PlayTechs: Programming for fun

Older games such as the early Ultimas had one tile for each type of terrain. Here's a screenshot of Ultima IV: The look of the terrain ...

Geometry A tiling of regular hexagons can be laid out on a rectangular grid: Via the Pythagorean Theorem , the relationship between horizont...

To hit a moving target by shooting a gun you have to lead it, aiming at the spot where the target will be when the bullet reaches it. In t...

I attempt to write something in Haskell every now and then. Mainly this is because I think we're going to have to move beyond the imper...

Outcast was a remarkable game produced by the now-defunct Belgian studio Appeal and published by Infogrames (now Atari) in 1999. If you...

Gnast’e Villon fires his death ray wildly as Hirsutia, intrepid heroine, dives for cover. Will she escape his palace or leave a nasty stain...

The last installment gave a simple algorithm for portal-based visibility computation on a 2D grid. This time let's add some features t...