Carcassonne and Rivers and Visual Tile rules
Apparently they added the river expansion to the base set in Carcassonne after I bought mine. That’s great, I have no problem implementing the rivers as part of Carcassonne64 … in fact I’ll have a...
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I have created a github account “whileblogging” to host source code I’m working on publicly here at while(0). I am going to install the gist plugin for WordPress to reference source easily too, which...
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Highlighter Trick: Turning jEdit into a C64 multicolor character editor
I’ve been using jEdit for nearly 10 years as my main editing environment (though Xcode 4 is grabbing about 50% of my time, some of that watching a beach ball…) but I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated...
View ArticleWorld is catching up with “Until the End of the World”
While “Brainstorm” was one of the first science fiction movies that actually “blew my mind,” between its mention in this story about brain visual cortex scanning and this one about falling satellites...
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Tempest in Codea
I have started writing a Tempest (80′s vector arcade game) implementation in Codea (aka Codify) for the iPad while jetting around for the holidays. So far I have it drawing the playfield and some dots...
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“Tempast” update
I got the player geometry and one type of meanie drawing. The player, unlike the original game, can be drawn at any “leaning” value inside the aisle, but I still need to implement the controls to play...
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Pew pew pew!
Got the first touch controls implemented and now making Tempast full screen (and uncovering more Codea bugs)… You can control your shots and the meanies shoot back too. Bugs abound!
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Tempest, everywhere you go…
There is a decidedly Christmas colored appeal to the game as I have it now. See for yourself in this screenshot also showing Codea’s recent full screen mode:
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Score!
Finally got scoring working and displayed. Harder than you’d think because Codea doesn’t yet have text drawing functions built in. Hrmpff. But then Tempest had a simple line-drawn font and it would be...
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Boom!
I had no idea how satisfying it is to play the game when the meanies actually explode instead of just disappearing when you shoot them, or I would have written the explosion geometry a lot sooner! You...
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