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a few post-mortem sketches of ideas for the good-ending of Bilou: School Rush that didn't make it to the game.since early in the redesign of the game on NDS, I tried to work with the idea that most foes we encounter while playing a Bilou game are not ... [More] really evil, although they can be quite dangerous.I hope I made it clear enough with the ink.jets who are trying to defend their realm against a pendats invasion but may occasionally help Bilou.The comic shows the bopping erasers speechless quick to anger when disturbed during nap time. The theory in School Rush was that the sudden ink rise made them very nervous. The secret ending should have shown them relaxed again. on being taught that pendats are dangerous, but that they should behave friendly with Bilou.unlike bladors, erasers aren't speechless, although I'm not sure I've ever published any of my sketches about the "erasers bridge".All my attemps so fan to draw those erasers as pixel art were unsatisfying once I reached the "animate them" step. But I was trying to just reuse the sprites from "normal" erasers, with some overlaid sleepy eyes or snoring mouth. I was about to just write "I'll just use regular eraser instead" burl had my DS in my pocket, so I tried another approach.First I used a draft 32x32 blocks page to draw a few keyframes for a sleeping eraser. I used SEDS limited animation features to check it was fun and only then I split them into 16x16 blocks for AnimEDS. This way i keep only 2 sprites for the animation, but I can do squashes, stretches and wobbles to make the animation look smoother. [Less]

a few post-mortem sketches of ideas for the good-ending of Bilou: School Rush that didn't make it to the game.since early in the redesign of the game on NDS, I tried to work with the idea that most foes we encounter while playing a Bilou game are not ... [More] really evil, although they can be quite dangerous.I hope I made it clear enough with the ink.jets who are trying to defend their realm against a pendats invasion but may occasionally help Bilou.The comic shows the bopping erasers speechless quick to anger when disturbed during nap time. The theory in School Rush was that the sudden ink rise made them very nervous. The secret ending should have shown them relaxed again. on being taught that pendats are dangerous, but that they should behave friendly with Bilou.unlike bladors, erasers aren't speechless, although I'm not sure I've ever published any of my sketches about the "erasers bridge".All my attemps so fan to draw those erasers as pixel art were unsatisfying once I reached the "animate them" step. But I was trying to just reuse the sprites from "normal" erasers, with some overlaid sleepy eyes or snoring mouth. I was about to just write "I'll just use regular eraser instead" burl had my DS in my pocket, so I tried another approach.First I used a draft 32x32 blocks page to draw a few keyframes for a sleeping eraser. I used SEDS limited animation features to check it was fun and only then I split them into 16x16 blocks for AnimEDS. This way i keep only 2 sprites for the animation, but I can do squashes, stretches and wobbles to make the animation look smoother. [Less]

Let this be my official "I love (idea I have of) the demoscene" post. (better late than sorry)back in '96, demoscener REZ wrote a stunning .mod track featuring about 1'30" of chiptune within 3x64 lines of 5-track (amiga-compatible?) patterns ... He ... [More] did so by pushing the use of loop commands to an extreme. I love that spirit of taking something that was meant to work within some constraints and pushing it far out of its limits. He also used very pleasing waveforms (reminding me of Namco's wavetables), of 16 to 64 bytes plus a few larger (300 and 700 bytes) drums. The result is a stunning 8.8K chiptune. Of course, by now, we have 4K compos with songs twice the lenght, but REZ did it without requiring a custom player. Chapeau. [Less]

