If you follow me on Instagram, you probably know that I have been working on a game template for Koji for the past few months. It started out as a portfolio project for me when I was looking for a job, and even after I got the job I decided I wanted to finish it…
Programming
Bumbling Dwarves
I discovered Koji recently. Basically, it’s a service where coders create templates of projects, including games, for other people to download and customize in whatever ways the programmer allows them to do. Not only that, but the end user can also access the code for the template and make changes to that as they desire.…
Impact! the game released
I’m proud to announce that my collaboration with PixelLunatic (my wife) for Ludum Dare 44 is released! Check it out here! There’s a web version and a Windows version. Let me know what you think!
Godot Node Selection Square Getting Fixed
Tired of the selection square for nodes in Godot? It’s getting fixed in 3.1!
Post-Mortem Ludum Dare 43
The emotional, exhilarating tale of my journey competing in Ludum Dare 43. An important step of my game development journey!
Sample Project: Star-Rating (Vue)
This is part two of a multi-part series about React and Vue. Part 1: React Part 2: Vue As I have been learning React lately, I’ve also been learning Vue. I currently use Vue at work, but I wanted to make a sample project for myself. I’ve been interested in doing a comparison between React…
Sample Project: Star-Rating (React)
This is part one of a multi-part series about React and Vue. Part 1: React Part 2: Vue Lately, I’ve been learning React, a JavaScript front-end framework. As of now, it is one of the most popular JS frameworks in existence. To help myself learn the framework, I built a sample project: a Star-Rating app.…
Hacky Way to Display PHP Object for Debugging
Sometimes, you have to work with…let’s call it “legacy code”. You don’t get to use the nice things to help you debug your code, like Laravel’s dd(), and you’re getting really tired of var_dump-ing all over your web page just to figure out what variables are being used by the particular function you’re debugging. In…
Refactoring BandTracker
It’s always a good idea to take time to review old code you’ve written and see how you can refactor it to be cleaner, modern, and easier to understand. This weekend, I’ve been doing just that with one of my old demo projects, BandTracker. It’s a Laravel 5.4 app I wrote about a year ago…
Sync Your Project Directory To Your VirtualBox VM
One of the things I enjoy about Laravel’s Homestead is the automated syncing that happens between your local project directory and the virtual machine, so any changes you make locally are immediately transferred to the VM on save, thus making changes quick and easy. I wanted to set up the same thing for a VM…