I'm Ali 'codemonkey' Helmy; a programmer, budding indie game developer, web developer, amateur robotocist and all around geek with a thing for perfection, automation, optimisation and artificial intelligence. I create games, applications, scripts and anything else I can create with a text editor and a compiler
Icospheres
Dynamically generated globes, normals, menus and stumbles with droids
January was one hell of a an exciting month! I worked on several pretty exciting things, that it was hard to take time away from coding to post an update here. But alas, I have finally forced myself away from clang and onto here To begin with, I started to...... continue reading
Recap
Electric Sheep, Cross platform C++ development and Globes!
The last couple of months (of 2012) were both quite busy but also, quite fruitful for me At the day job, we managed to complete and ship a couple of iOS apps. This taught me a lot more about development for iOS and rekindled my love for the Objective-C language....... continue reading
Purple Wednesday
In honour of female gamers
I came across an article today with the title Woman Vs. Internet: How Anita Sarkeesian beat the trolls. Now I will admit, I had absolutely NO idea about that lovely lady, or her campaign. As I read further, though, I kept delving more and more into this horror story! As...... continue reading
Taking a Walk
Jumping into the art department head on
Today, I decided if I really was going to be a one man show on this project, then I better get started on the area I feared the most; the art department! Now, as you will soon find out, or already know, I really cannot draw to save my life....... continue reading
Plans
Getting down to the game design
Yesterday, I finally decided it was time to get down to business and start talking at least general game idea. The first and currently only rule that I have put for myself is that I would only make games that I myself would find fun to play, and would have...... continue reading