Nobody liked my bird so now I drew a little dude

Gun is multishot tracking bullets

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Something I discovered about rollback networking is that, counterintuitively, the laggier player has an advantage over their opponent. I put in a lag switch that stalls my game for a frame each time I press it, and notice the other player's view of my character degrading

To celebrate the release of DK Bananza I added fully destructible terrain to my game

Shadows are looking pretty nice!

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I added a shotgunizer to my game, which turns any bullet you fire into a shotgun - even another shotgun...

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I was busy for a couple months moving (twice) but here's a clip of the laser beam I added to the game!

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Game progress, featuring bird + meatballs

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This week I added a game object system with components (health bars, bullets, player, enemy), collision, and level loading. It's finally starting to get somewhere haha

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I added box2d so I can send Braid guy into the void with extra realism

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Sprites are in!

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In these past few weeks I implemented screenToWorldRay, an input system, entities, and post-process outlines. Hopefully I can start doing actual game stuff soon...

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Me after 200 commits: got a lot done today :)
The commits:
- rename lib to Lib
- rename Lib to Library
- rename Library to library
- delete library
- readd library
- rename library to lib
...

If you have a lot of shared libraries or generated files coming from a package that you'd like to use in your main zig package, here's how you can copy them using zigs dependency API.

chrislx.com/posts/how-to...

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Hot reloading for my game engine in #zig #ziglang

working on writing a zig version of plf::colony makes me realize just how unreadable C++ template code is 🤢 what is this

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