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Shunting Yard (Part 1)
A magical algorithm for parsing expressions.
- Part 1: Basic Skeleton
- Part 2: Precedence
- Part 3: Parenthesis
- Part 4: Unary Operators (not written!)
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Inner Demons (LD29) Postmortem
Voting has officially ended for Ludum Dare 29. My entry was ranked as follows:
| Rank (of 1493) | Category | Rating | Percent | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #63 | Mood | 3.88 | 95.8% | +31.9% |
| #70 | Humor | 3.64 | 95.3% | +22.0% |
| #101 | Innovation | 3.88 | 93.2% | +26.5% |
| #116 | Overall | 3.76 | 92.2% | +23.3% |
| #148 | Fun | 3.60 | 90.1% | +10.9% |
| #149 | Audio | 3.50 | 90.0% | N/A |
| #227 | Theme | 3.64 | 84.8% | +52.3% |
| #551 | Graphics | 3.17 | 63.1% | -8.0% |
Average score: 88.1% (+23.0% improvement from previous entry)
If you’re curious, you can play my game, Inner Demons! Let’s dive into the postmortem…
Ludum Dare 29 Live-Blog!
Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 29 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.
Winter Olympics Game Jam
I decided to challenge myself this weekend, with a faux-game-jam. I came up with a theme on Friday (Winter Olympics), and built Sled Drifter! over the course of the long weekend.
Diner Devil! (LD28) Postmortem
Voting has officially ended for Ludum Dare 28. My entry was ranked as follows:
| Rank (of 1284) | Category | Rating | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| #267 | Fun | 3.22 | 79.2% |
| #343 | Humor | 2.61 | 73.3% |
| #371 | Graphics | 3.17 | 71.1% |
| #399 | Overall | 3.13 | 68.9% |
| #427 | Innovation | 3.00 | 66.7% |
| #464 | Mood | 2.81 | 63.9% |
| #867 | Theme | 2.14 | 32.5% |
Average score: 65.1%
If you’re curious, you can play my game, Diner Devil! Let’s dive into the postmortem…
Two-Dimensional Bin Packing
Given a collection of different sized images, how can you efficiently pack them into one big image?
Brute-forcing the problem is too expensive - so here we come up with a simple heuristic that works pretty well.
Ludum Dare 28 Live-Blog!
Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 28 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.
How to Fix Banding in Gradients
Photoshop’s gradient algorithm can have banding artifacts when drawing subtle gradients. The fix: dithering.
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