Hi! I'm Ben, I discuss software development.

I been working on Riflestorm solo for over a year now, along the way I’ve found some great tools so I thought I’ll share them.

Since the beginning of this blogs existence I been using Jekyll, and I decided to fully switch over. After using Middleman for both Throw the Project, I found Middleman to be better for a few good reasons:

When I first started making Flash games years ago, I found myself facing the same problem in every game and could not find a solution online.

When creating a role-playing game you’ll quickly be faced with the daunting problem of storing possibly hundreds of items, spells, abilities, classes, npcs and other data about the game.

Hub is a command line tool that extends git with Github specific commands, and also some other git enhancements but this post is just about the Github aspect. I originally thought it was not useful but I gave it a try and after a few months, it’s now part of my everyday tool kit.

For over 5 years I have been using Ubuntu as my main desktop and for the last 6 months Elementary OS. Today I have given up hope on the desktop Linux and have reluctantly switched to OSX.

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I have created many games over the years – mostly small Flash games. And I feel that I have finally constructed a robust game architure which should be the basis of every game. This is inspired by the MVC pattern but with some modifications – a game isn’t a user interface but instead revolves around a game loop.

So I was given the popular task of creating a site for my sister. It had to be simple enough for her to make edits, upload images, free to host and most importantly low maintenance – I don’t want to spend time ironing issues.