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General Software Discussion / Re: Software tutorials based on pictures

« on: January 10, 2007, 12:00 AM »

Why are the screenshots in grayscale? It's not like they have to save ink from the printers. . .

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« on: January 09, 2007, 11:58 PM »

It's obsessive, as if I'm thinking, "Well someday when I'm in a nursing home, I'll have something to do and lots of stuff to review and finally get around to reading."

-zridling (January 09, 2007, 11:54 PM)

I tend to be that way about downloads. I have a downloads directory that I've tried to organize everything I've downloaded and don't often delete anything from it. As if the programs I save won't be outdated in a couple of months. . . I was even saving each version of Firefox (back to when it was still called Firebird).

Silly me.

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Living Room / Favorites Fun!

« on: January 08, 2007, 11:30 PM »

Here's a fun bit of code that will liven up any website, so long as the page you're viewing has graphics.

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',50); void(0);

Try it out by going to the smilies page and pasting the above code into your address bar and press enter! Whee!

Here's another neat trick! Add that code to one of your favorites and you can click on the favorite and it will activate the code on any page you're viewing! Double Whee!

Here's another trick! Enter in the code more than once (by clicking that favorite multiple times) and it will do even crazier things! Triple Whee!

Before:


After:

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: Entry for switch game category: 'Branston and the Lost Machine'

« on: January 08, 2007, 10:51 PM »

Wow. Quite a robust game! I have to admit that the graphics led me to believe this wouldn't be a good game, but that just reinforces the idea that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Nor a game by its graphics!

I was really surprised at how you handled one button to make Branston move and interact with items. It's really quite clever!

I noticed a little bug: In the desert town with the gambling place, there is a building next to it with a big blue "i" which I presume stands for information. When I go in that building it takes me into the casino!

Very nice beginnings of a game!

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Living Room / Re: How to think, act and live better - great books and other material!

« on: January 08, 2007, 07:26 PM »

Along those lines, I'd have to say that The Real America by Glenn Beck changed my life.

Book Description
There are some things people think but don't say....

"Political correctness is the classic Great Idea Gone Wrong. All it's done is shut us up. It hasn't changed anybody's mind. It hasn't changed our hearts. It's changed our faces. It's taken every opinion we have, it's taken every joke we have, and it's forced us to conceal it and hide it and bury it. It's made us superficial."

"Terrorism isn't caused by poverty, poverty is caused by terrorism. Terror is a tool used by those seeking power to keep the masses in need of an answer."

"Too many people blame everything on everybody else, and because they do, they will expect too little from themselves and too little from their children."

Glenn Beck says all that, and more.

The way he opens the book (if my memory serves me) is how it is hard to find people that are real. How we've all become superficial. His great example is the contrast in how many people behaved on September 10th, 2001 to how people behaved on September 12th, 2001. On the 12th people really wanted to know when they asked someone how they were doing. They really wanted to find a way to help and be the real people they are inside--caring human beings--instead of having a 3-foot thick pane of plexi-glass between themselves and the next person.

It's changed my life in learning how to really be honest with others and myself. It's changed my life in not buying into what Hollywood and the Media and what Politics tell me life is like. It's changed me from trying to fit in with the crowd into being happy as someone who is unlike the majority of others trying to fit the image the world makes up for them.

I'd recommend this book to anyone.

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« on: January 08, 2007, 07:00 PM »

Gaming, programming, DonationCoder and the DC IRC channel, occasional blogging, other miscellaneous things. And I listen to music while I'm at it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: XNA Magic

« on: January 08, 2007, 06:03 PM »

This looks cool! Keep us up to date.

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Official Announcements / Re: Anyone feel like doing some semi-regular original blogging at donationcoder?

« on: January 08, 2007, 05:58 PM »

Pick me!

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!

« on: January 08, 2007, 12:43 PM »

You mean I had to suffer through two weeks of not knowing what the exclusive Cody Club was just to find out it was a secret message saying "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"?

Just kidding!

Sounds good. I want in too! I'll need time to fill in my biography. I've lived a long and adventurous life! 

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Living Room / Re: Why Blurring Sensitive Information is a Bad Choice for Hiding It

« on: January 07, 2007, 07:42 PM »

Wow, that's cool.

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Developer's Corner / Re: gameswf

« on: January 07, 2007, 01:58 PM »

Sounds cool. Got a link?

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 07, 2007, 01:56 PM »

As to why they seem to be more high quality...  perhaps it's because they actually work this time  Although I guarantee, upon my honor, that the only things that I have changed are the two issues mentioned above  Perhaps the games look good at your monitors' native resolution instead of 640x480/800x600? 

-scriptedfun (January 07, 2007, 12:11 AM)

The fact that they worked does make it seem better, but I think you're right about the resolution. The graphics seem a lost smoother, especially on Herder. And I don't think the music was working when my keyboard wasn't either. It's nice music.

With Bounce I think it would still work well as a switch game where the dragon has three positions. It would add to the challenge! I can't remember if it was the original version of Tetris that did this, but I'm sure I've played some kind of Tetris game where you could only rotate the block one way, so if you needed to change you had to press the button a few times and fast! It adds to the frantic nature of such a game.

Thanks again for these games!

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 06, 2007, 11:38 PM »

Wow Herder is pretty fun, but yes difficult!

