isa ✨ pax west
@isainstars
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debugger queen ⭐ busy making neverway and my own engine! co-founder at coldblood inc. 🩸 previously at microsoft 🇧🇷🇨🇦
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I haven't properly announced this before, but given the light of today's events, here we go: my game engine is ✨open source✨
if you're ever feeling experimental or just want to dive in a lot of nerdy code:
it's fun and it's free and it's dotnet 7!!!
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some mario sounds I added while debugging with my new VS extension! ✨🎶 (which you can get it here )
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this is my brand new dialogue editor! i wanted to play around with a _lot_ of variables for each line, which quickly became overwhelming and hard to track 🥲
SO i fixed this with cool tools!! i worked on a scripting language and a graph editor 💅
#screenshotsaturday
🧵 (1/3)
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my clippy sweater arrived today and i couldn't be happier 💛💛
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i got my engine editor working on steam deck today because why wouldn't i ✨✨
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finally got time to implement sprite reloading on alt+tab with my engine 😈
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after 6 years, I decided to leave microsoft. I learned *so* much and I'm forever grateful for my time in the VS debugger team... I was always impressed by everyone that I work with.
on other news, I'm super excited that I can finally give my 100% to gamedev now 💖
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i just worked on improving conditional breakpoints performance by over 70%.... 💅💅
We've significantly enhanced C++ conditional breakpoints!
Starting with version 17.10, our reworked implementation delivers a 70% performance boost, cutting execution time from 80s to 21s over 80k iterations.
Check out the video comparing v17.9 (left) with v17.10 (right)!
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so twitter now has pretty much the same policies as a neopets neoboard
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in c++ we don't say "missing namespace prefix for Foo" we say "unresolved external symbol ?Foo
@NBar
@
@YAJAEAV
?$CAtlArray
@VCComBSTR
@ATL
@
@V
?$CElementTraits
@VCComBSTR
@ATL
@@
@2
@
@ATL
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@z
" and i think that's beautiful
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and it also works on the editor now! we can easily tweak between "night" vs. "day" view 👀
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i'm on gdc this week!!! i love talking about engines and tools and stuff!!
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I've been working on a tile editor with
@saint11
over the weekend. it's for a beautiful .NET 7 game engine that we want to open source soon! <3
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i'm finally happy with how my item notification system turned out 🙏
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regardless of where and how you code, this is a super fun guide explaining how computers work!
i love these sorts of articles because it doesn't "gatekeep" you with all the jargons (CPU cache lines! page fault!) and instead it actually explains them in simple terms.
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this week i learned that: game saves are HARD.
i am very proud to showcase how the cutscene system turned out in my game! you can switch to "cutscene" tab in the editor and keep your scope limited to adding anchors and new cutscenes.
#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev
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murder is trending on c# github!! 🔥
thanks for everyone that tried it out <3 it's been super fun seeing everyone's response! this has always been my baby project and it's a bit scary putting it out there, but it's definitely worth it (i just love talking about it)
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aaand my ECS library is also available here:
more than any performance and diagnostics advantages, I *really* love how the game architecture scales ridiculously well with ECS (it's modular! it's refactorable!)
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i made a thing!!! ✨✨ it's a VS extension to add sounds while debugging. it's very cute and actually fun, especially if you add game sounds:
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I feel that 80% of everything I code for games I have to read a lot of angry people explaining why "this is a very bad idea you shouldn't do that" while I do it anyway
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@shanselman
yesss!!! i literally built my dotnet game engine on the steam deck itself and it was not hard at all
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sometimes i have to sync game events (like sounds!) according to a specific frame.
....so i worked on a new sprite editor to fix that!
#screenshotsaturday
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i started to work on a profiler for my ECS engine this week! 🎁✨
you can quickly see how much time each system spent and how many entities it is pulling. you can also disable or active these systems to test things out!
