i-used-to-be-really #gamedev #cpp npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend Finding that there is a lot of confusion about what making "your own engine" actually means practically for #gamedev developers. Custom engines don't need to be glorified as this higher or extremely difficult thing. Build the OpenGL/SDL2 ImGui example and I feel like you're 80% of the way there. The problem is that after "engine" (be it game maker or unity or SDL2 or a TI-83) you still have to make the actual game. Here's @npub1znz…8l64 talking about this over on cohost: https://cohost.org/eniko/post/2852222-what-does-make-your npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend You can use my game engine so long as the game you want to make is exactly the one I am currently making ♥ npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1mc3…nkdg at a certain point, knowing that your project is going to tick all your own boxes as a player and is something you want to play is going to shine through so hard in the final product. Everything from structure to how it handles pet peeves and certain quality of life is going to be so specific to your own taste that it has the power to speak to a whole lot of people that have never seen that. And wanting so bad to play it yourself is the best motivation imo to continue the grind 😊 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend I finally finished my entirely-too-long write-up about all the audio work I've been doing for my game. If you're looking for some nice light reading this friday afternoon, take a look! https://cohost.org/britown/post/2218412-the-big-chronicles-a I go into a ton of detail of the code implementations, reasons behind my decisions, and a lot of history. This is the sort of #gamedev posts I got into these spaces hoping to write! I hope you enjoy!! #music #tracker #retrocomputing #indiedev #devblog #chiptune npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1znz…8l64 I just tell myself that the primary modder I'm building it for is myself 😅 npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1znz…8l64 feel the same way, kind of building my entire game around the idea that people will like it enough to mod it lol npub1tm7un30w70nk2rfkqeyy7ufsfjfge6u5pxf3p4rxhty4xh502g9steyrzz Brianna Townsend @npub1mc3…nkdg I'm working on a dos-like roguelike in my free time called Chronicles! It combines classic dungeon crawlers with Into-the-Breach-inspired tactical turn prediction. Devlog on my bio! https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/651/113/429/192/524/original/68f51fd4ecd91d8b.mp4