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@openbioforge This is great progress. The game is slowly emerging. When it comes to the scripting, did you write a new interpreter for the original scripts or convert them into a modern scripting language?

BioForge turns 31 today. I've been heads-down on OpenBioForge - here's an uncut playthrough showing where things are at. Early combat, hit detection, dynamic effects, and more. #OpenBioForge #BioForge youtu.be/7CMTDYt2_nQ?si…

@colin_k @ViridianGames Grabbed a copy. It was already on my wishlist and deserves support.

🚁Cleared Hot is a daily deal on Steam today !! We're featured on the front page of the store 🤯 We will be raising the price before the next major update. If you've been waiting, now's the best time to grab it. The remaining chapters (2 and 3) will be free updates.

@DannyHabibs Pretty cool. Now all those people shifting in their seats, straining to look around the corners when they first played Doom in the 90s, finally can 😄

Head-tracked “Window Mode.” Your front camera finds your head. The view reprojects in real time so the screen feels like a window into the 3D scene. True3D, no glasses.

@openbioforge As always great work. Still excited to see the final product when you are ready to release it.

Today marks 30 years since BioForge's release! From playing it in '95, reverse engineering in the 2000's, to recreating its engine - check out this anniversary showcase of OpenBioForge, bringing this DOS classic into the modern era. #BioForge youtu.be/YZFhfYX1uVk?t=1

@UnderTheMayo Congratulations. Creating good tutorials and teaching mechanics is one of the hardest challenges in game development. But I think you'll do a great job.

I just got one of my biggest QA/Design assignments since I started doing indie game consulting a couple years ago. I've been tasked with redesigning a game's tutorial to compress all the complex information into an easy to understand onboarding process. It's exhilarating.

I have been working on decompiling the game logic script files for #Bioforge . It took a bit of time, but I have it all in plain text now. Now I just need an interpreter 😅. Here are some pics showing a snippet of the game and decompiled versions for Caynan's logic. #retrogames

@JuliaMinamata Congratulations! This is an amazing achievement. I'm looking forward to playing it.

The Crimson Diamond is ONE WEEK away from launch! Years of hard work on a labour of love - I'm so excited to finally share it. Thank you for your support & patience. Thank you to my testers & patrons. I say I'm a solo dev, I didn't do this alone. 🥹 Link below in the comments 👇

@georgievyuriy Looking forward to watching this on the weekend.

A video tutorial on how to code a DOOM-like game engine from scratch in C (part I) youtu.be/p7f9p9nDsmc

@FreyaHolmer I'm glad that you are recovering.

for better or worse mostly for the better! I've been able to almost recover from burnout completely now, which I'm so hecking grateful for but sometimes it throws me into obsessions that are kind of a waste of time in the grand scheme of things. it also worsens my perfectionism

my ADHD medication has made my autistic tendencies so much stronger like yeah sry the thing got delayed, I got sidetracked collecting, sorting, and parsing transaction data from 2018-2024 to display in a cute graph & had to experiment with boundary conditions of moving averages

@openbioforge Maybe if you lead Caynan down to Mastaba, there will be a reckoning? Or script him to just roam the base and cause havoc among the remaining guards. According to his log, some of them are due for some payback.

It's ALIVE! Good progress on "AI" for NPCs. First question from my 9yo - what happens if you turn off his cell bars whilst he's alive?... well... nothing... but we can fix that now by modding the script in C#! 👇 What would you change / fix? #BioForge #retrogames #retrogaming

@openbioforge Very nice. I'm looking forward to seeing more! I have only recently started to dive into trying to understand the script engine myself. Lots of work, the fun kind.

#BioForge is a highly scripted game, and so after reversing, much of the effort has been reimplementing the proprietary script API. Of the 188 subroutines and functions used by the f1.01 scripts, there are only 43 remaining to be implemented! #devlog #retrogames #retrogaming

Working a little more on #Bioforge scene loading. Here are all the characters contained in the first part of the game (internally referred to as CHAOS).

@openbioforge I love to see these updates! Even if they put my own attempts at this to shame ;). So far I have most of the assets figured out and have started looking into loading levels. But it seems that I need to be able to parse the scripts to load collision, which will be a lot of work.

Dressing up to go outside! 👨‍🚀 Physics system progress (Gravity ✅ Root motions ✅ Stairs ✅) #bioforge #devlog #retrogames #retrogaming

@CadeRageous @qfgbook I always loved games and knew that I eventually wanted to make them. But I think it was seeing Scott Murphy's name in the opening credits for Space Quest 2 that sealed the deal. At 13, I thought some day it would be my name up there. And now it is. Among hundreds of others 😉

Started deciphering the level formats. Still early, but I have made some progress. This is the layout of the first section of the game, the cell block, guard room, elevator hallway and cryo room. Colors: green = cameras white = items cyan = waypoints #Bioforge #gamedevelopment

@sonneveld @fractalmindmike @TheGhoulBabe Sad that I missed most of the stream. Project Firestart is one of my favorite C64 games and blew me away when I saw it 1989. I have to catch the VOD of this.

@ViridianGames This looks like a great project. Looking forward to seeing how it develops.

The new 0.0.2 version of Ultima VII: Revisited has been released! This is my attempt to write a replacement engine for Ultima VII: The Black Gate. You can download it here: u7revisited.com/downloads/ #UltimaVII #U7Revisited Lots more info below the break! To run this program, you will need to copy the contents of your original DOS ULTIMA7 folder to /data/u7. This will allow the replacement engine to read in the maps and graphics from the original files. Controls: WASD: Move around. Q/E: Rotate left and right. Mousewheel: Zoom in/Zoom out. To teleport to a location, left-click there in the minimap. Press ESC to exit. This is an open source project, which means that you can grab the source files from github.com/viridiangames and build it yourself! You will need both the U7Revisited and the Geist projects to do this. (Geist is the engine I make all my games on.) Make sure they are in the same parent directory so you don't have to fix up a lot of paths. FEEDBACK IS WELCOME BOY HOWDY IS IT WELCOME! The best way to give feedback is to send it to my email address at anthony.salter@gmail.com and put "Revisited" in the subject line. Have fun, and Rule Britannia.

@FreyaHolmer The best reward is seeing someone having fun with something I helped create.

what game dev opinion would have you like this?

@FreyaHolmer My immediate understanding: Convert: Turn existing scene mesh into an asset mesh. Extract: Create a new asset mesh from scene mesh, leaving original scene mesh as is. Clone: Make another scene mesh as a copy of the existing one.

my unity mesh editor can store meshes in two places: 🖼 in the scene, or 📂 as an asset in your project if you want to turn a scene mesh into an asset, I have a dialog, with three buttons: [Convert] [Extract] [Clone] what would you expect each of these buttons to do?

Had some time over Christmas to make some progress on Bioforge reversing. I have a rudimentary implementation of the skeletal animations working. Still some cleaning up and minor bug fixing to do. Then I should be ready to move on to looking at maybe scene loading? #Bioforge 🎄