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I’ve been plugging at back-end code a bit, every other day,  for the last little while. I haven’t managed to get rid of this cold/flu virus so it makes it hard to do anything for a decent amount of time.

Right now I’ve taken another step back and I’m rebuilding my rebuild. I could post screens of Yet Another Tilemap And Sprite Demo but you don’t really want to see that. I was pretty much hacking everything together as quickly as possible before, with no regard to future use of the code. I quickly coded myself into a corner and then I horribly broke my code when I tried to expand on it.

Now I’m building the game as 2 projects: A game Framework that supports all of the things I need for it to, and The Game Itself which uses the Framework and helps me to build it. The framework automates common tasks like entity-blockmap collisions, and only requires you to extend them by supplying them with custom data and AI/gamepad processing.

Like many things, the Road To Better Coding is filled with many obstacles, and making mistakes is really the only way I know how to code better. I’m also a stubborn mule, refusing to encumber myself with complicated patterns and practices I think I have no use for. I’ll get there. Just you wait.

Tags: framework