Saturday, September 4, 2010

Cave Story Outer Wall-paper

My favorite video game scene ever is the Outer Wall level of Pixel's Cave Story (which also happens to be my favorite video game - if you haven't played it yet, do it. now.). Beautiful scrolling clouds + moon song = awesome. So anyways, I decided to make a small homage in the form of an android live wallpaper. I decided to also add the sky dragon from the bad ending ): since it seemed a bit empty with just the clouds. Unfortunately, I only have the original droid, so I haven't been able to test it on other phones, but hopefully it should work ok. Just search 'cavestory' in the android market to get it!

Monday, February 1, 2010

CSPSP: update

-new HUD updates (still have to move around a few things)
-probably going to release a test version to a few players soon to make sure that I haven't completely broken the networking

Tuesday, January 19, 2010


Sunny-rainy days are the best.

Even though I tend to dislike 'artsy' photos (you know, the ones that are all deep with their fancy color touchups and overused depth-of-field), this scene was too awesome even for me to resist taking a few shots (double rainbow :D). I just really love the time after rain when the sun comes out and everything is still nice and wet and shiny.

Unfortunately, the rainbows were fading pretty quickly, so I forgot to set the camera to a higher resolution than 640x480; I also messed up a bit when doing the panorama thing manually (the seams are pretty obvious).

Friday, December 18, 2009

Chrome YouTube Logo Middle-Click Extension

*Update - Version 1.50 of this extension also fixes the middle-click behavior of the video links in my_videos, my_favorites, and my_subscriptions.*

After finally switching from Firefox to Chrome as my main browser, I found a somewhat annoying bug in Chrome. While browsing YouTube, I noticed that middle clicking on the logo at the top didn't open a new tab as expected, but instead loaded the main page in the current tab. This was particularly annoying since I like to keep multiple tabs open when I browse, and I used the logo often to open a fresh tab for YouTube.

So, I decided to take some time to write a small extension to fix this; after about an hour (most of it spent on making icons; the actual javascript code for the fix is one line), I ended up with the "YouTube Logo Middle-Click Extension" (creative name huh?). While it's mostly just a workaround for an issue that should be addressed directly, I hope some people find it useful until the bug gets fixed.


Thursday, November 12, 2009

CSPSP: update



-new buy menu design (weapon stat bars still in progress)
-redid the held gun graphicns since reloading animation shows the entire gun
-fixed a bug where explosions would skip some players (was sorting the player list inside a loop)
-fixed a bug in the collision ray traversal code (forgot to break after reaching the final cell)

Monday, November 9, 2009

CSPSP: update



-new radar (enemies are shown only when they fire)
-if you die while throwing a nade, the nade still goes off
-found another potential multiplayer bug (dropping a gun/throwing a nade right before getting the dying message from the server would unsync the client)

Saturday, October 31, 2009