The Endless Donut

Indie game developer, physicist, nerd, travel addict, p&p rpgs/sci-fi/videogames geek. This is my blog! - Contact me: theendlessdonut [at] gmail.com

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Hey, fellow indie! I love the concept and the screenshots are looking better and better. Have you considered co-op play?

Thanks mate! I've just resumed working on my project after Ludum Dare and yes, coop multiplayer would be AWESOME. It's time to make some big decisions (as the legendary Bob Ross would say :D) design-wise, and I'm seriously considering implementing it. I'd love to create some sort of mechanics that would make players feel safer when sticking together, but at the same time create situations that require or encourage them to split up and perform different tasks more efficiently. I definitely hope I'll have enough time to pull that off :)

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I made it! LD48 is over and I managed to complete my game, Free Donutia. That was A LOT of fun guys, seriously. Everyone should participate :)

Here's the link to my entry:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=10453

From there you can read a description, see some screenshots, download the source code, play the game and rate it.

Oh, and if you happen to be in the competition, leave a comment with a link to your entry, I will gladly play/review/rate your game!

Hope you enjoy my time-lapse vid, and of course the game itself :)

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Ludum Dare 23

Looks like I'm pretty much ready for the competition! The basic framework's done, I've set up a repo on Google Code, and Chronolapse is ready to record a full time lapse of the weekend. Once again I'm using Java and LWJGL. If you guys want to help me out, you could try and see if my test applet is working on your configuration (I kinda have the feeling that it's not gonna work on Linux though...). I'd REALLY appreciate that :) I'll put the link down below. Oh, and if you're not participating... Remember to root for me! :D

Gotta head to the store and buy TONS of coffee tomorrow :D

My repo : http://code.google.com/p/the8donut-ludum-dare-23-game/

Test applet : http://www.the8donut.com/myLDentry/

Oh, and make sure you check out the Ludum Dare interactive keynote, pretty awesome stuff!

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nebjezus said: Great work! Am I right in assuming you used Unity to make this? Good luck with the Ludum Dare, I took part in the Global Game Jam this year and it was nuts! Great experience though.

That must've been great indeed, I'm looking forward to the next GGJ! I'm using Java and the LWJGL library :)

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Hey guys, time for a new video update! This time I've added some aiming mechanics, and even though spherical hitboxes tend to overlap a bit too much and not every situation is handled (e.g. hitting arms does absolutely nothing at the moment :D ) I'm quite happy with the result. Yes, animations and models vary from non-existent to awful, I'm currently focusing on gameplay :)

Since I'm going to participate in the next Ludum Dare, I'm taking a break from this project for a few days. I'll be working on a basic framework for the competition, setting up a repo and maybe a live-stream - or just a time-lapse - and finally making the game. I can't wait :D

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Hey guys, I finally started working on 3d models and skeletal animation! For now I'm just polishing the source code, aesthetics still leave A LOT to be desired :D During the next few days I'm going to work on some decently animated - and textured - models.

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Spending the night working on my website, god there are sooo many things going on it's almost overwhelming, but it's a lot of fun as well :)

So far I'm working on setting up a basic CSS and the navigation bar, and of course having a bit fun toying around with animations and gradients. Oh, and for now I'm making sure it validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Here's the link if you want to check it out (mind that it's still VERY rough around the edges :D). Any feedback is welcome, since I'm definitely not an expert web designer!

www.the8donut.com

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svampson said: This looks better and better :D You should look into replacing the crosshair with something less jarring, maybe do it like Amnesia (white dot with black outline and change it to reflect context sensitive actions like a hand for opening stuff etc)

Thank you! I really really like the idea of a context-sensitive crosshair :)

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Some really cool stuff man love the fog. Couldn't imagine all the work that went into this stuff. The game itself has a great idea behind it too. When are you currently planning on a public release?

Thank you! I was hoping to release a playable version in a month, at most :)

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Hey thanks for the follow, what engine do you use? What's your current project about?

Hey no problem! that's a nice blog you have, love your concept art :) My current project is basically a first person survival horror with several randomly generated gameplay elements. I'm using Java and the LWJGL (that is one great library btw!)

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Hey guys, here's what I've been up to lately:

LOD reduction algorithm optimization

added a slight random noise to the fog

random towns (I still have to draw proper textures for the buildings)

i've also been experimenting with the terrain generation algorithm (needs some tweaking though)

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I'm back!

Went visiting my grandma for a couple days, better get back to work! :)

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And now I know what to make my next project! =D. Thank you! I’d been wanting to write some sort of emulator, and I hadn’t done much research into what to do. This looks like a good start though.

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Haha no problem at all, trust me you're going to have LOADS of fun :)

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Still not working here.  Now throws a ClassNotFoundException for org.lwjgl.util.applet.AppletLoader.  It could be a problem my end though as I'm using openjdk-7 and the network connection is a bit fuzzy at the best of times anyway.

I'm thinking of doing a chip8 emulator in C/C++, maybe with SDL for the graphics routines, but maybe rather than us all working on chip8 emulators in different languages, we could put a chip8 emulator repo in the tumblrcode github and all work on the same one?  Just a thought.

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Aw that's too bad! There are actually some documented problems with LWJGL and openjdk, I think I'm just going to implement an alternative graphical representation :)

Setting up a shared repo actually sounds like lots of fun! The thing is, a Chip-8 emulator is quite fast to make, maybe we should aim at something bigger like the NES or the 8080/8086?

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cjbrowne answered: An error occurred while loading the applet. This occurred while “Downloading Packages”

ratstail91 answered: I can’t see it.

Okay I'm sorry, apparently I forgot to upload LWJGL Linux natives. My bad guys (God, I'm such a noob...). Hope it works now!

thedistanceinsidious answered: Ah! Very cool! I actually just rewrote my Chip 8 emu in Javascript for a bit of fun. It’s always an entertaining project.

Glad you like it! Javascript is fun, I was actually thinking of making a GB emulator in js some day :)

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Website's up YAY!

My website is finally up and running as well as quite empty :D, but I managed to at least upload the Chip-8 emulator! It has only Brix pre-loaded at the moment and the GUI is not finished, for now I just wanted to familiarize with the LWJGL Applet Loader. Here's the link:

http://www.the8donut.com/chip8/chip8.htm

This was my first attempt at deploying an applet and I really don't know how it's going to work so... if you want to check it out I would totally appreciate some feedback - especially from Linux/MacOS users :) How does it work? Does it work at all?

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So yesterday I just felt like taking a break and trying something different, so I made this small Chip-8 emulator (I have to admit, Notch's upcoming sci-fi game sort of inspired me). I had SO much fun making it! :D I've just bought a domain so I'm probably going to upload it as an applet as soon as the domain name is registered.

As for my game project, a new video update is going to come up in a couple days. I've implemented randomly generated towns and I'm trying to decide how to render characters. I was thinking about drawing simple sprites a la Doom/Duke3d, and lowering the overall screen resolution in order to give the game a homogeneous, pixelated old-style look. There are two reasons why I find this solution appealing: first, I love retro-looking games. Second, I'm not exactly the best 3d-modeler/animator... :D Anyways, I'll show you guys different solutions and hopefully find out what works - and looks - best!