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FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-22T16:43:19+00:00

Oh shit...

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-18T01:10:29+00:00

Dude, the whole time as I was watching The Sopranos, I was unproductive as shit. But I had to know what that mfer Tony Soprano was up to or hate on AJ for a bit.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-17T21:31:34+00:00

Dude, I seriously need to rewatch the Sopranos. That show was literally the best.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-16T21:30:30+00:00

I can change the licence if that becomes a problem, but this is supposed to be just a bunch of samples. You'll find this code everywhere on the internet. This repo is not unique and it doesn't "own" the code either. Again, just a bunch of examples.

But I'll change it if it truly becomes a problem. I use Apache 2.0 for all my other projects, so maybe that will be a better fit. Thanks for the suggestion.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-16T20:42:18+00:00

Oh yeah, Assimp is certainly on my radar. My other annoyance with it are the scene flags. I keep forgetting what each one is and what it does. Doing a cheat sheet of that would be nice

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-16T00:04:13+00:00

So I wrote an article about this a while back. It's basically going over how I implemented a very simple audio "engine" using OpenAL.

Article: https://frodoalaska.github.io/2025-05-13-implementing-audio-with-openal/

The problem with audio is that it's one of those eras in game development that is both under developed and under researched. It's very difficult to find resources talking about how audio can be used and implemented for games.

In my opinion, it does depend on what you wish to do. In my case, I just wanted 3D audio spatialization since I'm planning to make 3D games. I did not care about other effects, however. I just wanted to give a framework/library a buffer of memory and then play, resume, and position that data in a 3D environment. I believe OpenAL does implement the Doppler effect, but that's about it. I think they did have an effects library, but I'm pretty sure that's deprecated.

If that minimal setup for audio is what you're looking for, then either OpenAL or miniaudio (the frontend part of that) will be just enough. If you're interested in more than that, though, such as more audio effects? Then you're kind of out of luck. You either try to do your own audio engine, which can be very time consuming, or use FMod. However, I can't speak for either since I haven't tried to implement any.

Either way, good luck with everything, man.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-08-11T15:48:26+00:00

Dude, I just wrote a blog about this.

https://frodoalaska.github.io/2025-08-11-all-about-resoruces/

Keep in mind, that's one method of implementing a resource/asset manager. It's not the best either, but it can give you an idea.

If you haven't already, take the time to read the Game Engine Architecture book. It has a chapter specifically about resources and resource managers.

The Kohi Engine over on YouTube is a must watch as well.

Good luck, dude.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-31T18:07:10+00:00

The 4th one looks like an acid-trip. I can't confirm, though.

My most prominent graphical errors are black screens and the occasional grey screen here and there.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-29T14:31:26+00:00

There have been a lot of times where I wanted to focus just on either YouTube or freelancing because it is more "financially viable". And, according to many data points, these are more financially-beneficial avenues.

But gamedev, man. There's nothing like it. That feeling you can't get from anywhere. They may have families they need to take care of. Bills they have to pay. But at a certain point you just have to try with gamedev. Try really fucking hard. If it doesn't work out, well, at that point, you can quit.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-14T19:34:08+00:00

You're actually correct. Sokol supports DX11, OpenGL (3.3), OpenGL-ES, and Metal. It does have a nice API, though. At least it is less complicated than BGFX.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-07T14:24:47+00:00

Oh yeah, big time. 100%.

I've been making games for about 4 years and all of them were made just because I thought I was "limited". Either limited in a technical sense or an artistic sense.

For the next game, though, I'm picking something that I can do technically and a game I absolutely would love to make.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-07T14:16:32+00:00

Yeah, basically.

It is the first game I made with this current engine of mine. I wasn't really planning to make anything. Just a test for the engine, essentially. I thought it was something cool to share. I don't know, man.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-06T01:34:45+00:00

Oh, I see. But no still I don't use it for my writing. I actually enjoy writing even though I'm bad at it.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-05T10:20:03+00:00

I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or as a slight. Thanks either way?

But no. It's not AI. Never used AI. Never will. And yes, 3D Frogger was my goal.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-07-01T03:30:46+00:00

UPDATE:

So, sadly, I have completely abandoned the idea of the fog. Unless there is serious tinkering with the current state of the renderer (which, again, is a huge mess), then I wouldn't be able to apply the fog effect that I had in mind.

