A retrospective ten years after the first commit — A bit more than ten years have passed since that first commit. The presence of a .hgignore file reveals that I was using Mercurial at the time, an easier transition to DCVS for someone like me used to Subversion. Some things were already there and stayed the same until now…

Updates from the second half of May to the first half of November 2020 — If you follow the project on GitHub you might have noticed a big development slowdown during the summer. I blame it on a combination of excessive heat and fatigue that led to a general lack of motivation and perseverance. ☀️ Fortunately, this does not mean that development didn’t resume at…

Updates from April to the first half of May 2020 — Posted on July 14, 2020 I have spent nearly two months on a big task this spring: custom memory allocators. They can be useful in different scenarios to alleviate the performance cost of allocating and deallocating memory. But before diving into that I had to be sure that the containers…

i965 vs iris — Posted on March 30, 2020 Today I upgraded my Arch Linux workstation with pacman as I usually do every day and a little surprise was waiting for me. After a long time in [testing], Mesa 20 came out of the [extra] repository, ready to be installed. This release brings a…

Updates from the second half of December 2019 to the first half of March 2020 — Posted on March 23, 2020 Welcome to another nCine development update! As usual, there are a lot of new things to cover. ANGLE To extend the support to more devices and platforms I have ported the nCine to ANGLE. It was an easy task as I just needed to tell GLFW…

Updates from the second half of September to the first half of December 2019 — Posted on December 24, 2019 A lot of work has been put into the project as usual during those last months of the year. Plenty of new and important features have been added to the engine, many of them are related to extending the capabilities of sprite rendering. JugiMap I have…

Updates from the second half of July to the first half of September 2019 — Posted on September 21, 2019 The last two months of work on the nCine were mostly dedicated to the quality of life improvements for users. First of all, I decided to get rid of the legacy debug overlay. It was a very old and problematic code that didn’t have any…

Updates from June to the first half of July 2019 — Posted on July 16, 2019 Exciting news for this development update: a new supported platform! Emscripten I remember playing with the idea of porting the nCine to Emscripten years ago. After all I had every requirement in place: I used OpenGL ES for Android, GLFW and SDL2 as input backends, OpenAL…

Updates from the second half of May 2019 — Posted on July 3, 2019 I’m sure many of you have heard it already: the nCine source code has been released on GitHub! This means that lately most of the time was dedicated to publication related tasks, for example updates to the site like the addition of a “ why…