Depending on who you ask, the apocalypse is not happening, extremely close, or already here. There’s already been at least one casualty in the form of usual premature evaluator Steve Hogarty, who has either been raptured or is away for two weeks. No other explanations are possible. I have filled the time this week with post-global flood city builder/Waterworld simulator Flotsam, a special favourite of vidbud Alice L. I, too, am a fan of city builders, but this is more of a city… floater. Starting with little more than a big plastic jar of fresh water at your city centre, bobbing up and down in a vast and placid ocean, you send your cheerful little survivors out to collect soggy trash from the sea. With these raw materials you build out floating walkways, strap on little beds that are open to the sky, cobble together storage, and so on and so on, eking out a damp, strained existence from one area to the next. Flotsam is only a couple of weeks out from its early access … [Read more...] about Premature Evaluation: Flotsam
New Pokemon Sword & Shield Info Coming Tomorrow
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Pokemon Sword and Shield arrive on Nintendo Switch next month, and The Pokemon Company has more to share about the games ahead of their launch. The company has announced a new Galar Research Update video will drop tomorrow, October 16, promising some more new details about the Switch RPGs.The Pokemon Company hasn't teased what we can expect from tomorrow's update, only that it will drop at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. Previous videos have revealed new Gen 8 Pokemon and game mechanics, so we'll presumably get our first look at some of those in the video, although nothing has been confirmed as of yet.The last video The Pokemon Company aired was a 24-hour "livestream" from the Glimwood Tangle, a mysterious forest area in the Galar region. While that broadcast was largely uneventful, it did reveal a new Pokemon: Galarian Ponyta. This form is exclusive to Pokemon Shield and has a billowy purple mane much like a unicorn.Pokemon Sword, meanwhile, will … [Read more...] about New Pokemon Sword & Shield Info Coming Tomorrow
Stellaris: Galaxy Command brings 4X strategy game to mobile
Fans of Paradox strategy games like Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis famously spend thousands of hours on their single-player experiences. While those games also have multiplayer modes, they’re more much more challenging to play for extended periods of time. That could change with Stellaris: Galaxy Command, a multiplayer version of the 4X strategy game now in limited beta on iOS and Android. According to a press release, the mobile game is “based on the worlds of Stellaris” and uses the outcome of the Windows PC and console title as the narrative jumping off point. “In the aftermath of a devastating, inter-dimensional invasion, the victorious galactic community must now pick up the pieces and rebuild their civilizations,” Paradox writes. The teaser trailer that the developers provided (seen above) is light on specifics, but the press release is slightly more detailed. Gameplay will center around managing a single space station, and require … [Read more...] about Stellaris: Galaxy Command brings 4X strategy game to mobile
Box2D EdgeShape drawing does not fit to the body
I have this rectangle drawn using PyBox2D Roger_Waters = Box_2_World.CreateStaticBody(position=(3, 3) ) Roger_Waters_Fixtures = Roger_Waters.CreateEdgeChain([(-10, -10), (-10, 10), (10, 10), (10, -10), (-10, -10)] ) And I use this function to draw it: def my_draw_edge(edge, body, fixture): vertices = [body.transform * edge.vertex1 * PPM, body.transform * edge.vertex2 * PPM] pygame.draw.line(screen, colors[body.type], vertices[0], vertices[1]) edgeShape.draw = my_draw_edge And this loop to draw all bodies (edge, polygon and circle shapes) for body in Box_2_World.bodies: for fixture in body.fixtures: fixture.shape.draw(body, fixture) This for loop is nested into main PyGame loop PPM means Pixels per meter and my problem is that when I either want to make the PyGame window fullscreen or change PPM using this for loop for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == QUIT or (event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_ESCAPE): # The user closed the window or pressed escape running … [Read more...] about Box2D EdgeShape drawing does not fit to the body
People of Frictional: Marc Nicander
Third post in the series.You can read the other posts here.Who am I: Background: My first real contact with games was back in 1989 when my parents gave me a NES for Christmas. It was the most amazing thing and I spent countless hours in front of the TV playing games like Super Mario Bros, Zelda and Megaman. It also made an impact on my other hobby, drawing. My drawings changed from being things inspired by comics to mostly being Nintendo characters and home-made Megaman bosses. When I was in 9th grade I got hold of 3D Studio Max and started playing around with 3D for the first time. I remember it being quite confusing - it wasn't easy to figure out how everything worked on my own. I got together with a friend who knew C++ and we managed to make 2 games. The first was an adventure game with pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, the second a shoot'em up that we entered in a PC Gamer competition. We didn't win anything for it, and working as a game developer in the future felt like a far-off … [Read more...] about People of Frictional: Marc Nicander