talkydonkey

Ex-PlayStation director/producer/R&D, ex-Xbox producer. Making BeastEngine, a light & fast 3D engine for Playdate, and a space opera action game @beasttalegames

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@voidforge_game Thanks, that's pretty much where I'm heading. Sequencer plus small samples for most of it.

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Same demo, real hardware. BeastEngine on my Playdate (Rev A, the early one). No emulator, just the device and a phone camera.

Still plenty of room to optimize. Music is ADPCM for now; a sequencer is next, but MIDI playback is heavy on this CPU.

#playdate #gamedev #indiedev

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Iron Fang. Imperial battleship from STELLAR STRAYS.
Concept first, for realism. Then the real thing on Playdate: textured and wireframe.
280 faces, 1-bit 3D, 400×240, real-time.
今回、戦艦にリアリティを出すため、コンセプトを先に作っています。
#WIPWednesday #playdate #gamedev

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BeastEngine has a spec page now.
1-bit, 400×240. 1,200 verts per mesh. 68 ships at about 21 fps.
No GPU, no polygon API. Every triangle drawn by hand, in C.
Full demo, uncut, and the ship viewer:
https://t.co/OwIJ0by8HD
BeastEngineの仕様ページができました。
#playdate #gamedev

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@haru2401game ありがとうございます！本当は何のモチーフかみなさんに聞こうと思っていたのですが、自分でネタバレしてしまいました…
「比率は艦、借りるのは道具の特徴を1〜2か所だけ」にしています。道具の比率のままだと道具にしか見えないので。あとは道具の仕組みを、そのまま艦の役目と弱点にしています。

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Nine Imperial ships from STELLAR STRAYS, each shaped after a carpenter's tool. Can you guess which?
Ship viewer, BEAST 3D DEMO. 110 to 280 faces, 20 to 50 fps on the device. Music is the demo's track.
帝国艦隊、9隻。モチーフ、わかりますか？
#playdate #gamedev #STELLARSTRAYS

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@ericnofsinger So true. This time I want to tell a space opera through dub techno, so I'm still experimenting a lot. PCM or MIDI-based is still being tested, but first I need music and sound effects that fit the theme. Learning every day.

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@WhalePier Hehe, you have a good eye! Plenty more battleships are on the way. Stay tuned!

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@corhoonx Thank you! It really does. Seeing it run on the device for the first time is the best part. And if it holds up on a Rev A, the newer units should be fine.

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The music here was added in editing, and I used the wrong track: the main theme of STELLAR STRAYS, the game I'm making. This one has the demo's real music, recorded from the device.

曲を間違えて、制作中のゲームのメインテーマを乗せていました（笑）こちらがデモ本来の音です。

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BeastEngine — a 3D engine I'm building for Playdate.
Textured battleships, terrain, a full armada. All real-time on the actual hardware: 1-bit, 400×240.
Now making STELLAR STRAYS, a space opera action game, with it.
@beasttalegames
#playdate #gamedev #indiedev

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@KiriArc_Games @beasttalegames Haha, thank you! Finding what's possible inside tight limits is hard, but that's the fun part. I've also posted a video of it running on the real device, so please take a look!

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@ericnofsinger Thanks! PCM is actually lighter to decode, but the files get big fast. I'm going with a sequencer and small samples. Saves storage, and honestly I just love how sequenced music sounds.

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@el_goe Great to see proper polygon 3D on Playdate. I'm building a 3D engine for it too, so I know how tight the budget is. Dynamic dither on the background is a nice touch. Looking forward to the release!

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@KiriArc_Games @beasttalegames ¡Gracias! The fun part: early Playdates (Rev A) have a 4KB instruction cache, later ones about 16KB. I'm tuning on a Rev A, so every hot loop has to fit in 4KB.

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@TheXSami Thanks! Playdate has no grayscale and no built-in polygon rendering, so I started with the ship design itself: shapes that still read as battleships at 1-bit, 400×240.

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@y_pladate_c ありがとうございます！シルフィード懐かしいですね！スターブレードやEliteを意識して作ってます。開発の過程を出していきますので、お付き合い頂ければ。

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