TODO

[slimsag]

Schedule preparation

Total time: 6 hours

• Morning
  • 30 minutes for people to get settled, get software installed
  • 2 hours of run-through / intense learning in the morning
• Long/casual lunch break 12:00pm - 2:30pm (tell people 2:15pm so they are back early?)
• Afternoon
  • 2 hours - learning time
  • 1.5 hours - wrap up time, let people chat, work with people on their code/projects

TODO:

• [ ] Where during the day to hand out pins/stickers
• [ ] Flesh out outline in slides further

Google drive preparation

• [ ] zig/ has binaries and source tarballs of the exact Zig version used from https://machengine.org/about/nominated-zig/#202430-mach
• [ ] zls/ has binaries and source tarballs of the exact ZLS version to be used
• [ ] pixi/ has binaries and source tarballs of Pixi built for every platform
  • [ ] TODO: should build with both sysgpu and dawn just to be safe? in case one doesn't run for someone
• [ ] audio/ has premade sfx and bgm people can use for their own games

Google slides preparation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DxjcDqrm52-cfqM5M2pbABeGVuQKlW0FUUUtoFvAZfw/edit?usp=sharing

Slide high-level goals:

• [ ] Introduction to modern graphics APIs
• [ ] What shaders are and how to work with them
• [ ] 2D sprite rendering
• [ ] Audio rendering
• [ ] Working with an entity component system
• [ ] Connecting the pieces together

SYCL24 repository preparation

https://github.com/hexops/sycl24

• [ ] README
  • [ ] Cool screenshot
  • [ ] Link to Google drive
  • [ ] Link to Google slides
• [ ] The Game
  • [ ] Inspiration: my favorite game, Kingdom New Lands - basics:
  • 2D side-scroller
  • Day/night cycle, during the day you build your town during the night you defend against monsters
  • You play as the king
  • Villagers spawn over time, you can pay them to be your subjects
  • You can collect coins (taxes) from villagers
  • You can spend coins on upgrading villagers and buildings in your town
  • Goal of the game: avoid monsters getting into your town and destroying everything (tower-defence style)
• [ ] Artwork basics
  • [x] Integrate Ziguanas somehow? Could the king or the king's subjects be Ziguanas?
  • [ ] 'King' / main player, animations (doesn't have to be on a horse, could look like a knight or something):
  • [ ] Walking animation
  • [ ] Sword/attack animation
  • [ ] King's peasant subject, animations:
  • [ ] Walking animation
  • [ ] Being attacked animation (so peasants can die if not upgraded to knights)
  • [ ] King's knight, animations:
  • [ ] Walking animation
  • [ ] Attacking an enemy
  • [ ] One or two buildings, e.g. 'central building of the town' made of wood/straw or something. Maybe a farm sprite which could just spawn coins periodically?
  • [ ] Enemies
  • [ ] Make the enemies a bit funny? Rustaceans? Or have them be 'corrupted memory'?
  • [ ] Environment
  • [ ] Trees
  • [ ] Ground / grass
  • [x] Water
  • [x] Rain sprite?
• [ ] Code ideas
  • [ ] https://github.com/hexops/mach/issues/1183
  • [x] ecs: https://github.com/hexops/mach/issues/1178
  • [x] ECS audio module
  • [x] Text rendering
  • [ ] Sprite animation
  • [ ] basic 2D collision/physics - just really simple sprite collision logic. May be able to reuse some of the work in https://github.com/hexops/mach/pull/1158
  • [ ] LDTK level loading - is there any integration with pixi here that is reasonable?
  • [ ] ECS module for sprite rendering pixi sprites - basically take https://github.com/hexops/mach/tree/main/examples/sprite + the information foxxne DM'd me to see if we can render pixi sprites in a reasonable way
  • [ ] Starter ECS module for zig-imgui - basically take https://github.com/hexops/mach/tree/main/examples/core-custom-entrypoint and create a module like Game.zig that does setup/rendering of imgui so you can use it easily.
  • [x] sysaudio ECS module - basically take https://github.com/hexops/mach/tree/main/examples/core-custom-entrypoint and create a module like Game.zig that uses sysaudio to play background music and sound effects at different volumes. Can reuse some of the work in https://github.com/hexops/mach/pull/1138

SYCL24-assets repository preparation

Prepare a bunch of pre-made things people can use to make their own game during the workshop

• [ ] Premade levels?
• [ ] Premade sprites for different game types (kenney.nl?)
• [x] Premade music
  • [ ] Export 'quicksounds' fl studio work (1h of work)
  • [ ] Create atmospheric sounds with builtin fl studio instruments
  • [ ] Find atmospheric rain, etc. bgm

Meta / social aspects

• [x] Confirm with Loris # of people and general idea of who is coming
• [ ] Ideally get people to run a basic hardware check before hand
  • [ ] sysaudio works on their machine
  • [ ] sprite rendering works on their machine
  • [ ] pixi works on their machine

Finishing touches

• [ ] Flash drives are loaded with everything:
  • [ ] Copies of https://github.com/hexops/sycl24-assets
  • [ ] Copies of https://github.com/hexops/sycl24
  • [ ] Copies of Google Drive
  • [ ] Copies of Google Slides
  • [ ] Can I download Zig cache/dependencies for every OS/arch just in case?
• [ ] Everything is packed / ready to go
  • [ ] Flash drives
  • [ ] Pins to hand out
  • [ ] Stickers to hand out
  • [ ] Spare headphones to hand out
  • [ ] Spare US-EU power adapters
  • [ ] Spare laptop in case someone has issues?

[slimsag]

Glow-in-the-dark pins