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Noel Berry

10 months

I haven't been active here in a while. If you wanna follow me elsewhere check out the links on my website and if you need to reach me feel free to send me an email

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

We made a thing that was supposed to be a meme but we worked way too hard on it. You can play it on itch, and the source is on github!

Celeste

@celeste_game

3 months

Gear up for the Celeste 6th Anniversary Challenge! 🗻 Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is here and you can play it on @itchio . 👉

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few thoughts porting this thing from C++ to C#: - C# is WAY faster to compile. 4s for a clean Release build - C# binaries are larger & vary considerably (AOT? Including runtime? Trimming?) - I feel like on average C++ is faster but when taking screenshots just now C# was

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 year

Extremely impressive trailer for a new Celeste mod collab "Strawberry Jam" coming out February 17!!

Celeste Strawberry Jam | Release Date Trailer

The Celeste Strawberry Jam Collaboration is a mod that has been in development for 2 years. It features 5 difficulty levels for new and experienced players a...

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@NoelFB

1 year

ban all cars in cities except this one

rocketengine

@rocketengine

1 year

Zagato Zele 1000

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@NoelFB

26 days

OK I've been playing too much Balatro...... indie platformer recommendations? preferably ones I haven't definitely played? 2d or 3d, tiny or huge, whatever you liked recently?

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@NoelFB

18 days

every day I think "my day would be greatly improved by a 4 hour long video essay on on why Mario 64 has invisible wall bugs" and today delivered:

SM64’s Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All

I explain Super Mario 64’s invisible walls once and for all. This video took 10 months to make! So if you want to support me and my efforts like this one, pl...

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

Also some people are getting virus/trojan warnings on Windows ... if anyone has experience with .NET 8 applications causing that I'd love some insight. Updated to latest (8.0.101) but some users still getting it.

Celeste

@celeste_game

3 months

Gear up for the Celeste 6th Anniversary Challenge! 🗻 Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is here and you can play it on @itchio . 👉

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@NoelFB

7 months

but my main point here is that C# is definitely 100% fast enough for anything I will ever need it to do. The C++ gains aren't a good trade off for me.

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@NoelFB

7 months

C# tooling is about 500x better than C++. "Find all References" just works, no matter what. Hot reloading works great. Renaming symbols works every time. And this is just in VSCode, I'm not even using the big VS.

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@NoelFB

7 months

in both C++ and C# I try very hard not to allocate on an average frame, but C# I take it a bit more seriously since the GC will collect it instead of me. Makes writing code a little more annoying sometimes, but in general C# is way nicer for me to write in on an average day.

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@NoelFB

7 months

framerate should be taken with a big grain of salt - just whatever it happened to be when I took a screenshot back to back. also C++ one is doing slightly more since I haven't ported everything (ex the HUD, plus that ImGui window being open)

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@NoelFB

25 days

@kuwiimii no i heard it's really bad

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

Libraries are better in C++. For C# I have to write a small native C library to handle various things that C# sucks at (SDL2 bindings, image loading, font loading, etc).

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

The portability of C# is worse. C++ will run anywhere. Want a web build? sure. want a console build? no prob. Entirely depends on your dependencies. C# runs on win/mac/linux no problem. Consoles ... it's getting better with NativeAOT? Very "cutting edge" still, but you can do it

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

@TesseractUnfold @celeste_game @itchio definitely not, unfortunately. It'd require quite a port.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

15 days

Former Vancouver cop, now city councilor's reply to an organization that simply wants to reduce traffic deaths:

Brian Montague

@BrianVMontague

15 days

@VisionZeroYVR Very sad to see loss of life here. Also sad to see once again this group chooses to pick a fight and spread misinformation. This helps do nothing. You are making assumptions that r once again completely incorrect because you don’t have the facts. Zero Credibility.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

Anyway I'll try this again in a more intensive scene when I port more over. I feel like the C++ will become more obviously performant the heavier the CPU load is, but we'll see.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@NickGideo It has a small native C library to interop with SDL2, OpenGL, and do stuff like image/font loading:

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

15 days

@BrianVMontague @VisionZeroYVR You should resign as you clearly can't handle criticism or taking accountability for your lack of policy. What part of VisionZero's thread is misinformation?

