Development Diaries

gisbrecht's picture

Games to Purge Melancholy

I am too distressed to work on games... that much I say. Distressed by wrongdoings of others... and the likes.

bpseudopod's picture

my game is a huge hack

one of the things that scared me off of making games for the longest time was the existential horror of using a game engine. like either you code one yourself and get balls-deep in the nasty, unwashed hobo asshole that is the nitty-gritty of coding, or you take someone else's engine and you have to learn all the weird bullshit that I SWEAR IS GONNA MAKE THINGS SO MUCH EASIER. i read the docs and i still have no idea how anything in godot works, dont tell me that shit's beginner-friendly.

so anyways i flip-flopped between "im gonna learn my own engine!" and "im gonna use this bullshit engine!" for basically my entire life, making no progress on any endeavors

So eventually I gave up and decided I'd just make a virtual space in hypertext. It wasn't exactly a game, because you couldn't really interact with it, but HTML meant that, for what I was doing, I wouldn't have to either learn arcane secrets or reinvent the wheel. Then I did something silly but really important: I made it so that, every so often, you'd have to sleep, which'd redirect you to a page then you'd just click back to it. Here's the code that handles it. The "Cookies" object is from js.cookie, a simple javascript cookie library.
var stamina = 16;
...
sleepiness = Number(Cookies.get("sleepiness"));
if (sleepiness < stamina) {
Cookies.set("sleepiness", sleepiness + 1);
} else {
Cookies.set("sleepiness", 0);
document.location.assign("sleep.html");
}

This code was packaged in game.js, which was included in every HTML file, so it ran every time the player changed scene. This was when I started to realize that the web browser was secretly a game engine. The DOM is a really powerful UI library, I could use cookies to manage state, and if you include a javascript file in every page, you've created a game loop. Hypertext itself is in charge of loading/unloading assets and logic, and provides them with a convenient scope, and you can use cookies for transferring data between local and global scope. These technologies are already there without any added programming, and they're really easy to interface with.

ok so the end result is actually pretty fuckin basic but gimme a break will ya?? this is my first time making any game or any of html/css/javascript, so i'm pretty proud of it nonetheless so play it here

Kate B's picture

Juice Update

I've started a few things this year that I haven't finished yet cause they got too big. I'm gonna finish 'em though. I did promise I was gonna bring "the juice" this year and ooh boy things are looking juicy

I've unleashed 7 HITS upon you this year and I'm not even half done

sergiocornaga's picture

10 Year Anniversary

It's been 10 years since I joined this wonderful site! I'll be posting a much-delayed game shortly to celebrate. In fact, it's the one I alluded to in my 5 year anniversary post. Let's see if I fare better this time!

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quasiotter's picture

zine for winter/spring

for a year now, i've been recommending games and other media(most recent example here link

so, for the winter season (dec 21-mar 20) i'm basically doing a review of the stuff i want to recommend from the season, just like how magazines or websites do a year-in-review thing. since we've just started spring, i'm also doing a 'preview' of spring, whatever that means.

so this is here to see if anybody wants to contribute anything to it.

for more context, here's what i think i will be putting in:
-some select recommendations, basically the things i recommend the most. probably separated into games / music / books
-a complete list of the games / music / books i consumed and still recommend
-there are some games/music/books i will only play in winter, regardless if they take place in winter or not. i will talk about that
-same as above, but for spring
-some art i made, maybe
-maybe a list of ideas
-maybe a personal essay or something

it can be anything, really, though i'd prefer it to be safe for work. i want to be able to show this to my mom basically.
if you want to contribute but don't know what, maybe make a list of your favourite games you only play in winter and/or spring? or maybe i'm the only one who makes those self-restrictions? lol
so you can send me stuff and i can put it in, or you can even create and design your own page and i'll put it in.

although i have no plans to print this, i will be creating this @ 300dpi. rgb colourspace. and us letter size (8.5" x 11"). just in case someone wants to print it. i'm using indesign cs6 for now.

since i'm using other people's work, i'm not going to monetize it, it's all for fun and for the purpose of getting really cool stuff out there!

would be great to have everything by wed mar 27, hopefully this will be done by mar 30.

quasiotter's picture

zine for winter/spring

for a year now, i've been recommending games and other media(most recent example here link

so, for the winter season (dec 21-mar 20) i'm basically doing a review of the stuff i want to recommend from the season, just like how magazines or websites do a year-in-review thing. since we've just started spring, i'm also doing a 'preview' of spring, whatever that means.

so this is here to see if anybody wants to contribute anything to it.

for more context, here's what i think i will be putting in:
-some select recommendations, basically the things i recommend the most. probably separated into games / music / books
-a complete list of the games / music / books i consumed and still recommend
-there are some games/music/books i will only play in winter, regardless if they take place in winter or not. i will talk about that
-same as above, but for spring
-some art i made, maybe
-maybe a list of ideas
-maybe a personal essay or something

it can be anything, really, though i'd prefer it to be safe for work. i want to be able to show this to my mom basically.
if you want to contribute but don't know what, maybe make a list of your favourite games you only play in winter and/or spring? or maybe i'm the only one who makes those self-restrictions? lol
so you can send me stuff and i can put it in, or you can even create and design your own page and i'll put it in.

although i have no plans to print this, i will be creating this @ 300dpi. rgb colourspace. and us letter size (8.5" x 11"). just in case someone wants to print it. i'm using indesign cs6 for now.

since i'm using other people's work, i'm not going to monetize it, it's all for fun and for the purpose of getting really cool stuff out there!

would be great to have everything by wed mar 27, hopefully this will be done by mar 30.

gisbrecht's picture

questionare

what if one day u woke up in BUBBO LAND? what would you do??? where would u go??? the possibilities are endless!

working on a new? game?

hello again

it is me, jonprime

i do not have a lot to say, but i am back in some capacity. prepare yourselves for my next and perhaps final game.

i cannot tell you about it, but it is indeed being Developed by me, and it is a masterpiece. or rather. it will be a masterpiece.

please hold your hands.

thank you

I never knew my brother rhetoric stu

We all go through crap and life problems. Yoga and meditation helps. At least I am the strong smart one in my family to carry on. Lately I decided to see my brother work on the computer and it funny after people are gone they are more appreciated. Which tells us to appreciate people while still around not just after death. His memory will live on and I always appreciated him anyway.

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