Category: dev
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Using the Free Pascal IDE for a week
Code can really be written with any text editor that you’re comfortable with. I tend to use Vim for quick edits and writing notes, and on Linux I occasionally use Geany or Mousepad. But when you want to do more than quickly update a few files, you need a full Integrated Development Environment (IDE).An IDE…
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Pathfinding with smell maps
Enemies in Axes, Armour & Ale find the player using various methods, from calculating a Bresenham line to the player, heading towards the players last seen location, or even just wandering aimlessly around the map. One of the methods used is a smell, or distance, map. This is much easier to implement than A* star…
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My current development IDE
I’ve recently reconfigured an old Dell laptop for development work and thought that I’d post my current setup. I love reading about how other people configure their systems and I’m always open to suggestions. I already have a Windows 10 PC, that I only really use to test Windows versions of software that I’ve compiled,…
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Roguelikes, a very strange hobby
Disclaimer. This post assumes some familiarity with the idea of roguelike games, if not with the games themselves. This isn’t a ‘history of roguelikes’ post, for that see here Recently I was working on a graphical roguelike that I occasionally dust off and tinker with, Axes, Armour & Ale. It uses graphics in a very…