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Hello, my name is Alex Schearer. I grew up in New York and currently live in Seattle. I am a software engineer who works on Microsoft Exchange by day and indie games at night, and this is my blog about game development.
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Game Artwork: City Tileset
After Forte I dreamt up another game — a RTS based in a city. Anyway, I’m still toying with the idea, but as things start to get busier I worry that I will never end up using the tileset I created for the game. That’s why I thought I’d share the tileset now in case [...]
Finding the Right 2D Game Engine
At the start of the summer I set out to program a few games. I was totally new to game programming so I wanted to find a framework to take care of some of the complicated (to me!) stuff related to timing, input, and drawing to a canvas. My search finally ended when I found [...]
Physical Queries for the Math Challenged: Collision Detection and Response
Following developing Forte I thought I would share some of the challenges I encountered and more importantly how I overcame them. I am what you might call a design nut more than a number wonk, so some aspects of game programming are more challenging for me. Specifically, I ran into trouble when I needed to [...]
Physical Queries for the Math Challenged: Ray Casting