Allen Webster

I've put together a reference for everything you need to know to build cross platform dynamic linking programs in C (Windows & Linux, no Mac info yet). I tried to test and search for every last thing I could think of (in one week). I hope it's helpful or something!
https://mr4th.com/articles/reference-dynamic-linking

Allen Webster

1 month, 2 weeks ago

I've spent the last week working on my story engine stuff again. I scrapped the version I was iterating on in February because something about it felt off. This time I started from the "run time" without worrying about having a content authoring system. In other words it's another game jam. It feels a lot better. I've experimented with the text layout features, animation features, interactivity features, all of that forms the "narrative game interface" and I've been building a Roguelike backend to it, which drives the flow of the game in a more dynamic way then what a strict finite state machine story engine allows.

Allen Webster

1 month, 3 weeks ago

I spoke a bit at the last coffee chat about how I've felt a bit stuck - unable to really dig in to any of the projects I'm interested in right now. To deal with it I've spent the last week having a little solo game jam, doing something purely for the fun of it to get back some momentum. Here's what I made!
https://youtu.be/bDrPxDmXGs4

Allen Webster

2 months, 1 week ago

More progress on my cutscene & dialogue project. I've just started on editing features today. Not show here is I've also upgraded the timeline to handle scrolling, and setup tooltips. I've also spent a few days on cleanup, choosing nicer looking fonts, and tracking down some graphics performance bugs (this is the first major project on my graphics layer).

Allen Webster

2 months, 2 weeks ago

More progress on this cutscene dialogue stuff. I've started sketching out a "developer mode" along the bottom you have a timeline that you can navigate quickly, and on the side an info panel showing the data that makes up the current step. All the while it shows you a mini version of what the scene player would display.

Allen Webster

2 months, 2 weeks ago

More dialogue/cutscene system work. Automatic layout adjustment for window size, text size selection and better precision text layout, automatic text wrapping so I don't have to have newlines in the dialogue text.

Allen Webster

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Just starting to break ground on a new project. So far it's just an early sketch of a dialogue and cutscene system.

There are very basic controls on the system: advancing dialogue, skipping to the end of dialogue roll out animations or other animations.

Allen Webster

3 months, 1 week ago

I want to make extra sure I've got multi-language text input working so I'm whipping up a win32 input visualization panel.

Allen Webster

5 months, 1 week ago

Another new podcast - this one with VoxelRifts the creator of some really great low level explainer videos https://youtu.be/c4bXBjARdJ4?si=JG5US8WXT1pzQO5J

Allen Webster

6 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2khyLEc-Hw

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Allen Webster

1 year ago

End of jam report: I added a system for mixing all input tracks into a master track to perform additional analysis & visualization on the combined track. I added a pretty typical visualization for the mixed track that also serves to visually "frame" the video a little bit. I tuned up the effects to make them just right for the final videos. Finally I added command line parameterization so I can reuse the program without having to edit the parameters and generate noisy git commits.

Speaking of git you can now check out source over here: https://mr4th.com/link/podcastoscope

Podcastoscope

Allen Webster

1 year ago

Day 2 progress report: I've definitely got an audio visualizer now. Today my goal was to get it good enough that I would be willing to use to actually render a video for YouTube. The biggest steps forward are a system to analyze when to highlight speakers that does not change too often, or ignore overlapping speakers, and sensitive enough frequency analysis that effects rendered from it really do match what you're hearing. It's still very bare bones, but I think it's looking pretty nice!