In 2014 Casey Muratori started a live stream series called Handmade Hero. I have been following it for a while and I fully enjoy it. He is developing a professional quality game from scratch using no libraries. In the processs, he wants to teach everyone else how to do the same thing. As of this Continue Reading »
Ransomware has been in the news a lot lately and a lot of people may be asking how to prevent ransomware. So I wanted to talk about my experience with it and 4 ways to protect yourself. What is ransomware? If you do not already know and some how found this page then the simple Continue Reading »
When I first started doing pixel art I always had a tough time making seamless tiles in my backgrounds. When I would try to make a tilemap for a game it would have obvious repeating patterns and it looked bad. My solution was to try to line things up in my mind and a lot Continue Reading »
I was doing some research on SSD drives and I found this cool post over at tech report called “The SSD Endurance Experiment: They’re all dead” They write an endless stream of data to test the limited write tolerance of the flash memory and wait to see how long it takes them to fail. All Continue Reading »
Jonathan Blow, the maker of Braid and The Witness, recently spoke at the Reboot Develop conference. The topic of his talk was about making game programming less terrible. He started off by describing what is wrong with the current world of software. He used Adobe Photoshop as the examples by showing how slow it was Continue Reading »
