meander
Meander Algorithm
The meander algorithm is a combination of using mazes to allow a meandering with bresenhams line. Below you can see the actual algorithm in …
exhumed
Generating Exhumed River Channel
I recently did some work in generating rivers in a 2d game. Revisiting this work to create an exhumed river channel, I decided it might be fun to …
cliffs
Generating Cliffs for 2d Game
Source code available on github here.\n\nA recurring problem in 2d games is how to represent depth. In isometric games this is easily solved but in …
river
Generating 2d Rivers
Rivers are really hard to generate for 2d top-down games for multiple reasons: Rivers primarily form based on heightmaps which are hard to display in …
game
Balancing Game Mechanics
Two of the most influential components to decreasing LOE in balancing game mechanics is automating the most essential parts of testing those …
pigeon
Pigeon Hole Stepping v2
I had originally written an article on how to implement PHS. Having found the maps generated slightly redundant I decided to take another look. Here …
generation
Generating Ancient Ruins
While creating algorithms for random continent generation, I came across an old algorithm I had worked with called Coupled Map Lattice. Using that to …
ability
Ability Icon User Experience
When using abilities within most games the user doesn’t have any time to look for an ability name so recalling an ability quickly by an image or …
single
Updating a SPA automatically without browser refresh
I was asked a very interesting interview question today. Lets assume you have a single page application running on n users computers as a dashboard …
angular2
Angular was dead on arrival
I’m commonly asked why more people don’t choose angular2 which in my head I correct to angular. (we’re on angular 3 alread.. no, …