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

Curious if it might be some packages we use? as far as I can tell the ones I wrote are on 8.0.101, but the two others we include I'm unsure (, )

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

15 days

To clarify what this city councilor, former cop, is saying: "Picking Fights" means organizing to reduce traffic deaths "Spreading Misinformation" means stating that this city councilor voted against speed cameras & protected bike lanes on a street where a person just died

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@nico_m__ .NET 7, Single File, Self Contained, not AOT.

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@NoelFB

1 month

@ndchristie yeah I think most end up having stuff "outside" the ECS, or add extra stuff to make things work (relationships, state machines, etc). but even then I still have a hard time thinking it out (probably just need to try making something and see what happens but... limited time....)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@roo_oliv @MaddyThorson text is parsed and converted into an array where each letter has metadata (what color, if it shakes, etc). then the game goes char-by-char and draws them, advancing position and using whatever color each char is supposed to be. it quickly fades in each char one after the other.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

@pinkie_pies_ @celeste_game no that looks right to me

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@NoelFB

2 months

@ThatTomHall @lexaloffle I started messing with this a bit last night, so cool!!!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@Intangible_Dev Fedora 38, but the background is from Fedora 37 I'm pretty sure

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

6 months

@transfoxes @DJ_Link don't care.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@roo_oliv regarding the actual drawing, it's a png and data file generated by bmfont. you can see them in the game assets if you have the game downloaded.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 month

@TylerGlaiel Yeah I want to understand it but I get hung up on making stuff actually feel good (because I often want very unique one-off behavior which breaks systems/rules)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

18 days

@xotmatrix to be fair I watch every single youtube video at 2x speed which makes it a bit less intimidating haha

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

@srodrigoDev main reason is just for fun, I like making my own stuff and learning how it works. A smaller reason is I only basically use the rendering part of XNA APIs at this point so it's fun to implement something on SDL that is just exactly the tools/stuff I want.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

25 days

@Sosowski @Nifflas I have! they were & continue to be very inspiring to me.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@jervineyard I compile a small native C library that wraps SDL () and for ImGui I'm using ImGuiNET, which has C# bindings + precompiled binaries.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

6 months

@GreyAlien I only get notifications from direct mentions or from work channels, which I find useful. Then I only scroll through non-work ones when I'm taking a break or not working.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

21 days

@ianjq have a nice visit! Vancouver is also home to a pretty big gamedev scene

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@TylerGlaiel yeah, C++ portability + ability to use any C library easily + very easy to make performant are big positive aspects of it imo.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@Nifflas yeah, .NET8 which is coming out soon is considerably faster as well. Using unsafe blocks and stackalloc/spans/not allocating GC, and it might be close.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

8 days

@jumpquestgame @zizhen96 This looks great, nice work! :)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@Akien yeah that'd be awesome! I'll definitely be by the Godot booth :)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@DanFessler I mean I'm just messing around all over the place and experimenting as I go haha, I think C++ is still a good way to make stuff. I just wanted to try porting this to C#. And re:modding, C# doesn't compile to native code so it's easy to decompile and inject stuff info

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@jervineyard Yeah that makes sense! I'm glad I spend a few years learning C++ but I do like coding in C# a lot more on a day-to-day basis.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 month

@TylerGlaiel yeah the way my stuff works right now is any component can send/listen to messages, so if I want unique behavior I can just tell an object to listen to some message (ex. "landed on the ground") and do something unique. but this is more like an "EC" where behavior is in components

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@DanFessler I think finishing the game will be a nicer in C#. Also my brother who I'm making it with is a coding more than I thought, and I think his experience will be a lot smoother in C#. Our cutscenes are in Lua but now we can just do them all in C#. I like that C# enables easier modding

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@ldsoad No you can compile with our without the runtime. Compiling without the runtime means they'll need .NET installed to run your app though, obviously.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@matthughson haha these are honestly both great choices

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@antumbral which ones? and yeah Celeste is still 4.8 and probably always will be ... just incredibly stable + tons of existing mods + etc.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

@smashjarchive @antumbral but yeah I think normal Celeste does that too - but normal Celeste is also on .NET Framework (and 32 bit)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@ruben_we @James_M_South Yeah, I totally agree! I've done that a little bit before and it's usually honestly not that bad.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

14 days

@Pixl_Jean Wow, thank you so much for the kind words! I'm really glad you've found my work inspiring (even though I've shown less of it recently - hopefully will be back to showing more soon, haha!)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@wtfmig the children of the climate apocalypse will want to be able to self compile and run their favorite indie games too, so yeah of course

