GRG's Miscellany

So it's already halfway through March.  A perfect time to review my February projects! Last Month's Projects Physical make: Completed the steering wheel!  I managed to destroy it by accidentally levering the USB connector off the Arduino, but thankfully I had a spare and repaired it (and glue-gunned the damn cable on) and it's going strong! Coding make: I dun it !  ...but I didn't come back to the raytraced helicopter game.  I got sidetracked into looking into making a DOS runtime for the pico-8 subset of lua, and then sidetracked again into making Strike-16 for the gotm game jam. Reading:  The Templars: History and Myth by Michael Haag . So it turns out the Crusades were much more complicated than Christians vs Muslims.  There was plenty of politicking to go around in the Holy Land, and politicking in France eventually did for the Knights Templar.  It was also interesting to learn about the Inner Temple in London, and how St.John's Ambulance cam out of the Knig

Relatively recently, I was told about gotm.io , a site dedicated to playing Godot engine games in-browser.   I had made a game for a previous jam which I couldn't get to work in-browser on itch, and lo and behold, it worked just fine on gotm.io ! So when I heard the gotm team were running a jam I was really keen to try it out again. The Game Submission It's a tribute to StarWing/StarFox trying to fulfill the theme by having some gameplay based around the boost/brake.  You can play it here (perhaps ironically, I haven't got round to putting it up on gotm.io yet) At the time of writing, voting is still ongoing, so I don't want to criticise it too much.  ;p However, having played some other submissions, my link to the theme is pretty weak.  Never mind - I enjoyed making it. The Making Process I learned a lot making this and if I was to make it again, I would approach it differently, but here's how I went about it. I started by trying to get the look and feel of St