Simulating a CRT TV with C++ and OpenGL
With the aid of the oscilloscope simulator we built in a past blog post, we will now build CRT TV simulator.
Building a Sequencer and a Level Editor for Vectron
Vectron is unique in the way audio, graphics, and gameplay are intertwined. This feature of Vectron meant I had to build a special audio sequencer that also worked as a level editor.
Making sounds using SDL and visualizing them on a simulated oscilloscope.
The most important part of Vectron is the real-time generation and visualization of audio. In the previous blog post I already built a simulated XY oscilloscope which I'll use to visualize the two stereo channels, and I'll use SDL for the platform-independent playback of the audio.
Simulating an XY oscilloscope on the GPU
It's been a couple of years since the post where I first introduced the new game I was working on, Vectron. In this post I wanted to tell you a bit about how I programmed the graphics of Vectron. Although I finished the game nearly a year ago, I was putting of releasing it. Compiling it for Windows and MacOS was a barrier I had to overcome, but I can finally say that I released my first game! You can checkout Vectron's page on itch.io.
Rust vs C++ - Implementing a Neural Network
I first learned Rust back in 2014, before it was stable. Rust is definitely a very interesting language so I have decided to revisit it by programming a simple neural network. For comparison, I also implemented the network in C++, the language I'm looking to replace.
Conceiving my first game made me find out how to be more creative
It's been a while, a whole year to be exact, and a very eventful one. I'd like to share with you some of the things that happened this year, as well as the things I have been working on and that made me shift away my attention from the blog.
Space Invaders from Scratch - Part 5
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this last post of the series, I will handle scoring and add routines for drawing text and other UI elements.
Space Invaders from Scratch - Part 4
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this post I will add processing of player input from the keyboard and firing of projectiles.
Space Invaders from Scratch - Part 3
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this post I will make the game loop run at a fixed time step, add the player and the aliens, and finally add sprite animation.
Space Invaders from Scratch - Part 2
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this post I will set up the required OpenGL shaders to draw an alien sprite!