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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: February 2009
Take a Peek: Null Op Source Code
People have been asking for the source code for Null Op so I thought I’d give them what they want! I’m releasing the current source code for the game under the MIT license which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. It comes with all the necessary libraries and a simple [...]
Novel Idea: Google Charts in Games
Thought of something novel, I think. Why not try to integrate the Google Charts API into your next game? In Shade I needed to create some charts to display feedback for how well the player did. In doing so I ended up writing some rudimentary charting logic. While what I needed was simple I can [...]
Look Without Asking
There are times where you want to know how something works but you can’t seem to find the source code. For instance, I was recently researching the A* algorithm and stumbled upon a great applet which seemed to do exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately, while the author published the applet and a javadoc about the [...]
It’s Game Time, Shade