Game Programming

• Game Development: The Scene Graph

  by Cory on July 31, 2016

  It's been a really long time since i've updated. I was waiting to gather enough new changes to write a nice well-rounded post but I've been churning my SFML code around lik... (Read More)

• Laying down some Tile

  by Cory on May 30, 2016

  I started a few things recently, but I haven't finished them yet. They're pretty complicated things like UI frameworks or a nicer user input...

  I managed to overhaul the o... (Read More)

• SFML's Odd Lack of a Clipping Mask

  by Cory on April 24, 2016

  SP

  The more I work with SFML, the more I think that it is "okay". I guess. I don't have experience with any other game programming tools, but I'm not extremely thrilled with t... (Read More)

• Milestone #1: A Basic Tiled Map Editor in SFML/C++

  by Cory on March 19, 2016

  After much too long, I feel like I finally have enough stuff put together to call "Milestone #1" finished. I have a "tiled map editor", which is basically an impressive nam... (Read More)

• Level Editor status

  by Cory on January 26, 2016

  I did a few tweaks tonight and added a little blue rectangle that follows your mouse when you left click and drag so you can see what your selection area is. I also made so... (Read More)

• Finishing off the Selection Cursor

  by Cory on January 23, 2016

  I've spent most of today tweaking and trying to get the cursor selection behavior working. Since my last post, I expanded the code to not only be able to select a single ti... (Read More)

• Mouse Interfaces (and Game Scenes)

  by Cory on January 18, 2016

  I spent the last few weeks wrestling with how I'm going to cleanly make my mouse control part inside some random entity communicate with my map object. I went off in the wr... (Read More)

• Spatial Partitioning

  by Cory on December 25, 2015

  SP

  I've been doing some speculative reading because now that I have some Entity skeleton, I cleaned out the old files and now I don't know what to do again. :|

  I was reading ... (Read More)

• Entity Component Systems

  by Cory on December 21, 2015

  SP

  I haven't been making any progress on my game demo for the past few weeks mostly due to the fact that after I finished the logger service, I had no idea what to do. Well, I... (Read More)

• Game State and a lot of Refactoring

  by Cory on November 14, 2015

  SP

  I've been reading through the Game Programming Patterns book by Rob Nystrom and there's a lot of good stuff here. Most of it is tips and tricks for implementing design patt... (Read More)

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Game programming general topic. I eventually hope to split this into separate ideas exclusively about specific games that I make.

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