10 Dec 08 Target Practice Pt 2
I made a few small updates to Target Practice tonight. The biggest addition was sound although I made a few other little tweaks under the proverbial hood.
I had originally wanted to pack it up and release it as a single executable file but I was having some issues which I'll post about once I figure out what the heck I'm doing.
Speaking of lazing, there are a few things I'd like to do differently in Target Practice. Most notably I'd like to abstract out out the media to some manager or another, and also my target manager class has grown rather bloated which I take to be a good indicator that it's doing more than it should. I don't care enough about this program to fix either of these issues, but hopefully I've learned from these mistakes!
Tags: game programming, gosu, ruby
25 Nov 08 Target Practice
Half-Life is the game of choice at work, and sadly I'm terrible at it. I thought I'd try to write a little game using gosu to try and help me improve my accuracy. I just reached a good stopping point and I thought I'd share.
It's really simple, the idea is to shoot little 20 x 20 "targets" (I'm artistically challenged) before they expire. Missing or letting 10 targets expire will end the game. Next version will include sound, improved visuals and maybe even a couple other fun features if your lucky.
The code is a bit over-engineered but I plan on incorporating parts into some "core extensions" that I'm working on that will hopefully make it a lot easier for me to bang stuff like this out. Finally, as I doubt anyone will ever download this, I didn't bother to pack it up so you'll have to have Ruby and gosu installed in order to enjoy it.
PS: I've been a Photoshop user for many years, but I used GIMP to make these images and I didn't even hate it!
Tags: game programming, gosu, ruby
28 Oct 08 3 Month Anniversay Re-Blogging Evaluation!
When I first fired up this blog I thought I'd be posting a lot about the kind of problems and solutions I bang my head against daily at work. But instead it's evolved into me posting a lot of the little scripts that I play around with while I'm watching tv or doing laundry or whatever else.
Sometimes I worry that what I'm posting might give one the impression that I'm a bit of a programming simpleton. In order to offset this I've thought about posting about some more advanced topics, but my heart just isn't in it. For whatever reason I've really been enjoying playing with and posting my little programs...so that's what I'm going to do!
Tags: chatter
11 Sep 08 Ps3 Bad Company Update Problem
I'd tried a few times over the last week to update Battlefield: Bad Company on the PlayStation 3. Every time I tried I would get hung up on the "Downloading update data..." screen. It would stay at 0% for a few minutes and then briefly flash me an error code in the top right corner (8002AD23) and a few minutes after that it'd bounce me to another screen: "An error occurred during the download operation (80710723)"
I googled around for a while. Opened some ports on the router, plugged directly into the wall, restarted. I finally found somewhere that recommended I disable my media server via the network settings and BAM! "fixed"
My "source" for the "fix": http://www.fixya.com/support/t291065-ps3_system_update_error
28 Aug 08 Prima Gravida
New computer begets new blog. That's just how these things work. I intend this to mainly be a professional blog, but like all professional blogs I actually enjoy reading I'll also be smushing in some personal stuff here and there.
As for myself, I'm a web developer residing and working in Winter Park, Florida. I work mostly in ColdFusion and JavaScript, but I also dabble a bit in Ruby and a few other techs
I plan on re-beginning this whole blogging thing by posting solutions to some of the little problems I (and anyone else who uses a computer) run into all the friggin' time.
Ta Ta for now.
Tags: chatter
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