Here’s another idea for a video game.

The theme of the game is “be consistent”. It's a minimalist-styled 2D platformer. The core mechanic is that whatever you do the first time, the game makes it so that that was the right action. Examples of how this could work:

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  At the start, you're standing at the center of a 2×2 checkerboard of background ( Read more... )

I have come to realize that I have more ideas for programs than I'll ever have time to write. (This means they're not actually all that significant, on average - see all that's been said on ‘ideas vs. execution’.) But maybe I have the time to scribble a blog post about them, and that's stuff to blog about, if nothing else.
So, a video game idea I ( Read more... )

Death by Turret

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Here's another thing I've been doing: designing Portal 2 puzzles.

The Cube Goes in the Other Pit

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I really haven't been posting very much, have I? It's mostly the job occupying most of my “creative energy”, but I've also been doing a little bit of this and that and not ever finishing something to the point of feeling like writing it up.

On the programming-projects front, I'm attempting to extract two reusable libraries from Cubes for the ( Read more... )

Closure is now available on Mac and Windows via Steam (previously on PS3). If you like platform puzzle games, or if you like games that play with the nature of the virtual universe, then you need to play this game. Convinced my description is inadequate for a purchase decision? Play the free Flash original.

I bought it as soon as it came out and ( Read more... )

The draft-standard Gamepad API allows JavaScript in the browser to obtain input from connected gamepad/joystick devices. This is of course useful for games, so I have worked on adding support for it to Cubes.

This (about) is the only Gamepad API demo that I found that worked with arbitrary gamepads (or rather, the junk one I had around) rather ( Read more... )

I've got the notion to do an occasional Minecraft video series, mainly to show off my mechanism designs and otherwise increase the value (to other people) of all those hours I spend playing. I bought screen recording software just for the purpose.
However, I haven't gotten around to recording an “episode” yet (mainly because I wanted to start with ( Read more... )

Some new features in Cubes:

• An automated test suite. It’s hardly complete coverage, but at least it exists and so can grow. (I ended up going with Jasmine for in-browser testing. I’m not a big fan of the Englishy syntax, but it does the job reasonably well and has niceties like rerunning individual tests and adequate support for asynchronous tests ( Read more... )

I’ve uploaded almost all of my published Git repositories (previously hosted on a git-only server on on switchb.org, which is down at the moment) to my account on GitHub. Please update your remote URLs if you have any git clones.

The motivation for this change is simply that GitHub offers better visibility - an automatic web presence for each ( Read more... )