Writing about the process of developing and programming games in my spare time, and the things I learn from taking part in game jams.
Life as an “indie developer” sounds like the dream life, doesn’t it? Get up, sometime around the crack of noon, casually sit around and bash out a bit of code while sitting and enjoying not having a boss or any real world commitments. Someone else once told me that gamedev was like playing pinball…
Life as an “indie developer” sounds like the dream life, doesn’t it? Get up, sometime around the crack of noon, casually sit around and bash out a bit of code while sitting and enjoying not having a boss or any real world commitments. Someone else once told me that gamedev was like playing pinball…
I’m starting random, part time game development again. Last time I did this with any sort of regularity was sometime around 2015 as part of the One Game A Month Challenge, which after this month ends will be no more. Back then, making a game was fun, and making it in a month was a challenge. After…
I’m starting random, part time game development again. Last time I did this with any sort of regularity was sometime around 2015 as part of the One Game A Month Challenge, which after this month ends will be no more. Back then, making a game was fun, and making it in a month was a challenge. After…
Before we begin… I know, there’s nothing particularly special about drawing on a screen in 2D and making objects move. However, the device I’m using isn’t actually designed to do this. The ODroid-GO contains an ESP32 microcontroller which is designed for Internet of Things applications - smart dev…
Before we begin… I know, there’s nothing particularly special about drawing on a screen in 2D and making objects move. However, the device I’m using isn’t actually designed to do this. The ODroid-GO contains an ESP32 microcontroller which is designed for Internet of Things applications - smart dev…
The ODroid GO is a handheld console that sells itself as a device that will run emulators of all your favourite 8bit systems. And it does that job rather well, I spent at least five minutes with mine playing Tetris, and it was a good emulation. Then I installed the Arduino libraries for it, plugge…
The ODroid GO is a handheld console that sells itself as a device that will run emulators of all your favourite 8bit systems. And it does that job rather well, I spent at least five minutes with mine playing Tetris, and it was a good emulation. Then I installed the Arduino libraries for it, plugge…
James’s DEV Profile James Grimwood I currently live opposite a building site (where I live was a building site six months ago), it’s a good visual metaphor for software development. Putting up walls makes a house-shaped object, but that’s probably the easy part compared to putting on a roof and…
Big systems are interesting; they’re complex, have many interlocking and interdependent parts and exhibit really fascinating emergent behaviour. Take a hospital, for example. You go in the door marked “EMERGENCY” and talk to the person behind the desk, while wondering just how bad the top of your …
Big systems are interesting; they’re complex, have many interlocking and interdependent parts and exhibit really fascinating emergent behaviour. Take a hospital, for example. You go in the door marked “EMERGENCY” and talk to the person behind the desk, while wondering just how bad the top of your …
