I'm liking it so far, but where is this going?

conway's game of life in ruby (gosu + chingu)

2010-06-06T13:56:00.000-07:00

inspired by this awesome nds tracker and an old boingboing post, i decided to make an implementation of conway's game of life in ruby, using the gosu and chingu game development gems.

after finding a way round the terrible deep cloning in ruby it was incredibly painless and very interesting. i like how the initial choice of cells influences whether you have a beautiful symmetrical oscillating pattern or a horrible cancerous mess, after 100 or so generations.

You Meet The Nicest People Making Videogames

2010-03-23T05:09:00.000-07:00

I hope this gets made. Everyone should donate to this!!

2D OBB Collisions in XNA

2010-03-07T13:06:00.000-08:00

OBBs (Oriented Bounding Boxes) allow for a greater degree of accuracy than their axis aligned counterparts in the field of collision detection. It turns out this is a lot simpler to implement in 2D than 3D.

Here's my own take on it, which I hope to put to heavy use in an ongoing project. The OBB is modelled by an orientation matrix (in the form of two Vector2's because the Matrix type seems to suck), an origin and a Vector2 representing the +ve half widths in the x and y axis.

The object includes intersection methods and a crude draw method for debug purposes (you'll need to supply your own spritebatch and a 1x1 texture2d to use it)

download OBB.cs

comicompo 2

2010-02-24T10:13:00.000-08:00

The second tigforums.com comicompo completed this week. My page sucked because I was working 12 hour days (with an hour's commute each way) in crunch mode. I wanted to go for the style _why did the first few pages of nobody knows shoes, but I rushed it.

I've acquired some books on graphic design, as I hope to never again inflict such a thing upon the world.

kennykennykennykenny

2010-02-04T02:42:00.000-08:00

syobon action -155 lives

2010-01-06T07:18:00.001-08:00

spungboob

2009-11-10T16:12:00.000-08:00

a shit game made in 2 drunken hours for a popovkast (theme: sponges)

game | code

drawing blanks

2009-11-01T04:49:00.000-08:00

what went wrong?!

2009-10-23T06:41:00.000-07:00

1. froze on easy questions - 1.upto(25) {|i| puts i*2-1} WOULD NOT COME OUT OF MY BRAIN
2. talk about yourself OHNO
3. jibber jabber - what the fuck?! i'm a v quiet person how did this happen?
4. nerves - just lost a job, stressed, i guess that's forgivable

fix it!
1. chill out, refresh
2. make some essay about how awesome i am, and the time i fought a lightning bolt
3. see 1
4. relax, drink some beer, and try again

i am the brilliant dog

2009-09-08T03:31:00.001-07:00

BIGJam 2009

2009-08-10T03:58:00.000-07:00

photo by sir alex may

Berlin was incredible. I made 3 terrible games, each in their own 3 hour segments. I also met some very cool people and learnt a lot about games dev.

Most importantly, I think I've unstuck all that was keeping me back and blocking my ideas. I did so much more in one of those 3 hour periods than I've probably done all summer. Can't wait for next year to roll around.

bigjam stats:
lines of ruby code : >2000
hangovers: 3
coffees: 13
hours of sleep: negligible
awesomeness: very much so

herman and j-unit

2009-06-26T14:14:00.001-07:00

run for your life

2009-06-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

Cho Ren Sha 68k

2009-06-17T08:02:00.000-07:00

Cho Ren Sha 68k (not actually 68kB) is your generic vertical shmup. 16-bit niceties from an obscure japanese computer and a jarring bleepy soundtrack meet up over coffee to discuss how much they hate you.

As usual, you pilot your angular craft like soap in a fat man's bathtub - squirting from side to side whilst deftly avoiding the overwhelming mass that threatens to crush your liberation and independance. The familiar arrow keys + Z and X controls pose no problems for people who know what's happening. The lack of auto-fire and unusual fanning motion of your default weapon means the player has to tap out a constant beat in order to hit what's directly in front.

The difficulty isn't too soul crushing. The bullet patterns never force you into pixel-perfect dance routines, nor does it require the amphetamine riddled twitchyness that defines so many of the genre. In fact, this game is pretty accessible as far as vertical shmups go.

The graphics quickly get repetitive and the backgrounds remains constant throughout play. The game never offers anything to stand out from others in it's genre and provides nothing more to improve it's replay value.

Cho Ren Sha 68k runs fine on Vista, with some jarring sound issues sporadically affecting the soundtrack.

(link)

fuck royal mail

2009-06-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

fuck you royal mail

i'd never sleep with peter pandemic

2009-05-12T01:32:00.001-07:00

Galaga RGB AWSOMÉ

2009-05-02T09:19:00.000-07:00

it's fill_rect galaga. and right arrow makes you go left.

(shift makes you go right)

mikhail

2009-04-22T04:09:00.000-07:00

just yes

SMPG WIP OMG BBQ

2009-04-19T11:58:00.001-07:00

delicious programmer art. double-plus ungood android emulator

2009-04-17T03:16:00.001-07:00

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we'll roam.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage...
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green!

The bell has been raised
from it's watery grave...
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

Headphones don't work

2009-04-14T01:55:00.001-07:00

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/184314

all this, just to plug headphones into my laptop?? i have to back up my settings in case trying to listen through headphones fucks up my operating system

wtf

fuckin linux

2009-04-10T05:00:00.000-07:00

It just took me one hour to figure out how to change the mouse speed in crunchbang (ubuntu) linux.

In this time I have acquired oh so much useless information about synaptic drivers, SHMConfig and edited many obscure files and installed outside packages. Just to make my cursor move further every time I touch it.

I don't care about all this. Every time I use linux I end up searching ancient forum posts and archaic mailing lists in order to change such a small simple setting. It's like I have to disassemble and study the inner workings of a nuclear reactor whenever I want to turn on a lightbulb.

Yes I am a complete noob and I'm going to have to learn about how linux works, but the transition from xp to ubuntu is pretty fucking arduous paved with unnecessary terminal commands and packages.

anyway my new laptop is the tits.

robots

2009-04-08T06:00:00.001-07:00

- Posted using Mobypicture.com

If you're not indie

2009-04-05T01:47:00.000-07:00

two dashing young men in a pugilistic showdown 'pon horseless chariot carrageway

2009-04-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

Sabbaid Sraid Ceithir' : Hutchison Edition

I was thinking about doing an ex srk instead of that ultra at the end, but no idea how i got meter so quickly D:

not well

2009-04-03T08:14:00.001-07:00

going home

Connectivity Located

2009-04-02T11:45:00.000-07:00

A website is me

I should get rid of the .gif on the index, v expensive.

Metal Gear Solid

2009-03-31T12:18:00.000-07:00

fuckin helicopter, raped my rations

An Array is infact a Caterpillar STAPLED into your code, or "Sometimes Caterpillars have commas for feet"

2009-03-31T12:04:00.000-07:00

it turns out this was also a test

A TES

2009-03-31T11:54:00.000-07:00

ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttTATSUMAKI-SENPUYAKU!!!!

DEELETER

2009-02-12T08:12:00.000-08:00

what the fuck was that?!

i mean really, what the fuck??

goodbye old, hello new

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