Notices by dave stranding (dthompson@toot.cat), page 3

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(deeply sorry everyone, got the brain worms)

a limp bizkit parody song about reading the TL "keep scrollin scrollin scrollin scrollin"

wrote part of a tetris clone awhile ago. dusted it off tonight, fixed a bunch of bugs, and added simple scoring. I think I'll try to polish it as much as I can just to practice doing that stuff. like right now the rows just instantly disappear when you clear them. would be a lot cooler if there was an animation that happened. maybe some screen shake ;)

per usual this is written in guile and developed live as the game runs.

@Ephaemera I'm not sure I know what I did there! halp?

letting the birds free range is some work because I have to stay outside to watch for hawks and stuff but also I get to take selfies like this so it evens out.

cooked the first egg that our chickens laid. it was very tasty.

@brad I've been plant boy for a long time. I stand by my brand.

uwu

@sirgazil turns out you were right! she was the one that laid the egg. she laid another today and my wife saw her.

@technomancy yes I've tried jams. the first jam I ever submitted to was back in pyweek 2011. the last jam I submitted to was the spring 2016 lisp game jam. I agree it helps with focus, but usually I can't commit to the jam schedule.

@cwebber that's essentially what I do as well. the piece you are moving exists separately from the board. it keeps track of its location on the board and I perform checks against the occupied blocks on the board to see if the piece has "landed" and stuff.

@cwebber I assume could-move? does the check that I was talking about.

@cwebber what I do is rotate the piece and then check if any block goes out of bounds on the grid. if so, I don't allow the rotation. there's another case to handle, though: does the rotated piece now occupy a space that is already filled on the board?

@cwebber I've read about the rotation rules for tetris and I think there's more to it. what happens when you try to rotate a vertical I piece when you're at the edge of the board?

@gedvondur thanks!

@gedvondur no intrusion felt. :)

I write software for a living so I'm used to planning and all of that. there's something special about games that makes me fall apart that I can't put my finger on.

@cwebber I've done basic hitbox collision detection so many times, though! I don't know what the sticking point is.

by test games do you mean clones of existing things? everyone says make tetris. I have a tetris clone but there's actually a decent amount of collision detection that needs to be done when rotating pieces so it's not as easy as it looks.

I have such a hard time following through on actually making a game. I know that I need to make something very small with few features so that I can complete it. I came up with an idea for a "chicken coop simulator" that's basically one of those zelda minigames where you need to collect the cuccoos. simple, right? it feels impossible to start for some reason.