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 was asked about Cubes “Where do you think you might take the game play next?” and it turned into this.]

My original motivation for creating Cubes was a combination of the “blocks out of blocks” idea - which itself came from immersion in the graphics of Minecraft - and also dissatisfaction with certain bugs, limitations, and design choices in ( Read more... )

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In September, I wrote of my new project Cubes that “unfortunately, it wasn't an idea for either of my course projects this semester.” Since I have completely failed to find motivation for the course-related project I had planned to do, þreader (a thread-emphasizing feed reader; you can read the project introduction), I have decided to make the best ( Read more... )

On September 6, I had an idea which I couldn't not work on. (Unfortunately, it wasn't an idea for either of my course projects this semester.)

As you may know, in Minecraft, the individual cubical blocks are textured with unsmoothed 16×16 pixel textures. All blocks’ shapes (that aren't just cubes) have lengths in multiples of 1⁄16 block (example, ( Read more... )

I have updated the Minecraft topic at my web site, bringing it up to date with changes, adding many new links, and information about my new world. Also, I didn't previously announce this:

I am running a Minecraft server. I've been running one for a while, but it had a rocky start trying to run on a shared Linode. It now has a dedicated machine ( ( Read more... )

I've added a mini wheat farm to my Minecraft world, just for the sake of building one. If you're interested in looking, it's southwest, with underground access branching off the spawn tunnel.

I've published my Minecraft notes and bookmarks.

This is a slightly different sort of addition to my site; it is a page that is nearly all information and ( Read more... )

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