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Ok, I have uploaded a new version of my game code. It’s still not a game at all really, but I have done some new stuff. The main improvements are the ability to move in 8 directions on the map and to wrap around the east-west edges of the map. Also, the [...]

Holy cow. I happened to check out CivFanatics today and found some exciting info: According to Civilization IV lead programmer Soren Johnson, Civ IV is going to be scriptable with Python!! I am certain that I find this much more exciting than you, my readership, but since this is my blog, I had [...]

The other day, I stumbled upon OpenCiv - a Civilization I clone written in Python. I found it while searching for information on tile based strategy games in Python to learn more about making my own game (see a couple entries ago). The code for OpenCiv is getting on 10 years old now, [...]

Enough already. I’m through playing games!
Ok, not really, but instead of playing one right now I am making my own. I don’t have too many specifics right now. It is going to be a tile-based strategy game a-la Civilization (but not as refined/good/fun/insertPositiveAdjectiveHere). It is going to be what I make [...]

Friends and Family - there is a new Curtis video in the secret Curtis section. Those of you at Joseph’s party might have seen it already. I won’t give away any more than that. It’s a bit of a hefty download, but it’s worth it.
For those of you who have had problems [...]

This question came up on the python tutor list:
What is the most convincing way to mimick this in Python?

#include <stdio .h>

#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1

int main(void) {
printf(”What do you get if you multiply six by nine: %d\n”, SIX *
NINE);
return 0;
}

I dutifully came up with this answer…

class define:
… [...]

… the dowski.com blog emerged, unscathed!
So this is my first post in about a month. I won’t bother to make excuses. I’ll just tell you all a little bit about what is going on.
We bought our first house a couple months ago, and just moved in a couple weekends ago. Before that, [...]