Untitled Game (2D platformer with pixels)

[quaint yacht]

I got instancing to work!

Look at my glorious grass, I made it in krita

and yes all the assests for the game are gonna be made by me

The art and the entire game tbh is gonna be trash at the beginning but I'm gonna iteratively improve every aspect of the game over the course of a few months

for now I'm gonna be setting up rendering stuff, like abstract a couple things to make it easier, and set up a game dev UI using ImGUI

(The game will be named later)

To Do:
• Abstract some OpenGL rendering stuff
• Make a camera class
• Set up a game dev UI using ImGUI
• Make some sprites for the player and enemies
• Implement character movement and physics

that's it for now

[quaint yacht]

will a mod please pin this thanks

[dark scaffold]

Worth pining the first post as well ;) @mild dawn

[mild dawn]

also fixed the order 🙂

[quaint yacht]

I dont have a drawing tablet but I'm not gonna let that stop me 🫡

I have my mouse and my dreams and that's all I need

[quaint yacht]

I'm just abstracting the creation of VBO and VAOs and specifying the layout of all the vertex attributes into one function

and then a function for loading textures

I put both of these in a class, so that I can add more abstractions to this class later if I want to

[quaint yacht]

step 1 is like 90% done

now I'm gonna go study the bolzano-weierstrass theorem

will move onto step 2 tomorrow

[quaint yacht]

classic linker very funn-e

[quaint yacht]

busy rn so not able to work on game

why use big word when small word do trick

[quaint yacht]

@strong fiber

[strong fiber]

[quaint yacht]

look at my grass

I drew it myself

[strong fiber]

[quaint yacht]

you should learn OpenGL (or DX11) and get into graphics programming as well

[strong fiber]

i cant

i have a ton on my plate

[quaint yacht]

make a linear algebra visualization app

since you're doing that rn

[strong fiber]

ill just use scipy for dat

[quaint yacht]

I have resolved these error

I went from 45 errors to 1 error

to now no errors

it compiles properly but it's just a black screen which is progress! now I just need to do graphics debugging

[quaint yacht]

now I've got the same thing rendering but the OpenGL VAO VBO creation and stuff is abstracted

so all I need to do in order to render an object on screen is make a RenderObject object, make a Shader object and just bind the vao and do the draw call

no more fiddling with strides and stuff with glVertexAttribPointer

now I will sleep

tomorrow I shall make a character sprite sheet and character movement and some basic physics

I do wonder how people set up those "custom shader creator" thingy where based on the preset setting in the cpp code, custom shaders get generated for each object on screen or at least different groups of objects

[quaint yacht]

I have decided to rethink this

I am very bad at digital art right now

it will certainly take several months to improve

so I'm gonna focus on one thing at a time

and right now just focus on making a game

using some open source art

I have come to this conclusion after trying to recreate a character from a game

this is the character

this is my attempted recreation (using a mouse):

so bad

but it's fine I'll be an awesome artist in a couple months but for now I'll focus on the game and use some open source art

i'll improve my artistic skillz later

now I just need to find some character sprites and stuff

[quaint yacht]

I downloaded some sprites off this website

https://craftpix.net/freebies/

[quaint yacht]

moving on to the next one

[quaint yacht]

making the camera class

I'm wondering if I can draw my art on a piece of paper

take a picture of it

and then like just use that as my 2D assets

okay I'm gonna just draw on paper

get a new notebook, and just keep drawing till I get better

and convert that into 2D assets instead of screwing around with a mouse

[quaint yacht]

But for the moment I'm gonna use these 2D assets as a placeholder

[quaint yacht]

Busy with college work, and exams in a month

[quaint yacht]

working on time management, will get back to game soon

im gonna rewrite the entire game

[quaint yacht]

i am leaving but i will be back

[quaint yacht]

I am busy with college and learning electrodynamics and classical mech and real analysis

i will truly return once this semester ends

i think i'll review openGL stuff and start working on the game with free assets

instead of making my own

(i need to first get good at drawing and art to make my own assets)

after I make this game im definitely jumping straight into the real time rendering book goodbye for now

[quaint yacht]

change of plans

gonna first learn an actual engine before doing more GP