I made a simple chat app to play with the browser-to-server part of a web page. It is not trying to replace anything. I mostly wanted to get a message from one browser onto another screen. The page uses jQuery to post a message to PHP. PHP appends it to an HTML log, and the […]
Shantell wanted her Facebook bookmark to make her solve a math problem before letting her in. That sounded like a perfectly reasonable little programming project. 🙂 I made it as a bookmarklet instead of a browser extension. The bookmark runs a small JavaScript function, asks a randomly generated multiplication or percentage question with prompt(), and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here is Cube Quest, a game I programmed in Java for my 3D graphics class at BYU. I made a little video so there would be a record of the project outside the program itself. Working in 3D adds quite a few things that a flat game can mostly ignore. The camera has a position […]
This is my inverse kinematics solver for a BYU class project. I wrote it in C++ and used OpenGL for the graphics. The video is short, but it is a good way to show what the solver is doing. With ordinary forward kinematics, I choose the joint angles and work out where the end of […]
Another little clip from my 3D graphics class at BYU. This assignment was to show something moving, include a sharp jump or transition, and also include a smooth, curving transition. Five seconds is not much of a movie, but it is enough for the exercise. The interesting part is not just where an object starts […]
I made a color-matching game called HueHunter. Colored blocks bounce around the screen, and I have to adjust my own color before shooting them. Being able to click the block is only half the problem. The code keeps red, green, and blue values separately. The color buttons change those components; a hit only removes a […]
I made a mole-themed Monopoly game. Not just the animal kind of mole, either: answering chemistry questions is how you earn the chance to roll the dice. The Java applet keeps track of the board squares, players, money, ownership, and questions as separate objects. There are buttons for rolling, buying property, and choosing an answer. […]
