Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/09/boardgame_subdomain.html All games played on a tabletop count as tabletop games. Almost everyone has played chess, Go, and poker. Excluding these traditional abstract games, I’ve been playing modern tabletop games for over a decade. In the past, it was played with friends, but in recent years, it has been played more with family …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/08/covid-19.html It has been 8 months since I first contracted covid-19 at the end of last year. It seems that I have been recruited again recently, so I will record it here. After lunch last Thursday (August 10th), I felt a little sleepy, so I took a nap on the office chair. I …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/07/monotonic_array.html In our ecs module, an important internal data structure is an array of eids. It is part of the Component structure, indicating which Entity each Component belongs to. Currently, it is implemented as an ordered array of ids. The common operations of this data structure are: traversal, random access, and finding the …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/07/ttf_fontsize.html Our game engine uses stb’s truetype library to handle ttf fonts. Recently, I found that there was a problem when using the Alibaba Puhui provided by the company. The Chinese characters rendered by the engine are much shorter than the nominal pixel height. If you want to render a Chinese character with …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/06/mobile_ui.html This one is a continuation of last year’s ideas . These ideas are currently being refined for a mobile game we’re working on on an Alien Factory. Our game engine is developed on PC, but we want to use it exclusively on mobile. Although I hope that daily game development will be …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/06/oldmaid.html Before teaching children to play poker, start with drawing eighth. The kids love it. This is a traditional game called Old Maid in the West. The rule is very simple, that is, draw a king and an 8 (or any other card) from a deck of 54 playing cards. Cards are dealt …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/06/optimize_ecs.html Recently we are optimizing our 3d engine. The rendering object management layer of the engine is based on the ECS framework, and the entire engine is designed and constructed based on Lua. In other words, the data in the rendering part can be read and written through Lua. However, for the core …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/05/boardgame.html Today, a classmate left a message on an old post . Seeing that Yang Bo asked about the progress in this area last year, I thought I should make up this post. In recent years, due to the epidemic, I have spent a lot of time at home. The children have also …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/05/debug.html Before May 1st, I encountered a very difficult bug, and it took me two days to solve it. Its trickiness can be included in the top three of my career, and it is very worth recording. The problem is that two days before the festival, many colleagues have asked for leave. I …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/04/recent_games.html We are developing a game similar to Factorio, which focuses on building automated factories. Its game background is close to Mars colonization. So, in the past year, I have played a considerable number of games with similar points, hoping to get some inspiration. Among them, there are three new games with the …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2023/03/cnn.html During this period of time, apart from being busy with game projects, I continued to spend a few days learning neural networks. After the last blog was published, I received an email from Turing’s friend. Then, I received a bunch (nine) of Turing’s books on artificial intelligence in Chinese. Usually, my classmates …
Original link: https://blog.codingnow.com/2022/12/interaction.html The games we are making now give priority to mobile phones, and the interaction is all around the touch screen. If you always use the mouse to test on the PC during development, many interaction problems are easily overlooked. Therefore, our self-developed engine has spent a lot of effort on mobile devices …
Original link:https://blog.codingnow.com/2022/11/enuoeaaenaeaeoaaee.html I have been plagued by dry eye and conjunctivitis for several years. Before the epidemic, my eyes were red after every bath. But it doesn’t seem to have any other effects, and I don’t care much. Then slowly, the eyes become dry and often tired. In severe cases, the eyes can hardly be …