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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: September 2008
Automate Everyday Tasks with Ant
Alright, so I’ve got to confess that I love to write makefiles and similar things. There’s something immediately rewarding about automating commonly performed tasks. That’s why I thought I would share some of the cool things you can do with ant.
Game Design and Iterative Development
I recently started developing my next game, Shade. The fundamental gameplay was outlined by Lost Garden but there are still a lot of unknowns. The truth is, for any game there are a lot of problems which will not be fully understood until further in the development process. For instance, in Shade the player moves [...]
How to Find and Use Artwork for Tile Based Games
Here’s another article for the uninitiated. I found that creating artwork which was ready for use in a game was very difficult. I easily spent hours on this or that tileset only to find that I had messed up somewhere along the way or didn’t know what to do with the end result. Now after [...]
Physical Queries for the Math Challenged: Real-time Shadows