Making games.

I make game code and game art. wishlist 8-bitBot on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959370?utm_source=tblr

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Replacing now the production / consumption unit icons... The letters A-G are printed as overlays. This is quite simple to do since I have cursor movement commands so I can control how the glyphs are placed using the syntax I made.

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I am still in the process of replacing image icons with SVG icons. I think I will from now on always start with using SVG icons in my projects. It is super versatile and being able to scale the icons is just gold. Though here I am of course using only monochrome icons...

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My demo version is now deployed via steam and it is actually starting and the steam overlay is at least working... time to take care of the many other broken bits 🫠

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There is not much development to show for my 8-bitBot project, but I swear, I am still on this, it just ... not very cool or interesting. Though automatic deployments to different platforms is cool. When it works. Setting it up, not so much 🫠.

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Barely got this working. Not proud of it, but I heavily used AI for getting this integration in, because these kind of tasks are things that I can't make myself do, even if my life depended on it 😢

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I hope this clarifies that this area needs to be clicked / tapped. Now I need to add this to every step where it is needed... and I guess this will need also a variant for gamepad controls 😭

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Might not look like much has changed, but ... this is 8-bitBot running on Linux. I have been on/off trying to work with Linux instead of Windows and I am getting more and more comfortable. So far ... it works quite well. And it feels like my notebook stays quite a bit cooler. Which is nice!

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Left column: Old icons Right column: New icons I have two reasons to redo them: Readability is not so great for quite a few of them, so this is an attempt to improve this. Maybe you can tell me if this is an improvement or not. The second reason... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

... is that the new icons are vector versions and can scale. Which should look much better on high DPI devices. This here is 200% scaled up and it shows that the old atlas has plenty of color bleeds and is also not looking great. The vector versions are rendered via the font rendering system.

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Starting to look into replacing icons; this is really looking nicer, especially when zoomed. I can now modify thickness and use outlines! More important: Improving the instruction icons. Testers had problems recognizing these and I have to address these issues.

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Using SVG (that need to be reduced to a single path) now for icons; comparing with the previous icons on 200%+ scale factor. So now I have to draw a ton of SVGs. On the upside: That will free quite a bit of my texture atlas space.

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Since I added UI scaling, I have various problems: pixelated icons and color bleeding. I just added a discord button and decided to try out making a font with the discord logo so it uses the font rendering system... and it works. Maybe I should replace all icons with font glyphs...

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I want to replace the current campaign screen with something that can tell a story... So I want to make a map. Not overly complex - quite simple tiles. So far, it looks like this could be doable. But I need some editor for these tiles...

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Oh boy, I added 9 bytes to my game ... Can't help but finding this hilarious 😅

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On my way to #amaze2026 in Berlin. Let me know if you want to connect and meet!

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I should just finish the level with some decorations, but when I look at the menu ... I get the urge to redesign it so it becomes actually usable. Currently it is quite uncomfortable. But hey, at least I am still working on #8-bitBot 😏

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I am still working on 8-bitBot! But I have very little time and motivation is a bit of a problem. I am also working on boring things that are not very interesting to post about. E.g., I am currently centralizing the translation texts 😩

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Adding dynamic UI scaling... still work in progress, but I think it looks good already.