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Let’s explore the Arcade platform, which we plan to use in our dungeon program. Here’s how I like to learn a new system: by example.

The Python Arcade Library looks quite good. I quote from its history page:

The Python Arcade Library was created by Paul...

That make_lines method is horrid. Let’s continue cleaning things up a bit, starting there.

The current border-drawing code is this:

def draw_border(self, cell, screen): borders: BorderList = self.layout.get_borders(cell) lines = self.make_lines(cell) for border in borders: start, finish = lines[border.side] color = border.select_boundary(self.boundary_colo...

Are we close enough to having the right Border classes to try to draw them? Let’s take a look at how we might do that.

It has been about 19 hours since I last looked at the border code, so naturally my recollection of the details is poor.

Comment: Perhaps slightly more fair to myself, I’d say that I do not try to remember the details of my code, so there’s no...

What are we doing here? Where are we going? Are we going anywhere? Does it matter?

I started this dungeon map endeavor because my brother Hill was doing something with gerrymandering maps, and maybe general maps, and I got interested in producing random maps. One thing led to another and here we are. So the fundamental point of this program was to produce maps, and ...

I think about my code while writing it, and at other times. Here’s what I think today.

As I wake up in the morning, I often think, often in an almost dreamlike state, about my current programming project. And often I get what seems like a good idea. And sometimes, it actually is a good idea. The primary means for finding out is typically to try it.

This morni...