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Cold Bytes Games
@coldbytes.bsky.social
We provide video game programming services. Also working part-time on BioMech Catalyst, a 2D pixel art shoot'em up.

Discord: http://discord.gg/9hr3stxETA
Website: https://www.coldbytesgames.com/
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Welcome to our BlueSky profile!

We are a programming consulting company working in video games but we are also developping our first game title part-time.

BioMech Catalyst will be a 2D pixel art horizontal scrolling shooter with unique weapons gained from 8 bosses. Follow this profile for updates
We been experimenting with different rendering techniques to render a batch of 2D sprites for the past few months and we compiled our findings in a article, hope that you will find it useful if you need to implement a sprite batcher!
www.coldbytesgames.com/blog/sprite_...
The quest for the perfect 2D sprite pipeline
When it comes to sprite rendering, I have mostly used XNA SpriteBatch directly or used a ported SpriteBatch to C++ to draw sprites in the past. However I always found XNA SpriteBatch limiting at times...
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January 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We did these ports this year and they will be now available in a physical edition!
Time to dust off that power-mech, Squires! ⚔️🔥

We've teamed up with @limitedrungames.com to bring Panzer Paladin to your collection with a physical release for Xbox and PlayStation 🕹️

📅Pre-orders start Dec 13th and end Jan 12th
limitedrungames.com/products/pan...
December 4, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Our lead programmer sharing tech behind the palette shader!
This week I'm in a vacation and I'm working on my game engine for my solo game. At the start of the week I worked on a palette shader that I'm been thinking about for a long time.

Here's the result first, the fighter is a temp sprite from OpenArt to test engine features.

A 🧵

#gamedev #zig #hlsl
November 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Welcome to our BlueSky profile!

We are a programming consulting company working in video games but we are also developping our first game title part-time.

BioMech Catalyst will be a 2D pixel art horizontal scrolling shooter with unique weapons gained from 8 bosses. Follow this profile for updates
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM