Nobody liked my bird so now I drew a little dude

Gun is multishot tracking bullets

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And this is what it looks like from the other side.

GGPO and probably all modern games will intentionally stall the player on the right to match, but there definitely is something exploitable when you give the laggier player a better experience.

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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bonus: a shotgun that fires bullets that shoot shotgun lasers

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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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