Blue Screen - Ludum Dare 30 Entry
Last weekend, I participated in Ludum Dare, a game jam where you make a game from scratch in under 48 hours. The theme this time was “Connected Worlds.”
ASCII Bell Character
The other day, I accidentally printed a ton of binary data to my terminal. Upon doing so, my computer started to beep incessantly - which startled me a bit. I looked through the list of processes, closing all the terminals, but the beeps persisted.
Simple Reloading Server in Bash
It’s often extremely useful to have a server that automatically reloads when any of the source files change. Grunt is commonly used for this, but in some cases that is overkill - a simple bash script will suffice.
The Damned
A couple weeks ago, I took part in a game jam on itch.io called the AGDG Microgame Jam. The premise behind the jam was to create a WarioWare style game that takes place on a single screen. I chose to try a local multiplayer game, in the vein of the frantic, competitive multiplayer from the GameCube adaption of WarioWare.
A Perk of Using WebGL
I’ve recently been testing with WebGL for a project, and one of the pretty cool perks is that you can just use regular HTML/CSS/JS to create your GUIs. In this quick test, I made a simple chat window for the UI.
Recent Hackathon Projects
StumbleTube [Code] [Web]
StumbleTube was a simple hack that I made with three other students at the 2013 NorCal Facebook Hackathon. The goal was to present YouTube recommendations (pulled from your Google account) in a fashion that’s easy to quickly traverse, and let you find videos that actually interest you. You get videos in sets of four - hovering over a video plays only the audio from that video, and clicking on one makes that video full-screen. At any point, you can pick a different video, or request a new set of four. You can also like videos to further improve recommendations.
Designing a Cardboard Canoe
Every year, my high school holds a canoe race, where students from the Engineering, Physics, and Calculus classes compete to design, build and race a canoe over the span of two weeks.