Spending some time tuning and tweaking tonight, here an enemy lays down a line of ice to get to the player for a hit faster

Enemies in the game dynamically solve the game state for the best outcomes from a series of weights to be able to effectively use their different abilities for different situations They're always surprising me!

Here's a mage pushing an oil barrel into a wall to break it which would cause my to take fire damage.

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As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I went on to implement Japanese Unicode support in my software-rendered retro game engine.

There's a lot of juicy bits here about Unicode, string parsing, localization strategies, and more! Enjoy!

Japanese Font Support

Or: The Least Critical-Path Feature I Could Have Possibly Spent a Day On The General Plan Localization has been on my mind a bit recen...

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Was thinking about what it would take to allow Japanese characters in the EGA-like framebuffer and fell down a deep deep hole of adding the 8x8 misaki font and then writing code to convert Unicode codepoints to JIS X 0208 2-byte kuten coordinates.

Need to write up a full blog post about what all went into this but here's the final product in all its glory! Special thanks to @nicegeargames for translating my save file deletion dialog (minus the buttons which I googled )

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salt in the wound: an assert would've stopped this whole charade but in the place where the assert should be was a comment

// should probably assert here?

45 minutes tracking down a bug only to find that it wasnt a bug with the complex data structure but just a mistake in a piece of debug logic. Not only was there no issue in the core code, the fix only affects the debug function. Bri has no moves. Bri used STRUGGLE.