Devastro and Type Raiders are now completely free.
Mac versions now include their own private Java runtimes. This means that they will run fine on systems that don't have Java installed.
Windows versions are no longer available.
Big thanks to everyone who has purchased either of the games throughout the years. Sales have obviously gone down since the game had been released and I no longer feel the need to keep the purchase system working. It’s been fun.
After a long time I’m releasing a small update for Devastro.
What’s new in Devastro 1.9
After a long time I’m releasing a small update for Type Raiders.
What’s new in Type Raiders 1.1
My before-and-after iPhone camera app Repro has been updated to version 1.1.
The update brings support for iPhone 5 screen size, brand new iOS 7 UI and a new way to show the photo overlay. I'm very happy with it.
Another piece of C++ code I wrote recently: a C++ wrapper for SQLite. Thanks to a few C++11 features I think it allows for really clean and concise code in many common cases. As part of the example code, I also wrote a basic schema migration function.
Get the source code here.
Don’t ask me why, but I needed a simple HTML template library for C++. I looked at a few of them, but there wasn’t a clear winner. Most were too heavyweight, hard to build or I didn’t like the syntax.
So I decided to write my own. How hard can it be?
NLTemplate is really simple. It comes in a single source file, has no extra dependencies and you can just drop it in your project and it will work. It does variable replacement, optional or repeatable blocks and file includes. You can define your own file loader to deal with path resolution and file I/O. To insert a variable, you write {{ variable }}, to define a block, you write {% block name %} and then end it with {% endblock %}.
Get the source code here.
Six years and 2½ games later, this is what I'm using now for game development:
Hardware
Software
Libraries
Today I'm releasing a small iOS application called Repro. It is not a game but I have enjoyed working on it and I'm having fun using it. Hope you will, too.
Overlay a picture in the camera viewfinder to take multiple perfectly aligned shots.
With Repro you can:
Photos get saved to the camera roll so you can use your favourite apps for editing and sharing.
Enjoy!
I got tired of the constant Tumblr outages and keeping a Django site up and running seemed like too much work, so I made Tempo. Tempo is a small static site generator written in PHP. I use it for this site and will probably use it for some others in the future. It takes
about.txt becomes about.html blog-2011-10-10-blog post title.txt becomes blog/2011/10/10/blog-post-title.html etc.
For text formatting, just use HTML tags. URLs starting with http:// are automatically converted into links.
Get the source code here.
To try out pygame, I wrote a simple editor in it. It is nice to see what can be achieved with 100 lines of Python. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it to write an entire game, but for a simple interactive tool or a prototype, it is nice.
This simple editor opens a tileset image and lets you edit its collision mask. Use case: you have large graphical tiles but want them to have a more fine grained collision mask. For example, the graphical tiles are 128x128 but you want the collision mask to be 32x32.
Download TilemapMaskEdit.py (requires Python and pygame) Example tileset from Devastro: water01_128.png (do not use this asset without permission!)
To start it, run python TilemapMaskEdit.py water01_128.png. Draw the with left mouse button, erase with right, F2 = save to .txt. This would be water01_128.png.txt in the aforementioned example.
The output file format is very simple.
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]