On The Subject Of Gamedev
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Spaceship Camera... Improvements? May 19, 2025While trying to improve the tethered spaceship camera, things went a bit wrong and it developed a life of its own. It looks fun though, and gives me an idea about having an intentionally dynamic chase camera. -
Kobold Engine Controller Input Feb 18, 2025I’ve had touchscreen controls simulating a gamepad for a while, and recently added the ability to connect and use real controllers. This video shows me playing a handmade game I’m working on using a … -
Game Physics The Rest Of Your Life in Swift Playgrounds Jan 25, 2025I worked through the Game Physics in One Weekend series by Gregory Hodges using Swift Playgrounds. The series was really well explained, and I enjoyed putting together some ridiculous ragdoll scenarios using the solution … -
Game Physics In One Weekend in Swift Playgrounds Jul 18, 2024A while ago I worked through Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley which is a really approachable introduction to ray tracing. I learned recently of a related series of books called Game Physics in One Weekend by … -
Procedural Planet Surface Jun 4, 2024I’ve recently been working on generating planet surfaces, initially using Open Simplex Noise, and building on this using fractional Brownian Motion. This makes them more interesting than just spheres, and allows … -
A Tiny Solar System Feb 24, 2024One of the goals for my game is to have planets rotating on an axis and orbiting a star. I’ve got a version of this working, with entities on the planet adhering to its rotation and orbit. Given the camera being … -
Space Flight with Flowing Engine Trails Jan 19, 2024Flowing engine trails to visualise the spaceship’s movement through the void, flying by a ringed planet. -
Kobold Space Game Engine Progress 2023 Dec 27, 2023This is a look back at the progress I’ve made in my hobby space game engine in 2023, covering controlling the player and vehicles on planet surfaces, as well as space flight and some of the graphical effects that … -
Spaceflight with a Dynamic Camera Nov 24, 2023The spaceflight felt really static because the camera was rigidly fixed with the orientation of the spaceship and at a set distance. To address this I’ve added a spring style camera which gives the effect of … -
Exploring a Tiny Planet Nov 15, 2023I love the idea of having tiny worlds to explore, and this experiment is a step towards that. Translating the experiments from being restricted to a plane to being moving on the surface of a sphere was quite challenging …