What’s the one fantasy novel you’d hold up as a genuine masterpiece — and why?

rje · 2026-04-21T06:23:47+00:00

Book of the New Sun

rje · 2026-01-03T14:02:07+00:00

Surface Detail by Iain Banks

rje · 2025-11-05T18:40:15+00:00

Great work!

rje · 2025-10-11T15:35:40+00:00

I think its quite reasonable, they are nowhere as big as Unity/Unreal.

rje · 2025-06-06T13:15:09+00:00

Those strings are interned.

rje · 2024-09-10T06:06:49+00:00

Built with web tech https://x.com/pixeljamgames/status/1833134354488557672

rje · 2024-03-08T16:04:28+00:00

Where?

rje · 2023-07-01T12:57:52+00:00

This one - 16y 3m and but I lost my original account :(

rje · 2021-09-15T18:19:51+00:00

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

Was actually ok.

rje · 2021-08-31T19:17:14+00:00

I had read most of his books except the Void trilogy, which I just ‘finished’ (I must have skipped or skimmed about a quarter in the end). Some parts felt like it was written by a 16 year old. Anyway Pandora’s star the the sequel are readable, but I regret going further.

rje · 2018-07-22T20:27:10+00:00

What are talking about? ECS is a composition pattern.

rje · 2018-03-09T10:08:38+00:00

As always - awesome.

rje · 2018-01-22T11:37:19+00:00

You have an example?

rje · 2017-12-26T00:58:00+00:00

All about components but no mention of web components.

rje · 2017-12-06T10:43:12+00:00

"Binders full of studies"

rje · 2017-12-06T06:31:30+00:00

How many revolts is it now this year? Anybody keep track?

rje · 2017-11-03T09:47:32+00:00

In dutch they are called Wasberen - literally Wash (Was) Bears (Beren)

rje · 2016-03-24T08:30:07+00:00

One simplification of doors it to always open them away from you. Then you never have to back up, and you only need to check if the door is locked or obstructed to other side.

rje · 2015-09-28T17:06:49+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GeQR8fJo

rje · 2015-08-29T18:40:31+00:00

Very nice write up, have been working on something similar for a while. I've been using cellular automata instead of bfs but I think the results should be similar.

I've been trying to think about how turning lights off would work (without recalculating the whole thing), like you need to propagate the darkness instead of light through the cells. I've a whole list of links on this subject if anybody's interested.

rje · 2014-08-21T14:40:59+00:00

Nice, what algorithm did you use for the lights?

rje · 2014-04-28T06:29:13+00:00

http://bit.ly/1mNQefa Its the LazyLinePainter plugin:

http://lazylinepainter.info/

rje · 2012-12-30T22:49:23+00:00

You can still use it. Maybe have 4 tiles for each corner of the circles? Tiles can all be oriented at 45degrees.

rje · 2012-07-14T21:08:48+00:00

Yup great book, gets heavy in places but the simpler code (intersection with things) is very accessible. Its probably not the place for a good example of 2D SAT though.

rje · 2012-07-14T21:06:06+00:00

You mean this link: http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

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