I found a way to play some of the old Flash games Shantell and I made! When Flash disappeared from browsers, these felt a little lost, even though I still had the files. The trick is Ruffle, a Flash emulator written in Rust that runs in the browser through WebAssembly. I added Ruffle’s JavaScript loader […]
For our family Kids Day, I made a digital scavenger hunt. Riddle Quest starts with the kids and Mizzet waking up in a secret base in the sky. Getting home is going to take a little more work than finding the front door. I used RPG Maker MV again, but the focus here is on […]
I made the kids an RPG starring our cat. Mizzet wakes up hungry and goes looking for food, which seems like a fairly accurate starting point for a cat adventure. Things get a little more complicated from there. This one uses RPG Maker MV, so the game runs in a browser with the engine’s JavaScript […]
I made a little Jeopardy game for my Sunday school class. A blue board full of dollar amounts seemed like a more interesting way to review the lesson than just asking the questions one at a time. Everything is in one HTML file: the board, the styling, and a JavaScript array of questions, answers, and […]
Daniel really likes maps, so I made him a little game for learning countries. It highlights a country in blue, gives him some names to choose from, and keeps track of how many answers he gets right. The map is SVG, which makes the browser do a lot of the useful work. Each country is […]
Daniel really likes progress bars for some reason. So I made him one where we can choose how many seconds it should take and watch it go. That is pretty much the whole application. 🙂 The bar is actually an HTML range input. JavaScript remembers the start time, checks how much time has passed, and […]
Shantell and I helped Sala answer her prom invitation. Apparently a simple yes was not quite enough, so we made a little Potential Date Assessment instead. He has to pass the tests before getting his answer. 🙂 It is a Portal-themed set of web pages with typed-out instructions, passwords, and a few different challenges. I […]
We made Jaron an adventure game for his birthday! The family got to be part of the adventure, which made it much more fun than sending him off to rescue a collection of strangers. I built this one with RPG Maker XP. It supplies the tile maps, battles, and Ruby/RGSS runtime, so the project is […]
I made Will a little Flash birthday card. This one is called Will and Mater. A normal card would probably have been faster, but making the birthday greeting do something is more fun. The browser page loads a compiled WillAndMater.swf movie. The interactive content is inside Flash, not in a JavaScript game loop on the […]
Shantell and I made a web version of our family’s Story Game. Usually everybody starts a story on a piece of paper, passes it around the circle, and continues the story they receive. The important part is that you only get to see what the previous person wrote. By the end, the story has generally […]
