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New Flash Car Racing Game

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:39:17 +0000

After some time, I was looking into adding more games to the website. I started a few ideas in Java hoping to add a few more applets but after tinkering around for a bit, I decided to go the flash route. The first tutorial I found was from Emanuele Feronato’s site at Flash Car Racing Tutorial. Its not really a Flash tutorial as far as learning how to use the Flash application to create the game, but more about the code required to create the game. Hopefully, I will find some more tutorials to get back into to Flash with and add some more games to the site.

Updated!

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:12:23 +0000

Well I updated the site, getting rid of the login and the database for the web site. It was too much to manage right now and I am just looking for a place to plant my games I create. I am now just hosting the non-record keeping versions of the games.

Currently, I am working in Blitzmax. Still working on the multiplayer role playing game. Its come a long ways, through about 4 different programming language changes, just to end up using the same language I started the game with

I am also getting back into Java applets for creating games for the site. Java applets are fun and easy to deploy. I am thinking of making some casino style games, just to keep things simple and to take a break from the Blitzmax grind.

IsoTiler2011

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:46:48 +0000

Well, It sure has been quite a bit, been awfully busy with this and that, but always trying to get some programming time in. I’ve been working with BlitzMax and what a great, great language it is. Probably due to the fact this is centered around creating games and it uses Basic as its core language. I have been working on an RPG, solely multiplayer and just when I get a networked game up and running, I decide to change the view from a top down, to an isometric, which basically means starting all over. I had to create an isometric tile map making program which I have just pretty much completed. I will now move on to the actual game. Here is screen shot…

IsoTiler2011-2

Back to BlitzMax

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:17:50 +0000

So I am looking at firing up a few new projects and ideas but had to get some networking basics down first. I used GNet and created a server/client messaging system. I had looked into all the available options but most of the stuff out there were either to much overhead or too complicated. Basically I just wanted something that can send simple messages back and forth. You can check out the compiled files here…

http://www.mediafire.com/?lwhz78nrliah7b7

New statistic added to Nevadas Unemployment!

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:36:20 +0000

I am now a new member of Nevadas National Chart Topping unemployment rate of 15%. I will have to spend some time insuring the game plan and make sure some backup plans are all in order. Hopefully the upcoming elections will restore some confidence by consumers, investors and banks. I will do everything I can to vote the encumbants out in a few days. I will definitely be looking to pick up any side work I can find along the way.

Check out the website at AllAces Plumbing, it has just been revamped and it looks great!

BlitzMax to the rescue!

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:07:10 +0000

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
I used Blitz3d by Blitz Research. A custom basic programming language that focused on making games in 3d. The minute I started using it, I loved it! I spent a year or 2 with it and ended up making The Dice Game, a multiplayer yahtzee clone. Once I finished it, I didn’t know what to do with it so I looked at hosting it in a webpage browser but soon found out that I couldn’t make it happen. That led me to Java and Flash. With new progress being made by the Blitz research team along the lines of creating a basic langauge converter that will convert code to Java, Flash, etc that can then be embedded on a web page, I decided to go to Blitzmax, a custom basic programming language that focuses on games using 2d toolsets. I have been messing around with it for a week or 2 and just like Blitz3d, I absolutely love it! I decided to go ahead and purchase it today and convert my Dice Game to blitzmax! I’ll post the progress here!

New host… again!

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:53:42 +0000

Well, after a few months with IPage and finally getting back to uploading my Counterstrike: Source stats, I found out that you cant remote into an ipage database, nor can you run a cron job so I had to switch web site hosts again so I decided to try out JustHost this time. A little more expensive but they do seem to have quite a bit of a package and they do allow for remote connections and cron jobs. Having to prefix each database with your account name kinda sucked, forced me to set up all new databases, but so far so good. I havent tried the login for games yet, but I will get that this weekend.

Speaking of Counterstrike: Source, I did get the server back up with stat reporting at Yellzbellz.kicks-ass.net:27015. Join it and have fun!

Status Update!

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:57:01 +0000

Been hard at work studying, working and making plans! I had to give facebooks farmville a shot. A pretty good game, but as with all these kinds of games everything is focused around them making real money off the players. I think that you should be able to purchase any items in the game for in game credits. While I was testing it out, I had to check into creating facebook games. After spending a whole day of reading tutorials, checking things out and finally giving up, due to facebooks unorthodox use of their own custom markup language and very limited documentation. So I decided to look into writing a facebook style PHP game for Yellzbellz. It will be focused on Gladiators and basically all you do is either train your character in attack or defense, fight NPC’s or real registered players, upgrade your armor and weapons and try to take the high score! I was attempting to write it over the weekend but just getting the new linux based webserver to play nice with my database code was a chore all in itself. I have designed the Interface and so far am pretty happy with it! I am pulling data from the database on it but for now I’m just gonna focus on writing the game for unregistered Guest users so the game will not save any information and Guest’s will not be able to battle real players. I will keep posting updates on this! Heres a screenie!

Gladiators

Hard at work!

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:17 +0000

Been a while since the last post so had to give an update. I’m still working on the Java Role Playing Game and still trying to decide what tools to use. I have decided to go with an Orthogonal Map as opposed to the isometric. I decided on that change because the code required to make it all work, plus creating the isometric tile map creator was getting to be too much. I wanted to start with something a bit simpler. I have been working with my own code to create the role playing game, but decided to try out Slick2d and GTGE (Golden T Game Engine). I felt that using a pre-made library/ engine would help out with all the mundane coding like walking, rendering and collisions. So far one of the things I didn’t like about Slick is that it uses LWJGL. Not that that is a bad thing, but it requires users to click a security box whereas Java2D doesn’t. The other thing about Slick2D was it doesn’t contain any kind of Collision detection that I could find in the docs or in the forums. Collision is one of the main reasons I chose to try out a 3rd party library. As for GTGE so far it is very easy to implement and to take advantage of the simple classes and methods. It does offer the option to use LWJGL, but I havent went into that yet. I am having trouble right now to make the character move diagonally with collision detection, but hopefully I’ll be able to work it out down the road.

New host!

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:29:15 +0000

I just changed my hosting provider from GoDaddy to IPage. I had to seperate a few accounts and decided to go with a different host. Godaddy was a pretty decent host, I just wanted to try a different one. I had no idea the host OS was going to be linux which wasnt a big deal other than I had to change a ton of php and java code to point to file names due to the fact that ThisFileName.php is not the same as thisfilename.php. That really sucked and it took me a full day to go through everything and change it. So far though everything seems to be working so I can get back to making some games!