Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)

I’ve changed a lot of files, and because this is a major change expected to break the game somewhat, I’m doing it in a new repository. I’ve been working on my laptop, so the next step is … download the new repository on my desktop machine and make sure everything compiles and runs and can upload a build to Steam. Except wait, we really should...

In the previous posting I said it “was a good place to stop for the night”. And I had decided to, but as sometimes happens, I changed my mind and worked for about another 45 minutes until I had solved the problem. I knew I had a problem in at least some DDS files. I checked the old version of Braid to narrow down one particular file causing a...

Here’s what I have done on Braid since the previous blog posting. It’s about a day’s worth of work, maybe a little more (it consists of a few sessions spread out over the weekend). In case you ever wanted to know what it’s like being an indie game developer … … Found and removed about 3kLOC more of unused source files. New source count: 78,127...

Previously, discussed the particle systems in Braid. They need to be generated differently from the way most games do it; this created more difficulty with regard to random number generation than games usually have. Back when Braid shipped, I had determined that a more-random seed would give me better behavior; so I got a more-random seed by...

This is a guest post by Fabian Giesen. Actually it’s an off-the-cuff email, so please tolerate that it may be a little sketchy. In the next post about working with Braid’s particle systems, I want to visit the idea of fast-forwarding LCGs. Fabian really ran with the idea here, and since I am going to summarize the idea in the next post, it felt...