This demo uses the same basic rendering technique "Raycasting" that the first Wolf3D does. However this one is written using Vulkan and SPiR-V shaders. It is just a simple maze with some fragment shader effeccts.

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Added a really helpful Perl script to get this all compiled. It is starting to become more complex, so I think this is needed!
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How to compile my game demo on Linux.
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Ported my 2D asteroids clone to libmx2 w/ Vulkan backend
Looks and runs much better now.
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This evening I worked on setting up my app to dynamically scale based on the size the user wants the window to be. This was a little tricky because I had to scale the font size/positions. Lots of fun tho! #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #app #gpu

This morning I added a High Scores screen/menu to my game. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus
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Added some cool shader effects to my game. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #gpu

For my first game with Vulkan I wanted to do something easy that I am familiar with. This is my MasterPiece game, but it is in Widescreen. It's been ported over to run as a native Vulkan project. I am starting to feel very comfortable with this API.
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In this video my computer this Vulkan demo is pushing over 50,000 point sprites or light orbs per frame! #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

With my aging Video card, I still can get Vulkan to crank out over 15,000 point sprites per frame. Each sprite is different.
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I set up my Vulkan image fragment shader to apply differently to each sprite on the screen in this video. It is rendering 57,600 sprites per frame, each differently. Looks like a stream of raw data. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Drawing with Vulkan in 2D with hardware acceleration is fast.
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Was working on a Sprite class tonight for my Vulkan engine. I cannot believe how fast you can get it to draw. This demo draws 5,000 random sprites every frame.
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Strange texture mapping #homebrew

Web-based viewer for my custom MXMOD files that can be loaded into libmx2 (either OpenGLor Vulkan). It was tricky to get the sphere's texture mapping just right. The page's HTML was generated. #homebrew #cplusplus #opensource

This was a idea I had for a new game:
Move blocks left and right with the arrow keys.
Use A / S to shift blocks and Z / X to rotate them.
Match the same color in 1-2-3 or 3-2-1 order, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Flashing wildcard blocks match any color.
Clear as many lines as possible.

Tonight I worked on porting my engine over to macOS with Molten-VK for the portability layer to run the apps over Metal. Ran into some issues had to change some things but eventually got most of the demos to work. I have not totally figured it all out but I will. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus