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Andy Balaam

@andybalaamTracked since May 2026

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Rank	Creator and why included	Paid members	Gap vs Andy Balaam	Freshness
#4	CodeAestheticWritingContent relevance + business context	67	66 more	Aug 16, 2026
#5	Al SweigartWritingContent relevance + business context	22	21 more	Aug 15, 2026
#6	Al's Geek LabWritingContent relevance + business context	11	10 more	Aug 11, 2026
#7	Andy BalaamProfileWritingPaid members position in Recommended cohort	1	Reference	Aug 12, 2026Stale
#7	AngelSixWritingContent relevance + business context	1	Same value	Aug 11, 2026

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Article Latest postPublicCode your first game: Snake in JavaScript (on Raspberry Pi)

We are going to code a whole game! No experience required: I will try to walk you through absolutely everything, and I will type in every single line of code to write a snake game.

Oct 12, 2020 0 likes 0 comments

Coding a tiny game in JavaScriptAndy live-streams coding a tiny game (well, not really a game at all) in very simple JavaScript, using Smolpxl, which is some helper code that makes it really simple to make a little retro game. Play games and make your own at https://smolpxl.artificialworlds.net !ImageSep 17, 2020Public 0 0 React ConceptsFeb 13, 2020ArticleFeb 13, 2020$1 tier & up 0 0 KotlinJS: First impressions (formed by writing Snake)Andy Balaam shares his experience of writing a snake game using Kotlin and compiling it to JavaScript to make a web site (KotlinJS).ArticleNov 30, 2019Public 0 0 Examples of Kotlin making java code betterOct 11, 2019ArticleOct 11, 2019$1 tier & up 0 0 Dependency Injection frameworks: reasons to avoid themDI frameworks were written to solve real problems and work very well, but I prefer to avoid using them. I will try to explain why, and also how I try to structure my projects to avoid those problems arising in the first place.ArticleOct 11, 2019Public 0 0 Python Async basics video (100 million HTTP requests)How I made 100 million HTTP requests in a single thread with Python. I go over the basic concepts that are used to write asynchronous Python code. Once I got my head around them, writing the code we reasonably straightforward, but but I got my head around them it was very confusing! More info: https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2019/02/26/python-async-basics-video-100-million-http-requests/VideoFeb 26, 2019Public 0 0 Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings)Andy shares the excitement he feels about actually properly understanding how character encoding works, and what the words mean (e.g. octet, code unit, code point).ArticleNov 24, 2018Public 0 0 Elm makes me happy (updated for Elm 0.19)Andy Balaam tells you why Elm, the front-end programming language makes him happy: it's immediate, clean, frustrating and rewarding.ArticleNov 9, 2018Public 0 0 Godot: making new objects at runtime (instancing)Andy continues making a game in the Godot 3 game engine, by showing how to make new copies of an object while the game is running. The trick is to convert the object to a scene, then load the scene in your code and call .instance().ArticleNov 9, 2018Public 0 0 Godot: Drag-and-drop of physics objectsAndy continues his adventure making a game in the Godot 3 game engine by allowing you to drag and drop objects that are also being affected by gravity and collisions in the physics engine.ArticleNov 7, 2018Public 0 0 Godot: 2D shapes bouncing off each otherSome things Andy learned about how to make 2D shapes that collide and bounce off each other in the Godot game engine, which makes it pretty easy to get a game up-and-running. More info: http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2018/11/06/godot-2d-shapes-bouncing-off-each-other-video/VideoNov 6, 2018Public 0 0

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