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Creating a Custom WordPress Block
The standard WordPress blocks are great- all the essentials for one’s website needs. In case there isn’t something that they want, they can just install one of thousands of available plugins. I want to make my own plugin. I’ve been playing a lot of Balatro lately, and I feel that it would be cool to…
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Secret Santa Jam 2024
It’s that time of year again! I’m sure you’re familiar with Secret Santa, but just in case, it’s an activity that takes place around the holiday season in which participants are assigned someone to get a gift for. Participants don’t know who is their gifter, and it’s always a fun surprise to see what your…
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How to Send Over Data When You Can’t Send Over Data
Although the Twitch Dungeon Game needs no introduction, allow me to remind you of one of its core features: level creation. Viewers of the player’s livestream are able to create levels within Twitch using a Twitch extension (no external resources required!). Upon a viewer completing a level’s creation, the viewer will send over their level…
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Siren
This summer was a summer of music for me. I went to various concerts, music festivals, etc. all to get the most enjoyment possible out of my last school summer vacation. During that time, however, I kept trying to find nearby events that correlated with my music tastes. A lot of websites were okay, but…
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Car Car Saves Christmas
I am president of my university’s game development student organization. This past weekend, we hosted a 48-hour game jam with the theme of “Against All Odds.” To be completely honest, I had a game idea before going into the game jam: Car Car Saves Christmas. One of the very first video games series that I…
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M+DEV 2024
What a blast! Running a booth was as fun as ever, but before we get into M+DEV, let’s talk about the problem with S’no Problem. In my previous blog post, I exclaimed about how excited I was for adding bug fixes, Halloween-themed levels, etc. etc. However, when my good pal and roommate Ian Cooper play…
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Acceptance
M+DEV: “the” Midwest game industry conference. This conference is full of things to do- speakers from the industry to listen to, an indie game showcase, and brand-new this year, their Artist Alley: a spot for vendors to sell assorted items. This year, I’ve been selected to showcase my game, S’no Problem. In the game, you…
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Pathfinding
In the Twitch Dungeon Game (which still needs a name, by the way), the player enters 18×10 tiled rooms. These rooms contain enemies, and these enemies’ need to move in a couple certain ways: Let’s start with the melee enemies. Just make them move in the direction of the player’s position, right? Eh, it’s more…
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What is the Twitch Dungeon Game?
Software Engineering. The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s computer science capstone class. I’ve heard whispers of it since my freshman year, whispers of excitement, frustration- pretty much every emotion you can think of. Let me break it down for you: the semester starts with some lecture-based classes about project management. However, within a couple weeks, the group…