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Pixel_Outlaw
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[BMX] Custom For Loop Iterators2nd July 2025
Here is an example of how to implement your own Iterator for BlitzMax NG for loops.I've never seen somebody do this so I present it here. The For loops are designed this way and left open to the user such that you can make your own kind of iterator.*snip* |
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Pixel_Outlaw
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Steering Behaviors - Level Up Your Movement11th June 2025
There have been a lot of tutorials on this but I feel it's something that most game programmers should learn at some point. Essentially steering behaviors model autonomous agents that have different desires and goals but also have limitations on how *snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Repetitive Tilemap Randomisation22nd April 2023
Sometimes a tile map's texture can look awfully repetitive when you have very few art tiles, but there's nice ways to reduce the repetitiveness.Any decent tile map engine should allow for flipping/mirroring of tiles, and if you can add rotation i*snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Swirly Swoopy Baddy Waves11th February 2022
Warning : Hastily written ''tutorial'' ahead.I made a nice enemy swirly method yesterday, for a bog-standard Shoot-em-up, and figured others might like to use it. First off, we'll start with an array. [jse]Mode 1,2 Dim Baddy(20,20) #CONST*snip* |
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Pakz |
Line of sight - rays from player to area tile positions.17th October 2020 Raylib c language
[code]// // Line of sight or raycasting. // The method I used is by taking an area around the player. In this area each tile is indexed. Than // a invisible bullet is shot from the player position into the direction of this tile. The area underneat*snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Looping Track GenerationYou know what's a pain in the arse?Generating a looping track, that loops properly, and doesn't break. Always trying to get the start and end points to join up is SUCH an annoying thing to code. Yesterday whilst playing Mario Kart Live, I (for *snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Expanded Grid Pathfinding2nd January 2018
I'm sure there's a better name for this, which probably already exists, but this is a method that I've evolved since doing Army of Flags, and it seems to be working well for me and my enemies!Thought I'd share. (Image.png) Assuming yo*snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Cookie Information11th June 2017
Obligatory Cookie WarningSoCoder uses minimal cookies, but some people think it's important to disclose this, so I figured I should explain them properly... The cookies used are as follows. A single cookie is used to remember whether you've doc*snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Advanced BBCode18th October 2013
Enhance your post using special BBCode. |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 5: Line Intersection3rd October 2013
How to detect line intersections with vector maths! |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 4: Linear Transformations21st September 2013
Stretch, Shear and Rotate - you can do these to sheep; now learn how to do them to vectors! |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 3: Matrices20th September 2013
What are matrices, and what can we do to them? |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 2: Vectors19th September 2013
In this article, we'll look at vectors and some things you can do with them. |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 1: Basic Trigonometry18th September 2013
A coding oriented introduction to trigonometry. |
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shroom_monk
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Maths 101 - Episode 0: Degrees and Radians18th September 2013
An introduction to a series of maths articles, starting with an overview of degrees and radians |
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Cower
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Using GLFW with libdispatch on OS XHow to properly use GLFW with libdispatch on OS X |
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Afr0
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Scripting installers with NSISLearning the NSIS-script language |
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Afr0
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Concurrency in C#18th February 2012 C/C++, Cross Platform
Why concurrency in C# is awesome! |
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Afr0
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Patching for MMOs: A general approach13th February 2012 Flash, Cross Platform
Description of a general approach to patching clients |
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HoboBen
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Obstacks for low memory and high performance21st January 2012 Monkey
This article applies to C. In garbage collected languages, this is probably what NOT to doWhen implementing a low-level data structure, e.g. linked list, hashmaps, it's common that individual elements are less than the smallest size malloc can allocate, *snip* |
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Jayenkai
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Hilbert in BlitzHilbert CurveNever heard of these before Spinal mentioned them yesterday. They're kinda neat! Since I'm procrastinating, and trying not to finish my first AGameAWeek game of the year, I figured I'd do it in Blitz. ... So here's that.. It's a bit mes*snip* |
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waroffice
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DNS and Hosting - Part 118th October 2010
A quick and dirty guide to hosting and DNS |
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Jayenkai
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Jay creates ''Some Game''The random creation of a random game. |
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Afr0
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How to write a readable program in C11th October 2010 Monkey, Cross Platform
A 'follow by example' tutorial |
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Jayenkai
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Quick Floor Tiles1st September 2010
A super quick method to give your basic floor tiles a little more depth. |
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