December 21, 2005
So, last Friday, I was "Let Go" from my job.
A little more than a week before Christmas. Thanks, boss.
Fortunately, I have scrambled and managed to line up some side work, and there should be unemployment, so things are going to be OK in the short term.
Looking to the long term, I am turbo-sending re…
A little more than a week before Christmas. Thanks, boss.
Fortunately, I have scrambled and managed to line up some side work, and there should be unemployment, so things are going to be OK in the short term.
Looking to the long term, I am turbo-sending re…
December 09, 2005
1) Notepad++ is the greatest Konfabulator Widget creation tool ever.
2) JetLag Konfabulator Widget(rename zip file to JetLag.widget). Comma and period to move, space to start a game.
3) regarding the development of Konfabulator widgets: a subtle bug surfaced in the development of the JetLag widget.…
2) JetLag Konfabulator Widget(rename zip file to JetLag.widget). Comma and period to move, space to start a game.
3) regarding the development of Konfabulator widgets: a subtle bug surfaced in the development of the JetLag widget.…
October 28, 2005
I present to you: Flash ASCII!
And you can see it here!
And the swf comes in under 10k.
The ASCII characters exist in a single MovieClip, each character in its own frame(it took the most time to trace them all from the original bitmap.). A Color object is used to tint it. A white square, similarly t…
And you can see it here!
And the swf comes in under 10k.
The ASCII characters exist in a single MovieClip, each character in its own frame(it took the most time to trace them all from the original bitmap.). A Color object is used to tint it. A white square, similarly t…
October 28, 2005
One of the cool things about Flash is that you can nest MovieClips within one another, and each MovieClip behaves essentially like it's own subprogram, and runs its own code in response to events that it receives.
The downside is that when you put MovieClips inside of other MovieClips, timing issues…
The downside is that when you put MovieClips inside of other MovieClips, timing issues…
October 19, 2005
Now that they're all down to about a day left, I figure I'll let y'all know about the stuff I have up on eBay. I'm clearing all of my programming books, as well as my video tapes.
You can find them here: eBay Auctions
You can find them here: eBay Auctions
October 18, 2005
I would like to thank GameDev.net for the lovely wedding gifts, which I received yesterday. I have the strange distinction of having a website give me a (albeit rather belated) wedding present, which certainly impressed my coworkers.
August 20, 2005
PlayDeez Games made it onto Shinder's List.
(not to be confused with Shindler's list in any respect).
And I don't even know who Shinder is.
And I'm actually rather late on this, as I believe the '=' looking glyph in Japanese means "2", so it was posed on the first of Feb to his site.
(not to be confused with Shindler's list in any respect).
And I don't even know who Shinder is.
And I'm actually rather late on this, as I believe the '=' looking glyph in Japanese means "2", so it was posed on the first of Feb to his site.
August 16, 2005
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Okay, at this point, there are things I like about Konfabulator widgets, and things I don't.
I like that making them is easy. I like that the environment in which they run is absolutely free. I like that the environment is multi-platform, but I can still reach more people with Flash becaus…
August 15, 2005
Konfabulator Click The Yellow Rhombus
I almost feel silly zipping up a Konfabulator widget like this, considering that the .widget file is just a renamed .zip file...
Oh, well.
August 13, 2005
Screen Shot #3: Minimap in the Upper Left Corner
Screen Shot #4: Minimap with Gameboard Underneath
And because of the way I structured all of the graphics rendering classes, I use the same board, and render it two times in a different renderer, once for the board, and once for the minimap. The tiles…
Screen Shot #4: Minimap with Gameboard Underneath
And because of the way I structured all of the graphics rendering classes, I use the same board, and render it two times in a different renderer, once for the board, and once for the minimap. The tiles…
August 13, 2005
I got CyberBox to the point where it'll play the first level correctly, so that's something.
With games like these, while there is a lot of non-game specific code that is used(rendering, tile plotting and scrolling math, etc), most of the game itself is in "Board::MoveToken". I still have not imple…
With games like these, while there is a lot of non-game specific code that is used(rendering, tile plotting and scrolling math, etc), most of the game itself is in "Board::MoveToken". I still have not imple…
August 13, 2005
It is still all smoke and mirrors. I just wanted to see what a level would look like.
I've got a good deal of the isometric rendering code (the stuff that plots tiles and scrolls around the map).
The game will be keyboard controlled.
You can only move X+1,Y+1, X-1 or Y-1, which to our view is diagon…
August 12, 2005
Download the original CyberBox game on this page.
I also like his other games, and I'm thinking of redoing them as well.
August 10, 2005
A few months ago, I married in to a somewhat idiosyncratic family, and right now they are experiencing a great deal of chaos (the details of which I won't go into here).
Last night, I managed to put into words the rules by which this family lives, and here they are:
Rule #1: Don't f*ck with Kathy (i.…
Last night, I managed to put into words the rules by which this family lives, and here they are:
Rule #1: Don't f*ck with Kathy (i.…
July 29, 2005
The other day, a colleague and I were discussing the potential code for new system. This new system would need to operate on multiple (okay! two) platforms.
