I spent an evening adding player input to my game, and most of it went on one bug that kept coming back wearing a different hat. The lesson turned out to be about something C# gives you for free.

A pointer to an entity seemed like the obvious thing to hand out. It was not, and working out why sent me back to the C# documentation rather than the Go.

Letting the player’s computer decide how fast the game runs causes problems. Picking my own rate turned out to be more interesting than I expected.

Leaving the engine, the framework and the AI code generation behind to build a puzzle platformer by hand, and what Go’s value semantics taught me in the first week.

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…