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This is great, the idea of deconstructing well known games as a teaching method is pretty cool.

Knowing the effect that you are hoping to achieve while reading the code really helps in understanding the implementation.

Very nice, keep them coming :)

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Slightly on a tangent, but some may find this interesting. Super Mario World Camera Logic Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIMPYM0AQg

Wow that was really interesting.

The thing I found most surprising was at the end when he was able to go off the screen by going backwards which very much seems like a bug in their algorithm, but maybe "it's a feature".

That game definitely has good camera management though. I never sat down and thought about how elaborate their scheme was.

Not games but anything. I'd love to read a "write nginx" or "write lua" :)

Have you seen this? http://createyourproglang.com/

Is it really worth 40 dollars?

and what is with the lousy exchange rate. Ugh. Worse than paypal.

stick with Jack Crenshaw's "Let's build a compiler" http://www.penguin.cz/~radek/book/lets_build_a_compiler.pdf It is free and doesn't make bogus promises (also written well like his Embedded Systems Programming columns).

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