“I have a cool game mechanic. Now what?”

Unfortunately for me, I don’t have any good answer to that question. But I found myself asking it a few weeks ago as I worked on my puzzle platformer game, Debugger.

For the most part, all of the game’s mechanics …

For the past few months I haven’t been as active on GitHub as I usually am. Why? I’m not sure. There certainly wasn’t any shortage of things for me to work on and I did work on them every so often.

I could blame the college classes …

I’ve been working on my upcoming platformer game, Debugger, way too much. And I haven’t really had the chance to add much of anything to the game itself. All I have been dealing with is trying to eliminate any source of lag in the game by any means …

I finally got around to testing the game I have been making, Debugger, using a game controller. For the most part, it went off without a hitch, but there were several problems I encountered – and none of them were fixable, because they were not bugs in my code, nor in …

Back in July, I had the following conversation with a friend over lunch:

Friend: What’s the most confusing computer science topic you’ve ever encountered? Explain it to me.

Me: Continuations. They’re a way for a program to manipulate its own call stack as if it were data …

Last time I mentioned something about Schemascii, I had just completed the first version. It works well for what I need it for, but the internals are very crude. Schemascii doesn’t even have advanced components such as op-amps and logic gates – something that has prevented me from fully being …

I never realized that the concept of a pointer could get so confusing. Over the last two months I came up with a number of different ideas that all involve pointers and got my brain all twisted up in knots when I got to the pointer part.

When I left …

If you’ve read my blog here before last week, and compare it to now, you probably noticed that something is very different. And I don’t mean just that I added a new post or two. In fact, every single page has changed quite a bit. I have decided …

Your honor, this programmer has obvious disregard for the rules of Sane Programming. We can agree that it is common knowledge that there are certain features of programming languages that are available, but are not to be used. Anyone who does use them is deserving of shame. I present to …

I guess I lied. About five months ago, I posted some thoughts about an upcoming Python interactive fiction engine, where the world model is not actually a tree, but simulated as such by relations. For example, there could be an apple inside of a refrigerator, and while it would make …