As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm building a deck builder game where you host a great party.

The last time (see day 5) I worked on showing more than a single row of guests and introduced the planning "scene". I ran into some issues setting up the concept of a class in lua and left it at that.

Since last working I've made some progress on the planning scene. I managed to reuse some of the concepts from the party scene whilst resisting the urge to refactor out common logic.

As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm building a deck builder game where you host a great party.

The last time (see day 4) I worked on adding interactivity to show guests on the screen as they arrive at the party. I'd like to start working on showing a cursor to allow the party to be interactive.

As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm building a deck builder game where you host a great party.

The last time (see day 3) I worked on getting the main screen rendered in PICO-8 as a sprite sheet and trying to reduce the size of my sprites.

I've often been told that a fun thing about working in the PICO-8 is that you can very quickly get to a prototype of the game that you can play test. Today I'd like to focus on getting to a version of the game that I can play test and see if it is actually fun.

As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm building a deck builder game where you host a great party.

The last time (see day 2) I worked on getting an initial design for the main game screen in Aseprite. This time I'll have a go using the PICO-8 sprite editor to recreate it in the game.

As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm building a deck builder game where you host a great party.

This is my second day of working on this (see day 1). Follow along with me as I try to build this out.

As part of the PiCoSteveMo game jam I'm planning to build a deck builder game where you host a great party.

This is the development log of working on this. Follow along with me as I try to build this out.

Yesterday I learned of the PiCoSteveMo game jam on Topic Lords and was immediately inspired to have a go taking part.

The premise is that you make a PICO-8 game inspired by a Steven King work over the course of November.

This will be my first game on the PICO-8. I've had a go with making games with PICO-8 after hearing how great it is for having a quick feedback loop and forcing you to keep things simple.

When I've played with it in the past I've still felt overwhelmed by how open it is. You start with methods like RECTFILL but without a clear idea of what you want to make it's hard to know hard to move past drawing rectangles to the screen.

Yesterday I wrote about my experience trying to make a video game in one day.

I didn't finish the game but I had a lot of fun working on it. Today I'll be continuing work on the game with a goal of releasing it by the end of the day.

Let's summarise some of the things I want to achieve today:

1. animations for hopping and flying paces
2. UI to show the current date and word count
3. a title screen
4. add scrolling images for the rest of the terrain

I have been working on a long project to build a video game. I am building a story-driven tactics game using the MonoGame framework.

As a beginner game developer I am learning a lot about programming in C-sharp and managing the game UI elements but it is hard to stay motivated on a project that might never end.

I have some time off this week and initially I was planning to spend the time working on my game but instead I got interested again in an algorithm that I am struggling to implement in Computational Geometry (I might make a separate post about this).

So I wondered. can I try making a game in a day?

I've been having a go at writing a video game in C# recently using the MonoGame framework.

Inspired by a post by Noel Berry about making video games without an engine, I wanted to try using Dear ImGui for debugging.

The idea is to be able to quickly display information about the state of the game, e.g. a character's stats, so that I can debug what is happening in the game.

This post will cover how I installed Dear ImGui and integrated it in my game.