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Switchgrass arose from one of my Game Level Design assignments. We were tasked with creating a racetrack for an arcade racing game. Later, we used the same racetracks to design and program AI opponents for a programming course. As I am a massive fan...

I've worked on several game and engine projects over the years, and have often been constrained to not using external libraries (self-imposed or not). I find myself rewriting a simple math library for almost every such project, usually consisting of...

UI layout and rendering has always fascinated me, and one of the patterns I seem to always return to while making my games is the good-old Stack-based Menu system. I've used this in several of my games, including Furlastic Duo, Axis Shift, and most r...

For Switchgrass, I wanted to use a simple, sector-based approach to represent a model of the track for our AI-driven friends (or enemies) to follow. As I was designing both the racetrack and the AI, I had a fair bit of control over the entire process...