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Joseph Hewitt
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Dec 08
Dungeon Monkey Eternal now installable
I’ve made two quick changes to Dungeon Monkey Eternal. First, I’ve cleared most of the source files out of the root directory. Second, I’ve added a working setup.py packaging file. The good news is that it should now be much easier to pack the game for Linux distros, create an executable version for Windows, and …
Nov 21
ITM-01 Claymore
Once it was king of the battlefield; now its name is synonymous with obsolete. The Claymore is the oldest mecha design still in common use on Earth. This longevity comes from its rugged durability and ease of manufacture. The standard ITM-01 configuration comes with a heavy autocannon, a shield, twin light autocannons in the torso, …
Nov 18
Good Week for GearHead2 Development
I’ve managed to get a lot of stuff done with GearHead-2 this week. The resizeable interface seems to be working all over. The expanded gender and romance options from GearHead1 have been incorporated. Several bugs have been fixed. Work on a new title screen has begun. No promises, but maybe there will be a new …
Nov 16
Jupiter Hell on Kickstarter
Nov 08
Procedural Texture Generation
Last week I mentioned that I’ve been playing around with procedural texture generation. The method I’ve been using takes an image sample, analyzes it, and then tries to reproduce its texture in several ways. For example, take this picture of grass from the public domain West’s Textures set. The source image shouldn’t have too many …
Nov 03
GearHead2 New Shopping Interface
I’ve ported the new GH1 SDL shopping interface to GH2. A few things still need to be modified- the item images don’t show up yet because the GH1 code I copied and pasted doesn’t use them, and the descriptions for some item types don’t seem to be working right. Next stop: the character creation and …
Nov 02
Everything is Rocking Out of Control
The weekend before last I was in Japan for the Kaigai Manga Festa. This was my first time in Tokyo, and my first time at a Japanese convention. I met a lot of cool people, picked up a lot of new comics, and ate a lot of delicious food. The best part was meeting a …
Oct 18
I’m Going to Japan
This weekend I’ll be in Tokyo for the Kaigai Manga Festival, Sunday October 23rd. I’ll be at table L-1, so if you’re in the area drop by and say hi. On a related subject, next year is the fifteenth anniversary of GearHead. Would anybody be interested in buying a GearHead anthology comic? Are there any …
Sep 10
GearHead2: Resizing But Ugly
I’ve been working to make the GearHead2 screen resizeable. Currently, the program compiles okay but many of the screen zones are in the wrong place. The work of fixing things should be simple yet monotonous. I’m going to bring in as many of the GearHead1 info display improvements as I can. On that note, the …