Game Development

Yeah. I think that's part of the appeal to kids - it looks more interesting than a screen full of almost words & math peppered with wacky punctuation.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Yeah!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:52 AM

Not sure if/when I'll try to teach my kids to program...

Almo

@AlexandreVaillancourt give 'em TIS-100. That should cure them for good. Or send them directly to Computer Science.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

haha

"You want Final Fantasy XXIII? Then finish this game to show me you really want it."

Almo

2:09 AM

I've got two more to go on TIS...

and they're hard

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I bet they are!

Almo

Great game. I recommend it to everyone who even remotely is interested in programming

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I might try that someday!

Almo

2:43 AM

@AlexandreVaillancourt

zachtronics.com/images/TIS-100P%20Reference%20Manual.pdf

the manual

check it out

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trollingchar

11:28 AM

I have an idea how to do good looking zoom of pixel terrain. I can use SDF and shader to process alpha so the terrain will be smooth even if zoomed. The downside however is that I'll have to use more expensive algorithm for terrain alteration.

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Pikalek

1:59 PM

@Almo I had always assumed the manual for that would be longer...

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Almo

3:08 PM

TIS has a very restricted instruction set

this is why it's "fun" instead of being a really demanding asm challenge

out now:

Dead by Daylight | Stranger Things | Trailer

►

we worked damned hard to make this thing good

turned out really well

nwp

But did you fix the chainsaw?

Almo

not yet; it's on the list :)

nwp

Almo

"Which language can be used to program PIC10F200/202/204/206?

Technically, you can use the MPLAB XC8 compiler; it can target these parts.

Practically, you will likely need to use assembly. The parts you're looking at all have either 16 or 24 bytes of RAM, 256 or 512 instructions worth of program memory, and a 2-level call stack. Programming in C under these conditions is extremely difficult."