roguelike

Kepler452b Released

Kepler452b is available for Windows, Linux & MacOS. Enjoy a roguelike with one of 8 classes, 5 unique worlds, beautiful graphics by Oryx, music by Scott Buckley & Sergey Cheremisinov, 28 unique enemies, 101 supervisors to modify your gameplay, a story and much more!

security

XMLHttpRequest Security

Nathaniel Inman walks through the basics of intercepting and tampering with XHR requests within the browser and a few simple techniques one might use to help mitigate these security risks.

announcement

Kepler452b Coming 2020

Kepler452b will be releasing for free in 2020 on Windows, Linux & MacOS. Enjoy a roguelike with one of 8 classes, 5 unique worlds, beautiful graphics and sound by Oryx, 28 unique enemies and a story!

3d

Building a Modern Roguelike in 2019

Nathaniel Inman provides source code to creating a random map generation and 3d roguelike explorer. He talks about the experiment and anticipations of the future of FPS Roguelikes.

design patterns

Ternary Space Partitioning

Nathaniel Inman walks through the idea of partitioning a randomly generated world into smaller parts using a variant of binary space partitioning.

neo4j

Mapping Genealogy in Neo4J

Having created a behavior and trait mapper in C++ that establishes entirely dynamic AI routines, Nathaniel has learned a lot about how different minor personal characteristics can have real sociological impacts.

design patterns

Runtime Pipeline Patterns

Beginning with the basics of the pipeline design pattern, Nathaniel Inman goes on to describe some more sophisticated behavioral design patterns that build on-top of pipelines.

asynchronous

Async Await Chaining

Creating async await chaining is difficult. Nathaniel Inman walks though a variety of steps in order to achieve the ultimate solution and explain the process.

meander

Meander Algorithm

Nathaniel Inman introduces his unique meandering river algorithm and shows how it can be created and used in top-down 2d games with random maps.

exhumed

Generating Exhumed River Channel

Nathaniel Inman walks through the exhumed river channel procedural content generation technique for random maps in 2d top-down video games.

cliffs

Generating Cliffs for 2d Game

Nathaniel Inman walks through the algorithm necessary to generate random cliffs for 2d video games.

river

Generating 2d Rivers

Rivers are usually hard to generate for 2d top-down games like roguelikes. Nathaniel Inman walks through some techniques to make this generation easier.

game

Balancing Game Mechanics

Struggling with balancing game mechanics is a regular part of the industry. Nathaniel Inman walks through his stroughles and how he copes.

pigeon

Pigeon Hole Stepping v2

Nathaniel Inman revisits his own pigeon hole stepping algorithm and reworks it to be more interesting.

generation

Generating Ancient Ruins

Nathaniel Inman discovered a way to generate ranom ancient ruins. He briefly walks through the steps to the procedural generation technique.

space

Space Invaders

Recently updating the ion-cloud javascript gaming library, Nathaniel Inman created a simple game demo "Space Invaders" available for free and open source.

ability

Ability Icon User Experience

There are 4 basic requirements when creating ability icons. Nathaniel Inman discusses what these are and some tangent points.

a*

When A* Mobile Pathing Fails

Recently implementing a super easy JS library for A* pathfinding, I discovered an interesting issue where all mobiles would collide in certain locations or hotspots.

single

Updating a SPA automatically without browser refresh

Updating a single page application automatically without a browser refresh is complicated but Nathaniel Inman walks through some solutions to this problem.

angular2

Angular was dead on arrival

I'm commonly asked why more people don't choose `angular2` which in my head I correct to `angular`. (we're on angular 3 alread.. no, 4,... no.) Quite simply, the answer is Typescript.

zsh

Zsh Theme For Pragmata Pro

Having spent a lot of money purchasing the pragmata pro font, Nathaniel Inman created a zsh theme to accompany the font.

interfaces

Responsive Game Interfaces

Nathaniel Inman analyses UX inside of game interfaces and uses codepen to attempt mocking up something you would see in a responsibly user friendly rpg.

javascript

Textures make a difference

Messing around with lambert textures Nathaniel Inman realizes how much of a difference small changes to textures affect in large ways post processing affects.

fps

No FPS is a Roguelike

Nathaniel Inman works on day 2 of 2017 7drl with a FPS and comes to some interesting conclusions.

roguelike

Building A Modern Roguelike in 2017

Nathaniel Inman attempts 7drl 2017. This is day 1 blog.