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Retro Gamedev Is Hard

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:36:56 +0000

Welcome to the next edition of Gamedev The Hard Way, my attempt at writing a game from scratch for the Agon Light, using nothing but C. This time I create a tilemap system. #AgonLight #Sprites #RetroComputing #GameDev

The Reason You Quit Coding Projects and What to Do About It

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:45:17 +0100

In this video, I dive headfirst into coding a tilemap engine for my game — no plan, just pure momentum. Everything seems to go great… until I slam into a brick wall: I have no idea how to actually integrate it into my game. #Sprites #Graphics #Programming

My Game Engine Has a Fatal Flaw - Here's How I Found It : #Gamedev the Hard Way

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:10:43 +0100

Welcome to the next edition of Gamedev The Hard Way. This time I’m programming some basic enemy behaviours to test out my game’s entity handling code. Things don’t go to plan however and I discover some quite major problems with the physics and tilemap code. #Sprites #GameDev #Graphics #Programming

Stealing Ideas From Doom

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:10:09 +0100

Part of the fun of making a game from scratch is desinging the systems that run in the background. This time I accidentally try to program a cooperative multitasking operating system. But it’s OK, this is how you do this sort of thing… #Sprites #Graphics #OperatingSystems

Tilemap Game Engine Development - Agon Light C Programming

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:32:42 +0000

In this video, I’ll show you how I built a tilemap system from scratch in C for the Agon Light, and integrated it into my existing game engine. Getting the physics engine to handle collisions with the tilemap was no easy task, but I’ll walk you through how I made it work. On top of that, I explore some game design, sketching out ideas for where the game is… #AgonLight #CProgramming #Sprites #GameDev

Stealing the Secrets of the NES - Agon Light Tilemaps in C

Mon, 27 May 2024 15:19:47 +0000

Early computers weren’t powerful enough to draw full-screen moving graphics, so they had to use clever tricks. Let’s explore how Nintendo’s techniques for creating tile-based games on the NES can be applied to modern hardware. Using these methods, I built a scrolling tilemap system for the Agon Light using C programming. #AgonLight #CProgramming #Nintendo #Sprites

Who Debugs the Debuggers

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:20:36 +0000

What do you do when you’re trying to debug code, but your debugging isn’t working, and you need to debug your debugger? #Sprites #Graphics #Programming

ZX Spectrum Next Hardware Sprites Overview

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:37:23 +0000

An overview of the Spectrum Next’s hardware sprites #SpectrumNext #ZXSpectrum #Sprites #RetroComputing

Microstudio.dev Game Programming

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 11:14:42 +0000

How I wrote a game in a week using just my web browser. #Sprites #Graphics #Programming

How I Became a better Computer Science teacher

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:48:06 +0000

How writing code for a 40 year old computer made me a better computer science teacher. #Sprites #Graphics #Programming

Reading Mice and Joysticks on the Spectrum Next using C

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:22:32 +0000

Today’s lesson in curing headaches by banging your head on the wall until they stop involves joysticks and mice. This is a bit technical, so ensure your seat back and tray table are in the upright and locked position. Please keep all arms inside the ride at all times. #SpectrumNext #CProgramming #Sprites #RetroComputing

Hardware Sprites on the ZX Spectrum Next in C

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:10:29 +0000

Drawing sprites on the Spectrum Next, using C. Or – how to learn the dark art of figuring out things you don’t understand. Learning to program is an endurance game full of random side quests, dead ends and frustration. Rather than learning “how to do X”, which is specific, it’s much more useful learning “how to figure out how to do anything at all”. Go look on… #SpectrumNext #ZXSpectrum #CProgramming #Sprites

Gameboy Advance Dev Workflow in 2020

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 08:35:57 +0000

How to write GameBoy Advance (GBA) homebrew using modern tools and systems in 2020. Compilers, editors, debugging and more! This isn’t the definitive way of doing things, but it’s a way that seems to work for me. Also you might read this and think it a bit convoluted and full on. I didn’t create it all in one go, it’s a workflow that has evolved over time. #Nintendo #Windows #Sprites #Linux

Odroid Go Graphics Programming

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:16:30 +0000

Making a microcontroller produce graphics is very similar to making an old 8 or 16 bit computer draw images. They both have small screens, not much RAM and not enough CPU power to draw all the screen all the time. #ESP32 #Sprites #Graphics #Programming