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Greedy Goblin

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Still here...

Still here...

Wow! How time so rapidly slithers away through the slippery fingers of space-time.Not touched this for quite some time as I had a kitchen to renovate...

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Making a map (editor)

Making a map (editor)

When it comes to populating the game world with objects I didn't want to have to spent months building a map editor, I only need something fairly...

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State changes (Reprise)

State changes (Reprise)

Progress really has been slow of late and I'm just not finding the time I need to make serious progress. Not that it's a problem. This is a hobby...

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Revisiting Terrain Collisions

Revisiting Terrain Collisions

It's been a while since my last blog entry as I haven't had much time to work on my game due to work, chores, Christmas and... err... Red Dead...

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State Changes

State Changes

Games usually (if not always) require some way to manage state changes... and I'm sure most of you (if not all of you) know far more about State...

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Slopey McSlopeface (part 2)

Slopey McSlopeface (part 2)

Having played around with the character movement a bit more I realised I was doing many things wrong. Not that I had ever intended to do things...

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Look what I found....

Look what I found....

Haha! Take a look what I uncovered the other day while digging through my books.... It even came with a good old floppy disk! (I couldn't even use it...

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Slopey McSlopeface (part 1)

Slopey McSlopeface (part 1)

Hmmm, I love sausage rolls. Oh sorry, just having a tasty sausage roll for my lunch while thinking about the problem of... slopes. So I have this...

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Feeling the ice beneath my feet

Feeling the ice beneath my feet

Ok, so far the terrain looks pretty good, but I can't walk on it. How the heck do I do that? Two options as I see it... Try and use the heightmap to...

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Adding atmosphere and a mini-map

Adding atmosphere and a mini-map

After some extensive refactoring of my messy code (it's still a mess but at least it's refactored mess now) I decided to add a bit of atmosphere to...

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Into The Berg

Into The Berg

So here we are. I'm not a seasoned blogger, or skilled game dev or any such thing. Social media is, in my opinion, a bit of a pain, so don't be...

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