Eike
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My ADHD blessed me with a huge project graveyard without letting me finish something. I do lots of stuff all the time. My blog can be found on https://quakatoo.com
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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 2:10 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 3:49 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 11:08 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.
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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 11:55 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?
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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 12:04 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
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 6:56 AM
I have to start making more levels. I guess I need 200 to 300 for the final version? I have now ... *checks notes* ... 15.
Oh well. "Only" need to follow Confucius' "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." quote, I guess 🙃
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Oh well. "Only" need to follow Confucius' "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." quote, I guess 🙃
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December 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I have to start making more levels. I guess I need 200 to 300 for the final version? I have now ... *checks notes* ... 15.
Oh well. "Only" need to follow Confucius' "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." quote, I guess 🙃
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Oh well. "Only" need to follow Confucius' "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." quote, I guess 🙃
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Not sure about this idea: Clouds flowing around the level. There could be different types of such backgrounds... at lest I was thinking so. I am not really happy with how it looks atm and it would need a lot more work to look the way I imagined it 🥲
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December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I have a vague idea to add some cloud-like structures for the background / foreground artstyle (I love clouds). I think this WIP result shows something neat: the outlines visible, because the clouds are not rendering into the depth texture.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Still trying to decrease visual boringness: Adding a white fade out grid and a skirt of colors that adds to the previously existing top-down color gradient. I think it makes it more interesting without distracting from the diorama center scene. What do you think?
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December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Didn't find much time to work on 8-bitBot today. But with the little time I had, I tried to rework the UI skin a bit to look less grey. What is more effort is to restructure the UI elements as well, like hiding the up/down buttons when not needed.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I made a few minor visual UI changes: The drag-able window has a gripper in the title bar and I am rounding off the corners of the panels. I keep thinking that I should also improve the looks of the programming interface on the left, but lack good ideas atm.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Adding more language options: Since my UI rendering is mostly stateless, changing languages will take instant effect in nearly all situations. I also have a hotkey to toggle through the translations so I can quickly test potential layout issues with long texts quickly.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Luckily fixable in the snow placement shader: Only consider cleared area information when the area is at ground level. Though, if necessary, I could encode the clear height level in the imprint texture. But I don't intend to have bots moving on different height levels.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Luckily fixable in the snow placement shader: Only consider cleared area information when the area is at ground level. Though, if necessary, I could encode the clear height level in the imprint texture. But I don't intend to have bots moving on different height levels.