IfThen Software LLC

First off, here is the download link: Areum Pre-alpha v0.0.0.236 I've added some goblins to the map, and NPCs now have very basic AI.Adding the goblins was fairly easy, thanks to the way the content pipeline is designed (it's data-driven), although I was stuck for a while trying to figure out why they weren't appearing in the map editor or the client.  I...

Here is the download link to the latest version: Areum Pre-alpha v0.0.0.235 NPCs can no longer be walked through, and a slight sprite offset between NPCs and PCs has been fixed.  Sort of a small update from the player's point of view, but I've made some internal improvements as well.  Characters (whether NPC or PC) are now handled the same way, rather tha...

It's been a while since I last posted on here... Hello again!A few months back, we started work on a new project named Areum, a 2D top-down MMORPG in a medieval fantasy setting. We have been working hard on this game, and we are now able to show something.Here are a few screenshots of the game. Please keep in mind that the game is using all placeholder ar...

Because I'm getting into the section on memory (and some parts of yesterday's example made me curious, particularly the RAS-to-CAS delay) I have decided to research RAM again. I did quite a bit of research in this area about a month ago, so a lot of this is review and should go by relatively quickly.

Data is stored in RAM in an array of...

A predicated instruction is an instruction whose execution depends on the result of a true/false test. Another way to look at it is a single instruction for code like the following:

if (a > b) c = 6;

Predicated instructions can help to reduce the number of branches in your code, which may increase how fast your...