After more than 25 years of the release of the console, there is still a great Nintendo 64 homebrew community called N64brew (discord server here). Last year they organized the second game jam targeting the system, N64Brew Jam 2021 (source codes available here). Being hooked to the development for the system for more than 3 … [Read more…]
Animation is a pain if you do not know how it is implemented. Basically, you are updating a value with respect to time. This is generally done by calculating the time elapsed since the last frame and interpolating this value between its initial and final values. The interpolation needn’t be linear, there are many such … [Read more…]
When I was working on a isometric game engine/map editor a few years back, I thought that it would be a nice idea to use some kind of a messaging mechanism to communicate between different components of the engine. Although that implementation is far from perfect, I will try to explain my intentions behind it … [Read more…]
I was recently building a web app using Polymer 2.0 and need to include some SVG assets for wider resolution support. As you may know, Polymer fully supports native shadow DOM with the 2.0 version. When using a shadow DOM context, the style tag will apply the given CSS rules inside the shadow context. This … [Read more…]