In July and August i mostly suffered the hot weather while improving my art fundamentals: drawing cubes, cylinders, stuff in perspective, gesture drawing, all the usual beginner stuff, so there's not that much to see.

While i study to put my art skill on the level with my coding and music there won't that much to see, so this devlog will now be indefinitely on hiatus, for following me on other places check the "follow" page

In June i worked on some more code to make my 2d tile engine work for horizontal and vertical scrolling shooters ( also called STGs or "shmups" ).

working on the TileD map for the demo

Features added to the engine or boilerplate classes:

• render with camera autoscroll, now render works on a lower resolution canvas.
• STG avatar that autoscrolls with camera.
• RailMovement compoment for entities using TileD polylines or polygons, featuring:
  • movement in tiles per second or polyline nodes per second.
  • optional easing for movement between nodes.
  • optional smoothing of the polyline with catmul rom splines, with settable alpha and tension.
• entity cloning with variable x,y offset or offset in points of the polyline.
• easing.lua class with a compilation of easing methods, mostly from easings.net.
• loader.lua is now coroutine based, and I also used coroutines for entities behavior. (check out this thread about coroutines!)

All of this and more minor fixes, and a lot of research about shmups ( some of it being very fun I must admit! ).

In May I mostly put my time in touring with Zona Warpa, and indipendent videogame festival and temporary arcade. We reached various (mostly squatted) places in Italy:

• Bisaboga, Marzabotto (BO)
• CSOA Forte Prenestino, Roma
• Case Matte, L'Aquila
• Bread & Roses, Bari

It was a blast, with workshops, talks and live music, and also a good selection of indie and retro games on our machines. You can check it out (in italian) on the website and on peertube.

... or set up your machines with coop games and emulators and bring them to a local underground (electronic?) music gig!