jono shields

Inspiration About 6 months ago I stumbled across the Guten, a tiny newspaper printer.

Recently I had a somewhat philosophical conversation with a co-worker regarding the role of json outside of the web - and in fact outside of software development entirely.

After reading a few particularly good books I felt inspired to start writing a book of my own.

Note: If you want to watch it for your self you can find the link here.

Welcome back!

I saw a great question on Reddit recently about how someone can get started with procedural generation in Godot.

Time for another GBA Gamejam!

You can look at my last couple of posts for my grand desires to compete in GBA Jam 2022.

Kirby’s Dreamland Recently I watched an interview with Masahiro Sakurai, the designer of the original Kirby game among other amazing titles.

The past ~7 months since LRO My plan after LRO was to keep working on it and eventually release a paid edition with a lot more content and airport themed games.

Carrying on from the previous post I wanted to talk about further design decisions I made in the last couple of weeks.

The Todo List At the end of the last post I left a todo list with a bunch of features for me to add to the game. ✔️ Level Select Screens - 40 puzzles and to select between (4 difficulty levels). ✔️ New Suitcase select - having a cursor to select the item…

Another GameJam Following on from the success of the GBAJam21, the GBAdev community has decided to wrap up the year with a relaxed winter game jam.

What is an NFT?

Kiwijam21 Kiwijam started on Friday night, at 7pm the theme was announced and our space at The University of Auckland became a hive of activity.

Tacotown A number of years ago I got playing with Ink making narrative driven games.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 88 It is the last week of the jam and I am cramming like a high school student before exams.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 81 At first I thought that adding a title screen would be boring, but not when you discover how to use HBlank effects.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 74 Unfortunately I haven’t had much time over the last few weeks to work my GBAJam2021 entry.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 52 In a previous post I talked a little about how important it is to make a plan.

I have had an idea for a game that needs to use a boids algorithm for a while now.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 44 I read a really good post-mortem the other day.

GBAGameJam2021 | Making a game for the Gameboy Advance Day 40 Okay, so in a lot of projects there comes a part where a lot of work is needed for little reward.

GBAGameJam - Days 28-32 Camera Movement Last time I posted an update on the GBA Dev Discord I was recommended an article about camera movement.

GBAGameJam - Days 24-27 Off the Grid The last 3 nights I have been staying in a campsite with no cell reception.

GBAGameJam - Days 20-23 Lets talk game design Okay.

GBAGameJam - Days 18-20 More refactoring Okay, so last time we pulled some stuff out into classes.

GBAGameJam - Days 14-17 Major Refactor - Classes So.

GBAGameJam - Day 13 Collisions This should be fun.

GBAGameJam - Day 12 Okay.

GBAGameJam - Days 4 to 11 Okay.

GBAGameJam - Day 3 Animation Today I am tackling animation, not for any specific purpose, but just because I have the assets for them already.

GBAGameJam - Day 2 Okay lets do this.

Day 1 of the GBAGameJam21 I normally use much higher level languages, python, javascript, c#.

For my birthday my amazing fiance got me the gift of a bulk roller and a 100ft roll of Kodak Double-X 5222.

You know that feeling, when you really want to do something, but something holds you back?

This year we are moving into a smaller place and I just know that at some point I will have to say goodbye to my Pentax 6x7.

These last couple of weeks have been the most exciting.

I haven’t written a post in a long time.

So I saw another cool post by someone that was generating islands and I wanted to give it a go.

Test it for yourself here.

I recently acquired my grail film camera.

Recently a friend reached out to me to help him with a project he was working on.

Street Photography.

Lately photography (especially analog stuff) has taken a bit of a back seat.

We went to Stanley Bay in the evening to catch the sun setting behind the harbour bridge and as I was setting up this cat appeared.

I’m a morning a person.

Another new camera?

Look at this beauty!

My camera is always by my side these days.