If you’re a mobile app developer, you’ve likely heard of Jenkins—a powerful automation tool that helps streamline your build process. It’s widely used for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) in all sorts of development environments. But if you’re building iOS apps, Jenkins alone won’t be enough. Since Apple requires macOS to compile iOS […]
When developing games, you often need to create tools that go with the games to speed development. This can be complicated tools such as level editors or simple tools such as image generation scripts. I was recently working on a project where I needed many game tiles for each letter of the alphabet, and although […]
When you are working with Python, from time to time you find that you want to have a graphical user interface (GUI) to replace the command line so that it’s easier for users of your software to work with it. For a long time, this has been a difficult task. The main issue is that […]
This post is about the design of the Alphabet Tiles game, not the graphics for the game, but the description of it. This is what Game Designers do, they create the definition of the game. A good step in game design is to start with a GDD or Game Design Document. The game design document […]
Building an educational game is more difficult than building a game without a purpose. Because you are attempting to do two things at once, both become more difficult. You might want to start by making a normal game or two, maybe choosing one that has educational benefits but is not designed to teach the user […]
It is critical to set an achievable goal when making your first video game so that you can learn and build better and better games over time. When you complete a game and watch other people play it, that is when you really learn how to make better games. It is true of all games, […]
Procedural Board Generation There are two main changes I made to convert this from a totally random board. First, the procedure decides ahead of time how many bombs and how many dangers are placed on the board. The second improvement is to make sure there are no islands, that is making sure every goal is […]
In the first part of this series, I introduced the rules of the game and discussed some much-needed improvements to make the game more fun. The most pressing issue is the ‘first click lose’ issue and the ‘unwinnable game’ issue. Both of these are sure to ruin the fun. This post discusses methods of generating boards […]
I started working on a new game recently, you can see the progress here on GitHub. The game is kind of like Minesweeper, but with Hexes instead of squares. Rules The rules of the game are pretty simple, find all the goals before you run out of energy. If you run out of energy before […]
About the Game Euchre is a card game played with two teams of two players. In this post, I will start creating a version of the game in Unity. In order for the game to function as a single player game, I am also going to be creating multiple AI players to play with. AI […]