Sharing my experience trying the The Luanti (formerly Minetest) game WhyNot?

WhyNot? aims to combine all of Minetest Game's best mods into a single package. But can this collection of mods overcome the original's faults?

This was my first attempt at a gameplay / commentary video, so I also wrote up a brief blog post looking back at the process. You can read it here. You can also read the final text review I left on WhyNot?'s page here.

The blog post about RPGs I mentioned can be read here. It's actually a short series of posts, where the author examines how the early game part of RPGs changed game over time. I gave it another look while editing the video, and I still find it super interesting!

Warning to those who care: Lotsa swearing in this one!

This was supposed to be a private, never-uploaded test video to see if I could record myself playing Luanti games without technical issues. Then it became such an embarrassment that I had to upload it. Enjoy this montage of failure.

Showcasing some early work on a visual FX editor. It's not possible to create keyframes yet, but there's enough there for basic particle effects.

A short video showing improvements to the game's water rendering. Rather than the old transparent blue rectangles, a simple post-processing shader adds ripples and recolors submerged objects using a palette that can be defined per-map. It ain't perfect, but I think it's a good start!

I never stopped working on my RPG, but I stopped making videos for a long time due to health issues and some major reworks. The fruits of that work are now on full display--including the rough bits. There's much room for improvement, but the new editor is good enough to continue pressing onward.

I'll be making little improvements to it as I go, so there'll probably be a follow-up someday!

Just a bit of bespoke asset pipeline tech. The .NET process I start at the beginning of the video watches Tiled assets for updates and re-exports them to lua automatically. Then, in love2d I have a similar setup watching loaded assets for changes and hot-reloading them.

With this, I can work on my assets and interact with them in-engine without any reloads needed. Just hit save and it's there!

Blog post with more details: https://huguesross.net/2022/01/love2d-asset-pipeline

Cloudy Climb is a small open-source game where you bounce the Cloud Prince through the sky as he tries get home.

This is my attempt at a trailer. Much like the game, it's "not great but good enough to make do." Fun stuff!

You can download the game here:

I'm pitting 8 FOSS game engines/frameworks/libraries against each other--by making breakout in each of them with a 6-day time limit.

This week is SFML, a C++ multimedia framework. The demo's a little weaker than usual, I'm not terribly fond of the APIs I had here and I had some scheduling weirdness that contributed as well.

I'm pitting 8 FOSS game engines/frameworks/libraries against each other--by making breakout in each of them with a 6-day time limit.

This week is Raylib, a C-based framework that I'd heard little about but was interested in trying.

I'm pitting 8 FOSS game engines/frameworks/libraries against each other--by making breakout in each of them with a 6-day time limit.

This week is Monogame, an open-source successor to Microsoft's well-known XNA framework. I had pretty high hopes for this one, but it was a bit of a miss in the end.