Recent posts tagged game-development

Escaping Boolean Hell: Why Your State Machine Needs to be Data-Driven We've all been there: a simple boolean flag here, a nested if statement there. It seems harmless at first, but soon your codebase is a tangled mess of conditional logic. Let's t...

Implementing Behavior Trees with FSM\API: The Quick Brown Fox and Lazy Sleeping Dog Demo Finite State Machines FSMs are a foundational pattern for organizing complex logic in software, from game AI to business workflows. The FSM\API library provid...

This article covers crossed-path collision detection, a common issue caused by independent timing intervals in grid-based games, and how I implemented a new solution for my JavaScript Pac-Man project! !https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/u...

Hello World! Welcome to the Game Devs Group! We’re excited to have you here! This is a space where you can share, learn, and connect with other developers who love Game Devs. Start by saying hi! Introduce yourself in the comments below—tell us y...

State in JavaScript refers to the underlying data that represents your application's current condition. This article covers how I implemented state in a real-world scenario, my Pac-Man game project! !https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upl...

Video Intro As fate has it, this is the third time I am doing control system simulation stuff in real-time, after proportional controlhttps://youtu.be/Pt2TOeEhJw and vehicle control systemhttps://youtu.be/A7JopQNLuAY. This demo shows controlling s...

Optimizing Three.js with Low-Polygon Models and Simplified Shaders Three.js, a JavaScript library built on WebGL, is widely used for creating 3D graphics, animations, and interactive experiences like games and creative resumes in web browsers. Howe...

You may have noticed a flurry of activity around the site the last couple of months. Or maybe not, it’s not like this was the most active place on earth, but there has been a flurry of activity with a full site redesign that’s bringing with it a hand...

In my senior year at the University of Michigan, one of my roommates and I had a nightly tradition: playing NCAA Football 2005 it was 2007. We played every night because we were constantly learning each other’s strategies, adapting, and trying to com...

When I started the now-defunct Steel Hunters RIP, I wrestled with how to best handle version control for the project. Managing Unreal Engine is easy enough, as Epic has structured its repository to be as git friendly as it can be. The actual game...

!Flappy Bird Demohttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/o0azkmv7eu52o89j04yp.jpg Sneak Peek I'm very excited to share some updates, along with this early demo video of making and playing Flappy Bird in Divooka! Please take a look ...

After completing the series on asynchronous programminghttps://dev.to/jeffrey04/concurrency-vs-parallelism-achieving-scalability-with-processpoolexecutor-1n7n, I needed some time off to deal with the stress in life. During the break, I decided to exp...