Since I just moved to Los Angeles we’re obviously not hosting trivia at the Lock Spot anymore, but I want to put up the final picture round I did, because (1) it’s probably the best one I ever did in terms of how hard it was to put together and (2) apparently the main people who are finding this blog via Google are pub trivia…
Picture Round – 3/19/12
Our picture round from Lockspot Trivia last Monday … Another one of these movie chain deals. PDF Answers
Thoughts on porting Syzygy to iOS
I’ve started trying to figure out the way in which I’m going to port Syzygy to iOS. I don’t actually own a Mac — though I may get one this weekend — so this is all theoretical at this point. What I have right now is an implementation written in C++ to the Win32 API. Part of this implementation is a very basic 2D game…
Picture Round – 3/12/2012
Our picture round from trivia at the Lockspot this evening … Famous cats. PDF Answers
Syzygy for Win32, pre-pre-alpha release
I’m releasing a prototype version of a puzzle game, Syzygy, that I eventually intend to port to iOS and possibly Android. The prototype is written to the Win32 API and should run on basically any Windows system without installing anything. Syzygy can be downloaded here. Just unzip these three files into a directory and run the executable. I have the Syzygy prototype parametrized such that…
Picture Round – 3/5/2012
Picture Round at Lockspot was one of the movie chains that I do when I can’t think of anything else: PDF answers The week before was the night after the Oscars so we did movie posters of Best Picture winners. A little bit easy — I think some team got them all: PDF answers
Picture Round 2/20/12
Lockspot trivia picture round, on President’s Day so also a president. PDF Answers
Raster-to-Vector plus not bitching about significant whitespace
So this weekend I learned Python and implemented a basic raster to vector converter in it. It converts whatever file formats the Python PIL module supports to SVG. Here’s the little guys from Joust embedded as SVG (This probably doesn’t work on Internet Explorer, but if you’re using IE you have bigger problems, brother) and here’s the fruits from Pac-Man: (My favorite is the Galaxian…
Picture Round – 2/13/12
Our Lockspot picture round before Valentine’s Day … so famous couples. PDF Answers
Playing simultaneous sounds in Win32
There is a nice unscary Win32 API call for playing sounds that is unpretentiously called “PlaySound”. It is extremely easy to use. Unfortunately, PlaySound(…) has one problem that makes it unsuitable for even casual game development: although it will play audio asynchronously, it will not play two sounds simultaneously. Depending on what you are doing this may not be a big deal, e.g. warning beeps…