Category: Family projects

Happy birthday, Makelle!

Shantell and I made Makelle a dress-up game for her birthday. It is called Makelle’s Costume Closet, and there are quite a few interesting combinations to try. Making something for a niece is a good excuse to be a little silly. The game itself is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Instead of drawing every outfit onto […]

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Happy birthday, Jayden!

I made Jayden a game for his birthday! I wanted to give him something a little more personal, and spelling seemed like a good excuse to turn learning into a game. This one is a Flash project. The web page is mostly the wrapper that loads JaydenGame.swf; the interactive part lives inside the compiled movie […]

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Boggle on my Kindle

Shantell wanted to play Boggle, but we did not have a set. I had a Kindle and a fairly obvious computer-science-major solution to that problem. So we made Kindoggle! I did the programming and Shantell made the graphics. The board is an HTML table with big letters and a big button, which is a much […]

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