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.
space Space Invaders Released Recently Nathaniel Inman released a micro game `space invaders` utilizing his `ion-cloud` library. It's freely available to play and view its source code.
tmux TMUX windows vs iTerm2 tabs Working in the terminal entirely is incredibly efficient when done properly and with the right tools. In this article I describe a variety of tools and concepts to help bridge that productivity gap.
