A New Beginning: Take Two
Re-Re Launch of my personal blog
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GameDev Detour & Year In Review
We’ll return to the regularly scheduled GameDev programming in January. Most of December was spent on a detour. The detour was to help make my life a bit easier. Actually…a lot easier.
Read moreZixel: The Miscellaneous Sprint
Sprint 4 took a little bit of an unexpected detour. I started working on adding some core features to the room system. Notably, transition effects between rooms. After the room transitions were functioning I took a brief detour to add some 2D lighting to the game.My goal is to start working on The
Read moreZixel: Sprint 3
The third sprint of Zixel is in the books and went by quickly!In just one week, I was able to tackle:
Read moreBuilding vs. Buying Software in the Agentic AI age
Throughout my career, I’ve held several positions as a software engineer. When developing an in-house solution, the “Build vs. Buy” argument was always a hot topic.Why pay a developer “X” dollars to build a feature that “Y” developers already built? Shell out the cash, and move on, right? Even be
Read moreBuilding a custom tilemap system
Sprint 2 is in the books! The second sprint of this project was focused on developing a custom tilemap system. Every 2D engine needs a way to render tile-based artwork. For my engine (Zixel) I not only wanted to support tilemaps and tilesets, but also have a custom in-game editor. This post will det
Read moreThe Vendor: An Introduction
In the last few years, I’ve worked with a couple of game engines: GameMaker and Godot. They both were great engines to work with. Being able to publishZim’s Word Gameon both Apple, Android, and PC platforms with a single codebase was handy. GameMaker’s object system, with easy event handling, was
Read moreA new beginning
After years of fighting with WordPress, I decided to build my own blogging system. Here’s why and how I did it.
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