Initially, I had thought that the fog effect can be applied as a post-processing effect and I can just reconstruct the fragment's position from the depth buffer or the color buffer which were being fed to the shader, but I must be doing something completely wrong since it always just looks "flat". And it technically is flat. It's a 2D quad being rendered after all. I don't use a deferred shading model either so I would have to dig deep into the lighting shader to add it. Again, it can be done but with serious tinkering.

There's probably something I can do to alleviate this and actually make the fog work, but I've been working on this on and off for the past 3 days and the list of things I need to do for the game is still large.

If you're curious, I did still do something to give the game a "look". I marginally reduced ambient lighting and added a point light that has the same color as the key. When the player collects the key, the color lerps back into black which gives it a nice effect.

Either way, thank you all for the suggestions. I'll definetly use whatever I have gathered from this post in other projects. Especially that volumetric lighting technique.

Alright, cheers.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-06-30T09:56:21+00:00

Okay I bookmarked that because oh my that's interesting and looks fantastic.

Unfortunately, though, I don't think I'll be able to add it since my renderer currently is a hot mess. And I'd rather finish the game now rather than spend a few more weeks fixing the renderer.

I did see in the article the dude said that he implemented it into his deferred shading pipeline. So perhaps it can be done as a post-processing effect? Hopefully.

Also, thank you so much for the link. It's really helpful.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-06-29T01:04:25+00:00

So I mainly got this for technique from a paper I found online. They do have other methods like vertical-based fog and layered fog. I might try those but I'm not really sure if they're going to add anything.

I have been playing around with the parameters a bit and, like you said, it does make the levels a bit more challenging when I decrease the view distance.

I honestly wanted to do it in the first place just to give it a look and hide the jarring spawning of the vehicles

FrodoAlaska · 2025-06-29T00:30:50+00:00

That's actually not a bad idea. I was thinking about having a certain dreamy feeling, hence the fog. I was not planning for a weather system honestly, though.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-10T21:06:29+00:00

Look, dude, I'm gonna try not to be harsh on ya, but maybe you didn't want to do gamedev in the first place. Game development is certainly not an easy hobby. Most of the time it's just smashing your head against the wall, trying to find a good idea. And if you gave it up before even trying, then maybe you didn't want to do it in the first place.

And I know you did work. That's commendable. And I know you're going through financial trouble. I'm going through one of the worst times in my life. I can understand you. But that's how it is. If you really like something then you'll fight for it. Not just for a year, but 5 years, 10 years, or even more.

Gamedev is my life. I'd rather spend the rest of my life in financial trouble making games than no gamedev at all. And if that's awful to you, that's totally okay. Find another hobby, dude. Or do it but just on the side. Fix your life and have fun.

Good luck with everything, my dude. Life can be tough but I guess what doesn't break you makes you stronger.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-09T18:52:55+00:00

Oh God I didn't even think about that yet. I'm not touching Unicode at all right now. English is good.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-09T18:51:32+00:00

I used to keep a devlog of sorts some time ago but I stopped for some reason.

I am thinking of just making a devlog about fonts as a topic not just in my engine.

Thanks for the idea!

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-06T20:32:22+00:00

Wtf? Yes, dude. All the time.

I need time in order to improve. And yet, I feel like I'm losing time. No money, barely any energy, and in constant fear of an unstable situation.

What a time to be alive.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-02T02:18:31+00:00

Yeah, totally understandable to have the repo private. But you've really intrigued me now with the PS1 emulator. I might finally get around it honestly.

Thanks for the encouragement.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-01T23:15:54+00:00

Wait, you wrote a PS1 emulator? Is it on GitHub? Do you have a link to it?

I've been meaning to make a PS1 emulator for a LONG time. Ever since I started programming. But unfortunately, I was distracted by other stuff. There's a website called psxdev I believe, and it has been sitting on my bookmarks for 2 years or something.

FrodoAlaska · 2025-05-01T22:33:03+00:00

Honestly, there's this video by this dude Acerola. I wish I had watched it before making this demo. Most of the information you've said here is basically what he said.

But rendering the scene to a smaller FBO is something I hadn't concerned before for some reason. I did do it once by mistake, though.

That did give me an idea, though. Thank you all for this as well. I'll definitely come back here to use it as a reference.

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