But we wanted to make most of the code usable on either platform, so we needed to write platform independent code, provide abstract interfaces…
But we wanted to make most of the code usable on either platform, so we needed to write platform independent code, provide abstract interfaces…
July 24, 2005
Been thinking about the DD combat/statistics...
Fighting Fantasty books have three stats: Skill, Stamina, and Luck.
The activities I have that will need attribute checks:
Finding secret doors
Picking Locks
Finding traps
Disarming traps
Searching for hidden items in a room
Avoiding the damage from traps
Figh…
Fighting Fantasty books have three stats: Skill, Stamina, and Luck.
The activities I have that will need attribute checks:
Finding secret doors
Picking Locks
Finding traps
Disarming traps
Searching for hidden items in a room
Avoiding the damage from traps
Figh…
July 23, 2005
http://www.playdeez.com/dungeondelver
I now have the "modify your account" stuff done. It includes the ability to change your display name, your password, or to close your account.
There is no way to change the account password, at least not for the average user... an administrator can. I just coul…
I now have the "modify your account" stuff done. It includes the ability to change your display name, your password, or to close your account.
There is no way to change the account password, at least not for the average user... an administrator can. I just coul…
July 22, 2005
Dungeon Delver is a project that I have given a great deal of thought to. I have also had several false starts. This is something I try to avoid with projects, as I have a tendency to have a great amount of zeal for a project for a week or two, only to abandon it when something else goes along.
In…
In…
July 18, 2005
Yes, I still haven't gone to see Revenge of the Sith, and the movie theatre in my area has stopped showing it, which means I have successfully avoided seeing it in the theatres.
I'm not actually boycotting it or anything, I just decided not to see it.
My wife keeps saying that I refuse to go and see …
I'm not actually boycotting it or anything, I just decided not to see it.
My wife keeps saying that I refuse to go and see …
July 13, 2005
If you're at all like me, when you were a kid, you read books from the Fighting Fantasy series. These were like choose your own adventure books (which we also available), but unlike the CYOA books, there were monsters and fighting.
Some Links:
http://www.advancedfightingfantasy.com/
http://www.fighti…
Some Links:
http://www.advancedfightingfantasy.com/
http://www.fighti…
July 11, 2005
Ever since I was 16, I had an idea for a road trip that would take me to all 50 states, without touching the same state twice.
From time to time, I think about this trip.
This last weekend, since I was on a road trip, I tried coming up with an estimated cost. I came up with roughly $15k.
Then I did s…
From time to time, I think about this trip.
This last weekend, since I was on a road trip, I tried coming up with an estimated cost. I came up with roughly $15k.
Then I did s…
July 11, 2005
This weekend, I went to Mississippi. For no particular reason. I went to a place called Hernando, which is in the northern part of the state, not too far from Memphis, TN.
My wife and I really enjoyed it. She wants to move there.
Well, she wants to move away from where we are, for a number of reaso…
My wife and I really enjoyed it. She wants to move there.
Well, she wants to move away from where we are, for a number of reaso…
June 30, 2005
#define LESS(first,second,temp,temp2) COPY(second,temp,temp2) \//temp=second;temp2=0;
TESTZERO(temp,temp2) \//temp=(temp==0);temp2=0;
IF(temp) \//if(temp){
ZERO(first) \// first=0;
ENDIF(temp) \//}temp=0;
WHILE(second) \//while(second){
COPY(first,temp,temp2) \// …
June 30, 2005
some of what makes this even better is that nobody cares...
TRUE and FALSE aren't strictly necessary, but I like having them just the same.
The first BF program that m…
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE 1
TRUE and FALSE aren't strictly necessary, but I like having them just the same.
#define SET(position,value) >(position)[-]+(value)<(position)
#define ZERO(position) SET(position,0)
The first BF program that m…
June 30, 2005
I got the second half of the BF macro preprocessor done, and I now have a collection of useful BF macros:
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE 1
#define SET(position,value) >(position)[-]+(value)<(position)
#define ZERO(position) SET(position,0)
#define INC(position) >(position)+<(position)
#define D…
June 30, 2005
Thinking a bit since my earlier entry...
since the macro handler is much like the C/C++ handler, I thought I might as well just use a C preprocessor, and see where it lead me.
I wound up using the Cybiko preprocessor.
Now I've got a tool that takes the following:
since the macro handler is much like the C/C++ handler, I thought I might as well just use a C preprocessor, and see where it lead me.
I wound up using the Cybiko preprocessor.
Now I've got a tool that takes the following:
#define SET(x,y) >(x)[-]+(y)<(x)
#…
June 30, 2005
This is not a "new" EPL.
This is not an EPL "enhancement".
This is a tool to assist in the writing of BF by raising the level of abstraction.
And if you think of this as "cheating": unless you program solely in machine code, you can STFU.
I've got an idea of what the macro language should look like (it…
This is not an EPL "enhancement".
This is a tool to assist in the writing of BF by raising the level of abstraction.
And if you think of this as "cheating": unless you program solely in machine code, you can STFU.
I've got an idea of what the macro language should look like (it…
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