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Captcha Your Imagination: Comatile Mom

steve — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:43:09 +0000

I've started making quick prototypes of games out of captchas, because really, "why not?" A general post mortem follows. First, for a general idea of what this series of blog posts is about, see the general Captcha Your Imagination page. Also, my plan is to go through [...] Related posts:

Captcha Your Imagination

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Introducing the Title Generator

steve — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:29:26 +0000

I've been working on a little something for a bit now, and have gotten it to the state where I could put a little demo together for you. It generates random titles, and while the demo allows you to title yourself, it's main purpose is to generate titles for monsters found within the dungeon. Check [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

GAD235: Sample Files Posted

steve — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:31:04 +0000

If you click over on the GAD235 page, I've uploaded the sample files we discussed in class this past week, as well as the Critter base stuff. I've deliberately left comments out of the critter files, as I think it would be a good exercise for you to go through the files and comment them [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

GAD225 HW5: Word Games

steve — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:21:18 +0000

For this project, present the user with the option to play any of the following three games: 1. Hangman, pick a word from your wordlist. Display it with dashes in place of the letters. Allow the user to guess letters (or the complete word as a separate option). Give them a finite amount of guesses. [...] Related posts:

Gamasutra: Making Games on the Side

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GAD225 HW: Cards and Decks

steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:23 +0000

As discussed in class on Monday, you need to create a Card object from scratch, as well as a Deck object from scratch. I have provided you with a test class that you are not allowed to change. It can be found here. Details on the Card and Deck requirements are found below. I've added [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

GAD225: HW3

steve — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:15:39 +0000

Due Week 7! Grab CalendarTester. Fill in the missing functions. There is a pretty good order to fill them in to make your code work with other parts of your code most conveniently, so try and make that happen by reading through all the functions you need first, and figuring out where dependencies lie. Additionally, [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

GAD225: Midterm Study Guide

steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:45:26 +0000

Some key things to study: Be comfortable writing loops. Be able to look at an existing loop and know how many times it executes. A good sample problem might be to take the stat generator from an earlier class, and make it loop to generate a specific number of stats. Or loop until you get [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

GAD225: HW 1

steve — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:36:46 +0000

The first two should be solveable immediately, but the last 3 will require some stuff from week 2, so you'll have to either read ahead, or wait until next week to started on them. Write a program that uses a series of outputs to display ASCII art. Be creative. Your program's output should be better [...] Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Dungeon Generation: Introducing regions!

steve — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:08:27 +0000

For a couple of different reasons, it became a really good idea to break dungeons apart into regions. So I did. Building a Bigger Dungeon The first of those reasons is efficiency. By breaking the dungeon apart into regions, and placing rooms via those regions rather than seeking a great spot in the entire dungeon, [...] Related posts:

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DC251: Actionscript Tip – flickering custom mouse cursor

steve — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:51:32 +0000

Several of the projects in the Casual Games class feature a replacement for the mouse cursor. Depending on how you implemented this, you might run into the dreaded "flickering mouse cursor" problem. It was a bit of a puzzler at first, but here's a quick walkthrough on how to solve the problem... First, let's talk [...] Related posts:

DC251: Homework Details

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