{"id":9967,"date":"2010-11-19T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2010-11-19T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T17:06:19","slug":"lets-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9967","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been corresponding with Michael Goodfellow, a fellow coder who had recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sea-of-memes.com\/LetsCode1\/LetsCode1.html\">begun a blog detailing a game he&#8217;s working on<\/a>.  If you enjoy the coding write-ups that I do around here then do make sure to give this a look.  He&#8217;s actually working on an MMO.  A few people have nudged me to talk about the technology behind Minecraft, but his post explains the core concepts. Pay special attention to the stuff on Octrees. An Octree is just a three-dimensional version of a quadtree, which I <a href=\"?p=142\">wrote about<\/a> way back in February 2006. (Hey! This site turned 5 years old back in September and I didn&#8217;t notice!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of &#8220;coding in public&#8221; like this.  When you&#8217;re working on a solo project you might have to plow months into your work before you even have something playable enough to show off, and those months of working in the dark can be disheartening.  I&#8217;ve found writing about my work also helps to to organize it in my mind. And it makes for an entertaining read for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Do check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sea-of-memes.com\/LetsCode1\/LetsCode1.html\">Let&#8217;s Code<\/a> and let him know what you think.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been corresponding with Michael Goodfellow, a fellow coder who had recently begun a blog detailing a game he&#8217;s working on. If you enjoy the coding write-ups that I do around here then do make sure to give this a look. He&#8217;s actually working on an MMO. A few people have nudged me to talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}