Bounce needs to have more variety. It's always spot 1, spot 2, then spot 3. Repeat. It was looking good to have some guys who didn't bounce as high as the others, but they also needed to be bouncing around at different intervals so it wasn't always just press the spacebar every three seconds.

Flight looks like the start of a fun game.

Somehow these games seem a lot higher quality than last time I played them. Dunno why.

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: audiogame submition: Blankblock!

« on: January 06, 2007, 04:17 AM »

No link to your game?

EDIT: Your website is difficult to navigate and I had trouble finding the game. A direct link to the game's info and download page would be a great help.

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Living Room / Re: Ladybug gets even

« on: January 06, 2007, 01:47 AM »

I love how they used real-life locations and put the bugs into the scene. That was great!

Pretty sweet - but why does she have to be so evil towards the flies? They ain't done her no evil!

-f0dder (January 06, 2007, 01:42 AM)

Didn't you see A Bug's Life? Just cause it's a ladybug doesn't mean it's a lady! (and by that I mean female)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: An idea: "Personal Censor"

« on: January 06, 2007, 12:45 AM »

I could have sworn that fellow DC member Allen's ReReplace did that, but checking it out now I don't see that feature. You could send him a personal message and invite him to add that feature. I doubt it would be very difficult.

Even though ReReplace isn't what you're looking for now, it is quite a handy online find and replace utility that accepts Regular Expressions and displays highlighted results to boot!

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 05, 2007, 09:21 PM »

My high score is 0.

I thought about it throwing off the keyboard focus, except that escape works, and the menu works on Bounce, and on Flight it seems like it thinks the keyboard is pressed the entire time because the instructions say to press the key to make the dragon fly. Well my dragon flies beyond the limits of the level without me touching anything.

 

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 05, 2007, 09:11 PM »

That was the first button I tried. Just tried it again. Spacebar does nothing. The only key it responds to is Escape which exits the program.

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 05, 2007, 09:02 PM »

What circle game? Herder? With the snake made out of bubbles? They don't work for me. My snake just spins in circles.

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: my switch games

« on: January 05, 2007, 08:55 PM »

Hi Scriptedfun,

I just tried out all of your games. Each one has a very big problem: They don't respond to anything I do. My snake in herder just spins in circles while bubbles disappear. My catcher just stays in the middle above the spikes, and my dragon just flew off the top of the screen and never came back down.

I tried pushing buttons, I tried clicking the mouse. Nothing I did affected anything on the screen with one exception: On the menu for Bounce I was able to use the arrow keys and select Play Game or Exit but once I chose Play Game nothing happened.

Also, can I make a feature request? Don't make it go into fullscreen mode. It changes my resolution and messes up my desktop on my second monitor.

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Living Room / Re: Jay is Games Flash Competition 2: Need Ideas!

« on: January 05, 2007, 06:23 PM »

Considering I am working on creating and parsing XML documents in Python as we discuss this, I think I could probably manage that.

-tinjaw (January 05, 2007, 02:33 PM)

I also know that Allen loves text parsing and I believe he has some experience with XML. But he's not familiar with Flash.

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Living Room / Re: Jay is Games Flash Competition 2: Need Ideas!

« on: January 05, 2007, 03:26 PM »

The idea of single plant in the center is nice and simple but what if the game was more like "Garden Defender", where on each level you have a big landscape, and one or more small "gardens" in preset places.

-mouser (January 05, 2007, 03:03 PM)

There could be multiple nectar plants. I was just thinking of a way to avoid killing things so the bugs would have to run off the screen with the nectar to get away. Thus the safest/easiest way so that you have the most time to prevent them from stealing the nectar would be if the plant was in the middle of the screen. When you attack the thief creatures, you just knock them out and they get dizzy Docos flying around their head and then wake up and leave without any nectar.

Your job is to help cody ... so that he may swoop in at the end and dance in the garden and take credit and receive his paycheck.

-mouser (January 05, 2007, 03:03 PM)

Ha ha I love the story. Cody is one greedy bird! The Peg People (the three people in the top banner saying "? 001110 !") could be the ones that hired Cody to the position!

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Living Room / Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game

« on: January 05, 2007, 02:57 PM »

I haven't played it since I heard about the Jay is Games contest. I just wanted to tell everyone how impressed I was by it in my short play time yesterday.

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Living Room / Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game

« on: January 05, 2007, 02:53 PM »

I downloaded this in the summer when I had no internet connection at home and e-mailed it to myself and then forgot what it was because I had saved it as WADF. Finally played it and it is absolutely charming! I'm not very far, but I love all the little creatures that add to the personality and life of the game. Not just the enemies, but especially the ones that don't affect the game. The little villagers in the tutorial level, the caterpillar that follows you, the little blobby thing that peeks up from a platform like it's scared of what's going on. Even on the menu screen there are things that fly around and butterflies and everything.

It creates such a greater level of immersion. Like this fantasy world actually exists. It's so fun! And the best thing about it is that the graphics are so very simple.

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Living Room / Re: Jay is Games Flash Competition 2: Need Ideas!

« on: January 05, 2007, 02:40 PM »

well this would be a good place for some collaboration - someone else could build the tile loader.

-mouser (January 05, 2007, 02:22 PM)

True again!

Also, I like TileStudio's drawing tutorial:

http://tilestudio.so...rge.net/drawing.html

It shows how to easily make cutesy old-school looking graphics.