This post will discuss the Game of Life, which is: a zero-player game, famous in the history of computing; a cellular automaton; a deterministic system that follows a simple ruleset; a creation of the British mathematician John Conway. Don’t worry if you don’t entirely understand what all those terms mean, because we’re going to go […]

I wanted to create a fairly simple game, which would be fun to play but quick to build, so that I could upload it to Itch, the popular website that allows users to host their own indie games. My intention was to try and find out how easy — or hard — the process would […]

The Ebiten game framework was written by Japanese software engineer Hajime Hoshi. The framework is designed to make it easier for Go programmers to create native-looking 2D games, by taking care of all the boilerplate code for us. (Note that since I first wrote this post, Ebiten has been renamed to Ebitengine.) Installing the Ebiten […]

Since chess is one of the oldest games in the world, the black-and-white chessboard is an instantly recognizable design. It originated in Asia around 1,500 years ago. In this post, we’ll create an image of a chessboard in the Go programming language. But we’ll gradually think through the problems involved before we actually draw it. […]