Huw Collingbourne

Program Adventure Games with the BIFF Framework

As a passionate adventure game player and programmer, from the 1980s onwards, I’ve decided that the time has come to help other […]

Our newest book is The Little Book Of Adventure Game Programming. This provides a step-by-step guide to creating a retro text adventure […]

I have no idea why Microsoft decided to change the New Project dialog in Visual Studio 2019. The old New Project dialog […]

You can’t get away from pointers in C. Programmers familiar with other languages in which you never (or very rarely) see pointers […]

If you are trying to understand recursion, I strongly advise that you step through your code using a good debugger. In this […]

Recursion is a powerful – in fact, an essential – technique that all programmers need to be comfortable using. But initially it […]

In my last post I explained how to start a C Project in Visual Studio. But you now have the problem of […]

Yes, it can be done! For some reason, Microsoft doesn’t have an option to create a C project in Visual Studio. When […]