I have been working on a long project to build a video game. I am building a story-driven tactics game using the MonoGame framework.

As a beginner game developer I am learning a lot about programming in C-sharp and managing the game UI elements but it is hard to stay motivated on a project that might never end.

I have some time off this week and initially I was planning to spend the time working on my game but instead I got interested again in an algorithm that I am struggling to implement in Computational Geometry (I might make a separate post about this).

So I wondered. can I try making a game in a day?

I've been having a go at writing a video game in C# recently using the MonoGame framework.

Inspired by a post by Noel Berry about making video games without an engine, I wanted to try using Dear ImGui for debugging.

The idea is to be able to quickly display information about the state of the game, e.g. a character's stats, so that I can debug what is happening in the game.

This post will cover how I installed Dear ImGui and integrated it in my game.

A dear friend recently challenged me to write fizzbuzz without if statements. Let's try to build it in JavaScript.