Let this be my official "I love (idea I have of) the demoscene" post. (better late than sorry)back in '96, demoscener REZ wrote a stunning .mod track featuring about 1'30" of chiptune within 3x64 lines of 5-track (amiga-compatible?) patterns ... He ... [More] did so by pushing the use of loop commands to an extreme. I love that spirit of taking something that was meant to work within some constraints and pushing it far out of its limits. He also used very pleasing waveforms (reminding me of Namco's wavetables), of 16 to 64 bytes plus a few larger (300 and 700 bytes) drums. The result is a stunning 8.8K chiptune. Of course, by now, we have 4K compos with songs twice the lenght, but REZ did it without requiring a custom player. Chapeau. [Less]

i was thinking a bit more about my handscript recognition system for the NDS this week-end, and i figured out that the sorting techique might not need to be as complex as I initially thought.The plan is to support the 128 characters of the ASCII ... [More] charset. There should be a way to define multiple models for the same character — e.g. you might have the ‘d’ character done in either 1 or 2 strokes — but I doubt I would ever need much more than 4 model of each one. That means at most 1K models to sort.In my technique they can all be indexed with a 16-bit code, but even then storing 64 K pointers would be overkill. I had plans for techniques that find the most discriminating bit(s) for a subset of the models an make an optimal radix tree, but then I realised that with only 1K entries, it might even not be required: a simple B-tree structure would index all the keys with just 64 index blocks of 16 pointers each, plus 4 super_index blocks and one top-level index. This is a perfectly sustainable amount of overhead. Plus I already have a B-tree implementation from my Clicker32 operating system project. . . [Less]

eh oui. La VTJ se la joue parfois VDM. Et quand ton lave-vaisselle a décidé de ne plus se mettre en route quand tu pousse sur le bouton power, tu te dis qu'il va de nouveau y avoir un creux dans les progrès du homebrew. Comme en plus tout ça se ... [More] produit pendant la phase de post-release blues typique depuis la disparition de dev-fr et de la communauté nds :-/Espérons que j'arriverai quand-même à boucler School Rush cette année ... je viens de me rendre compte que c'était le 25eme anniversaire de Bilou. [Less]

eh oui. La VTJ se la joue parfois VDM. Et quand ton lave-vaisselle a décidé de ne plus se mettre en route quand tu pousse sur le bouton power, tu te dis qu'il va de nouveau y avoir un creux dans les progrès du homebrew. Comme en plus tout ça se ... [More] produit pendant la phase de post-release blues typique depuis la disparition de dev-fr et de la communauté nds :-/Espérons que j'arriverai quand-même à boucler School Rush cette année ... je viens de me rendre compte que c'était le 25eme anniversaire de Bilou.edit: le remplaçant est arrivé le 7/12. Evidemment, j'ai encore craqué pour la garantie étendue à 5 ans ...  [Less]

eh oui. La VTJ se la joue parfois VDM. Et quand ton lave-vaisselle a décidé de ne plus se mettre en route quand tu pousse sur le bouton power, tu te dis qu'il va de nouveau y avoir un creux dans les progrès du homebrew. Comme en plus tout ça se ... [More] produit pendant la phase de post-release blues typique depuis la disparition de dev-fr et de la communauté nds :-/Espérons que j'arriverai quand-même à boucler School Rush cette année ... je viens de me rendre compte que c'était le 25eme anniversaire de Bilou. [Less]

