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Super minimal profiler + flame graph for DearImGui (~100 LOC): alek-tron.com/FlameGraph/f... Can be trivially adjusted for other UI systems and languages due to its simplicity. #imgui

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Currently working on a native version of DXF Explorer (dxf-explorer.com) It opens DXF files with millions of entries in milliseconds, filters them in realtime and comes as a single executable file.

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"Why am I fighting this thing daily for what essentially becomes a glorified asset loader" Works well with what always like to say about big engines: Their biggest 'benefit' is platform independence, especially in regards to rendering APIs. Everything else is just in the way.

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Creating a Windows window with custom title bar is for some reason much harder than it should be. Here is my method to achieve it which is simpler than other solutions I've found online, yet covers most edge cases AFAIK: alek-tron.com/borderless/b...

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The predicted trajectory of a spaceship in an N-Body system visualized in realtime. Multiple trajectories with different timesteps are calculated in parallel which results in this chaotic shape until it converges to the calculations with the lowest timestep. #gamdev #graphics #space

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Got my old space sim project running again and might implement some new ideas I've been having...

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Made this little cheat sheet for #odinlang pointer/slice/container types

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My game 'Chunk Miner' is now on GitHub: github.com/alektron/Chu... A simple but complete game, written almost from scratch in just ~3200 lines of Odin code. Care was taken to make the code simple, readable, extensively commented. No cruft, no engine, just a game. #gamedev #indiedev #odinlang

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

some admittedly ambitious research for new project

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Not sure what's going on with my VR game all of a sudden. This is more traffic than it got ever since I released it. Well... I happily take it alektron.itch.io/fear-of-fall... #gamedev #indiedev #vrdev #vr

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

My little game is almost finished and according to cloc it's just 3150 lines of code. Not bad, considering that its only dependency is the #Odin standard library (stb_image and miniaudio). #gamedev #indiedev

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Join my game jam if you: - Want to learn game development - Want to learn Odin or low-level programming No prior knowledge required! You have 7 days to figure things out. You'll be able to make something! No worries, no pressure. Just have fun! Starts on March 8. itch.io/jam/odin-7-d...

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Added saving/loading to my game today. Thanks to the whole game state being a relatively sane struct I simply write the memory buffer to disk and done. Effectively a one liner. Even stuff like the particle system Just Works™ #gamedev #indiedev #odin

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Make sure you don't run out of ore... #gamedev #indiedev #Odinlang

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My little game project that I've been working on for a bit over a month is nearing its end. A lot could still be improved but all the mechanics are there. I'll probably give two more weeks for balancing and some polishing and then call it a day. #Odin #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev

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The drills movement which is fully descrete under the hood is now nicely interpolated for butter smooth motion. #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev #handmade

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Added a little particle system that collides with the terrain for some neat effects. Written with Odin + D3D11 #Odin #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev #graphics

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people will speak about a game they played as a kid with the same reverence that they might a great song or novel, about how it engrossed them totally and completely. They may even tear up talking about it. and then you ask what game it was and it was Spongebob battle for bikini bottom

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Minerals can now be sold and the money be used to buy several upgrades. For example drill strength to speed up drilling and allow mining of harder materials like rock. Written from scratch with Odin + D3D11 #gamedev #indiedev #Odinlang

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You don't have to flip your textures for OpenGL alek-tron.com/TextureOrigi...

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Another #Odinlang cheat sheet. This one is for understanding the memory layout of Odin strings and how it relates to the concept of runes when iterating. #Odin #dev

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Made this little cheat sheet for #odinlang pointer/slice/container types

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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

submitted 146 days ago • 62 comments

The single biggest advantage of Unity, Unreal and the likes is portability. Everything else just gets in your way.

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Maybe it's just me but that little counter rotation of the wheels, which is absolutely not a bug, kind of adds some character to the little guy. I might just keep it. #gamedev #indiedev #odin #odinlang

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Added sound, a more dynamic drilling mechanic, world re-generation and a sky gradient. You can also store a block and poop it back out. From scratch in Odin + Direct3D11 #gamedev #indiedev

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when the windows file explorer URL reads "Documents" instead of "C:\Users\<user>\Documents" even after clicking it to focus the file path, I feel a sudden urge to sternly talk to someone at microsoft

submitted 155 days ago • 43 comments

Some more progress on my little drilling game. I can now load .obj file so my driller now has an actual 3D model. Written from scratch with Odin + Direct3D #gamedev #indiedev

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