Bert Stevens

Game developer. Retro FPS enthusiast.

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

@Nades @NightdiveStudio Requiem! Bit of a pain to get running properly on modern systems.

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[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Quick and dirty update: Added particle rendering to the raycaster and hooked them up to the fire chute projectiles. Starting to look a bit more like #riseofthetriad now.

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Decided to make a particle editor during the holiday break. ROTT had a surprisingly nice particle system for its day, so still missing some features (like collisions) and no software renderer yet. Written in #imgui renderered with #openGL 3.3. #riseofthetriad #gamedev

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Was reflecting on my coding style and @valvesoftware 's GoldSrc/Source engines have definitely influenced me the most. e.g. While the cool kids are using code generation, my #AngelScript binding takes inspiration from Valve to export types. #CPP #gamedevelopment #gameprogramming

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Got tired of debugging with print statements, so made a little IDE/debugger for my #AngelScript binding. Uses @DearImgui for the UI, #scintilla for syntax highlight/folding and #GameNetworkingSockets for communication with the game. Heavily WIP, but usable. #screenshotsaturday

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

@JoeSiegler @mysterydip @ThatTomHall @Apogee_Ent @RiseoftheTriad @Dopefish @3DRealms Any chance that we get a release of those cut sprites at some point? Would love to see them. Any cut material, really 🙂

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Still prototyping gameplay systems, but my little prototype is almost feature complete. After that I can focus again on backend tasks like audio and graphics and start refactoring some of the scripting. Now
added push and moving walls. #riseofthetriad #screenshotsaturday

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Free time is still extremely limited and will be for the next couple months, but work is still slowly progressing.
Added collision detection improvements; movement scripting supports stepping and I now have breakable walls too. #screenshotsaturday #riseofthetriad #retroFPS #rott

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

@mysterydip Cool! So in the video this is a mix of GADs and platforms/scaffolds? Seems like you have multiple heights for these and vanilla ROTT only has top/mid/bottom sections for the platforms.

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Been extremely busy lately, but wanted to give sign of life. ROTT takes shortcuts for collisions and thus movement isn't very smooth. So I added swept cylinder and (better) ray intersection tests as well as a debug rendering system. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #riseofthetriad

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

@mysterydip Goal is a Nightdive style "port" of ROTT that's highly moddable: textbased fileformats, content creation tools and the game + UI is scripted in AngelScript. Not sure yet how close I want to/can stick to ROTT. Would love to support original demos, but ROTT hardcodes a lot 😞

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Haven't updated in a while, but things have been progressing, even if I took a break over the holidays. Been mostly working on tools and backend refactoring, but this update shows the new inventory system in action. #riseofthetriad #gamedev #rott

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

No explosions yet on the projectiles, since I want to do that when I add particles. Also adding in the fire chute made me realise that ROTT spawns the projectiles quite far from the wall. So if you hug the wall at the origin it can't hit you 😐3/3

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Had a productive week! I've been prototyping the level scripting system and had to add a bunch of stuff to support it:
* input/output system
* script attributes
* animated wall textures
Here's a video of it in action 🙂:
1/3

#screenshotsaturday #riseofthetriad #gamedev

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Inputs/outputs are on the script components in Angelscript with attributes. The setup of the video (generated from a ROTT level) is this: switch's OnActivated output connects to the chute's Activate input. This makes it start firing when the switch activates. 2/3 #angelscript

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

@mysterydip That's really cool!

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Lots of small changes for this #screenshotsaturday, but game wise there's now destructible props and spinblades. Blades will deal damage when players or NPCs walk into them. And lastly, a functional HUD 🙂. #riseofthetriad #gamedev

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

The serializer will then store all state of the yielded contexts in a binary blob and the application can restore it from there. To help testing/debugging I can also deserialize to a JSON string, so I can see what's stored in there 2/2 #gamedev #Angelscript

[Bert Stevens @BertStevens83]

Working on AngelScript savegame support and want to make sure that this is foolproof without using awkward event driven structures for behaviours. I prefer calls that yield the script for movement/animation, so I write something like this (where Yield will block the script): 1/2