Learning Rust By Building The Old Terminal Game Beast From 1984, Part 4
In the last post we added path-finding to our beasts and a game loop. In this post we will finish the game by squishing beasts and moving through levels.
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I’m Dominik Wilkowski, a software engineer and engineering manager based in Australia.
Over the years, I’ve worked as a software engineer at different workplaces, including digital agencies and consultancies, Westpac, one of Australia’s four largest banks, and the federal government’s DTO. Eventually, my passion for building great software led me to build great teams as a manager, where I’ve held various engineering leadership roles at companies like Shopify. I currently serve as the CTO at The Working Party.
As I’ve transitioned into leadership, I’ve remained deeply connected to coding, dedicating time daily to personal projects and technical exploration. This blog is a chronicle of my ongoing coding adventures, and write-ups of tutorials I’ve given to teams about a technology.
This site was built with Hugo, forked from tomfran/typo and is open-source.
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Learning Rust By Building The Old Terminal Game Beast From 1984, Part 3
In the last post we setup our board and made the player push blocks around. In this post we will add path-finding to our beasts and add a game loop.
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Learning Rust By Building The Old Terminal Game Beast From 1984, Part 2
In the last post we set up our board and made the player walk around. In this post we will generate terrain for each level and implement a way for the player to push blocks.
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Learning Rust By Building The Old Terminal Game Beast From 1984, Part 1
You just read the Rust book and now want to apply your new skills to something real. Let’s build the terminal game I grew up with to harden your new skills and in the process learn how the terminal works and how to control it.
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Technical debt, moving by standing still
Sometimes progress looks like standing still. In software, that pause, the decision to improve what already exists rather than chase what’s next, is often the difference between systems that endure and those that collapse under their own weight.
This post explores why slowing down to strengthen the foundation is one of the most powerful moves a technology company can make. -
README
This is a README about what’s it like to work with me. I’ve asked past teams to review this document as I work with more people to keep this as accurate and fair as possible.