Intro Games are complex. How complex can they be? Can they simulate complex systems? Are some equations with variables enough? Enough for what? In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been exploring Game...

Intro Decoupling is a software design term for removing dependencies between modules. According to this concept, the fewer modules depend on other modules, the better the overall management of the ...

Terminology There’s a debate about precise definitions in this field since it’s relatively new (20-30 years). Here’s my attempt to define some terms in the context of the software world: User I...

Intro My goal is to create a responsive shader for both mouse hovering and selection. Godot’s visual shaders are neat and show a preview of each of their operation. Moreover, it outputs the shader’...

Collision Detection Using a Color Map After some searching, I saw an interesting way to create a clickable map that seems efficient and composed of two maps. The first is visible without any colli...

Finding the right resources It took me several days to find resources that could fit together. Sometimes I could find a beautiful earth texture, but the SVGs files of the countries in Wikimedia did...

What are Serious Games? One of Bach’s students developed one of the earliest serious games. In this game, the participant roll dices and combine musical fragments into a song. Serious games are def...