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Chris —
mkaatr, the update technique you describe is very common in desktop style applications. In some t…
Stanley —
I just recently found out about this project and have started to catch up on the videos. Everythi…
Since it is the Christmas Season and, as we know, Christmas is about fueling the capitalist machi…
This is strictly personal preference, but we will be doing screens that you walk "off" and then s…
Hi there...
I was wondering if it was possible to redraw changing parts of the frame instead of …
Yes, in general, we will be using some C++ features so if you are expecting to be able to run Han…
The specific features he has mentioned are function and operator overloading. IMHO these features…
Tim —
I am super stoked about the procedural generation! Games like FTL get a lot of replay value by be…
I've now added basic XBox 360 controller support (walks /dev/input/js* and finds any XBox control…
Does running the code I wrote work, or exhibit the same problem?
Simon —
Specifically he mentioned in one of the previous episodes one of the (few) features of C++ he lik…
Tim —
So for dungeons it makes sense to have your screen centered on a particular room. For the overwor…
Someone with more C/C++ knowledge than me will probably give you a more in depth explanation, but…
It is not possible to write between the PlayCursor and the WriteCursor, this as an area that if w…
I'll preface this by saying that I may be missing something completely so please correct me if I'…
Thanks, I've edited the post to try to capture this.
I am having difficulty visualizing the sound buffer in chapter 8 and 9 and how the play cursor an…
I'd prefer something like LttP where there are "screen" boundaries but the boundaries aren't nece…
I would add constant string pointers to the Live Code Editing list. If you do this in the game c…
Thanks! I had a look through the forums and couldn't see this.
sergejs —
Hey Mārtiņš,
IIRC, one more thing that msvcrt does for us is catching stack page access exceptio…
Hi everyone,
Since I am somewhat allergic to installing Visual Studio, I went to compile Handmad…
Thanks guys - both of these methods work great! It might be good to put a link to search in the…
I think it might be useful to have a thread that captures some of the technical issues that need …
Hi,
I was watching day 27 and doing the drawRectangle function and at some point I though it wou…
You can also use google:
site:forums.handmadehero.org/index.php/forum <search string>
This is a known issue. You can see what has been discussed so far here: Sleep problem causing Au…
I'm currently following a long with the series but I am behind (episode 20). When running handmad…
Wow, what a coincidence! Yesterday I started to implement a platform layer using XCB on my Raspbe…
Due to school exams and gift preparations for the holidays i'm already a week behind. Because of …