From scratch to a 2D Assassin's Creed game: Part IV

In this post, I am going to add the guards to the game and also getting super geeky on the applicability of some high-school math to videogames. As I mentioned before, the purpose of this game at the end will be to find a selected player (the king) without getting noticed by the guards. This means we need to add some guards to the map and give t... Read more 01 May 2021 - 8 minute read

From scratch to a 2D Assassin's Creed game: Part III

Today’s post is going to be a quite short one but an important feature has been added to the game, namely some barriers to restricting the movement of the playable character. First of all, I have created a proper map, a new background for the game. I have used a map creator app, which is used to create maps for Heroes III (one of the favorite ga... Read more 08 Apr 2021 - 3 minute read

From scratch to a 2D Assassin's Creed game: Part II

In this second part of creating a fully functioning AC-type game, I will describe how to make our player moving around with the w-a-d keys. In the previous post, the playable character has been created and we have changed its position by pressing key w. Now we want to allow it to change direction and at the end, we will add some animations to th... Read more 05 Apr 2021 - 5 minute read

From scratch to a 2D Assassin's Creed game: Part I

I have just recently discovered pygame, an amazingly fun package in Python by watching this quick tutorial. In my view, it is a perfect package if you just got into programming to create one of your first little projects, but it is also a lot of fun if you consider yourself a bit more experienced programmer as I do. It is an excellent choice to ... Read more 27 Mar 2021 - 5 minute read

How to create your own package in Julia

In this post, I will show you how to create your own Julia package in just a few easy steps. I have found the Julia programming language about a year ago and since then I am a huge fan. My thesis required a lot of time-consuming Monte Carlo simulations and originally the code was written in MatLab and it was just fine to finish my thesis but I ... Read more 15 Mar 2021 - 2 minute read