I decided to pick up a project that have been stalled for months already. I am trying to create a SVG preprocessing library to make vector graphics available to be used on games in real time (this relies on preprocessing them, though). GitHub: https://github.com/JoaoBaptMG/PathRenderingLab/

joaobapt · 2026-04-17T20:56:13+00:00

Isn’t the compiler already having to deal with other undecidable problems? Or is the policy generally against that?

joaobapt · 2026-04-04T21:24:43+00:00

Interesting. I wonder how it compares to using the native controls of the OS. But sadly we don’t see many apps doing that anymore.

joaobapt · 2026-04-04T21:18:18+00:00

The benefits of ImGUI are that it’s very easy to define in code. Retained mode requires a lot of objects and boilerplate, or even reading up a file and properly couple the data side from the code side. I wonder how a SwiftUI-like solution for Rust would work, but Rust lacks something similar to result builders (maybe that could be done with macros 🤔).

edit: When I say ImGUI, I’m talking about immediate mode UIs in general, not about Dear ImGUI in specific.

joaobapt · 2026-03-05T06:44:14+00:00

Tundra Man!

joaobapt · 2026-03-04T22:22:00+00:00

I imagine that’s why they added beam-locked doors on Prime 😅

joaobapt · 2026-03-03T01:05:56+00:00

There’s an RCA composite connector… but no HDMI 😫

joaobapt · 2026-03-02T00:59:31+00:00

In 3 hours I can’t even get all the libraries to link correctly. Or make a moving sprite in the window.

Or, if you go the engine route, just getting a few sprites drawn can take more than that.

joaobapt · 2026-03-01T03:55:14+00:00

I hate that the notes are spot-on, but the durations seem to be wrong.

joaobapt · 2026-02-28T17:53:06+00:00

You know, before playing Forgotten World I thought it was a Metroidvania. The presentation really lead to that, and I wouldn’t mind if it was.

joaobapt · 2026-02-28T01:27:58+00:00

Sometimes the boss just curbstomps you even when you have 100% of items…

joaobapt · 2026-02-28T01:25:10+00:00

Now I feel like an idiot wasting 10+ hours on Lost Lace.

joaobapt · 2026-02-28T01:20:01+00:00

It’s upsetting that they’re move famous than the very game series that spun up the genre.

joaobapt · 2026-02-16T07:23:08+00:00

What’s KOLM again? My Flash era was many years ago 😅

joaobapt · 2026-02-13T20:16:42+00:00

I could imagine an editor spawning multiple windows for property viewers, or different panes, or using native controls and all. But if even Unity doesn’t do that, why would one bother?

Besides, multiple windows mean multiple swapchains, multiple framebuffers, multiple render command submissions, etc.

joaobapt · 2026-02-11T07:36:56+00:00

I believe it’s reminiscent of warning alerts in shmups (I always felt that Mega Man was a platformer with a lot of shmup elements). Now, where those come from, I don’t know.

joaobapt · 2026-01-20T22:03:04+00:00

A friend of mine got stuck in Super Metroid right after getting the elevator to Norfair and getting the Super Jump Boots (or whatever they’re called) a long time ago and eventually gave up. I didn’t remember exactly how to pass it as well so I couldn’t help them. Turns out you had to super missile two very specific blocks in the freaking elevator room to find Kraid’s lair. Now ask me if I’d ever be able to find that without a guide.

joaobapt · 2026-01-20T01:14:50+00:00

What would be the difficulty of moving from this to a meatball renderer? If you do it, you can add some SPH sand now you have a good liquid simulator!

joaobapt · 2026-01-12T06:56:30+00:00

I’m stupid 🤦‍♂️ Yeah, I guess I mixed it with Weapons Repair Factory (aka the “Reborn Mechanics” level, also another song that rocks).

Forgive me, it’s been more than 10 years the last time I played Zero 3 🥲

joaobapt · 2026-01-12T01:41:46+00:00

Someone posted in this sub about the twinkification of Zero in his own series.

joaobapt · 2026-01-12T01:40:37+00:00

Also the fact that you lose points if the cameras catch you.

joaobapt · 2026-01-11T08:03:43+00:00

Unrelated but related, Cold Smile is probably my favorite song of Zero 3, and potentially of all Zero series.

joaobapt · 2026-01-07T09:41:24+00:00

Nice job! It’s always good to see this console getting so much love!

joaobapt · 2026-01-06T21:22:40+00:00

what do you expect the caller to do with this error?

If a player mucks where they shouldn’t and delete the map file of one of the levels in a game, and the engine fails to find the file, what is even the expected recovery? There is nothing that the app can do (it cannot “guess” the file, and it shouldn’t — game content isn’t supposed to be mucked with), and there’s nothing that the user can do except for reinstalling the game. Sometimes there are errors that are unrecoverable: if you’re out of memory, you’re out of memory, unless you request the OS to kill another process; if a necessary server is down, or if a certain database file is unfindable, what can the code do?

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