There's a lot of other stuff to do, probably going to have to wait until next weekend as I'm exhausted right now. Good to know I can still make progress.
A Change of Plans - not a whole lot to this one, you edit levels to make them solvable; the edit mode looks interesting
Master Exploder - this is an action-y puzzle mechanic, made over a weekend for Ludum Dare 18
The vast majority of that time was trying to figure out why Master Exploder wasn't rendering most sprites, turns out my redundant setting of _width and _height was tickling a Ruffle bug. There's a quick workaround, but I went the distance and implemented a test case and submitted a pull request , we'll see how it goes.
Glad to see Ruffle making such strides!
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PC Tools for Windows had a scripting language documented in an extensive paper manual (as I recall it had a mostly red cover), that and a dBase IV book are what introduced me to programming as a kid.
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Here's the book, I got chills when I saw that cover again. I wore that thing out carrying it to school every day, reading it at recess.
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I accumulated various small things the last almost two years, the last few days has seen me wrestling with video timing issues and unofficial opcodes. I don't think I'm going to get the timing stuff fixed without a major rework, but I don't know if that's ever going to happen and in the meantime I want to get all these other features and fixes out for those who can't/won't build from source themselves. So here it is, reasonably well-tested but there's probably still some new bugs.
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My first attempt at a metroidvania, for Metroidvania Month 16. It's more of a puzzle game than an action game, but I think I captured some feeling of exploration. I've got a few more days to polish, but it's substantially complete. No audio unless I can work up the might to debug a bunch of Web Audio stuff that I've left out for now. Bug reports welcomed.
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My favorite example which is close to Metroidvania in play style is Toki Tori 2, though arguably The Witness is my favorite game that fits the description. The Zachtronics "design puzzle" games come at it from another angle, and in Sokoban block-pushing land, there's Stephen's Sausage Roll and A Monster's Expedition.
As foone recently observed "reverse engineering is a metroidvania", which captures the feeling I've gotten from that as well. There are probably some good explicitly RE'ing games but none are coming to mind.
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Direct link to the 56.3 MB PDF.
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BGM Materials 1999.12
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I also use Vim on a GNU/Linux system. Old logs indicate that I switched to this setup over a decade ago. I have not listened to a USF file since.
But given that hcs also runs Linux, perhaps there is a way?
You might search for lazyusf2, that's the mupen64plus-based decoder library that's most likely to have a package somewhere.
https://github.com/derselbst/lazyusf2
I found another interesting lead with software that claims to support USF via Audio Overload:
https://github.com/Greedysky/TTKMusicPlayer
But official Audio Overload documentation makes no mention of such support:
https://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm#compat
I will check these out. In particular, lazyusf2 seems to have an opcode translator, which is a promising concept. In the meantime, I agree with sentiment here:
https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=USF
“Desperately needs a simple C based USF to WAV open sourced program.”
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... Well, that was surprisingly easy. Using lazyusf2's included converter program, dumpresampled, I just listened to a USF file for the first time in over a decade. It sounded great. (I bet you can even guess the song.)
Thank you again for the tip, hcs, and thank you to everyone who has contributed to lazyusf2. Today was a good day.
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gamec v3
Testers have struggled most with the first two puzzles, might be relatively easier after that once you have the general idea.
I had hoped that the rule specification would be integral, there's some fancy logic for choosing the next puzzle to disprove your current guess, but the current set of 8 puzzles doesn't really take advantage of that in an interesting way. You might not notice it in a single playthrough anyway. So it ends up not being much different from other puzzles that don't tell you the rules, except it's easier to have the menu of possibilities known.
Trying to decide whether I should try to develop this more, put it back on the shelf until I figure something out, or just try to post it widely now for fame and fortune.
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Over the last few years I've mostly been keeping myself busy with CD Graphics stuff, like documenting all known Extended Graphics discs at extended.graphics. I have a CD+EG decoder online for The CD Graphics World (PGCD-5), I set up a few others like for a CD+G bird guide.
I encoded Bad Apple for CD+G and recorded it running on a small karaoke machine. I keep meaning to write something up about this, it's underwhelming if you don't know the limitations of CD+G. Originally I had used even lower resolution, which is much smoother, I'm still not sure which is better.
Occasionally I've been updating Neon64, there are a few WIP builds up with more mappers. I'm aiming to get a 2.0 beta 5 release out once I get one more done.
Been archiving various stuff, recently a short book about Programmed Instruction (Peter Pipe - Practical Programming), an Acclaim 1999 E3 press kit disc, and an early Philips CD-BGM disc. And two Sega CD-G test discs, 1.0 and 2.0.
And of lots of game music CDs. Probably the biggest find was Hard Shot. I've been rocking out continuously to Jeroen Tel's 1993 album The Video Game Soundmakers.
I made a Bluesky account where I posted some unusual CD stuff.
What're y'all up to?
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