So I'm going to start using The Video Game Name Generator to come up with them.
So this blog is now called
Bling Bling Dragon Choreographer
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Anyway, I took a trip recently to the city of Cape Town. Was a rainy weekend, but I had a good time. And of course I had to visit the game shops and bankrupt myself.
Because that's how I do things.
I managed to get hold of Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando and Red Faction 2 as part of a "3 games for R129" bargain (That's about $10). Was thinking of getting Dark Souls 2, but the retail price was far higher than Steam's price, so I decided to hold off on it for a while longer.
And then, while wondering around aimlessly in the local mall, I went into an electronics and audio shop for the fun of it. And I found something I had been looking for: An R4 clone.
An R4 is a flashcard system for the Nintendo DS series (You can use the DS ones on a 3DS too, to play NDS games and run homebrew roms).
And these guys were selling one of the units I was thinking of ordering from a local importer for about $30 less than the importer was selling it for.
So of course I snapped it up. And now I have what amounts to most of the good NES games on my DS, a bunch of homebrew apps, a DOS emulator, an SNES emulator that works really well (Can play Megaman X1, Super Mario All Stars + Mario World, FFIV, but not games like MMX2, X3, etc. Emulator isn't fully complete/compatible… I might just have to write my own :P)
But the real reason I got an R4 was so I could do silly things like port some of my games to it. For no real reason other than that it's something I've wanted to do for a while: Make something I can run on actual hardware.
And if I make something good enough, I can always pull a
Battle Kid and make back what I spent on the unit :P
Other developmentsMy GBJam game is coming along… slowly. I've done more engine work than any game-related work, but that's fine by me. I'm actually looking forward more to the 7DFPS jam coming up directly after GBJam.
No, I'm not going to try make an FPS for the DS in seven days… … Oh damn it all. I just thought of what Exile would look like on the DS…
Maybe if I can learn DevKitPro's setup and the basics of libnds in time, I'll take a crack at it. :P
I can implement a software renderer pretty quickly if I have access to a good framebuffer. Give me a way of drawing pixels quickly and I'll pull it off.
Anyway, I was streaming development of my engine for a while on Saturday. You can take a look at the archive here if you want:
http://www.twitch.tv/64mega/b/553411324Comment about how screwed up/odd my programming style is below.
And yes, I'm fully aware that I'm still using OpenGL 1.2 functionality. I'm just keeping things simple for now; the rendering code is pretty much plug-in/out as far as I'm concerned; a black box from an outside perspective. So switching it over to a shader based system should be a piece of cake.
Well, that's enough from me. Go blog some more guys, you're being boring. =3
Haha, I like stickin' with old gl too. I rarely need to do any special things that isn't possible without shaders during jams.
Woah, I look forward to 7DFPS too, but I didn't hear any date for this year. It sais aug, 10-17 on the twitter, but that's for last year. Maybe it's the same, but I haven't heard any announcements since last year.From what I know, it's around the same time every year, so announcements ought to crop up soon.
I hope you're right. One of the most challenging and fun jams in my opinion. It's really easy to miss good jams, for example, I didn't even hear about the gameboy-jam until now, despite always keeping an eye out for stuff like that. Another jam I'd love to participate in would be some kind of psp-homebrew jam.
I got Canadian Monster Restaurant.
Sounds like a great game.I just got Legend of the Morbidly Obese Plumber. I think we call that one Super Mario Bros. :P
On another note, just received new glasses. Multi-focals designed for computer use (With 12 'fields' or something like that). Takes a lot of getting used to (I have to move my head a bit more than I'm used to), but suddenly it's like I've turned my native resolution up from 320x200 to 1920x1080. Was finally able to turn the font sizes in Windows back to 100% instead of 125%."Coming up with blog titles is a pain… "
No, that's a piece of cake. The hard part is not duplicating an old forgotten discussion…oh yeah, the 7DFPS jam sounds nice. i really can't see myself making a good fps in 7 days but it could be fun to play around with something in that amount of time and see what happens. Last year you only had a tech demo or something, so i expect more from you this time around :P
As for the GBJam, well i missed that one. just noticed it the other day on GJ. also i thought you got new glasses a little while back? it's great you got better ones now though, obviously improving your eyesight is pretty important.@Pirate-rob:
Game City in the Blueroute Mall, Tokai. It's near the Checkers (In front of it, actually).They were selling it for R85, in a lavender colored box. I had minor troubles finding the correct right menu for it, but tell me if you get hold of one and I'll send you the stuff you need.And GBJam was 10 days this time round. I just realized that I'm basically out of time to finish anything up for it… I'll focus on 7DFPS instead. :P@deathI tried on the lenses a few weeks ago, but they had to send them to the head branch to get them fitted to the frames I chose. And yeah, I ought to have a bit more than a tech demo this time round. I'm going to use the base I already have, so I don't end up doing unnecessary work. :PThanks! ^^