Platformer Project: Plans vs Reality
I’ve been fleshing out an idea for an action-platformer over the past couple of months. I may have made a mistake in planning too much before I even have a working engine prototype. My ideas seem…
Raspberry Pi 2 Composite video
This is a note-to-self on outputting Raspberry Pi 2 (RPi) audio/video to CRT NTSC televisions with Raspbian OS via NOOBS. This was much easier than I thought it was going to be — the Retropie distribution even worked immediately. RPi…
Sprite masking with alpha channels in GraphicsGale (edit: added Python + Pillow script)
Edit: I made a quick-and-dirty Python 3 / Pillow script for applying color key-style alpha channel masks, it can be grabbed here. I’ve been messing around with Kivy lately, and it seems that there is not a direct method…
Odallus: The Dark Call under Wine
Here are some quick notes on getting Odallus: The Dark Call working with Wine in Linux. I played about half of the game on Windows, and the rest under Wine. The only major annoying issue was occasional frame-drop…
Python 3.4, Kivy 1.9.1, Windows 10: Crashes in programs with audio that are exported with PyInstaller
Problem: Launching Issues with exported Kivy programs for Windows that use audio (per this guide). The PyInstaller process completes and an EXE is produced, but the program crashes upon using audio functions. No issues are encountered…