It wasn't but a couple months ago that I had no idea how to maintain my code. I was programming with C# and was working on a project that I literally put hundreds of hours into. After that much time, as the project started to evolve, I began to fear that some change that I might make today... would break all of the code that I did over the...

For the last several years, I've wanted to be able to make simple little games like I used to make with VB6. They would have sprites, animations, all that fun, low level stuff. bitblt was my favorite highschool past time. Unfortunately, MS killed VB6! Well... it wasn't really that amazing of a technology I supposed, so maybe killed...

I'm thinking about building a game to help me with a novel I'm writing (lol, it sounds weird to me too). One of the first things you need to develop before you can start working on the game is coming up with a map system. You need a way to serialize an environment for your character to exist in... You need to be able to put the pretty...