Eike
@zet23t.bsky.social
Game dev / game artist
Favorite tools: C, Aseprite, Blender
Working on: 8-bitBot, a programming puzzle game
Wishlist 8-bitBot: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/8bitBot/
Twitter: @zet23t
Blog: https://quakatoo.com
Favorite tools: C, Aseprite, Blender
Working on: 8-bitBot, a programming puzzle game
Wishlist 8-bitBot: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/8bitBot/
Twitter: @zet23t
Blog: https://quakatoo.com
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Eike
@zet23t.bsky.social
· Oct 3
This is 8-bitBot: A programming puzzle game that I am working on and aiming to release in December.
There is much to do still, but it is coming nicely along so far.
Steam wishlisting: store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/...
Playable demo on my website (a bit outdated): quakatoo.com/projects/cod...
There is much to do still, but it is coming nicely along so far.
Steam wishlisting: store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/...
Playable demo on my website (a bit outdated): quakatoo.com/projects/cod...
Still working on this editor thing. Not entirely sure if this is a wise thing to work on. I think I have to make it functional enough and move on for now. That means serializing the animation data and playing it in the tutorial steps...
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December 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Lol, oooohkay? I thought "why not test the new UI in the sandbox editor level?" - and then THIS happens? The rendered scene is actually interactive o.O? I certainly didn't expect that to "work"... Though it is only the cursor that is responsive. Funny bug.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not having much time these days - but I want to pep up the level intro popup a bit. This is the new vs old UI and also the new design for the followup level. The level view in the dialog shows the bot in closeup atm.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am still working on 8-bitBot! But I mostly did boring stuff the recent days (clean ups, error reporting), so there is not much to show. But I added a few new objects... Maybe I should try to make the gnomes look a little bit less angry...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Started working on another neglected topic: error logging. I sometimes get told that the game crashed, but obviously I would not have any idea why it would. Hopefully I will be less clueless in the future!
Still need to symbolize the stack traces... 😫
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Still need to symbolize the stack traces... 😫
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December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Revisiting the UX for creating the programs; fixed some bugs, but I still have more problems: Auto stepping eases programming, but one thing I dislike is, that when I steer the bot over the map edge, I don't see that happening. Which would be fun :D
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December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All major UI elements in my game are now replaced with smoother elements. The screenshots show new vs old. I hope it looks now more appealing.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
All major UI elements in my game are now replaced with smoother elements. The screenshots show new vs old. I hope it looks now more appealing.
#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame #codinggame
#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame #codinggame
I just updated 8-bitBot on itch: zet23t.itch.io/8-bitbot
It is still an early release with a bunch of known (and unknown) bugs. Creating the code solutions should now be much easier!
It is still an early release with a bunch of known (and unknown) bugs. Creating the code solutions should now be much easier!
8-bitBot Demo version by Eike Decker
Program bots to solve small puzzles. Play in your browser
zet23t.itch.io
December 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I just updated 8-bitBot on itch: zet23t.itch.io/8-bitbot
It is still an early release with a bunch of known (and unknown) bugs. Creating the code solutions should now be much easier!
It is still an early release with a bunch of known (and unknown) bugs. Creating the code solutions should now be much easier!
Preparing the web build, I noticed poor performance for the level preview renderings. Luckily I went through this already and now I get the profiling data with named functions in a few seconds when needed. And there it is: silly me recreating multiple render textures every frame 🙃
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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm still designing the level selection screen. I like the central selection and right preview element for confirmation.
The left side however looks ... so empty! It currently contains the campaign description. But what else could it show? A campaign level maybe?
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The left side however looks ... so empty! It currently contains the campaign description. But what else could it show? A campaign level maybe?
#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I got the particle system working in the preview. I had some preparations done for that before, so this was just about utilizing the tech I built before. Now for the snow surface rendering, this is something I did not anticipate and will have to work out now...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The level selection preview shows now the level being played back with the last program the player worked out. Since the level and gameplay data are just structs of a few thousand bytes and all assets are preloaded, selecting levels is perfectly fluid 😊
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December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Roughly how I imagined it; the level is previewed before selecting it for playing. However, the snow and particle system is unlikely to play along with this, since these systems use global resources. But I think I can manage to handle this. FPS is nicely stable :)
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December 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This looks super promising! The tiny planet and the liftoff of the ground looks great!
Houston, we have liftoff!
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December 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This looks super promising! The tiny planet and the liftoff of the ground looks great!
Visiting the level selection today. Since I have now a campaign selection, I thought I would display a campaign description on the left side and when selecting a level, showing the level on the right side. Have to see how that works out in the end...
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December 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM