Lessons learned from my first time creating pixel art for a game — “Do a lot of work. Finish a lot of work. Share a lot of work.” I participated in my third game jam last month, this time working with a team (shout out to Zackavelli and Draekdude). It was my first time working with a team in a jam and my…

TL; DR: Turn off “Filtering” on your imported image for the Tileset. The Problem: Gaps are showing between tiles on your Godot TileMap, something like this: The Solution: There are a couple of potential problems that could be causing this behavior. One potential problem is that “Filtering” is on for the imported image that…

If you go to export your Godot project as an Android .apk file and you get the following error ‘apksigner’ returned with error #1: Ensure that in the Android -> Export -> Options you either: Left ‘Debug’, ‘Debug User’, AND ‘Debug Password’ blank (in which case, Godot will fallback to…

“Do a lot of work. Finish a lot of work. Share a lot of work.” For my second month-long game jam, I was a bit more ambitious with the scope of my project and made a game with a small narrative. …

“Do a lot of work. Finish a lot of work. Share a lot of work.” I participated in the Game Dev Field Guide’s 2nd Monthly Game Jam in February. This was the first step in my resolution to dedicate time to game development and publish games. I consider the project…

“Do a lot of work. Finish a lot of work. Share a lot of work.” I’ve dabbled in game development for a long time but I haven’t had much to show for it. I don’t finish, let alone publish, projects because I get bogged down with questions like, “Am I…

November, 2020 — Go Modules (the standard for Go dependency management) had been out for over 2 years since its experimental release in go1.11, but Compass was still vendoring dependencies. Changing the dependency management tool for a monorepo isn’t an easy task, so we put it off for as long…

“Do a lot of work. Finish a lot of work. Share a lot of work.” I am a software engineer today because of the Starcraft Campaign Editor. Back in 4th grade, my friends and I played the original Starcraft everyday before school, after school, and on weekends. We often played…

Why you should review code & how to get started — Why review code? I perform code reviews because: It gives me practice reading code. I learn more about the code base. I learn different styles and approaches to writing code. I understand what people are working on and what is changing. It helps my teammates improve their code, catch bugs, and get their…