Download Voici enfin une nouvelle release de School Rush. Je laisse donc tomber les options trop complexes pour me concentrer sur ce qui compte vraiment pour le jeu: les 1-UPs, le calcul du score (distance parcourue si on ne finit pas le jeu ou ... [More] temps écoulé si on le termine). you can get 1-UPs by collecting letters. Everytime you get one, the next one will be more "expensive", though. every loading screen show how long it took you to get there and how far was that "there". there is a "congratulations" level at the end of the 'secret, good ending' there is a "game over" screen in both case, a hiscore table will show up. You'll compete for the shortest time if you found the good exist, and for going as far as possible (in pixels) if you're game over. no new levels this time. Core gameplay unchanged. I do not have yet the code to let you enter your own name at the end of it though (that will likely be for the latest release). The purpose of this one is to ensure that the arbitrary scores mentioned as "special thanks" can be beaten. So you'll always be "Player One" and the pointing hand will not yet help you to see where you are.J'ai un début de table des scores, aussi, mais pas encore la possibilité d'y enregistrer son nom. ça, ce sera pour la dernière release.gameplayYou're controlling Bilou, a blue, ball-shaped explorer. You make him JUMP with the (A) button and grab things (or throw them) with (B). Your goal is to reach the right of each level before you're caught by the ever-raising ink.You'll need to be quick, too. Use (R) or double-tap in left/right directions as if you were a pink, living vacuum cleaner. You can stomp some monsters, you can throw sharpeners at others. Remember: the pencil soldats are the only real threat here, and they must be stopped from pouring even more ink for their autoritarist plans. Everything else that looks dangerous is mostly acting on fear and may prove very useful if you keep your head cold. Think about how useful a bobbing sponge could be if you could ride it (B). or how high an inkwell could shoot you ...There are rumours of magical artifacts that could help you. The Fist of Justice, that noone can stand against (double-B) and the Floating Twister (hold A), that let you reach far away places. It's unlikely the pendats will let you recover them without a fight, though.StoryAt the far east of this school-like country, there is a gauge that will stop the ink. Rush for it! The books city is close to be destroyed once for all, and the elders' knowledge will be lost. This must be another plot from Square Root, who decided that mathematics are the only thing worth of being written down.Everyone here seems to believe that Bilou is a sort of legendary hero...How to playGet the NDS image and play it on your homebrew-ready console or in an emulator, such as DeSmuME. See this page if you need extra explanation/instructions for running homebrews.NB: download links have been updated to point towards "aftermath" version. The "Gameover" version they were initialiiy pointing to is still downloadable, if you really want to. [Less]

Download Voici enfin une nouvelle release de School Rush. Je laisse donc tomber les options trop complexes pour me concentrer sur ce qui compte vraiment pour le jeu: les 1-UPs, le calcul du score (distance parcourue si on ne finit pas le jeu ou ... [More] temps écoulé si on le termine). you can get 1-UPs by collecting letters. Everytime you get one, the next one will be more "expensive", though. every loading screen show how long it took you to get there and how far was that "there". there is a "congratulations" level at the end of the 'secret, good ending' there is a "game over" screen in both case, a hiscore table will show up. You'll compete for the shortest time if you found the good exist, and for going as far as possible (in pixels) if you're game over. no new levels this time. Core gameplay unchanged. I do not have yet the code to let you enter your own name at the end of it though (that will likely be for the latest release). The purpose of this one is to ensure that the arbitrary scores mentioned as "special thanks" can be beaten. So you'll always be "Player One" and the pointing hand will not yet help you to see where you are.J'ai un début de table des scores, aussi, mais pas encore la possibilité d'y enregistrer son nom. ça, ce sera pour la dernière release.gameplayYou're controlling Bilou, a blue, ball-shaped explorer. You make him JUMP with the (A) button and grab things (or throw them) with (B). Your goal is to reach the right of each level before you're caught by the ever-raising ink.You'll need to be quick, too. Use (R) or double-tap in left/right directions as if you were a pink, living vacuum cleaner. You can stomp some monsters, you can throw sharpeners at others. Remember: the pencil soldats are the only real threat here, and they must be stopped from pouring even more ink for their autoritarist plans. Everything else that looks dangerous is mostly acting on fear and may prove very useful if you keep your head cold. Think about how useful a bobbing sponge could be if you could ride it (B). or how high an inkwell could shoot you ...There are rumours of magical artifacts that could help you. The Fist of Justice, that noone can stand against (double-B) and the Floating Twister (hold A), that let you reach far away places. It's unlikely the pendats will let you recover them without a fight, though.StoryAt the far east of this school-like country, there is a gauge that will stop the ink. Rush for it! The books city is close to be destroyed once for all, and the elders' knowledge will be lost. This must be another plot from Square Root, who decided that mathematics are the only thing worth of being written down.Everyone here seems to believe that Bilou is a sort of legendary hero...How to playGet the NDS image and play it on your homebrew-ready console or in an emulator, such as DeSmuME. See this page if you need extra explanation/instructions for running homebrews.NB: download links have been updated to point towards "aftermath" version. The "Gameover" version they were initialiiy pointing to is still downloadable, if you really want to. [Less]