Correct, not a right or wrong approach. Some are more easy to implement than others, some are a better fit for specific languages and tools.

You asked about typical, and typical is table-based configuration. Sometimes that is tables in source code, sometimes that is tables in data files, sometimes o…

I have done a lot of work on Blast Castle in the past weeks/months and holding back writing another blog, so here I am! I don't want to bore anyone, so I'll get right to the changes!

One of the things I always wanted to have was a way to keep track of discoveries. This object opens up…

It has been 30 years and there are still no game that has managed to surpass NetHack.

I first played NetHack on my Amiga 500 around year 1992. It was the tiled "graphical" version. It's now the year 2020. It has been 30 years and there are still no game that has managed to surpass NetHack.

NetHack le…

Tuzi_Cure said:

Let's say your player character has 10 HP.
I would multiply it by a factor of 10 for the display, so the player sees 100 HP. but as far as the code is concerned, it's still 10. 
If the play takes 1 damage now, the player's HP should be 90 HP, then 80, 70, and so forth until 0 HP. …

Hello! I have finally finished the start of the shop, there are still things I wish to add, but right now I'm happy with it. I found a way to make items that will appear in the shop super easy to add. All I need to do is add a sprite to the sprite sheet of items, fill out the info in the item dicti…

Today I worked on adding randomization to the shop aka the Fether Outlet. I made a couple of upgrades/attachments that appear at random, but in the future, there will be a lot more. there is still a lot of kinks to work out, but overall, I'm happy with it. Also, you can't actually buy things yet bu…