Conway’s Game of Life

Now for making our game loop catch up, if execution is delayed by other processes or a lazy CPU. A simple second test for our loop and we’re done. Right? Hell no, but I didn’t realize until much later… ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com […]

Conway’s Game of Life #16 – Game Loop – Framelimit ...

4 Apr, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

Having clean tests, we can introduce the means to test timing behaviour in our game loop. It is important to introduce proper abstractions in order to write robust tests that control time. It’s conceptually easy, but often done wrong in practice. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s […]

Conway’s Game of Life #15 – Game Loop – Testing ...

3 Apr, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

We rushed along and accumulated some technical dept in our test suite. For the next feature I intend to implement, this is going to hurt us! So first thing to do is clean up the tests. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss […]

Conway’s Game of Life #14 – Game Loop – Test ...

30 Mar, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

Let’s make our game loop interactive! Without user input any game is boring, right? So we need respective handling in the loop. Int his episode I’m test-driving it into our code. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss an Episode: http://goo.gl/whzDi1 ► Test-Driving […]

Conway’s Game of Life #13 – Game Loop – Input

27 Mar, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

Third step: We want the loop to render the game. This has to happen after the update, otherwise the game might lag. Order is easy to ensure with handcrafted stubs! ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss an Episode: http://goo.gl/whzDi1 ► Test-Driving the […]

Conway’s Game of Life #12 – Game Loop – Render

2 Mar, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

Ok, now lets make it a loop. Most time I spend on the test, adapting the test stub and the existing tests to the changes. The test design is evolving and leads the way. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss an Episode: […]

Conway’s Game of Life #11 – Game Loop – Loop

24 Feb, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

First thing we need is for the loop to update our game state on each iteration. While we write our test, we adjust the design to the new requirements and adapt our test-stub game to support the test we want to write. But hey, it’s not a loop yet! ► […]

Conway’s Game of Life #10 – Game Loop – Update

18 Feb, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

To get our game running, we need a game loop. Since I don’t have a clue about game development, I asked the pros: Eric Smith kindly allowed me to use the material from his blogpost series “Test-Driving the Game Loop”. And here it is: Getting started with the basic concepts. […]

Conway’s Game of Life #9 – Game Loop – Concept

11 Feb, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

If I look at old code of mine and I struggle to understand it, I know it’s time for a refactoring. Clean up the campground. This is the second part of me doing this. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss an Episode: […]

Conway’s Game of Life #8 – Boyscout Rule – Part ...

4 Feb, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Boyscout Rule / Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper