Griffith @alexjgriffith@gamemaking.social

#introductions

A little about myself.

I make:
+ Games using #fennel with #love2d
+ Music using #LMMS
+ Pixelart using #Aseprite

I try and write at least a game a year.

For writing code, I exclusively use #emacs (love the brutalist theme)

Programing languages I love : R, Fennel, Erlang, Scheme, C, Elisp
Programing languages I hate : C++, Python, Javascript, Elisp
Languages I want to work with next: Rust, Elixer

Offline, I enjoy snowboarding and painting minis (Lord of the Rings)

I think I've hit peek GIF

@selfsame Was browsing itch and what did I see? Upworm trending on the font page of itchio!!

#lispgamejam

Creating some neat graphics to use as separators for the itch.io page for https://alexjgriffith.itch.io/axion-scion

Having a blast working through the #lispgamejam submissions. There are a bunch of bangers this year!

https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2021/entries

Getting tweening working was so satisfying. Don't have time to apply it to the cards, but some movement in the game helps to bring it to life.

#lispgamejam submission is done!

I decided to try and make a strategic card game this year. Thought it would make for a nice calm jam, oh boy was I wrong!

Might do a few bug fixes tomorrow.

https://alexjgriffith.itch.io/axion-scion

The game logic for my #lispgamejam submission is almost complete.

Time to start pumping out cards!

Playing around with the card layout for my #lispgamejam submission

I love the fact that love2d has corner bevelling built into its rectangle draw call. I implemented something similar that works for any image drawn.

It generates the points necessary for a 2d square circle mesh. Acting as a soft stand in for loves built in quads.

You can also assign a virtual viewport to the image if you are working with sprite sheets.

https://gitlab.com/alexjgriffith/sqcr.fnl

Just tested my HTML5 release target for love and fennel, i.e. I updated my submission to last fall's #lispgamejam (Down Sheep) to run in the browser.

https://alexjgriffith.itch.io/downsheep

I also did a major overhaul of the itchio page using itchpack as practice for the upcoming Jam!

https://github.com/Billiam/itchpack

Don't mind me. Just watching #fennel approaching Perl critical mass

Playing around with Simplex Noise movement

My immediate mode positioning / windowing library for love has hit V 0.2.0. This means the API input arguments are soft locked.

Going forward there may be changes to the return values. I want the relative mouse position for each window to be returned with each push operation.

https://gitlab.com/alexjgriffith/anchor.fnl

#fennel #gamedev #imgui

Ended up changing tact on my UI library design. I was trying to write a tool that took markup and converted it into an immediate mode UI render array. It worked great for static UIs. The whole thing fell apart when making changes to the array. Each change needed a full conversion from the ml.

I've reduced my scope substantially, taking my favourite parts from that library and implementing a much more LOVE idiomatic immediate mode library for anchors, columns, rows, grids, and windows.