I’ve been working on my hobby-project Arkonia for some years now. It had already grown into a large and complex system when I started using SwiftUI for the HUD, rather than my clumsy SpriteKit attempts. It seems time to take a breath and step back from my project, to consider its overall design, to examine the design of each component, to decide whether I can improve on anything to make the code easier to understand and debug, and of course for the app to run well.

A Basic Grid Object

What’s the point of formalizing something so basic? Judicious laziness, as always. Anything that makes for less typing and/or less thinking is a bonus in my world. Here’s a grid and some accessories that help on both fronts.