Game Dev

This developer asked for bug reports as click-bait headlines; what happened next will make you laugh ’til you cry!

Posted by Ionoclast Brigham on July 2, 2015
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Fellow nerd and game developer Alex Ferbrache (@AlexFerbrache) asked Andy Nguyen (@pixelatedpost) at San Diego’s Pocketwatch Games (@pocketwatchg) to file LEADtoFIRE bugs in the form of interweb click-bait headlines. The results are magical and speak for themselves.

BOOM goes the dynamite!

Badda-bing!

My current favorites: “Once you see this GIF you’ll realize units have spawned wrong this whole time!” and “When I was losing a match I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then something amazing happened.”

Alex says he regrets the dark magic he’s unleashed upon the world. I say, bring it on! You can follow the original posts and discussion threads here and here.

Quick and Dirty Night-Vision Shader: Part 3

Posted by Ionoclast Brigham on May 9, 2014
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night vision

Welcome to part three of my series on creating cool looking shaders of the not-quite-night-vision-but-still-looks-pretty-good variety. You can go check out part 1 or part 2 if you missed either of those. Go ahead, I’ll wait…

Hi again! Let’s jump right in, shall we? This time, we’re going to put a little effort into maintaining the overall energy-per-pixel to the greatest extent that is convenient and easy. After all, we are pretty damn lazy. Adjusting the contrast will skew things, but the main point is that full-color, gray, and green modes should otherwise all look approximately as bright as each other.

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Quick and Dirty Night-Vision Shader: Part 2

Posted by Ionoclast Brigham on April 9, 2014
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night visionWelcome back! This is part two of my series detailing the step-by-step creation of a night-vision-style fragment shader. You can check out part one here if you haven’t yet. We’ll be building on the code from previous article, but it’s not very complicated at this point.

Let’s add some code to crank up the contrast. As an added bonus, we’ll add a flag to pick green or grayscale rendering, to give us some options when defining the look of our games.

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Quick and Dirty Night-Vision Shader: Part 1

Posted by Ionoclast Brigham on April 5, 2014
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night visionLately, I’ve been intrigued by shaders that emulate other visual effects and certain camera technologies. I’ve been considering doing a night vision kinda thing for my current project for quite some time, but  I’ve been feeling kinda ambivalent about the whole thing. Recently, I got Zombie Gunship from the Humble Mobile Bundle, and they do the effect very impressively.

This got me thinking, what would it take to implement something like this? The primary requirement, other than looking badass, would be that I don’t have to re-author any graphics assets. I’d want all my geometry and textures to just work. Because I am lazy. The secondary requirement would be that the shader code should be as simple as I can make it, again because I am lazy (but also for efficiency’s sake).

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