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

6 months

@transfoxes @DJ_Link been planning to cancel for a while anyway, good excuse.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 month

@gingerbeardman @1bardesign @FayerDev given that love2d is open source and runs on windows/mac/linux already, i suspect writing a custom "platform" layer for whatever specific target you want is probably fairly straight forward.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

3 months

@NachoAdventurer @celeste_game that's a new one, thanks! will look into it.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

5 months

@SPNKr thanks for all you've done there over the years & good luck with whatever comes next!!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@antumbral I skimmed through this a week or two ago, all looks fantastic. Very excited for .NET 8! I should compare once that's out too. (I mean, not that this comparison is that great anyway since the game isn't implemented exactly the same way, but it's still fun)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

25 days

@WarriorSeeker whoa this looks cool!!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@danielsavface I spend a fair amount of time making sure I do not allocate on an average frame, and use Rider (on Linux) or VS (on Windows) to make sure.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@James_M_South Sure, but I'm talking about the ability to just use native libraries. It's not as easy to do that with C#. You need bindings, or write your own, and need prebuilt binaries or otherwise need to compile your own. It's not as straightforward.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@roo_oliv They're just in there, and localizers had to work around it. it looks similar to bbcode. I created a test script to make sure that all other languages had the same amount / order of markup as English.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@TheBuzzSaw Yeah makes sense! I build my own small one to wrap SDL, do rendering, load images, etc. It's here:

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@rustym Yeah you can use emscripten to compile C++ to Web Assembly! I actually had the game above running as a web build (as a test, had various solvable issues)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@antumbral ahhh yeah makes sense. I actually started trying out the .NET7 source generator recently and it's worked quite well for my needs (but mostly as just faster runtime reflection)

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

21 days

@NonTrotski you're right! I still haven't played this yet, I really need to

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@AxiomVerge I have not personally yet, but there are several released FNA games that use it now on Switch/Xbox so far:

Caleb Cornett

@TheSpydog

11 months

Last week, not one but TWO games launched using our .NET NativeAOT console ports! First up is Steel Assault! The Xbox version debuts our NativeAOT-GDK runtime, our Xbox port of Mesa's OpenGLon12 driver, *and* SDL-GDK! Shoutout to @michaellarouche for trailblazing all this tech!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 month

@TylerGlaiel @cat_puzzled yeah fwiw I'm less interested for performance and more interested for organizational/management long term of lots of interacting game systems.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@david_laskey yeah I have not tried it personally but there are games out there using it on consoles now:

Caleb Cornett

@TheSpydog

11 months

Last week, not one but TWO games launched using our .NET NativeAOT console ports! First up is Steel Assault! The Xbox version debuts our NativeAOT-GDK runtime, our Xbox port of Mesa's OpenGLon12 driver, *and* SDL-GDK! Shoutout to @michaellarouche for trailblazing all this tech!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

21 days

@zachisagardner whoa cool, thanks for sharing! it looks really fun, good luck wrapping it up!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@rustym yeah maybe take a look! It has SDL2 and WebGL built into it so depending on your dependencies it may not be too bad.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@wtfmig that's a good call, I'd personally also make copies out of a durable material and ship them to storage locations in other cities in case you get flooded or something.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

1 month

@TylerGlaiel @cat_puzzled yeah sims/rts/strategy games seem sooooo nice for that kind of thing hahah

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@Lngly_ - don't do string manipulation in hot paths, or if I really need to, I have a small stack-based string struct I wrote for short strings () - just occasionally run a profiler and see what is allocating on an average frame and see if it can be refactored.

simple stack-based C# string

simple stack-based C# string. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

2 months

@TianiPixel this looks really cool!!!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@DapperDeer

Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@DanFessler I think finishing the game will be a nicer in C#. Also my brother who I'm making it with is a coding more than I thought, and I think his experience will be a lot smoother in C#. Our cutscenes are in Lua but now we can just do them all in C#. I like that C# enables easier modding

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@Lngly_ - be wary about what allocates and doesn't, usually due to boxing interfaces and so on. - pool things a lot. I have a simple FramePool that I can request reusable lists from that get recycled for the next frame. I use this for things like sampling collisions.

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@joaquiiinm Yup they're great!

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Noel Berry

@NoelFB

7 months

@ruben_we @James_M_South This is likely more true in specifically gamedev. Almost everything is geared towards C++, especially when you get to consoles.

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