Just out of curiosity: is anyone here using Love2D and Lua for game development? I have some experience with Unity but sometime ago started learning Love2D. Lua seems to very simple language to code in and since Love2D doesn't have any graphical UI it sort of forces you to make everything work through code. As a beginner hobbyists, I really love this.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about Love2D and what it's capable of. Currently I am interested in doing asmall Snake-like puzzle game and a demo for classic Ultima type crpg. Not really full games, but I am sort of interested in seeing how well certain concepts and ideas work in practice. Lua seems to be very good for doing just that.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1086370

> This time on my arbitrary blog: Entity component systems. > > Also, highlight.js should degrade more gracefully without JS activated than last time. Note that I can't process syntax highlighting in my build step, because I don't have a build step.

EDIT: improved phrasing

Can you guess what the theme of the level I'm working on it?

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Hi Devs,

I engineered this platform to support building multiplayer games for competitive gamers. Game development uses JavaScript for both client and server, and focuses on Trivia and Board game genres, but all played in real-time.

The platform manages all the functionalities outside of your gameplay and user interface, which includes: networking, matchmaking, rankings, timing, replays, deployment, and many other features.

There is an SDK and Simulator that helps speed up development tremendously, but you as a developer will remain focused on authoring gameplay via the JSON game state and displaying the changes to that state on the browser.

Many hours were spent ensuring the website is supported on most devices, with tough resiliency to ensure users can get back into matches when traveling on degraded cell service. This will allow perhaps having a battle royale with 100s of people playing in a single match of a trivia game. It always bothered me how online trivia games only allowed up to like 8 or 16 players.

I'm about halfway on my roadmap, but the core foundation of the platform is settling in. Now, its time to expand into the more community focused features.

That is where you can help, by pushing the limits of my systems. Break things, enhance things, all is welcome.

The platform behind the website will be open-sourced in the near future, but you can access the ACOS simulator and existing games on GitHub.

Play or develop a game on: https://acos.games

Read the documentation at: https://sdk.acos.games

Learning to code? We can help you build your first game. Simply join us on Discord. https://discord.gg/ydHkCcNgHD

Happy Coding!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1442017

> An important part of working with Vulkan and other modern explicit rendering APIs is the synchronization of GPU/GPU and CPU/GPU workloads. In this article we will learn about what Vulkan needs us to synchronize and how to achieve it. We will talk about two high-level parts of the synchronization domain that we, as application and library developers, are responsible for: > > - GPU↔GPU synchronization to ensure that certain GPU operations do not occur out of order, > - CPU↔GPU synchronization to ensure that we maintain a certain level of latency and resource usage in our applications. >

A handy tool for developing vn style games for the Gameboy and Gameboy colour.

Great for people starting a game dev journey.

This jam has some special rules: Instead of having a set theme and giving you free reign to use whatever tools you want, the roles are reversed: Your game can have any theme, but it must fit the following criteria:

• Runs in a terminal
• Only ASCII characters
• No more than 72 columns and 20 rows
• No colours or text formatting
• Source code smaller than 1MiB

You have until July 1st — if you have time to kill, this might be a fun way to use it. :)

I am new to Godot, but I am looking forward to the new multi-monitor features.

I am currently working on a game I was told by one friend to use the language I am most comfortable in. However others have criticised me for not using their preferred language or environment.

Should I switch or keep going?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/602665

> Next LibreJam upcoming! > > Jam Version: 202212 > Theme: TBA > Theme announced at: 2022-12-01 00:00 UTC > Submissions end at: 2022-12-14 23:59 UTC > Ratings end at: 2022-12-21 23:59 UTC > > More info at: https://jamgaroo.xyz/jams/1 > IRC: ircs://leagueh.xyz/#librejam > Webchat: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient /?settings=ea63ab40970bce06b2aa2a25b6185b2d > > InfoPage also on gemini: gemini://bytecrab.org/librejam/index.gmi ;) > > Theme suggestions welcome!

