Ancestors

Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-03 at 04:57

For my #DecemberAdventure I'm writing about the process of making a pinball game for Playdate in C

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-01-the-language

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Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-03 at 05:03

For day 02 in this #DecemberAdventure I'm talking about the physics system, mainly as an excuse to have all the resources I found along the way in a single place.

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-02-the-physics

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Toot

Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-04 at 06:32

Day 03 for my #DecemberAdventure I wrote about the first level editor we used.

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-03-the-first-level-editor

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Descendants

Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-05 at 07:52

Day 04 for my #DecemberAdventure today I talk about the image format.

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-04-the-image-format

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Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-06 at 06:59

Day 05! Today I wrote about collision detection, one of my favorite subjects.

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-05-the-spatial-partition

[#]DecemberAdventure

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Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-10 at 04:56

I'm back with my #DecemberAdventure today I talk about profiling

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-06-the-profiler

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Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-11 at 07:22

Today I talk about debuggers in Linux.

https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-07-the-debugger

The article is missing some images before going actually live but I will do it tomorrow.

#DecemberAdventure

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Written by Ivan Reese on 2024-12-06 at 07:12

@mario_afk Ugh I'm going to eventually have to buy that book. EVERYONE recommends it.

But… it's like 20 years old, and it's like CA$150. And I’m not a C++ dev. (I write games / game engines for the browser, in JS.)

Worth it?

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Written by [AFK] Mario on 2024-12-06 at 07:13

@spiralganglion I would say it is still worth it! I have used it as reference for a bunch of things already :)

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Written by questor on 2024-12-06 at 08:54

@mario_afk to understand why the interleaved format is faster it helps to understand how expensive cache misses are (which means the cpu has to request memory content and has to wait for the result). to get an idea here is a nice table which scales the numbers so that it's better to understand HOW expensive the different latencies are: http://pesin.space/posts/2020-09-22-latencies/ with this sometimes it's even faster to calculate something instead of using a (large) table. but heavily depends on the cpu.

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