I've been working on my Fantasy Console, Pixel Vision 8, primarily by myself for the past six years. I've poured thousands of hours and hundreds of sleepless nights into it. I've coded at home, on planes, trains, and in hotels around the world. Ther...
On Twitter, a few people I follow post some fantastic pictures of generative art they are "printing" with plotters. If you're not familiar with plotters, think of them as laser cutters with a pen that creates drawing on paper. The basic concept is th...
Space Station 8 is a Micro Platformer created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 49 based on a game I used to play on my original Macintosh called Spacestation Pheta. Space Station 8 is also heavily inspired by Bitsy and my Fantasy Console, Pixel Vision 8, w...
I have been working on my game engine, Pixel Vision 8, for the better part of 6 years now. One of the challenges of working on any sizeable open source project is writing all the documentation and tutorials. I've always been fascinated with designin...
Welcome to my series on JavaScript for beginners. In part one, we learned about variables and arrays. In this post, we'll cover how to use objects and functions. Previously, we stored variables in the global scope. While this is fine when getting st...
My oldest son is learning programming in his 7th-grade class. He's been using MIT's Scratch, which is a visual coding language, and he is about to begin coding by hand. It reminded me of this introduction to the JavaScript series I wrote a few years ...
