Then yesterday I worked on getting accelerometer controls working with game controllers such as my DualShock 4 controller. Also mapped the jump and collect abilities to buttons... really do love how easy SDL makes it to support game controllers!

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So on Sunday I ended up writing a simple terrain editor tool in Python with Pyside6, which saves the drawn polygons to JSON that the game then loads to create polygons in the physics world. Gonna be useful for prototyping.

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Update on my Hydroventure-like game thing:

Last weekend I implemented some rudimentary Tiled map rendering as an experiment, but concluded that it wouldn't be suitable. I wanted something more polygon-based that would also transform perfectly to static objects in the physics world.

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Last week I began working on a water simulation thing in C with Box2D and SDL... First I used the SDL renderer to just render some lines and circles to the screen. But after bolting on a nice water metaball shader with OpenGL I decided to just write my own 2D OpenGL renderer (uh, yes!).

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While Tensy 1.0.1 is mostly a minor patch release, one of the new things it brings is Windows XP support for the 32-bit build... So, if you want to play Tensy on Windows XP, in 2025, you can do that!

(This is mostly thanks to SDL3 still supporting Windows XP to this day.)

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