I'm burned out
- February 23, 2024
- 6 Minutes
It occurred to me that I hadn't updated my website in over a year, and with good reason: I'm burned out. Here's what I've been thinking about.
Archive
2024
2022
Notakto: A Haskell game with Apecs and Raylib
- November 20, 2022
- 89 Minutes
My previous post on Apecs was very well received, but I've seen a lot of people using the now-out-of-date code and somewhat struggling. Time to dive back in!
Laplace's rule of succession
- July 20, 2022
- 8 Minutes
I find myself talking to many people about this bit of maths simply because I've actually been able to apply it in my life and work. Hopefully in this post I can explain how!
Website redesign with Bulma CSS
- July 7, 2022
- 3 Minutes
There were a lot of teething issues I had with my website, and so I decided to start from scratch and redesign the appearance of my website using Bulma for common components.
First ever QNA!
- May 1, 2022
- 9 Minutes
I've been corresponding with some of my readers over the past few months, and I've sent so many emails that I might as well make a post about it!
Hex Voronoi
- April 19, 2022
- 12 Minutes
After spending a while wandering the internet in search of something new to learn, I found something I somehow missed: the language, Haxe, and the game framework, Heaps. This was the result of my learning.
New Year, New Website
- January 1, 2022
- 6 Minutes
My website has gone through many iterations but I wanted to truly make it my own and have control of every aspect. My website is just as much for me as it is for the rest of the world and I enjoy tinkering with it now and again.
2021
What is Nix?
- December 20, 2021
- 5 Minutes
I seem to be nixifying everything, from my operating system to my website. I wanted to go into a bit of detail about what it's like working with Nix.
My Website: aas.sh
- December 1, 2021
- 1 Minutes
This website is more than just a landing page for people looking to contact me, it's a trophy cabinet for all of my digital achievements, it's a canvas for thinking out loud and a place for me to tinker.
Now on dev.to!
- November 10, 2021
- 1 Minutes
I haven't been blogging much and I thought that it would be good for me to try and take blogging a little more seriously and to try and promote myself so that I'm encouraged to write more content.
4 Months At Jagex
- October 19, 2021
- 3 Minutes
4 months ago, I accepted a life-changing opportunity to work for Jagex, a studio I've aspired to work for since I played RuneScape when I was younger. I thought I'd update my blog since it has been a while.
Goodbye DSD, Hello Jagex!
- June 25, 2021
- 9 Minutes
Roughly this time last year, I accepted a job at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, but unfortunately it wasn't a great fit for me. I'm now pleased to announce that I managed to get a job at Jagex!
2020
HexagonalHS
- June 25, 2020
- 13 Minutes
I've been playing around with Haskell for quite a while and I wanted to have a play around with a purely-functional graphics pipeline.
No longer a student
- June 24, 2020
- 11 Minutes
I've just completed my master's year at Sheffield Hallam University and accepted a job offer, life is feeling pretty great right now! Unfortunately, I haven't written a blog post in over a year because of academia, and so it's finally time to update my blog!
4D Geometry Viewer
- May 3, 2020
- 4 Minutes
Developing a game that uses the fourth dimension is rarely discussed, if discussed at all. I created an interactive visualisation of 4D geometry to learn how to apply 3D rendering concepts to higher dimensions.
Hogs of War: Level Editor
- March 23, 2020
- 6 Minutes
A cross-platform tool that allows for the visualisation and manipulation of Hogs of War map files.
2019
Street Fighter Clone
- November 29, 2019
- 2 Minutes
A university assignment where the goal was to study and recreate Street Fighter's mechanics in our own clone of the game.
Clojure: Another functional programming language
- July 20, 2019
- 12 Minutes
I've always been aware of the Lisp language, but always been afraid to dive in. However, after reading 'Clojure for the brave and true', I now recognise Clojure as a simple, pleasant and powerful language.
Relocate Engine
- April 28, 2019
- 20 Minutes
Relocate is a physics is an experiment with Box2D physics, Lua scripting, ImGui debugging and the SFML framework, and has been used as a starting point for a few of my other C++ projects.
HSRogue: A roguelike in Haskell
- March 8, 2019
- 6 Minutes
My first attempt at game development in the functional language, Haskell, as well as a description of the challenges I had to overcome to get things working.
2018
An Introduction to game development in Haskell using Apecs
- September 10, 2018
- 50 Minutes
There have been so many attempts to pioneer gamedev in Haskell, and yet still no commercial releases. In this post I hope to clear the air a little bit and encourage new developers to try Haskell.
Of Boxes and Threads: Game development in Haskell
- June 9, 2018
- 21 Minutes
My experiences of making a game in Haskell and how I think it's is a pioneering process. Despite a wiki and subreddit dedicated to gamedev in Haskell, not many people have actually succeeded making anything close to current games.
What even is Haskell?
- March 18, 2018
- 30 Minutes
In this post, I'd like to write a beginner-friendly summary in layman's terms with regards to why I have taken such an interest in a language I've only started using. Hopefully this will inspire some people to consider using alternate languages to the ones they're used to.
Let's try this again!
- March 14, 2018
- 8 Minutes
A reflection of what happened when running my own games studio during placement year, as well as an update for what I'm up to now after that rough experience.
2017
Make games, not engines
- May 4, 2017
- 9 Minutes
I have spent quite a lot of time lately making an engine for a game idea I have, but the result I got wasn't exactly what I had in mind. This post is my opinion on engine development vs game development based on my experiences over the last few weeks.
Redux For Games
- April 24, 2017
- 1 Minutes
Alacrity was really successful, but I didn't like the fact that it wasn't cross platform. To test myself even further I wanted to try porting it to OpenGL.
Start Programming!
- April 11, 2017
- 20 Minutes
In this blog post, I hope to inspire you to get in there and just dive into programming and to give you a few tips to get started.
