neo4j
Mapping Genealogy in Neo4J
This summer I’ve worked on a behavior and trait mapper in C++ that establishes entirely dynamic AI routines, allowing actors to propagate and …
design patterns
Runtime Pipeline Patterns
Introduction Pipeline patterns are most commonly used for simple data workflows like general functional composition or user registration processes. …
asynchronous
Async Await Chaining
Creating synchronously chained functions is straight forward. Codepen. const UserCollectionSync = { find(id=''){ …
meander
Meander Algorithm
The meander algorithm is a combination of using mazes to allow a meandering with bresenhams line. Below you can see the actual algorithm in …
exhumed
Generating Exhumed River Channel
I recently did some work in generating rivers in a 2d game. Revisiting this work to create an exhumed river channel, I decided it might be fun to …
cliffs
Generating Cliffs for 2d Game
Source code available on github here.\n\nA recurring problem in 2d games is how to represent depth. In isometric games this is easily solved but in …
river
Generating 2d Rivers
Rivers are really hard to generate for 2d top-down games for multiple reasons: Rivers primarily form based on heightmaps which are hard to display in …
game
Balancing Game Mechanics
Two of the most influential components to decreasing LOE in balancing game mechanics is automating the most essential parts of testing those …
pigeon
Pigeon Hole Stepping v2
I had originally written an article on how to implement PHS. Having found the maps generated slightly redundant I decided to take another look. Here …
generation
Generating Ancient Ruins
While creating algorithms for random continent generation, I came across an old algorithm I had worked with called Coupled Map Lattice. Using that to …