I wanted to know Dijkstra’s not only by memory, but I wanted to be able to code it in 5 minutes. Turns out this is not difficult, nor complicated once you get the general idea, But more importantly, despite there being a wild west of online tutorials explaining Dijkstra's with…

When I scroll on Facebook or TikTok or any other social media there seems to be a growing trend in April 2021 for the tech community. Tech companies are supposedly in a hiring frenzy right now but they just can’t find good labor! They claim. There aren’t enough developers on…

Photo by Janko Ferlic from Pexels I felt compelled to attempt an improvement on the existing resources on this topic because It took me a lot of time and frustration to find a resource that I felt explained it to a satisfactory and digestible degree. Motivation A hash table is worth…

Grid game dev-log day 10 — Goals The goal for today is to create fog of war in my game. I want the character to be able to see 7 blocks in all directions. How am I going to do this? I’m going to use a concept called ray tracing. Computers are not yet fast or smart enough to look around them and gather…

Make a level editor Goals I’ve made a passable tileset and level generator for my game. Now, I’m going to make a level editor. In the future, I’ll probably use a bit of procedural generation, but I want the ability to custom make certain levels and some things within levels. That’s…

Now that we have a basic foundation for the game. Let’s upgrade the aesthetics a little bit. Goals I now have the basic foundation required to start a little world-building. Today, I’m going to make a bunch of tiles before moving forward so that my game looks a little nicer. Attempt number 1 I…

upgrade our grid generating system to be more stable, and accept more options. Goals There are several problems I’m going to address today. My grid generator takes in a text file with a matrix of single-character strings. Each of my levels is generated iteratively. Both of these behaviors create some restraints…

Travel from one level to the next Goals Today I want to make it so my character can enter a portal or in the DCSS way, “go downstairs” to the next level. …

Generate a few levels and slap an outer wall on em. Goals Let’s use what I’ve done so far to generate some basic levels to be used for further production. How am I going to do this? I’m at the point now where I have a way to make some stable levels that won’t cause any game-breaking crashes…