Me as a game dev team leader

philo san — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:35:46 +0000

story time :)

so one of my university's subjects is computer graphics and how it's done.
and its project is simply a video game with a team consisting of a maximum of 5 persons bare with me it's really not as easy as it sounds we weren't following some YouTube tutorial or anything we were on our own.

tools

Jogl: it's the beast library we were told to code with it's a Java library based on Opengl and here is the catch it doesn't have that much documentation online; so we were on our own as I told you.
IntelliJ IDEA: mainly I use neovim as my editor of choice but the library worked the best in IntelliJ and the team was comfortable with it so now complains
git/GitHub : let's be honest as a university students most of my team lacked the knowledge of git and GitHub.
Audacity: we used some third-party audio assets from itch.io and it had some problems with the way I implemented audio in the game I opened an issue where I discussed this and Audacity was the solution
Assets :
- sound effects: one of the most likable sound effects I found
- textures: most of them either handmade by me or provided by the professor

Challenges

I was the most skilled person in the team in game dev which meant if some new feature to the game that meant I needed to explain it to the rest of the team or I would be the one implementing it myself; more on that on accomplishments.
no game engine we had to program everything from scratch and there was no game engine tools luxury
lack of time all of us were out of time because we had other three projects to make with different teams so the game was probably made in 10 hours of work.
no documentation as I said before there was no available documentation or past projects we could copy or take as a reference
lack of GitHub knowledge most of the team had to start learning GitHub from the very beginning

Accomplishments

entity system I programmed a mature entity system that held the game upon its shoulders consisting of the Entity Manager class that was responsible for displaying and updating every entity in the game, the Entity class itself everything in the game was planned to be an entity
GitHub level up gained more GitHub knowledge by being the leader of the team and the responsible person for the GitHub repo and by teaching 3 of my teammates

future plans

I am going to take full control of the game in the future after the team abandons the project after passing the subject
everything in the game gonna be changed the textures will feel more alive and I will add more sounds to the game everything will be an entity for more clean code; also will add powerups and the last plan is to add Ai to the game by implementing a neural network the available Ai is just a ball that follows you

how to set Arabic in your Linux machine

philo san — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:12:12 +0000

for a while now I was struggling with Arabic in arch with fonts because it's minimal and has no programs for setting fonts system wide
arch wiki does't help I've searched for the solution so many times on the arch wiki but there was not full solution that can help me so here is a one for you
mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig cd to it and then make a file fonts.conf add this to the file

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <!-- Set preferred serif, sans serif, and monospace fonts. -->

 <alias>
   <family>sans-serif</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Arimo</family>
    <family>Amiri</family>
   </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
   <family>sans-serif</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Arimo</family>
    <family>Amiri</family>
   </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
   <family>serif</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Tinos</family>
    <family>Amiri</family>
   </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
   <family>Sans</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Arimo</family>
    <family>Amiri</family>
   </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
   <family>monospace</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Cousine</family>
    <family>Amiri</family>
   </prefer>
  </alias>
  <!-- Aliases for commonly used MS fonts. -->
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Arial</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Arimo</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Helvetica</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Arimo</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Verdana</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Arimo</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Tahoma</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Arimo</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <!-- Insert joke here -->
    <test name="family"><string>Comic Sans MS</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Arimo</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Times New Roman</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Tinos</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Times</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Tinos</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Courier New</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Cousine</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

then you

$sudo fc-cache -fv

lets explain a bit

 <alias>
   <family>sans-serif</family>
   <prefer>
    <family>Arimo</family> the Latin font that you prefer 
    <family>Amiri</family> the Arabic font you prefer 
   </prefer>
  </alias>

quite not sure if it replaces the Latin font with the Arabic one or not but that what worked for me
a side note choose carefully the font you use some times the font fails on some places Noto Sans Arabic failed on some Facebook comments
shout out to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjz0ewff4s&t
good luck