egg boy color @eggboycolor@mastodon.social
Hi, I'm Andy! I make pixels, cute games, and NES/GBC homebrew. Let's be friends! http://i.make.vg/
i wish i had any idea what I was doing with my life right now
Glad that having possibly the worst weekend ever of my life, I seem to have achieved some sort of temporary manic state for now. I can't sleep but at least I don't feel buried alive anymore.
I don't even know what I'm doing with my life anymore. I could really use some more friends right now...
Someone suggested to add some GB Printer support, and that sounds like a really awesome idea.. I wouldn't mind trying to figure that out. I can imagine a fun setup to make little silly pixel drawings and print them out on receipt paper :D
Hey, I started making a 16x16 sprite editor tool for the Game Boy. So far, it's got some basic pixel drawing & color picking support! (Screenshot using BGB, and photo on GB hardware!) https://mastodon.social/media/SIYpA1Q-H6wt_TLBPHQ https://mastodon.social/media/N9Da4gcuOlNUoYPErWk
Designing this entire pico8 action-rpg game around the constant need to get a better tier of equipment to overcome the thing on the next screen. Pretty much every problem in this game is answered with "you need a better sword to break past the enemy defenses", "you need to a better shield to outlive this thing", and aside from that finding the correct route to navigate without being wiped out. Making these levels is becoming a bit tedious but it's getting there!
Ahhh, good to hear people are still active here! I just have a hard time seeing it on the Home feed. I think I have to wait for my feed to fill in. I have a screenshot of this message from page, but I can't seem to upload images from Firefox for Android (camera button does nothing there, works fine on desktop). But in any case, just wanted to point it out that this does make returning to the site harder if you can't see a home feed until you wait for your feed to be repopulated. Gonna try though
Also notifications for follows don't seem to know if it's a mutual follower or mot unless you do another request for that user's profile. Until you do that, it doesn't seem to have follow status retrieved at all. And weirdly there's the option to unfollow someone directly from the notification but not the other way around??? This kind of stuff is a bit off-putting.
Do people still use Mastadon? It's impossible to tell because my home feed is always empty after I've been inactive on here. So I can't see anything from people I follow unless I wait for my timeline to be rebuilt. Which in turn makes it hard to come back.
even without optimization, it seems like the preview version of the GIF is messed, and there's weird speckling artifacts on the full-size version :<
I finished a first pass on the animated actor system for my GB visual novel engine. It supports characters composed of a base sprite + eye sprites + mouth sprite, and it supports talking animations during the character's dialogue.
Here's a GIF recording of it in action!
the gif uploader really doesn't handle pre-optimized gifs very well... going to try again without optimization.
one last wip for now https://mastodon.social/media/JwUdsSic26uhrUlQL2Q
(whoa this GIF has some weird 1px speckles that weren't there before I uploaded, but you can still get the idea)
I've also started working on a character portrait system to go over it all. Optimized carefully to stay under 40 sprites on-screen at once, and 10 sprites per scanline. Also the GB palette limitations of 2 global sprite palettes of 3 colors each pose some limitations on how sprites are composed.
https://mastodon.social/media/ePn_IcdEiz3Tsj7Gpbs
It's been a while since I've signed into Mastodon. Anyway, here is a GIF of a visual novel system I started working on for the Game Boy! So far, there's a variable width font system, a primitive scripting language, screen fading effects, and a background system that supports custom parallax scanline effect tables per scene.
Also, draw.io is really nice for drawing graphs / relational diagrams! Going to need to use this more! Only gripe is there's no nice way to add extra connection points / for placing edges to vertices on the graph, and there's no easy way to draw edge cycles in the graph, without lots of fighting with bezier curve controls.
Not really sure what I'm doing yet, but here's a diagram I made of the possible 8-bit load instructions the Game Boy's Sharp LR35902 can do. https://mastodon.social/media/17954
