Hello there. First blog post of 2019, feeling like writing again. This time in english. I’m progressively moving from my native tongue for the lingua franca for multiple reasons -the main one being the desire to hone that skill- and what better subject I could start this year than talking a new project, right, right? A tale of royalties of barren territories Nuclear Throne is among my favorite games. It’s a quick’n’dirty twin-stick shooter in a post-apocalyptical setting where a ragtag band of mutants fight climate and hordes for the long desired and mysterious Nuclear Throne. …

Hello. I’m writing this blog post to mention the fact I’m opening up an old and abandoned project’s sources for anyone’s curiosity. It was an attempt at porting a Pico8 project to Love2D for now forgotten reasons. It ended up as a sandbox project to test a few things. The source is here : Github Here's a screenshot of how it looked at one point And I’m going to copy the README of the source repository I just wrote for people that don’t want to check it out on the link. …

A WIP version of Sphere. One of my favorites sketches.[^1] Hello everyone and happy new year! 2017 has been a hectic year, yet during this year, I got a few good things, such as finally getting a job in gamedev and getting inspired to make Pico-8 sketches. I’m not going to introduce again (beware, french inside) that little fantasy console, but those last months, it got a few updates which sparked a new interest in me to write down some small carts for it. …

(Note : Désolé pour les francophones, ce billet a pour objectif premier d’être sur un autre site, en anglais.) Entity Component System is an interesting pattern. Instead of thinking a game entity as having data and logic, an ECS pushes you to move instead separate logic from data. Think as logic as a factory processing some raw material to craft an object. There are a lot of writing about ECS theory and conception, from vague explanation to explain the reasons behind storing entities in contiguous memory (we’ll get to that term later). …