Hi All! Welcome back to part 5 of our Blazor 2d Gamedev series. Today we’ll see how we can move away from procedural code using composition. Last time we saw how easy it is to load a sprite and move it across the screen. The issue with this solution is...
2020, Jul 24 — 3 minute readHi All! Today I decided to take a quick break from my Blazor gamedev series and talk about resilience. We’ll see how to call a REST API from a Blazor webassembly app using an HTTP Client and how to handle errors using Polly. As usual, I’ve pushed a sample repository...
2020, Jul 19 — 4 minute readHi All! Welcome back to part 4 of our Blazor 2d Gamedev series. Today we’re going to refactor the code of part 3 and start moving the sprite across the screen. The final result will be something like this: </figure> Example 3 and 4 will render exactly the same thing...
2020, Jul 14 — 2 minute readHi All! Welcome to part 3 of the Blazor 2d Gamedev series. Today we’re going to see how to render a sprite and handle the window resize event. Last time we saw how easy it is to initialize the HTML Canvas and render some text. Now we’re going to expand...
2020, Jul 09 — 2 minute readHi All! Welcome to part 2 of the Blazor 2d Gamedev series. Today we’re going to see how to initialize the canvas and start rendering something. Last time I’ve introduced the GitHub repo, so if you haven’t already, feel free to take a quick look at the code of the...
2020, Jul 06 — 3 minute readEvery now and then I go back to game development. It’s literally what brought me into this world of coding, something like 32 years ago. This time I decided to do some experiments with Blazor and 2D graphics. I don’t have a precise goal in mind right now, just playing...
2020, Jul 02 — 2 minute readI have been spending quite some time lately playing with Blazor. One of the nice things is that with webassembly you can generate a static website and have it hosted on GitHub Pages for free. Most importantly, the whole process can be automated with GitHub Actions so you don’t have...
2020, Jun 30 — 4 minute readHi All! Last time we gave a look at the client, today we’re going to focus on the backend and see how we can write a gRPC server that can be called from a Blazor webassembly application. Did I mention how nerd I was? Yeah, probably I did. Just have...
2020, Jun 26 — 3 minute read