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I’ve added two new isometric game engines to the isometric game engines post: Buttermilk Game Engine, IsoEngine and ISOinteractive (STUDIO).

As an aside, Blender was used to make the Mookiroe Game, a massive Online Role Playing Game in isometric 2D view, using 3D renders as sprites. The core game itself is developed using GameMaker with […]

Ah remember those high graphic computer games before 3D Games became a mainstay? Those were isometric games - basically 2d games with 3d perspective:

Many old school great computer games, including some with highly detail graphics have used isometric perspective. I particular liked the Black Isle NeverWinter nights, Torment and Baldurs Gate Graphics.
Below are a list […]

I’ve been gone for several months now, but I hope to get a few more posts in the blog going. I decided to quickly post here something I’ve been interested in quite some time: computer game programming. I thought would write a bit about my favourite resources (aside from Google) for programming computer games:

Gamasutra […]

Ok, I like runes so I decided to create little Lua script for a game that wants to use a quick runic prophecy. This is my first Lua script in the process of learning the langange. I’ve assigned a few gamer attributes (agility, charisma, health, intelligence, […]

You save alot of time javascript links as a bookmark i in your firefox browser instead of copy/pasting it into the url.
For instance, you can copy and paste the following javascript in the url location bar:
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0
This will allow to you edit any web page, live! Its handy for making modifications, […]

Recently a ‘new to me’ programming language called Lua piqued my attention. Its a lightweight scripting that is commonly embedded in other languages such C and C++ and also used for scripting. There are other applications for it as well, such as Lua CGI and Lua Server Pages, which can be used on webservers. Its […]

This is article is a personal versioning of my programming career. The first version of my programming life I shall call Geek 1.0. This version of myself I was very cautious, naïve, bookish. The second stage of my programming life I shall cleverly call Geek 2.0. This is the current state I am in […]

Programming is something you learn by doing. And doing over it again. And over yet again. It is not something you can master in 21 days. Which brings me to my point - its can be very difficult to learn even if you have good books […]

print_r() is a handy function to print items in array to your screen. Its a great way to test and make sure your arrays have all the information they need. However its display can get quite messy if you have mulit-dimensional arrays. For example:

The output would […]