Mike_W's Recent Projects

Mike_W10min

My entry for the 10 minuite programming competition Started 7:21 am uploading 7:30 How long can you (square avoid the circles)

Croc

Eat the pirates with the crocodile - needs lots of work yet - but thought I would put it up there as it is.

SqueezeMaze

Squeeze Maze - Ludum Dare 14 This was my third attempt at Ludum - the first time I made something way to complicated - and while it did get finished it was too complicated and did not do that well. My second try I was only able to get on the PC 6 of the 48 hours so while I completed something it was also fairly week. This time - I had my tools ready before hand, and a pretty good schedule. I picked a simple concept and wanted to see how far I could go with it and am happy with my work,. The tools PC Athalon 2600XP running Windows XP, 1 Gig or Ram Scratch for those of you who are not familar with it - it's designed by MIT as a teaching tool for young programmers. You build blocks of code. It's very visual which is why the code directory is all snapshots of the code from the different sprites. Reasons why I think this is a good platform for Ludums. Multi - threading made easy each physical sets of blocks is it's own thread. Good messaging - sending broadcasts to every 'object/thread' is easy - limited in you can only send a fixed message with no variables. Sprite Tools - in the code, rotate, hide, resize and move are all right and standard commands. Easy to debug - the visual nature of the code as well as the single stepping option helps stretch the 24 hours. Other tools Pixel Art - Kolourpaint, Harmwave, www.cooltext.com and my LG515 cell phone, took a shot of my lawn, some decorative rock and some bricks. Audio tools - cgMusic, sfxr, audacity, my LG515 cell phone, and format factory

timer with pause

Hello, Time iwth pause the resolution gets a little glitchy if you fix it I would appreciate a note

Bubbles

Was bored took about 10 minuites Was a passing thought and it looked ok enough to throw it up there. we all have to take a break from our harder projects don't we.

catandmouse

Ok my sons idea. The cat has put a password on the mouses hole - he has to find the pieces of the password to make it to his whole. My son choose the password - he just turned 5 and

Circle

In the mid 80's wrote a little program on the color computer that moved a circle around. That was the inspiration for this. Key commands r - set to random settings 0-9 choose a pen q increase left spin w increase right spin arrow keys - add to speed various directions d stop drawing and move only s stop everything c clear screen m toggle mouse control g gravity on y gravity higher h gravity lower I am programming in scratch to get familar with it - as me and my 4 year old son talk about how programs work. I hope to start teaching him to code when he is 7. (We already play chess)