My friend and I joined Brackeys game jam and developed this small space horror game. Check it out or critique my horrible art skills if you are bored, maybe even rate it if you have an itch.io account

Fedijam 6: Cut Budget Edition \ Friday 20:00 UTC -> Sunday 24:00 \ Your game goes here: \ https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6 \ Talking goes here: \ https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe \ Post crazy theme suggestions in comments or reply here: \ https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108507645911003343

Also the organiser is looking for assistance with some parts of the jam

The guy released already https://store.steampowered.com/app/853550/Equilinox/ and he works on "Home Grown" - gardening game. I like his discipline, consistency and knowledge.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/233881

> A lot of games use bitmap graphics. I have noticed that this results in textures becoming blurry when the mode is viewed up close. > > This makes me wonder if vector graphics, like Scalable Vector Graphics could help with the issue; vector graphics are designed to render in shapes, therefore the texture wouldn't become blurry. > > Vector graphics would, of course, not do well with pictures that have a ton of detail; but it could be more useful in HUDs and icon textures.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/211138

> Next LibreJam upcoming! > > JamVersion: 202204 > Theme: TBA > Theme announced at: 2022-04-01 00:00 UTC > Submissions end at: 2022-04-14 23:59 UTC > Ratings end at: 2022-04-21 23:59 UTC > > More info at: https://leagueh.xyz/en/librejam/index.gmi > Mailinglist at: https://leagueh.xyz/m/librejam/index.html > IRC: ircs://leagueh.xyz/#librejam > Webchat: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/?settings=9990a2af03a4a53c76b3529a6c420adc > > InfoPage also on gemini: gemini://leagueh.xyz/en/librejam/index.gmi ;)

(I quickly got downvoted on the main post. lol)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/147882

> Presumably the first game Godot toolset jam.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/145551

> A Libre Multiplayer FPS Game built with Godot game engine and a fully FOSS toolchain.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/98500

> Next LibreJam upcoming! > > JamVersion: 202112 > Theme: Leech > Theme announced at: 2021-12-01 00:00 UTC > Submissions end at: 2021-12-07 23:59 UTC > Ratings end at: 2021-12-14 23:59 UTC > > More info at: https://leagueh.xyz/en/librejam/index.html > Mailinglist at: https://leagueh.xyz/m/librejam/ > IRC: ircs://leagueh.xyz/#librejam > > InfoPage also on gemini: gemini://leagueh.xyz/en/librejam/index.gmi ;)

All the New Stuff I've been adding to Moloch has finally reached that point in time where I'm pretty sure it's stable enough to be actually used in like, real runs, done by real Moloch players.

This version adds sound effects, new spell modifiers, achievements, a complete overhaul of the main menu, One (1) necessary optimization to the minimap, and a bunch of other fixes and smaller features.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/83391

> The Terasology project was born from a Minecraft-inspired tech demo and is becoming a stable platform for various types of gameplay settings in a voxel world. The creators and maintainers are a diverse mix of software developers, designers, game testers, graphic artists, and musicians. We encourage others to join!

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18425

> A foss jam for federated people. Friday evening (Oct 08 18:00 UTC)- Sunday midnight (UTC). > (A kind of experimental thing i am trying to do with Fedi, comment your feedback!)

Hi! I don't know if self-advertisement is ok in this community, please tell me if it isn't and I'll delete this post. This is a game I've been working on for the last week and I'm not fully certain it'll go anywhere, but it has a small community already, so I figured its worth showing it here

Moloch is a very hard platforming roguelike where health is not health points, and instead, it consists of several conditions that are somewhat simulated and that can result either in a softlock or a death. Yes, being soft locked due to being hurt is part of the experience. It borders the line that separates rage games from the rest.

My idea for the project is to make it be frustrating because of how easy it is to die, and not because of how hard it is to use the controls. I tried my best to make the controls as responsive and smooth as I could, so that the game feels good to get good at.

It is inspired by Noita and Rain World, the former being the one that inspired the roguelike elements and the wands, and the latter being the one that inspired the way I'm handling the difficulty and health.

In any system optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw any other value under the bus for optimized X