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This post is just for me to write down some ideas bout how to architect the Unity card game I wrote about once before. The ideas here are the ideas I came up with once I knew what I needed to make the card game work… so far….
Continue readingJust to be clear, I am discussing writing a 2D card game based on a board game and I do not have permission to write it or any affiliation with the board game designers or manufacturers. I don’t intend to share or distribute this game to anyone ever….
Continue readingI was debugging a new feature in the Linkage program and the program seemed to hang. I couldn’t select anything. I thought it was a symptom of debugging but now a user has reported the same problem, I think. I’m trying to figure out what I did recently…
Continue readingI’m working on a adding a text message under the dimensions entry box int he tool bar. When you click on a connector and the text box shows x and y coordinates, the text under the box will show “x, y coordinates” or something like that. If you…
Continue readingI updated the site so you can now get Linkage 3.7.10 from the Linkage download page. This version has that bug fix that I reported a while ago.
Continue readingSomeone asked me to add this to the program itself, and I’ll do that sometime. For now, here’s a playlist of Linkage tutorial on YouTube that I created: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGxa5y5etMwAY238yKu1orXTnzD9h5nL_ There are two or three simple tutorials that someone else made. You can find them doing a search. Since…
Continue readingI think I finally found a bug in the Linkage software that has been, well, bugging me, for months or even years. When deleting a link that has multiple fastened elements, sometimes the Linkage program would crash. The bug only happened intermittently because the order of links and…
Continue readingThe Linkage simulator works great when there are a lot of links that all chain together into some interesting complex movement. But one place I didn’t do much work on is related to links that just sort of hang on and move with others. Look at the picture…
Continue readingI’m currently adding features to an existing Android app. It is written in Java, a language that I can write in but not at all as competently as C++. The programmer is very skilled in many areas but I think that he lacks a little discipline in removing…
Continue readingIt’s really just a trammel thing that somehow got named after Archimedes. At least that’s one story I read. Archimedes Trammel in Action I had to add grid and element snapping for sliding connectors in the latest (not yet available) Linkage program. That was a tough feature to…
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