{"id":7805,"date":"2004-08-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/15\/programming-games\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"programming-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/15\/programming-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming games"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040811-tetris_amazing_blocks.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I think that every programmer tried to create a game.  At least once.  When it happens, a bunch of question usually pops up in the head of the young genious.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-students.stanford.edu\/~amitp\/gameprog.html\">This website<\/a> has few excellent answers to the most frequent questions that occur at the beginning stage, so if you feel like creating a computer game but don&#8217;t know where to start, check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from general things it nicely covers stuff like shortest path, artifical intelligence, objects, tiles, and much more. These are frequently useful in other applications too.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I think that every programmer tried to create a game. At least once. When it happens, a bunch of question usually pops up in the head of the young genious. This website has few excellent answers to the most frequent questions that occur at the beginning stage, so if you feel like creating a computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/15\/programming-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Programming games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23311,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/14\/git-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":7805,"position":0},"title":"git-game &#8211; a terminal game to test your git skills","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 14, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"git-game - a terminal game to test your git skills","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15573,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/warco-the-news-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":7805,"position":1},"title":"Warco &#8211; the news game","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As someone who spends many hours in FPS games, I found the concept of an FPS game with no shooting - Warco - interesting and thought provoking. \u00a0As Ars Technica puts it: Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. 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