Does this layout feel like a good way to represent a map of an o'neill cylinder? The world layout loops on the X axis between 3 zones, so I want to suggest that by repeating a little bit at the the edges

Journalling my snes Gamejam entry spacebruce.netlify.app/notes/snes-j...

day 4 already fallin off the horse bro fuck I missed a day but cuz of the timing I technically missed 2? I'll try to upload earlier, maybe tomorrow will be a double feature? this one took a lil' searchin too I suppose characters are from @spacebruce.bsky.social 's witch girl game

I'm doing the ->>>> snes jam itch.io/jam/snes-dev... <----

fixed the 32X port, only using it in subtle ways for now like increasing the background framerate on this stage and fixing a few visual whoopsies. Unless life throws another wrench at it, game is coming to both Megadrive and 32X platforms. #gamedev

Here's that new video as promised. Check out the enemy units in action!! #Gilgamech #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive #SGDK youtu.be/2UlbLA4Eawk

Sega Genesis Game Gilgamech gets new enemies!

YouTube video by Mecha Zone

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I had a spare bit (singular) going free in the tilemap layout so decided to use it to mark secret wall chicken spots. Doing a few arithmetic tricks to make sure it's not a speed burden on the scrolling engine which is already kinda slow.

also here's a stage background i'm working on, the player is going to be in the mid ground on a cart doing something or other, it works by using the 68k's user mode to render then a bunch of small funky shaped DMA writes to copy up to vram, designed so action can still run at 60fps ontop.

added a fun ropeswing kinda mechanic. Doesn't have a dedicated sprite yet so it currently emerges from her forehead.

something something level editor something

Been working on enemies for the #Gilgamech submarine level. These harpoon chains shoot up from an ocean trench and latch onto the sub. They deal damage until you destroy them. This ties in to the previous level where you see ships destroyed by these harpoons. I love continuity stuff like this.

yeah I can't manage this thing, I'm removing the export from my project. Waste of time energy and sanity.

Space… bruce!@spacebruce.bsky.social · last mo.

the 32X is a HORRIBLE machine never ever write code for it.

the 32X is a HORRIBLE machine never ever write code for it.

been having an absolutely terrible time IRL (jobseeking in this economy!) I'm porting my game off SGDK and onto the 32X (yes really) and making a native PC port alongside the 16-bit version. 3 simultaneous releases! Bit of a technical nightmare as the 32X SUCKS, but should be worth the pain.

here's it drawing... a blob. The CPU is very unhappy about this and it's missing the occasional frame.

Space… bruce!@spacebruce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quick megadrive graphics test, drawing weird shapes using a distorted tilemap. (Yes, like Yoshi's island). details in followup post.

Heart container

Added demo recording and replay, my game can now play itself!

I started on a level editor a year or so ago, never finished it, currently reviving it and getting it working properly. One thing I thought was pretty useful is it can parse the target project's source tree to detect object definitions and pull values.

there are some, uh, rendering issues and the font is broken, but I've got my localisation system with working with non-ascii languages.

Working on locale/language stuff. bit of a WIP as UTF8 strings aren't handled by this font, but it's no problem to redraw all the text fields while the game is running, idk why this isn't more common. (I don't know french beyond baby level, but if anyone does, bonjour!)

testing is going well

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

quick attempt at the earthion pseudo scaling explosion effect

stupidest goddamn technology on earth. Does not understand context, imagines data and functions that don't exist, messes with the autofill hotkey provided by the IDE (which DOES know which functions exist and can pull up the docs), not one good suggestion yet.

Managed to get Star Wars Arcade running in BlastEm today

I HAVE uploaded A ROM FILE for 32-BIT SUPER PERVERTS to my WEBZONE --> spacebruce.netlify.app/notes/we32x/ <--

Space… bruce!@spacebruce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

more 32X stuff, now using the fullscreen paletted mode

she's fine don't worry about her

more 32X stuff, now using the fullscreen paletted mode