PlayTechs: Programming for fun

I have been too busy keeping the household running this week to get any programming done. I did manage to play the demo for The Spirit Engin...

When I started this blog I had a list of interesting bits of code to share. I've gotten through most of them but have held back polygon ...

Last week I tried making a rapidly-exploring random tree, or RRT. Instead of starting from a single point as is typical in motion planning,...

Time to play a bit. I just learned about rapidly-exploring random trees while reading about motion planning. They look kind of like drainag...

The November 10 issue of the New Yorker has an article about Kent Kiehl, a scientist who uses functional MRI to study the brains of psychop...

I'm averaging about one hour a week of work on my little game project. This week, I added support for multiple predefined maps. I'm ...

I've hacked together the beginnings of guard turf. The idea of turf is to have some areas of the map in which the player can move unmole...