Saturday, February 26, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Glowy!
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The blog lives yet! I suppose. Well, this does a whole lotta nuffin', but I think it looks pretty nifty.
Click anywhere in the .swf to swap out a new random set of glowing bars.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
It's Alive!
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It's alive! The blog, that is. After a long absence from the blogosphere (Ooh, how Web 2.0 of me!), the urge to program a wonderful little "do nothing" has overcome me. So here you have the very earliest skeleton of a virtual ecosystem. It's not much yet; mainly just little digital Roombas sucking up bits of "food" in order to survive.
At this point, we've got some slight randomization of body size (which determines how fast energy depletes), random move speed and turn times, and random lines of sight. I'm really hoping this turns into a fun little thriving ecosystem with births, species shifting, and a rudimentary idea of how natural selection works. That little countdown on each green harvester is how much energy it has left. The food replenishes itself every couple of seconds and it provides a random amount of energy to the harvesters based on size. You can click the blue "Add Harvester" button to throw another random harvester into the mix.
Inspiration came from a few things, but foremost in my mind is Larry Marder's "Beanworld", with its simple yet charming circle of life. Well, here's hoping this little nugget turns into something fun to watch!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
More Doodling...
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Hrm...
EDIT: How interesting! Originally the boxes were getting stuck halfway down the screen. They are meant to check if they're at the stage's height (though I did account for the height of the box). In this case, the stage is 600 px high. But the embedded .swf is resized to 400 x 300. The .swf seems to have gotten its bounds set as 400 x 300, but still saw half the .swf height as...300!? Bizarre! Easily fixed with hardcoding the y>600, though.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Alternate Tribes
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Here's an alternate version of the Tribes piece. Different music, the tribe members now smile as they play louder, and an issue was fixed where if you grabbed a tribe member when it was in the center, it was possible to have him get "stuck" on your cursor. This was due to the fact that a shrinking tribe member could potentially get away from your mouse cursor. No contact with the cursor means no mouse release!
On a side note, I'm more than happy to make more alternate versions if people have suggestions or want to submit 8-16 track compositions (in .wav format if you please).
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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