11 Weekly Snippets

Colin McMillen edited this page 2020-03-09 17:34:37 +00:00

Table of Contents

• 2020-03-09
• 2020-03-02
• 2020-02-24
• 2020-02-17
• 2020-02-10
• 2020-02-03
• 2020-01-27
• 2020-01-20
• 2020-01-13
• 2020-01-06: Infrastructure Week

2020-03-09

• Attached LinesOfSight to NPCs.

2020-03-02

• Added sound effects & looping music.
• Got git lfs set up. Switched to git submodules (from copybara) for splitting public/private repositories.
• Started parsing sprite & animation metadata from Aseprite's JSON format.
• Started using a real level editor (Ogma) & wrote code to parse Ogma's JSON.
• Made an FSM class and started using it for NPC behavior.

2020-02-24

• Built a properly-packaged demo for inclusion on Microsoft Store for PC & Xbox One.
• Switched to C# 8 and MonoGame 3.8.0.1074.
• Made a style guide.
• Added a pause screen & real font for it.
• Added player health & on-screen heart display.
• Added first NPC.

2020-02-17

• Used new art for scrolling parallax backgrounds.
• Added support for decorative objects in stage backgrounds.
• Started work on first real stage.
• Tweaked Player physics.
• Fixed memory leaks of graphical resources.
• Lots of messing around with Google, which poorly indexed my site due to new IP address.
• Set up Tailscale for networking & changed Digital Ocean configs appropriately.
• Bixdev: got QuickBooks set up.

2020-02-10

• Refactored line-of-sight code to be in a separate file & to use DrawIndexedPrimitives().
• Added ability to restart a level.
• Cleanups: Player.GetFacing/GetPose, unit tests for Geometry.Rotate(Vector2), draw debug geometry with gfx primitives.
• Added bcs.sh (Bad Code Search).
• Set up Gitea to serve https://git.semicolin.games.
• Ported issues / wiki / etc from GitHub & updated README.md to reflect the new canonical location.

2020-02-03

• Formed SemiColin Games LLC!
• Set up DigitalOcean account, configured cloud machines, & made a placeholder website at https://semicolin.games.
• Explored some devblog options... didn't really settle on a choice yet though.
• Added histogram-based performance counters.
• Partial work on vision / line-of-sight algorithm.

2020-01-27

• Wrote some new collision-detection code and started using it (along with Bresenham's algorithm) in Player.Update().
• Started to implement a field-of-view algorithm.
• Updated player sprite to a "ninja" asset. Added tool for importing more sprites from the same pack.
• Debug now keeps debug rects & lines when the game is paused.
• Bound player & camera positions by edges of the world.
• Tried (but failed) to upgrade to built-from-head MonoGame.

2020-01-20

• Implemented Bresenham's line-rasterization algorithm, along with unit tests for it.
• Added ability to draw said lines to screen via Debug.AddLine().
• Converted Debug.Toast -> Debug.AddToast() (allowing for multiple toasts per frame).
• Implemented "pause" functionality.
• Added a Clock class and separated model time from wall-clock time in World.Update() and friends.
• Converted World from a dense Tile[][] representation of static obstacles to a sparser List.

2020-01-13

• Installed MonoGame SDK 3.8.0.970 from their development branch. Upgraded OpenGL project to .NET framework 4.7.2.
• Added unit tests to History (#17).
• Added Input struct to abstract away gamepad & keyboard inputs (#5) and make mutually-incompatible directional inputs cancel each other out (#7).
• World can now load non-rectangular input strings without erroring out.
• Refactored Player.HandleInput to be a bit cleaner.

2020-01-06: Infrastructure Week

• Thought of a potential company name. Bought the domain & did a first pass of logo design.
• Investigated GitHub / GitLab / Phabricator; chose to stick with GitHub (free) for now.
• Set up G Suite & some skeletal Google Cloud infrastructure (including placeholder webpage).
• Renamed project codename from "Jumpy" to "sneak".
• Set up copybara pipeline to make a public mirror of parts of the repo.
• Converted TODOs in the codebase into proper GitHub issues.