Games and Things

I wouldn’t say this was my first game, but it is one of the more complete games I created. Back in the day before I knew anything about making websites, there was a place called Geocities.com. It was the only place I knew of that I could make a web page and put something on it. I’m just getting around to pulling it off there and bringing it here.

This is a retro remake of an old game called Electric Yo-Yo. I was looking around at some old games, saw this one, and figured it wouldn’t be too hard to remake.

This was done in OPENGL. This should run on any PC out there. There was nothing fancy going on, just me trying to get the hang of orthographic 3d for sprites. I have the source code laying around somewhere, when (if) I find it, I’ll release it for everyone.

Controls are the arrow keys and the idea is to clear each level. Grab the black and white thingies to get a power up and eat those bugs. Stay away from the snake at all costs.

To rack up the most point the further the space your yo yo have to travel the more points you get. (Alternate left/right up/down to see what I mean. In a nutshell you want to travel back and forth between each of the grid pieces, the greater the space, the more points you get.

Install any place you like, escape key exits.

Grab the game here.

I ran into a situation where I needed to loop through all TextBox controls in a c++ .net application. I was able to figure out a cheesy way to do it, but it would only get me the controls at the top level. I needed something better, something that would go into all the tab controls, and group boxes and get all those TextBoxes I needed.

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This problem is two fold. First it solves the problem of converting a string to and from base64, and it shows how to create a function that is not part of the objects in the application. By that, I mean, a function that isn’t created for you by Express when you click on an object in the visual editor.

I only mention this because I ran into a situation where I couldn’t figure out how to make a function in c++ .net. It have everything to do with the fact that all variables require a ^. They are even included when defining the return type of a function.
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Ok, So I’ve given the Facebook API a test run. It’s not that bad once you find all the info you need to get something going.

For the past 2 days I had been working on a new as3 class to help send and receive data from Facebook. Golfsol works like a charm, so I’m not messing with the data stuff on that yet. But my test app was freaking out.
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I am in the process of updating GolfSol. I’ll be doing some database changes and making some updates to how the high scores are being kept. For facebook users, you will now have your high score attached to your profiles. You won’t need to enter your initials anymore.

If you want to add this application to your Facebook profile, or are already a Facebook user, you can access the game here

Looked like the latest version of flash (Version 9,0,124,0) didn’t work with these two games. I’ve since figured it out and they should be ok for those with the newest verion of flash.

What a mess. It’s taken this long to figure out, and it was one simple line that needed to be commented out. Ah well such as life. In any case, I’m going to continue with converting these over to facebook apps.

I’ll just need 5 people to instlal the app before it will be shown in the app database.

Yeah, I’m still here. I’ve got a million things going on in real life land. Half my co-works were let get yesterday, it was in the companies best interest to have all the work in India now!

I’m in the the process of fixing this place up a bit more. I need to upgrade to a newer version of wordpress next. I have hacked this place up so much I can’t even hit the enter key to start a new paragraph. All the graphics have been changed and still have some sprucing up to do.

I’m still planning on making some more games, I just want to figure out facebook apps right now. It would be nice if I could just embed flash games as the app, as I don’t feel like getting into javascript at this point.

Anyway keep an eye out as I’ll be updating more often now.

While working on another site, I ran into an issue I needed to head off before I went live. I needed a way to stop people from hotlinking to certain files, while letting other images get hotlinked. My main goal was to allow people to hotlink to thumbnail images, but not the original image.

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Here’s a little trick to pass a php variable from a Wordpress post to you php scripts on your server

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