How the game looks so far. Hello there. I participated in the Devtober 2022 jam while I was starting a project in Godot, a tactics-like game prototype, as an experiment in pathfinding and then A.I. I wrote a postmortem on the public build page. Here’s the content of the postmortem rewritten here. Hello. This is it, October is almost done and I am writing this small postmortem to sum up what went through this month, even if it went faster than expected. …

There’s a quote that is usually misattributed to random geniuses of the past that says something in the lines of “What’s madness if not trying something again and again expecting a different result”. This blog post is about that and my obsession in cloning Mother 3’s battle engine. …

Remember, don’t cry until the end. Happy Birthday Mother3 As said in the video, Mother 3 is probably my favorite game. It had a strong lasting effect in my inspiration and my projects. I can’t really find another game that did so much on me. The story was the strongest point of the game, right before the music and the battle system, which I love a lot. Adding the realtime component through the HP/PP meter and the bash combo seems simple but it did the trick in keeping the battles fresh and entertraining. It’s almost magical how a “simple” change can do lots on the classical RPG formula. …

I learnt how to program on calculators because I was bored in class and because they’re practical to bring around. True, they’re slow, even more sluggish today even though they have a punchier CPU than today, but boy did I had fun learning the bases of my future jobs back then. …

From the span of two evenings of doing some Pico-8 I went from hacking everything in one cart to having a workflow based on compression, serialization and outputing the result from many carts to a single one, increasing the reliability and speed of the process. And I’m still kinda surprised by how relatively easy it was. Let’s talk a bit about it. …

Hello everyone. For the Pico8 Advent Calender Jam 2019, I actually released a game. Yes, you read this sentence correctly, I brought myself to start, plan and finish a game in time and make it pretty. If you don’t know me, that’s quite impressive for my level of laziness. Introducing Wrap’a’Gift, a small rhythm game where you have to not only reproduce the pattern your helper shows you but do it in the same rhythm as the small elf does to wrap the gift like a pro! …

2021 Update This project was merged back to upstream and the repository was archived. There’s absolutely no more reason to use Redux anymore now that Johan is actively reshaping the tool like nobody’s done before. Thanks for using Redux and supporting me. Original post LSDJ, short for Little Sound DJ1, is a Gameboy music tracker designed to actually run on a Gameboy. It works like a charm and is still updated by its creator, Johan Kotlinski. This blog post won’t talk about this software. dun dun …

Hello everyone. Christmas is coming, so children are counting the days until the gift delivery. But why wait until the 24th to enjoy some presents? Why not enjoying the whole month1? Comes in the scene Advent Children calendars. To each day its treat or small toy, an appetizer for what to come. So, some active and awesome people in Pico-8’s community decided once more to offer a game or a small scenery one day, one treat per day and this until the 24th, the big great day. So, let’s introduce the Pico8 Advent 2019, which can you play here or by clicking on the picture I’m providing under this paragraph. …

And it all started with a tileset and a bet with a friend – Me. Everything starts with exposition It’s that day again. The Ritual. Today, another child will be given this challenge, this task. How many times have I seen those children leaving this place to never come back? Three, four? What’s the deal with the Ritual? What’s the deal with sending children and not us, the guards? Why should I say nothing about that? I’m both growing old of time and this. I want to seek the answers, I want to understand. – The protagonist …

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. It has lots of elements from roguelikes, making it a roguelite1 such as permadeath, random level generation and item/loot distribution. It’s a game mostly about guns, guns that spits fire, guns that launches other guns2, guns that shoots bouncing bullets… but also explosives or melee weapons (my favorite, it’s a real pleasure to play Ganonball with every enemy). …