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May 05, 2016

Virtual Reality (VR) - Nothing New Here Folks

I keep reading all the hype about "VR", and every time I wish I could lecture the author about how almost nothing is actually new or innovative. A lot the technology surrounding VR has it's roots almost 40 years ago !

Here is a short history lesson:
1950's - first experimentation in virtual reality …

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April 29, 2016

I Want To Live In The City of Glass

I am always interested seeing all the unique and creative designs game developers come up with for their city. My favorite architecture styles would have to be modernist, brutalist, and classic futurist.
After watching some Steam ( and it's child processes ) tends to eat up a lot of my RAM, and continuously attempts to download large 'updat…

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September 24, 2015

Java - Getting The Path Of The Jar File

Whenever you are working with files in Java, sometimes you need to get the full path to the directory the .jar file is located in. Most of the time you can just use
.String path = "./File_Name.txt"; // Note the "." before the "/"
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when dealing with reading/writing/creating files and directories - HOW…

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March 09, 2015

Detroit - "We Don't Want New Business"

A few months ago I had a great idea for a business in Detroit - a specialized reclamation company that would provide a low cost method for cleaning up run down Detroit buildings.

With a rough draft of business plan in hand, I started researching all the licensing and ordinances I would need to com…

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March 03, 2015

Who Is Springtrap From Five Nights At Freddy's ?

The game "5 Nights At Freddy's 3" hasn't been out a full day yet, and already there is speculation on who the animatronic "Springtrap" is.
One of the most popular theories is that he the only animatronic that is not a phantom - Bonnie.
I do not believe Springtrap is from the other games.
Let's take a …

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February 07, 2015

Identity Theft - Credit Monitoring Is NOT Enough !

Very recently I found out that I was one of over 80 million accounts that were hacked from Anthem ( due to their non existent account security ) .
I immediately filed a security freeze with all 3 Credit Bureaus, and than started doing research on ways the hackers could use my personal information …

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July 13, 2014

Eclipse Indigo Bug Workaround - ( Export > Launch Configuration ) Invalid Configs

There is a bug in Eclipse Indigo that has been driving me up a wall the last few days.
Whenever you delete a Java project, it's launch configuration ( File > Export > (type) > Launch Configuration ) remains on the list ( and is invalid ).
The invalid configuration does not show up on Run >…

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July 08, 2014

Simplified Example Of How To Use JPanel & JFrame With Lots Of Different Stuff

Below you will find a fully functional code example that shows how to do many common tasks with JPanel & JFrame. I stripped out as much useless "fluff" as I could, leaving the code as bare as possible( all code is in a single class ) .
If you have a question on a specific area please refer to a …

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June 20, 2014

Cheating At ' Don't Starve ' By Modifying The Game Code

Don't Starve is an interesting survival & adventure game that places a player into a brutal survival environment, were one seemingly innocent mistake can cause instant death.
After playing this game for a while there were many things that started to annoy the #### out of me ...
IE:
* Always eating…

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March 06, 2014

"Don't Eat Fruit" - World Health Organization

The World Health Organization has announced that it will be cutting back the "calories from sugar recommendation" to 5% of daily consumption. [LINK]

Problem is - no one has bothered to do the math.

The daily calorie intake for an adult human is 2,000 per day. [LINK]
This makes the max sugar intake 1…

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March 06, 2014

My Project Is Coming Along Nicely ( V 0.0.15 )

I mentioned a couple days ago I was working on a basic map generator - that has taken a life of it's own.
Here is the latest version of that game project ! [Download Link]
If you want to mess around with it, download the file ( Java 1.7 required ), open your command prompt, navigate to were the fil…

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March 05, 2014

Send In The Java Clones !

In Java whenever you want to copy an object's current state, you use the clone() method.
Simply using this does not work Object a = new Object(); Object b = a; // <-- this creates a reference, not a copy
Fortunately Java has built in methods for creating a perfect copy of your object's cu…

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March 05, 2014

More Than What I Expected

An interesting thing has been going on the last couple days - a project I started out to just test map generation has taken a life of it's own.

The project was only going to last a day or so - just long enough to test item spawning on a map - , but for some reason it now looks more like a game "ske…

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March 03, 2014

C++ File Read Write Save Delete Example

A simplified example of how to work with files in C++ .
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// Create File, Write To File// Close File// Open File, Dump Text To Aray// Close File// Delete File#include #include #include using namespace std;int main(){  string str[1];  ofstream a_file ("Ftest.txt");  a_file<<"File Test";  a_file.…

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March 03, 2014

Very Basic JavaScript Game Code

The following is a very basic JavaScript game were you move a square around the screen. This script demonstrated how easy it is to set up your canvas and elements.
.[code=js:0] var c=document.getElementById("x");var ctx=c.getContext("2d");var FPS = 30;var SPEED = 10;var px = 200;var py = 200;var wx …

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March 02, 2014

PHP Login Page With SQL Support

This is not the best written longin page ever written, but should give you a good idea how to write your own. This code includes it's own anti injection code, and also uses it's own session IDs.

The SQL.PHP file has mechanisms for auto building tables, deleting elements from tables and outputting w…

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March 02, 2014

99 Bottles Of Beer Using AWCode

This outputs the entire song "99 Bottles Of Beer" and is written in AWCode.

 @ AW Code is quite literally an object oriented scripting language.  @ There are no variables, so certain "hacks" have to be used to get around this. @ All output is displayed on Sign5.rwx ====Model: Sign5.rwxDescription[T…

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March 02, 2014

LSL Casino Games Code

Here are the LSL scripts for several of my casino games I wrote a long-long time ago.
The following is the original SL forum post ( spelling mistakes and all ) under my user name "Shippou Oud" .[quote]

Since the ban on advertising casino related items, I can no longer sell the items these were in, s…

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March 02, 2014

Very Basic Java Game Code

Here is the working code for a very basic Java game were you move an oval around the screen.
This is to demonstrate the basics of paint(), KeyListener, JFrame and JPanel

import java.awt.Color;import java.awt.Dimension;import java.awt.Graphics;import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;import java.awt.event.KeyLi…

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March 02, 2014

The Other Presidents Before Washington

The period in the history of the United States that almost all the history books fails to chronicle is the political history before George Washington as elected president ( ironically he almost ended up as king ).
There were 8 men who carried the title "President Of The United States" before George …

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