Pros and Cons of Procedural Level Generation
Over the past few months I've been working on a 2D platformer game called Platform Pixels as a side project. A large part of making a game like this is designing and creating levels. I started off doing this by hand, but quickly realized that it was taking more time than I wanted.
Platform Pixels – Beta 3
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Platform Pixels – Beta 2
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Platform Pixels – Beta 1
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Platform Pixels – Update 1
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Generators in Go
While Go does not have an official construct for generators, it is possible to use channels to achieve the same effect. Below is a function called count that generates numbers from 0 to n.
🚜 A Simple Web Scraper in Go
In my previous job at Sendwithus, we'd been having trouble writing performant concurrent systems in Python. After many attempts, we came to the conclusion that Python just wasn't suitable for some of our high throughput tasks, so we started experimenting with Go as a potential replacement.
Build a Blog Email Subscription Service Using Zapier and Sendwithus
There are many different ways to get notified of new posts for you favourite blogs. For example, you could subscribe via RSS or follow a Twitter account (if there is one). There is also the good ol' fashioned way – email subscriptions.