Finding a decent UML modelling tool is pretty difficult, and they’re often quite heavyweight programs with a whole bunch of features. Sometimes you just want to quickly make a little UML diagram to explain a concept, or quickly create an image of a simple diagram you have on paper, and installing a huge piece of …

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Introduction Calculating the number of divisors for a number is a fairly simple task in programming, it can be achieved with the following simple code: const int number = 50; // The number for which to count the divisors of   int count = 1; for ( int i = 1; i <= number / …

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When I was coming up with ideas for my Christmas game this year, I ended up thinking of one that would work best with procedurally generated (i.e. generated using a particular algorithm, but using randomly generated numbers etc. for content). This post shows some of my ideas and techniques for creating such a system, and …

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For those who don’t know what the Fedora Summer of Open Hardware is, it was a massive give-away of open hardware, by the Fedora Project, to contributors of the project. Each person who entered had the choice of which type of hardware to try and win: a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino board, or an OLPC …

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I’m currently working on a project (working title: TurretDefence) in which the player must protect a lone turret from being destroyed, and defeat all the incoming enemies. The tricky part is, however, there are no in-game controls. The player must edit the AI of the turret, using a script file that the game loads at …

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