Tag: Game Design

  • Tilemap Game Engine Development – Agon Light C Programming

    In this video, I’ll show you how I built a tilemap system from scratch in C for the Agon Light, and integrated it into my existing game engine. Getting the physics engine to handle collisions with the tilemap was no easy task, but I’ll walk you through how I made it work. On top of…

  • Writing a game the hard way – from scratch using C – Part 1

    Join me on a journey as I attempt to write a game for my Agon Light using nothing but raw C programming. In this first episode I figure out what kind of game to make, look at some shareware games of the past and get a basic game engine working, using nothing but C code…

  • Gamedev the hard way – doing it all myself

    Writing games is hard enough by itself, requiring a lot of different skills. So how can I make this even harder? How about I do literally everything myself, starting with nothing but a blank source file and write all the code by hand. No game engines or libraries. If I need something, I need to…

  • Happy 2024!

    Hello everyone! Let’s get on with it, shall we? Last year went pretty well, I released 14 videos and towards the end of the year experimented with releasing more than one video a month. I’ll also experiment with some more spontaneous content on here and maybe the odd Short. YouTube seems to like those, and…

  • Gamedev, music, art and being creative

    I am not a creative person, and I’d quite like to change this. There’s a bunch of creative skills I’ve never put the effort into improving and I think I might have some ways to overcome this. Let’s have a look… When I say I’m not creative, what I mean is coming up with ideas…

  • Microstudio.dev Game Programming

    How I wrote a game in a week using just my web browser

  • #GitHubGameOff Jam 2019 Day 1

    Day 1 of the #GitHubGameOff jam, where I create a basic platform controller and level builder.

  • One Lone Coder Jam 2019

    In this game jam I learn all about the importance of having a decent game idea before even starting to write any code

  • Godot Wild Jam 12

    Between the 9th and 16th August 2019 I took part in the Godot Wild Jam #12. Let’s go through what it was like, and the things I learned this time.

  • GMTK Game Jam 2019

    I enter the GMTK Game Jam 2019 using Pico 8, and make a game in about seven hours.