release codo

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+---
+title: "Finally releasing a thing I worked on for months without much fanfare"
+date: 2023-07-25T11:04:43+02:00
+---
+
+Back in 2020 I had _a lot_ of free time on my hands. I had been working hard on
+my master's thesis during that year's summer as well, which did also take a
+huge chunk of time. But apart from that, there weren't really many other
+opportunities outside of my own four walls to waste time on. So I'd also work
+on a small game project on the side. It was nothing special really. Just a 2D
+top down shooter. Add to that the fact that I enjoyed the details of engine
+programming a lot more than the actual game design portion, and you get a game
+that is fun, but nothing special. Nevertheless, the fact that there wasn't much
+else going on I grew quite fond of the game. Hell, I even imagined selling it
+for a teensy tiny price at some point. Looking back that was a little
+preposterous, but there you go :)
+
+So once things got a little more normal the game sat, unfinished as it was,
+waiting to be completed released one day. I think that day now came, because
+over the last year I'd fixed up the remaining issues and tied the whole thing
+together such that it has a coherent start and finish. With a cool bossfight
+and outro and everything.
+
+So I guess the moral of the story is that the project has now arrived in
+reality. Where it is just one of thousands of games like it, but this one is
+mine :) Oh. And also it is online at all, which is also an improvement to
+before where it was just a bunch of code, images and music on my harddrives.
+
+You can find the game on its dedicated project page:
+<a href="{{< ref "codo" >}}">{{< ref "codo" >}}</a>.
+Or on itch.io: https://klockenschooster.itch.io/codo

content/projects/codo.md

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+title: "Codo - The Elbow of Fate"
+date: 2023-07-20T11:54:41+02:00
+teaser: /projects/codo/title.png
+---
+
+<div style="width:100%;text-align:center;image-rendering:pixelated;">
+    <img src="/projects/codo/title.png" alt="Godscythe Logo" style="border-radius:1em;" />
+</div>
+
+<iframe src="https://itch.io/embed/607672?bg_color=366040&amp;fg_color=f8fbf8&amp;link_color=f6e851&amp;border_color=24a5be" width="100%" height="167" frameborder="0"><a href="https://klockenschooster.itch.io/codo">El Codo: The Elbow of Fate by klockenschooster</a></iframe>
+
+This game was mostly made in 2020 when I had a lot of time on my hands. Then I
+suddenly stopped having lots of time on my hands and the project got put on
+hold. It is a top down shooter about saving a rock star who was abducted by
+aliens. The main character is a wrestler with a gun. You can punch and shoot
+and have to fight your way through a horde of aliens. The levels are kept
+rather open, the basic idea being that you have to search and collect some
+diamonds in each level to progress.
+
+I developed this project in C using [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/).
+Development-wise a lot more effort went into the game's engine and the whole
+backend details than the game itself. But I'd learned a lot about compiling
+native stuff for the web via _Emscripten_ and even got to contribute a tiny
+thing to the Emscripten project in the process, which was nice. Additional
+details include a custom, compressed format for the game's levels and a system
+to smoothly and automatically switch from keyboard+mouse to gamepad controls.
+
+You can play the game either directly in the browser or download a compiled
+version for Windows or Linux. I don't plan on open sourcing this, because its
+mostly uncommented C11 code. If you ask nicely I might reconsider, but don't
+say I didn't warn you ;P
+
+<div class="screenshot-grid">
+    <a href="/projects/codo/1.png">
+        <img src="/projects/codo/1.png">
+    </a>
+    <a href="/projects/codo/2.png">
+        <img src="/projects/codo/2.png">
+    </a>
+    <a href="/projects/codo/3.png">
+        <img src="/projects/codo/3.png">
+    </a>
+    <a href="/projects/codo/4.png">
+        <img src="/projects/codo/4.png">
+    </a>
+    <a href="/projects/codo/5.png">
+        <img src="/projects/codo/5.png">
+    </a>
+</div>