#screenshotsaturday
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in my game, you are now able to get coffee every now and then to recharge.
of course i did a quick generator on the coffee flavor notes of that day
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and this is what the final result looks like ✨ now i can easily play around with a lot of different variables so i'm super excited!!! 🧵 (3/3)
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forgot to announce this earlier, but I am now senior engineer at microsoft!! it's been super exciting and I've been learning *a lot* from amazing people
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second, we are releasing the game source!!! and it builds! you can mess with the editor and see how we made a game jam on ECS (yes we used my engine and it was super fun)
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me: wow i fixed this weird very specific debugger bug but it's not like people would ever hit that
also me: *immediately hit the bug on personal project*
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me today because I forgot to do a pop for an ImGui call 😭
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retweet to scare a c++ dev
Just saw this pattern used in a library and oh boy I don't like it.
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implemented a context-aware dialogue system for Roud To Ghoulcrest 💖 we now also have a level up system in place too
this has been tons of fun to work on!
#screenshotsaturday
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i'm so happy and proud!!!!!!! 😭😭✨💛 my first ludum dare ever!!!
thanks for being an amazing team
@HelloCakebread
@dualryan
@saint11
💛💛
🏆 The winner of the Ludum Dare 53 Jam is 🏆
Neo City Express by Pedro Medeiros, isadora, and dualryan
Also:
1st place for Theme
1st place for Graphics
5th place for Innovation
7th place for Audio
7th place for Humor
9th place Fun
#LDJam
#LudumDare
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i want to share two things here today!
first, we did
#LDJam
over the weekend! i had so much fun! go play our game <3
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neat progress on the tile editor! you can now select and drag multiple entities when you switch to "world" editor
#screenshotsaturday
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this was generated from the code below, the idea is that i can edit text in an actual text editor and visualize/modify effects with our engine tools.
...i also hooked hot reload on alt+tab so it automatically picks up any changes made to the dialogue 👀 🧵 (2/3)
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progress for the engine editor this week! ✨ you can now pick from multiple tilesets and group entities. this means that you can actually move a room around with all its children. i also added an "entity picker" to add new entities.
#gamedev
#screenshotsaturday
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happy
#screenshotsaturday
✨ we now got a system for connecting puzzle pieces 😈
we are working on a combat system and making sure the save state is consistent as you progress. next goal is to improve the pathfinding of the enemies!
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i updated my website!! i added a small thing about our Ludum Dare game and how it was to do a jam on my own engine lol. i also included some important takeaways:
"I actually did copy and paste something so I didn’t spend 1 minute doing a method for it"
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it was VERY INTENSE but we did it. Ludum Dare 53 is out!! it's about making deliveries (safely).
made with
@saint11
@HelloCakebread
@dualryan
<3
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I know this is a joke but also you don't have to make your whole graphics from scratch when making your custom game engine! you can use framework and libraries and abstract implementation details to the point you're comfortable working with!!!
Game devs after 17 weeks of working on their custom game engine.
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my awesome amazing friend
@luumelo14
has gifted me a very sweet
@vanillai_
inspired art this christimas and I love it so much 🥺✨
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i did it 😭😭 this is my first comic on how i broke my arm a few weeks ago 💪 it really meant a lot to me so i hope you like it (1/2)
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@jangofett890
rpg maker is a big inspiration for me!! my goal is a "fun" and intuitive editor with a lot of deep technical flexibility
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i also built it from source directly on the steam deck!! since all i really needed was dotnet 7 💅
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yesss!!! amazing resource for figuring out why some git messages can sound so confusing - because they are, in fact, confusing!
WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!
You can get it here for $12:
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actual human readable c++ error messages 😍
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3 comes with a new way to navigate complex compiler diagnostics!
I wrote a blog post about it here:
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the feature I've been working on is out!! 💖✨✨
Introducing the .NET Hot Reload experience for editing code at runtime
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finally got my very own stardew valley grandpa's bed enamel pin
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this is such a fun and cute game 💖💖 i don't usually play card games and i had tons of fun!! and there's a demo!!!
🚀 OFFICIAL LAUNCH TRAILER ✨
Cobalt Core is a new sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder by
@RocketRatGames
! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
Coming Nov 8 to Steam and Nintendo Switch!
