Code Moosey

Today at work I committed broken code, so that means that...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:43:30 -0400

Today at work I committed broken code, so that means that I’ve earned the Broken Build Trophy. I’m so proud!

Looks like I got a case of the Tumblr blues.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:59:20 -0400

Rest in peace, black dashboard. You will be missed

Finished my entry for Ludum Dare! The game is called Prison...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:47:00 -0500

Finished my entry for Ludum Dare! The game is called Prison Break, and it’s a side-scrolling beat ‘em up about a con named Carl who wants to enjoy an evening at the local pub. Unfortunately, the police aren’t very happy about his escape, and he’ll need to fight through the cops to get there. He also doesn’t have any money, so in order to buy a drink you have to beat up civilians, who run around the map in a state of panic.

I submitted it about 2 minutes before the deadline, so there’s a lot missing. Collision detecting is far from perfect, there’s no sound, and most of the art was “borrowed” from random places. Still, making a game like in a single weekend felt really awesome, and I intend to take it as a lesson and learn from the experience for my next game jam.

Putting this game together was a real learning experience for me, both in terms of what I did right as well as what I got wrong. More importantly, however, is the fact that I “finished” it. My hard drive is a digital graveyard of unfinished projects, tech demos, and works-in-progress. Having a clear goal and a deadline really helped me to focus on the task at hand, and get it to a state where it’s a playable game.

If you want to try it for yourself, you can download it here. It requires the XNA 4.0 Redistributable , and (as always) the source code is available on my Github repository. Let me know what you think!

Ludum Dare #25

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:06:06 -0500

Ludum Dare #25:

I’ll be trying my hand at this whole game jam business this weekend. Wish me luck!

What’s up, beaches?

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:26:15 -0500

What’s up, beaches?

Here’s what I do at work all day.

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:32:23 -0500

Here’s what I do at work all day.

Here’s a thing I was working on. It’s the beginnings...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:56:56 -0400

Here’s a thing I was working on. It’s the beginnings of a clone of Tetris Attack, written in JavaScript.

It’s still really far from being finished, but I’ve decided to release what I have now so I can move on to work on other things this month, mostly the Github Game Off gamejam-thing.

ISOMETRIC!

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:17:00 -0400

ISOMETRIC!

Fine, I'll try Node.js.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:18:00 -0400

All the cool kids are talking about it.

Well, like last year, but whatever.

nikography: theprofoundprogrammer: [text: “I’m out of coffee...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:26:20 -0400

nikography:

theprofoundprogrammer:

[text: “I’m out of coffee and patience”, photograph of what is apparently called a tree farm; I’m not sure what differentiates it from a forest]

i found my new favorite tumbleog.

I’m going to buy all of these posters, sneak into my office in the middle of the night, and replace our motivational posters with them.

JPL C Coding Standard

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:44:59 -0400

JPL C Coding Standard:

jstn:

The Mars Science Laboratory has 500,000 lines of C running on VxWorks and following these rules, including:

no dynamic memory allocation (all stack, no heap!)

no functions longer than 60 lines

no recursive functions

no mutexes

no goto :(

no crashing

Fucking around in XNA (again).

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:43:53 -0400

Fucking around in XNA (again).

So, I totally haven’t posted in forever (whoops), but...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:08:43 -0400

So, I totally haven’t posted in forever (whoops), but I’ve been busy starting a new job and dealing with life and things like that. I’m still alive, though! I’m working on a few small things at the moment, hopefully I’ll get back to posting cool things in the coming weeks :)

UNIX Application or Outlawed Paramilitary/Guerrilla Organization?

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:20:15 -0400

UNIX Application or Outlawed Paramilitary/Guerrilla Organization?

Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror I don’t have...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:52:31 -0400

Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror

I don’t have much to say about this video, aside from the fact that science is awesome and human engineering and ingenuity is incredible.

Ever wish you could easily copy and paste emoticons? Well, me...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:45:00 -0400

Ever wish you could easily copy and paste emoticons? Well, me either, but thanks to an hour of me messing around in Visual Studio, now you can.

CopyPad sits in your system tray, just waiting for you to click on it. When you do, it brings up a menu of emoticons to select from. Just click on the one you want to use, and you can paste it into any application!

Protips:

If you want to start CopyPad automatically with Windows, just move it into the Programs > Startup folder in your start menu.
Totally a Bug: The emoticons may not draw correctly on the menu, probably because of Window’s horrible handling of Unicode. Don’t worry, though! You will still be able to paste them properly, and programs like your web browser should handle them like you’d expect.
Right-clicking on the icon brings up the menu. If you left-click on it, you can get the ಠ_ಠ (look of disapproval). I clearly use this face too much in normal conversations.
If you have any suggestions for new emoticons, send them my way. Alternatively, fork the code and add them yourself!

Just signed up for National Game Development Month!

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:25:00 -0400

Just signed up for National Game Development Month!:

I’ll be posting screenshots and updates about my progress here.

I’m not entirely sure what it is I’ll be making yet, but I’ve been thinking a lot about beat ‘em ups lately.

Also, I just realized that that’s kind of a weird thing to think about.

Got my first piece of developer-spam last night! I think this...

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:21:00 -0400

Got my first piece of developer-spam last night! I think this company is trying to sell me a service that puts fake 5-star reviews on my Android app.

This is truly a great milestone for my Android development career.

The Desert of the Real

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:34:53 -0400

Me: Anyways, it's good shit. I felt like a badass editing files on a headless Linux system using Vim over a serial connection
Me: Felt like I was in the Matrix or some shit
Fat: dude
Fat: the matrix aint real
Me: What is real?
Me: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
Fat: h8chu
Me: Yeah
Me: But, I had to

:|

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:00:46 -0400