I warned this series would be eclectic, from Leonard Cohen into Run The Jewels. A left field hip-hop duo make up of El-P and Killer Mike, both prolific artists in their own rights but this pairing is far

Though I would start a series on albums I think everyone should give a listen. This will be a very eclectic series as I have a wide range of music I love. From Dvorak to Death Grips and anything in between

Erik Meijer is one of my favorite people to learn different coding concepts from. Really smart and his talks are fun. He has worked on some big stuff. Played a big part in C# LINQ and RX. Big on Haskell

Introduction Not had much time for this recently but here is a quick update, I now report what the player or any actor has done in the game. These messages are just added to the same list as the error

In my earlier post "Some coding fun - The expression tree challenge :)" I showed an expression tree structure in F#, a functional first .NET language. Nobody picked up the gauntlet and gave an

Warning first, this game has one of the most brutal learning curves ever. Toribash is a 3D fighting game but turn based. Each turn you you get to manipulate all the joints of your fighter to lock, contract,

I thought I would have some fun a create a syntax tree for simple calculations to show how expressive F# can be with a tiny amount of code. The challenge should you accept it is post implementations in

Introduction Today I added the ability to unlock a doors if you have the correct key. I also had a long fight with one of my monadic computations, it was not doing what I expected and I was banging my

Introduction Today I have added logging and the display of error messages generated by the player commands. If you have been following the series so far you will know the commands contain a set of validators

So I have finalized a trip I have wanted to do for many years now, visit Chernobyl and Pripyat. I am sure some people will think I am mad but there are few places you can visit today that show how nature

On my more recent posts I have taken to not up voting them myself. This means I no longer get the curation reward for my own posts. The reasons for this are simple enough: I give back to the people voting

Introduction There has been a gap since my last post, lots going IRL that means I have not had the time to do much coding at home. Finally got back to my Rogue. In this part I have re-structured the items

I have not had much time for my Roguelike so thought I would throw together a quick cheat sheet of some basic F# syntax to help people understand some of the code // Declare value binding let unitValue

This is not the first time a breaking change has hit the language although the last time few probably noticed. Last breaking change The last breaking change in the language was around the semantics of

Introduction You can now take items that are on the floor of the map. This triggered another round of refactor when I realized the item storage in the game way incorrect, it was too complex and gained

Introduction Recursion really is a thing of beauty :) I have updated the player command generator so it will handle commands that take multiple key presses. The working commands are now: W - Up A - Left

I have been writing code a long time and have used most of the paradigms over the years. I have worked in procedural languages like Fortran and C then moved into C++ in the early days of that language.

Introduction Today I added working doors in my roguelike, only open and closed state so far as no keys yet to unlock a locked door. I have also done some cleanup/refactor work to ease moving forwards.

Introduction I have the basics running and can move around the map! Just two stupid bugs in the code base, that was all. Not bad given I have never run a single line until today, not even used the REPL

Introduction The command structure and game loop are the focus this time, at last :) There have also been some supporting changes which I will see the full detail in the GitHub Repo. The change list is