Apus

Devlog

• Performance improvements!
  October 17, 2025 by Team NXT

  As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m working on overhauling NRender to make it ready for my next game. This includes cleaning things up and streamlining APIs, but also implementing techniques and alg... Continue reading

  
• The PC update
  October 05, 2025 by Team NXT#glide, #3dfx, #3d, #hardware-acceleration

  Gliding with legacy APIs TL;DR First, let’s get things right out of the way: What you see here is the “3dfx” startup splash screen, part of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics driver, directly followed by... Continue reading

  
• Apus 1.1.1 released
  September 09, 2025 by Team NXT

  I’ve just released Apus version 1.1.1. After 1.1.0 introduced touch / mobile device support , this version lowers the minimum memory requirement for the DOS version to 4 MiB. Doesn’t sound like mu... Continue reading
• On memory usage
  September 07, 2025 by Team NXT

  As I’ve previously discussed, Apus runs on NRender, my custom multimedia middleware. NRender has been designed first and foremost for the Playstation 1. It’s features and limitations still very mu... Continue reading

  
• Apus now works on mobile!
  August 30, 2025 by Team NXT

  I’ve just released Apus version 1.1.0. This version now features compatibility with touch-only devices using a virtual on-screen game pad, such as mobile phones and tablets. You’ll need a modern-i... Continue reading
• Apus version 1.0.1 released
  August 07, 2025 by Team NXT

  What changed I’ve just uploaded version 1.0.1 of Apus. As you might guess from the version number, this is primarily a bug fix version. These fixes revolve around the boss enemy at the end. Turns ou... Continue reading
• Apus final released!
  August 01, 2025 by Team NXT

  After almost 5 months it’s finally done: The final release of Apus is here! In this last stretch of development I’ve fleshed out the boss a bit and fixed and tweaked many small things. Just as pla... Continue reading
• The last preview
  July 20, 2025 by Team NXT

  What changed? A lot and not a lot at the same time. This last stretch focuses a lot on all the small things: Small hickups, misaligned things and the like, tuning stages and enemies. Way too many way... Continue reading
• The game has a name!
  July 04, 2025 by Team NXT

  You may have noticed I’ve published this game under a very generic name: sgame. And no, that “s” does not stand for “special” or “spectacular”. It just means “space”. Amazing, I know... Continue reading

  
• Unforeseen technical difficulties
  June 11, 2025 by Team NXT

  The quest for good enough texture mapping You may have noticed a pretty long pause in this blog. Well, I’ve run into quite a snag. In The prototype before the final prototype , I’ve talked about t... Continue reading

  
• The first preview
  May 17, 2025 by Team NXT

  As previously presented, I am advancing my little game to it’s next development phase: preview! This phase will focus less on technical stuff. Even though I quite like low-level plumbing, I’ll avo... Continue reading
• The extent of Windows API compatibility
  May 11, 2025 by Team NXT

  The screenshots you see signifies a pretty big step for my little game. What you see is the exact same executable running on Windows 11 24H2 (the newest Windows version to date) as well as on Windows... Continue reading

  
• Technical roundup
  April 26, 2025 by Team NXT

  More efficient loading Internally, the game is structured into stages, which in turn specify several waves of entities to spawn. After one wave’s enemy are defeated, the next one begins. I previousl... Continue reading
• The prototype before the final prototype
  April 12, 2025 by Team NXT

  Charged shots I’ve implemented one of the last few missing game mechanics: Charged shots! The fire button can now be held to charge the shot. After a set time, the shot is fully charged and deals mo... Continue reading

  
• Exercising the entity system
  March 29, 2025 by Team NXT

  I’ve written a pretty robust entity system for an unrelated earlier prototype game (a 3D platformer like). It was actually pretty nice, but the game never got too far. So, while building prototype... Continue reading
• Prototype 2
  March 22, 2025 by Team NXT

  Prototype 2 As mentioned in the first post , I will give somewhat regular updates to the project and post them here. Just a heads up: Previously, I’ve talked about one or two updates a month. I stil... Continue reading

  
• Let's start an experiment
  March 15, 2025 by Team NXT

  Let’s start an experiment Over the past few years I’ve been developing a nice little toolbox for game development: NRender. What started as an experiment to run code on a PSX has evolved into a qu... Continue reading