Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Griddy: Free, Open-Source, Incomplete

Monday, September 6th, 2010

I’ll be open-sourcing Griddy this week. It’ll be on Github, available for download with some basic documentation. When I have it ready I’ll post a link.

It will be under the WTFPL license. If you’re not familiar with that license, it’s a quick read. In the future, more of my examples will also be under this license.

I don’t have the time to finish this; I haven’t even touched it since mid-late July. As you can see from the video, it has potential but is very feature-incomplete. I encourage anyone interested to check out the project. I’ll eventually finish it when I’m working on a game which will use it.

I kindly request that you let me know if you do use this for a project just for my own satisfaction knowing that I contributed to something. It’d be nice to see where and to what extend people furthered the development of this tool.

For my screenshots I’ve used assets from Frogames. These will not be included, for obvious licensing reasons, but I do suggest them if you’re looking for models.

95% > 70%. Ready for 25% more?

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

An interesting announcement was made from Google at GDC Europe earlier this week. Games sold through the Chrome Web Store will result in developers getting 95% of the revenue, as opposed to Apple’s 70%. Keep in mind there are a lot of questions still surrounding this announcement, so don’t take anything as absolute.

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My Computer as a Web Server (Part 2)

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

I started using NetBeans 6.9.1 a couple of weeks ago. I really like that the project can connect to a remote ftp/sftp server so that I don’t have to manually upload the PHP script when I need to see changes. It took me a couple days to figure out how easily it is to overwrite files, lose work, etc because NetBeans keeps a local repository of your project, and if you’re working in two different locations you have to take care to keep your projects (relatively) synced.

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My Computer as a Web Server (Part 1)

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Before the learned respond, please keep in mind I switched to Mac only a couple years ago from Windows. During that period I had a dual-OS laptop, with Ubuntu sharing the computer with Windows XP.

To accomplish what I had wanted at the time, a local web server with it’s own mySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc, I had to use Ubuntu. This was just how I was taught because everyone I was around had Windows. Those who were interested in web development had their own linux boxes, or a dual-booting computer.

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