The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point. They are available in this package here.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Avoid the Monster.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Neo6502 is a “Modern Retro Computer” – a brand new single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor – designed by Olimex. Rather than the original 6502 , it comes with a modern W65C02S on board. w65c02 microprocessor RP2040 A RP2040 provides memory, clock, and peripheral emulation.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Most updates within the last year have been small bug fixes, and momentum for big future features has stalled. Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0 and no WASM.)

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Because of the grid-based nature of my game, I position my sprites at whole number coordinate positions like "(2, 3)". Demo Play the game until you reach the Encounter. If you "confirm" on a tile where there is nothing to attack, then the selection indicator will just move back to the hero for you to try again.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There are different actions for moving, and is why you see “Stride” vs “Step” A step is only a single tile of movement and can avoid acts of opportunity, whereas a Stride can move much further, but does provoke acts of opportunity. It holds the combat selection indicator: the sprites, animations, and scripts.

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