Assorted cables and wires

Hello there

Welcome to my blog!

I’m an indie game developer focusing on point & click adventure games. I love making stuff from scratch, such as my own game engines and scripting languages. Currently working on Uncle Lee’s Cookbook.

I plan to use this blog as my “box of assorted cables and wires” (hence the name) where I write about various things that I learn how to do as I work on my engine and games, both as a way of remembering how they work when I inevitably forget and to share them with other people who may be trying to solve the same problems.

  1. May 16, 2024

    Savegames

    Savegames. I avoided them with the first three Ines games with the (barely defendable) excuse that they are short enough to be ok without them. Our latest point & click adventure game The founders of …
  2. May 8, 2024

    Smooth pixel-perfect parallax scrolling

    Introduction The latest entry in my series of adventure games (currently in progress) is the first to have long backgrounds with scrolling and parallax. The game (with the exception of the cursor) is all …
  3. August 16, 2023

    How I set up my games for translation

    Introduction I’m currently in the process of translating my latest game, so I decided to write about the system I’m using to make things simpler for myself. I’m doing this for two reasons: It …
  4. April 30, 2023

    Using SDL2 to mount an archive from the Android APK assets with PhysicsFS

    Introduction The C++ game engine that I’ve been working on stores game data in a custom binary archive that I mount using PhysicsFS in order to access individual files. On the desktop version of the …
  5. April 30, 2023

    How to easily build a macos application without a mac by using CI/CD tools

    Introduction I’ve been making a C++ game engine from scratch in the past few months, and one of the first things I worked on after getting the basics working was making sure that the engine compiled and …