gm112.bsky.social
Code for https://gm112.neocities.org/
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# TODO List for gm112
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## For first blog post
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- [x] Make prerendering work for encrypted content (we're not trying to encrypt the data on the static site, just in the git repo lol)
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- [x] Add i18n support
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- [x] Move content into i18n friendly folder structure
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- [ ] Add blog post content
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- [ ] Finish blog post for February 27th
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- [ ] Start blog post for March 6th
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- [ ] Add Prose Img component for expanding image into full screen
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- [ ] Add a nix flake for the project
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- [ ] Fix theme colors to use oklch lightness/darkness calculations for --ui-bg* and --ui-text-color* variables
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## For later
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- [ ] Create page editor view
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- [ ] Expose only to dev mode
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- [ ] Write / sync git
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- [ ] Jiujutsu flow
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- [ ] Page Preview
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- [ ] Move layers/modules into separate git repos and publish as npm packages
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Thankfully, I had already had been helping another friend of mine with their
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own Game Boy project, Dearborn, which has a similar playstyle to 2D Zeldas.
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Aaron had been working on Dearborn, and then reached out to me to help with
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developing the game. Since we were in pre-production, we experimented with
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a couple of different ideas. One was a turned based combat system demo, which
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ended up being scrapped due to the original design being an action adventure
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style game. I cannot wait until Aaron is ready to show the world his game!
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Christmas was approaching soon, so I made the decision to take
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the time to develop the action adventure mechanics into the game and fork off
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into our glorious rick roll for MAGFest. Mwahaha >: )
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It seemed like the perfect fit for building a version of the game that would
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rick roll the player! :D So, off I went to putting together the demo.
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rick roll the player! :D So, off I went to putting together the demo!
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### From Dearborn to Rick Roll
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like rocks removed. This process had taken roughly a few weeks of intermittently
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devoting time to it.
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### Getting to grips with an 8bit handheld
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So one of the first requirements I had to handle was reworking the camera
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to scroll sections of the map in the same style as 2D Zeldas, and to
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implement a tile streaming mechanism for allowing for arbitrary map sizes.
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At this point I had forked GB Studio and began adding things to help with
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overcoming some of the rougher workflows for the type of game we were developing.
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TODO: Finish this section
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### Figuring out the audio situation
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For streaming the audio, originally I had written a simple bash script that
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converted the WAV files into a C array. And then, I wrote a function that
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DMA'd the array into the APU's Channel 3 effectively. The first atttempts
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instead no-ops. At this point, it was possible for the player to interact
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with the game while they were being rick rolled. \:D
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TOOD: Rework this section, and talk about setting up the audio.
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<details class="bg-info p-4">
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<summary>Click to see code! :D</summary>
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### Preregistering and hanging out for a bit
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### Flashing Game Boy Carts
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TODO: Add photo from flashing game boy carts
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fit="cover"
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quality="90"
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width="500"
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height="500"
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class="size-64"
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alt="Day 1 in the food court"
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loading="lazy"
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We made it to the hotel room, and I plopped on the bed and busted
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out the goods. >: ) Because of missing some of the object data, I decided
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