New Engine

I had a secret halted demo game for a long time (due to some nasty bugs), so when I found out about the new Homebrew contest for the vita I knew it was time to squash them and release it: https://fuhen.homebrew-contest.com/submissions/23/ 

 

Besides, thanks to the FuHEN Homebrew Contest for PS VITA, I discoverd some options that I didn't know. And since this blog is to develope homebrew for that console, I decided to add the info here. After reading around the resources page: https://fuhen.homebrew-contest.com/resources/ I discover a new interesting option for coding my Ice Puck homebrew, which is the Godot Engine: https://github.com/SonicMastr/godot-vita/releases/tag/3.5-rc5-vita1 

 

Official documentation for Godot 3.5 here:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.5/index.html

Then, I tried to make a test exporting the game "3D Squash the Creeps starter project" (which also is a good introduction to the engine for beginners). A video explanation of how to code it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiE9tcoCfhE and the code's official repo is here: https://github.com/gdquest-demos/godot-3-getting-started-2021/releases/tag/1.0.0 

 

 As explained in the README, for it to work on the vita, we need to make a few adjustments to the project settings. 

(For newbies who don't find that config in the engine) I will explain those steps below, with screenshots: 

 

 Go to Project > "Project Settings..." 

 

 

 

Click on Search and type "GLE2" 

Then click Quality and mark the box "Fallback to GLE2" 

 

 

 

Next it's turn to: Click on Search and type "ETC2" 

Then click on VRAM compression and mark the box "Import ETC2"

 

 

 

After that, close the window. 

 

 

Finally to export your game: 

 

Go to Project > "Export..." 

When it asks for an export template, choose and load the "vita_template_3.5.rc5.tpz" file from the github.

 

Time to make and play your own games!