The Industrious Rabbit

I’m back, and I have a retro computing related thing for youall!

So much code and art this week!

I’m getting close to having all of the game code in place for an alpha release for VCF East.

This week was a hodge-podge of work: Finishing up next level loading Allowing for variable length levels During warmup, only show each pose once Get the game working on the Amiga 500 (well, 68000-based Amigas) The last one was interesting, as it required…

I’ve started work on being able to exit the level you’re on when you reach the end, and load up the next level: Thankfully I already have a good testing approach for these non-interactive state machines, and so it was reusing the same approaches for warmi…

This week I finished up the warmup graphics.

This week was all about improving asset loading and drawing some warmup graphics.

A bunch of travel slowed down progress, including a very awesome trip to MAGFest 2025.

Not much in the way of visuals to show this week.

Look at that smooth fade in: The palette manager I talked about on 2024-12-22 is finally plugged in at the right place to allow the game to fade in the palette from black (or, really, any color) when the level starts up.

I decided to work on the palette manager, and now I can fade between arbitrary palettes of colors: The fading algorithm is a slightly tweaked implementation of Bresenham’s line algorithm.

All three collision types are now working!

I have two of the three collision types working!

This week was about getting a basic level “editor” working, using a combination of a Ruby script with RMagick and an image from LibreSprite: The level generation works, and I restructured a ton of code to make dynamic level loading work.

We have a main menu!

Another week of slow progress, but this is mainly due to some really heavy refactoring work.

Not as much progress this week, but some good code cleanups and performance enhancements: Spreading out redraw work across multiple frames Getting background rendering mostly working Precalculating double buffer calculations Next will be getting the double

Lots of progress this week!

Going to write up a blog post every week with the progress of my finite-at-first runner for the Amiga.

It’s time…time for a video on the Commodore Amiga Blitter!