Accompanying code is open source, under either the MIT License [19] or the Apache v2 License [20] . Both allow use in commercial projects. Other projects are found at at github/amitp [21] and github/redblobgames [22] .

I’ve been curating game development articles since 1990 [7] , and my web site has been up since 1995 . All of my articles are available for free, with no signup and no ads. The main audience is independent, student, and hobbyist software developers. I started experimenting with interactive explanations in 2004, but didn’t figure out until 2007 the style of interactive explanation I use now [8] .

About me

I’ve been helping people make games since 1990. I wrote games earlier in life, with Solar Realms Elite[23] being the most well known[24], then worked on an environmental simulation game called BlobCity, then took a break for over a decade. The recent rise of indie, mobile, tablet, social, and web games have made me interested in game development again. My current passion is using interactivity on the web for learning, especially computer science and math. I’ve started with game development because it’s a rich source of interesting problems that can be explained visually. With modern web browsers, we can use explanations that don’t follow the formats used in magazines, technical papers, and books. We can combine learning by reading, learning by watching, and learning by doing[25].

I previously worked with Root-1[26] on educational games, Wild Shadow Studios on Realm of the Mad God[27], Peter Norvig on interactive diagrams for Artifical Intelligence: A Modern Approach[28], and Nonagon Games on A Chronicle of Misdeeds[29].

If you’re in the Silicon Valley area and want to chat in person, email me at redblobgames@gmail.com. I’m especially interested in algorithms related to maps, procedural generation, and pathfinding, but love to chat about anything.