Grant Davies

@JanOrszulik Yeh I ended up making my own little sprite editor too for this kind of metadata. Mine is very simple though, just setting points (e.g. anchor point) and rects for collision. It's generic enough that it could be leveraged by any 2D game I think.

@GrantTheAnt Yeah, few years ago I was looking into that and conclude it's going to be easier and more reliable to make my own as well. It's nothing fancy but gets job done. Tbh I feel that tools like these are better inhouse, tailored to fit workflow

When I worked on GameBoy games 20+ years ago, we always had in-house sprite editors to add points and rectangles to frames. It seems none of the specialized open source editors have this capability. I wonder how devs using these editors edit metadata such as collision data.

Niah 1.0.0.32 is released! A few bug fixes and a bunch of improvements to the UI. If you're debugging in #gamedev or #cpp, digging through the Visual Studio output window to find your trace messages, Niah can help. niahtextfilter.com

@tallPhilb Ah OK thanks, I'll check it out!

@GrantTheAnt Check out slices -> aseprite.org/docs/slices/

@tallPhilb I downloaded the trial. I don't see any way to add boxes or points to a frame though 🤔

@GrantTheAnt It also has a binary format defined which lets you load straight into your app. :-)

@tallPhilb Thanks Phil, good to know! It doesn't seem to advertise that feature on the website.

@GrantTheAnt Aseprite lets you add clip regions and an anchor point, not as powerful but might be enough for you!

@MattShermanSC 🤔🤫

@GrantTheAnt What are you up to 😄

Age of Empires 2 in the top 50 sellers on Steam. Amazing that a 25 year old RTS is still so loved and so heavily played. I'm very proud of the entire team for this expansion, it represents so much hard work. @CaptureAge's first expansion in the franchise ♥.

@doozethe @tallPhilb @BangBangClick @zonomike @rompa69 @TubaNat @trueaxis @ndkovac @brawsomewaffle Perhaps dating myself to recall that I caught the end of the Gameboy Color era before working on Gameboy Advance!

@tallPhilb @BangBangClick @zonomike @rompa69 @TubaNat @trueaxis @ndkovac @GrantTheAnt @brawsomewaffle Yeah that might be the case for a few names there, just wasn’t 100% sure.

Do any of my mutuals know anyone that was a game boy advance Programmer back in the day? Please retweet.

Post apocalyptic RPG set in Australia, sign me up! Looks great!

@ZillaMac719 I think it would be worth investigating, but I left Blizzard several years ago and so I'm not involved in StarCraft right now.

@GrantTheAnt Hello Mr. Davies, it's a long shot but, could you maybe release Starcraft Remastered on Steam? Im sure it would make you some money and it would help increase the playerbase of this beloved game 🥺👉👈

I was playing Brood War campaign and noticed this text bug. I wonder whether this bug has existed for 25 years?

Thank you, I'm very happy to see folks getting value out of it :)

"What about Starcraft?!"

@JonMikelInza @mkristensen niahtextfilter.com helps with most of this - feel free to check it out 🙂

@mkristensen Mmm.....not sure. I would need to see it working. This said, better filtering, exception meaningful details, colored output, etc in the output window would be great :)

Would it be of value to you if Visual Studio had an Event Log pane in the Output Window that showed a timeline of all the events that happen in the IDE, such as "Build failed", "Package restore succeeded", etc.?

@SmartmanApps @bzbetty @mkristensen niahtextfilter.com can help with this - feel free to check it out 🙂.

@bzbetty @mkristensen So much this. So much rubbish messages to be sifted through to find what you want. I prefix all my own writelines with 15 aster's to at least make them stand out from everything else.

So cool! What a fun opportunity for some lucky folks! I'll be keeping my 👀 on this!

Very happy that our release of @AgeOfEmpires 2 Xbox went smoothly yesterday. Community feedback has been amazing. Thanks to all our wonderful players, old and new! And to the many people who worked so hard for so long to make this a thing. RTS can now reach more people than ever!

Niah Text Filter 1.0.0.30 is out for VS2015 - VS2022. This update includes some optimizations, specifically targeted at the error & warning build output auto filters, which could become quite slow when a project's build output exceeds a few thousand lines. niahtextfilter.com

Version 1.0.0.28 of Niah is out! This versions adds a compact UI mode and perma show/hide preview window, 2 of the most requested features. Hopefully this makes it even easier to filter all that @VisualStudio debug/output text! niahtextfilter.com