Eric Ahnell articles - 29 total
The Death of my GitHub Organizations... and my own rebirth as a DEV
If an igloo is set on fire... does it melt, or rise again like a phoenix? My two GitHub organization...
Indie Game update: Engine Failure
Sometimes, you realize the path you are on is a dead end. This happened to me today - and the failure...
I don't know what you did to make DEV much more readable on iPad, but thanks!
The recent changes made the site so much more usable for people like me who interact with iPads more...
Here goes nothing... my first ever commercial indie game project!
It’s about time I made a game intended to make a possible profit... I have chosen a hybrid of several...
Game Object Variance: Single and Multiple
I am working on updating my 2nd of 30 games: Mazer5D. I have decided to use image templates for vario...
DEV Questions 4: L10N and I18N gotchas
Post 4 in an ongoing series... Localization (L10N for short) and Internationalization (I18N) are tri...
DEV Questions 3: Immediate and retained mode GUI models
After doing some reading on this subject, I concluded that immediate mode is best within a game engin...
DEV Questions 2: Per-OS customization in cross-platform apps and games
Post 2 in a running series of questions for DEV! How do you tailor your native/web apps for quirks o...
DEV Questions: Driving faster than the speed of sound in racing games
This is the first post of what will hopefully become a series. I was perusing YouTube this morning,...
Twitter coding quizzes and JavaScript infinite reach
One of those Twitter quizzes: If you're born in month X, you program in language Y for the rest of yo...
My Experiences In Professional Python
Ah, Python. What a great language! I use it for number crunching and related data tasks professionall...
Moving the needle forward: mass-upgrading 30 Java games to JDK 11
This has been a much larger undertaking than I thought it would be... I've completed the first 3 of t...
So I tried Kotlin in Eclipse, and here's what happened
For some odd reason, Eclipse kept complaining that the Kotlin section of preferences had invalid valu...
At what point is using software like a DEV for ideas no longer OK?
I find myself doing this a fair amount, but there's clearly a point where you have gone too far. I co...
The power of Lua's tables and metatables
Lua is a very interesting language, at least to me, since it has only one structured data type - the...
When related projects develop synergy, both advance faster
Building upon the first post in this series, about getting over the hump... now that I have a better...
Getting over the hump is hard... and rewarding!
So, I am one of those people that wrote a game engine from scratch, in Java. While I'm glad I got it...
Coding: the great mystery, just waiting for you to solve it
I will happily admit that I love coding. I have been at it for long enough now to get at least some e...
Python is so flexible that I use it as development glue
I can think of no better example of "Python as glue" than this here commit on one of my game projects...
When the exit switch is under your nose and you still miss it
Ever been so stuck to a particular train of thought that you become tunnel-blind, unable to see the e...
Fighting scope creep / creeping featuritis
You know that all too common problem - you keep thinking of new ideas, expanding the scope of your pr...
Adventures in game image editing
I learned an important lesson in game development the other day: If you're going to do it all by your...
The Perils of Java's Object.clone() method
As a Java programmer, it is sometimes noticed early on that Object.clone() exists, so you start relyi...
Just realized I failed the first step in Hacktoberfest... registration.
Even though my attempt wouldn't have been successful anyway - I only have the one unmerged PR - I did...
Hacktoberfest has been an unmitigated disaster for me thus far
I've submitted a grand total of 1 pull request, and it has been sitting there idle since then. Furthe...
I Link Resources to Enumeration Constants; Why You Should Too!
When I make any sort of program that references non-code files, such as images or textual data saved...
Java compiler error cascades... and fixing them
So you know how, when programming, in a sudden realization of the power of code reuse, you decide to...
Where do you report bugs in DEV itself? I think I just found one...
Removing something from your reading list, at least in Safari 12.1.2 for macOS, does not immediately...
Game Development Postmortem: TallerTower
What went right: The flow of gameplay from floor to floor of the tower, keeping extra grinding to a m...