Friday, November 29, 2013

The Basics Challenge

Over the next few weeks I'll be coding many small games, and hopefully finishing them. This challenge is designed to grow confidence and coding skills. First up? Pong. Here's the thread:
Pong Clone

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Voxel engine series

It's been a while, and I quit the christmas challenge for now, but I started a new Youtube series! I go through step by step and create a simple voxel engine with LWJGL and my GLUtils library. Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXa65xzz2vplye7cn1HH4GyE6_FjnDSug

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Warning

Rose has compromised my blog. Evacuate!! Burn everything! Shred the papers and kill the test subjects! 

~End Transmission~

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

PoE


power over ethernet
Web definitions
  1. Power over Ethernet or PoE describes any of several standardized or ad-hoc systems which pass electrical power along with data on Ethernet cabling.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Christmas Challenge - Day Three

So I skipped last night as I wasn't able to do much. I was actually out trick or treating with my girlfriend! So this morning I made up for it and here's the changelog:

- Added a level parser
- Worked on tiles
- Created a level class
- Other stuff

I really am trying to make the underlying framework flexible and concrete before I rush into the game, so for the next couple days I won't be adding anything too exciting!

Friday, November 1, 2013

The programmer

There is no such thing as the programmer. No one knows everything. Hell, I'll even admit I don't! That was a joke, if you didn't catch that. Today I talked to someone who openly and flat out stated they were a good programmer (which is fine, albeit a little ballsy), and that he could code anything (way too far, no one can code everything). He then proceeded to tell everyone that he had practically no idea how basic networking worked, and that just really ticked me off. I wanted to just rip into him, tell him what he really was. A naive programmer.

Sure, you can be a good programmer, thats fine. Some people are really good! But you'll usually have two groups of people who say they're good; the liars and the truthful. The liars make up 90% of the group, just trying to tell you and show off their "skillz" because they've been programming for a year now. The truthful people, I've found, rarely actually say they think they're good programmers. Why? A few reasons, at least I think. 

1. Humility - People who are good are usually don't admit it because they run the risk of sounding self centered and "prickish". Don't flat out say you're good even if you are, unless someone specifically asks you. 

2. I forgot

Well, that ruined the flow of my rant! I guess what I wanted to say was that if you're a good programmer, you can say you are but you might sound douchey, but never say you know everything because it just isn't true!

Christmas Challenge - Day two in the morning

Just wanted to report my progress before I had to go out for the day! I've created the ability to load and use textures and spritesheets and I created a small texture shader. Now I have to think about some things because the code is starting to get more tricky!

Have a nice day!