Our Axis & Allies WWI game has been going on for months. Daniel, Shantell, and I keep trying to figure out what we can afford before committing to a move, so I made a little unit calculator. Much easier than adding the same numbers over and over! I had some help from AI with this […]
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 […]
Another version of Dodge! This time I wanted to try moving the square by tilting a Windows 8 tablet. The basic idea is still the same: stay away from the bad blocks and try not to get too big. This version uses an HTML canvas with Box2DWeb doing the collision and body simulation. The game […]
One of the coolest presents I got for my birthday this year was a USB missile launcher from Shantell’s parents. Naturally, I needed to write a program for it. Fiero was probably less excited about this present than I was. The controller is C# on .NET 4, using UsbLibrary to talk to the toy over […]
Whenever I am learning a new language or platform, I seem to end up writing Dodge again. Move a square around, avoid the bad blocks, and see how long you can keep going. This time I tried it with the HTML canvas. It is an 800-by-600 canvas with a plain JavaScript loop running about twenty […]
I have been playing with the word-finding side of Kindoggle. Shaking up a board is easy enough, but it is nice to find out which words we missed when the time is up. There is a solitaire page too. The PHP solver reads a dictionary into two lookup tables: complete words and all their prefixes. […]
