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Nick Brunell
May 5, 20231 min read
First Levels and Faulty Lights
The good news is that my storage problems are in check (for now), and I'm TOTALLY gonna post a snapshot of my personal files on the...
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Nick Brunell
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Too Crowded To Code
I could show progress on my Unreal project, but there's barely any to be shown as of now, which of course leads to the blog title: My...
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Nick Brunell
Apr 21, 20231 min read
They don't jump like they used to
You know that triangle with the missing square paradox? How did that exact same geometry in the middle of the level magically not line up...
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Nick Brunell
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Rough Captures and Crowded OneDrives
The good news: Unreal doesn't take hours to start up anymore The bad news: OneDrive is getting full of storage unless I start ponying up...
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Nick Brunell
Apr 7, 20231 min read
So in order to code, I have to ignore the moral of The Purge franchise?
"That's the way the ruling class operates in any society; they try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle...
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Nick Brunell
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Wouldn't it be nice if I could code something more than the sum of its parts?
This week involved learning about central flow statements, pointers, and references, but the videos do a poor job of integrating these...
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Nick Brunell
Mar 24, 20231 min read
In what universe does "pull" rhyme with "cool"?
This week was all about loops so I can make something appear multiple times. I'll never do anything stupid again. Again. Again. Quit...
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Nick Brunell
Mar 17, 20231 min read
She'll be comin' round the mountain... Wait, there's only one mountain?
This was a week. I'm not sure how I got anything done. Sometimes you just gotta follow the videos; in this case for both "if" statements...
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Nick Brunell
Mar 10, 20231 min read
Modern Times
This week was about learning to program functions. So naturally, all it taught was multiplication. Listen, why should I trust that it's...
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Nick Brunell
Mar 3, 20231 min read
What actually happened this last week?
Now, often when I have little to no Game Gen stuff to blog about, I try to talk about my gaming life or something just to emphasize I got...
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Nick Brunell
Feb 24, 20231 min read
John Bradelum
After the disaster that was making sense of compiling and building, this week actually got some accomplishment, as the lessons focused on...
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Nick Brunell
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Shitty Useless Textbooks
Shitty Useless Textbooks failing Info out of date Textbooks, Textbooks Quality ain't great Teach me, Teach me Refilm stuff that's right...
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Nick Brunell
Feb 10, 20231 min read
I think I did more for that one Programming Class I dropped
I often point out how I'm as great at adjusting to different Syntaxes as 7th grade biology says antibodies are at adjusting to different...
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Nick Brunell
Feb 3, 20231 min read
That's one thing he hated! All the noise, noise, noise!
Has anyone figured out how to capture audio loudly enough to hear but not so loud that it completely drowns out your commentary? I assume...
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Nick Brunell
Jan 27, 20231 min read
Wallz
A lot of what I got done this week are the kinds of stuff a player doesn't think about, between the "hit ceiling shrink paddle" and...
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Nick Brunell
Jan 13, 20231 min read
Tryna Work Dune Nuffin
Uh... how do I do this again? Okay, I was making a Breakout game... I remember hearing the video talk about adding instance variables to...
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Nick Brunell
Dec 15, 20221 min read
Shattering of Potential
I don't wanna switch to a new engine or whatever until next year, so after browsing LMS, I found the Breakout module, so that gave me...
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Nick Brunell
Dec 2, 20221 min read
They're called "Holly-days" because each day feels like you're being poisoned.
Seriously, how come nobody ever accused Andy Williams of putting out a war on Christmas? Just because the song mentions Santa Claus? Is...
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Nick Brunell
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Odd E, oh?
For the most part I have a full sequence of game here, once I get some decent sound effects and clean up some other bugs still present I...
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Nick Brunell
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Halloween Extended, Adventure Amended, Financial Facts Contended
Nothing like a sequel that's longer, has enough downs to almost match the superiorities, and FFS I have to replay the first game just to...
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