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Nick Brunell
Oct 28, 20221 min read
The tired coder who cried progress
After finishing up the Ganon code, I SHOULD have a roughly playable game, although maybe some level design needs work. Alas, Construct...
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Nick Brunell
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Too slow to capture, too fast to hit
Mostly I just followed the lesson to the letter As you can see, I can't keep the camera as zoomed in during gameplay, but it makes the...
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Nick Brunell
Oct 7, 20221 min read
Out of the teleporting frying pan, AND into the teleporting fire
I made the player get from place to place BUT Ganon won't go any higher Let's go up to the raft room OR down to the end I want what's...
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Nick Brunell
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Dumb Obnoxious Obscure Rules
You follow the lessons, you get help from the teacher, everything is just fine and dandy, but NOOOO. So now all 3 teleporting doors take...
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Nick Brunell
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Black holes are where God divided by zero
The first thing they teach you in Calculus is, if speed is distance over time, than how can one measure the speed of teleportation, and...
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Nick Brunell
Sep 16, 20221 min read
Psst: Space Horror games respect your time. Farming sims and huge RPGS don't.
When was the last time Gamescom led right into Tokyo Game Show with this much gaming news to talk about? It's almost like the ESA sucks...
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Nick Brunell
Sep 9, 20221 min read
Zach, what have we accomplished this week?
Mr. Francis York Morgan When Wi-fi is away Offline games one will play With the PlayStation Eye now found The Move controller can be...
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Nick Brunell
Sep 2, 20221 min read
How do you make a dungeon float?
You need 2 scoops of ice cream, a dungeon and some soda. I figured out how to make the black part nonsolid and the walls solid (although...
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Nick Brunell
Aug 26, 20221 min read
It's been...
One week since the last portfolio Where I totally had an actual update for you 5 days since the weekend when I got creative at my backlog...
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Nick Brunell
Aug 19, 20221 min read
I'm a-MAZE-ingly not a level designer
You know what'd be really nice? If my health insurance worked worth something so I could actually do something about all these issues...
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Nick Brunell
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Is everything around me on epinephrin?
I figured out with the dungeon to label "background", "tilemap solid" and "tilemap nonsolid" to separate the 3 options, AND made sure to...
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Nick Brunell
Aug 5, 20221 min read
Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di
I recall the tutorial says the screen is supposed to turn red, so I don't know why it cuts right to the game over screen. Don't think I...
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Nick Brunell
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Just because I took graph theory doesn't mean I can draw maps
I totally made progress this week. Just like that artist that drew a polar bear blinking in a blizzard.
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Nick Brunell
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Can't Even Access Evidence
This week has been one where I'm mostly away from a place to comfortably work, so progress this week was minimal. The main thing I did...
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Nick Brunell
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Who was the first to make a "Boy go into cave to get a present from an old man" joke?
Also, there's a reason these games are made for console, where it's established what the action buttons are. No matter where I put my...
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Nick Brunell
Jul 7, 20221 min read
Hit me with your best shot
If governors cave at any criticism, what to cavernors do? If you fell into a burning ring of fire, doesn't that mean you didn't actually...
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Nick Brunell
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Maybe I should reference Bobby Darin instead
Forgot about the bath, Elmo went and put his dancing shoes on. Now imagine if the splash animation was actually good. Or you know, if...
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Nick Brunell
Jun 24, 20221 min read
The programmer who cried progress?
So I don't know WHAT'S going on with GameGen.Online, but it says my sign in is "Wrong Username". As such, I could only film what the free...
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Nick Brunell
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Should have taken the week off.
Getting me to work during even non-E3 is a giant dose of HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA I've got events to watch, reactions to watch,...
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Nick Brunell
Jun 10, 20221 min read
Is anyone using "2022" and "Goodyear" in the same sentence?
Definitely eager for an updated shmup module so I can make this scrolling... and EVENTUALLY program a high score screen.
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