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I'll do a talk here!! 💖 my talk is about my experience building a game engine (or any tools, really) that scales in the long-term
Vancouver Game Dev Series is back on August 21!
☠️
@isainstars
(Murder game engine)
📝
@jaccplays
(Apex Legends)
🔊 Jeff and Joey of
@PowerUpAudio
(Subnautica, Cadence of Hyrule, Darkest Dungeon)
Get your tickets soon before they run out. Link is in bio!
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Today I Leaned that this first assignment works in C#, but not the second one
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i loved the art i commissioned with
@chillustrates
so much that i had to frame it 🥺💛✨🎀 look at them
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my podcast on async debugging is now out ✨✨💛 i talk about how debugging is awesome and why async can be super tricky without the right tools 📝
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I wrote a thing! I recently converted all my serialization from Newtonsoft to System.Text.Json on dotnet 8 😵 It was a lot of work, so I decided to write down my (very technical) journey here:
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these fonts are amazing!! i've been using them for my engine+game and i love it ✨
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omg now I actually want this for my engine 😭
Finally Godot 4.3 is getting a UI redesign it deserves 🥰🥰🥰
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not that I care much about twitter at this point, but it now started showing random tweets on my timeline as if i followed those people??? i get it when it was "based on your likes" or "x person like this", but now i can't even tell who i follow or not??
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i love my work because i get to debug a bug i found in the debugger while debugging a bug
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super exciting!!!!!
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this is how i write c#
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celeste 3d is real!!! 🔥🔥⚡🏔️
Gear up for the Celeste 6th Anniversary Challenge! 🗻
Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is here and you can play it on
@itchio
.
👉
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YAY my first part of the talk with channel 9 is outtt! 😎✨💖⭐
Just published
#VSToolbox
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@isainstars
shows how async code works behind the scenes and provides some insights into why it is hard to debug. Next week she will show how to debug it in
@VisualStudio
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and
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..and since i love talking how i actually implemented stuff, i used a message notification for this, which makes total sense if you think about lol
and then I render it with my ECS render system! 🫖
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anyway I am now reverse engineering c# source generators so I can generate source from my generated source
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this looks and sounds SO GOOD! 🔥
Did you hear the news? Tiny Glade DEMO is coming on May 30th! 🙌🏰🐑
We can’t wait for you to sample what we’ve been cooking 👩🍳👨🍳
If you want a little sneak peek of what the demo will contain, we've just published a new post on Steam.
PS: turn the sound on for the video 🎶
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and this is how the cutscene code looks like. who needs lua when you can do hot reload in c#?? 🔥🔥
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"just because I could, doesn't mean I should" is one the best and hardest skills to learn as an engineer
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this is how the code looks like! i will totally update those with more notes just because i love coffee 👀
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today i found another Very Weird Yet Expected CLR Behavior ©️ on default implementation of interfaces
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so you can also find me here! it has been weird but i'm trying things out
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this feels exactly like playing with polly pocket as a kid!! 💕
we are working on the world's most girlypop inventory system
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part 2 of my talk is out!! 🧐💕✨ it's all about call stacks and what the debugger actually does in the async world 🌎🙌
Just published
#VSToolbox
.
@isainstars
continues our series on async debugging. Today she shows use async call stacks and the information they contain.
and
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@davidfowl
it is!!! I made a tool that parses xml documentation and c# metadata into markdown following the mdbook format and it works great
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i'm isainstars on blue sky! ☁️ i'm open to any twitter alternatives at this point soooo let's see
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and this is how i edit the text in my engine editor!
i'm slowing upgrading the dialog system... so i now also have a syntax for getting variables from the blackboard.
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twitter is sinking, you can find me here! 💖✨
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neo city expresssss babeeee!!!!!!
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my favorite thing about copilot is how it's evolving into commenting just like I do
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i like how i turned off neopets from my brain for years, but then i read something like "FFQ" and immediately think FOUNTAIN FAERIE QUEST
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