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Pixelmator save, Project reload. 29 Jul 2013 | 02:05 pm
End result: Hit save in Pixelmator, web page automatically reloads with new PNGs. Tools: Pixelmator (image editor), Grunt + LiveReload (task runner), Automator (Mac automation thingo), Bash (Bash). I...
DIGIBOTS & CO.: a game in a month. 18 Jul 2013 | 12:59 am
"Make a game in a month, with crazy retro-like restrictions, and if you win you we'll put it in a real-life arcade machine in front of the general public." Now that's a pitch that I'd find difficult t...
Into the third dimension 16 May 2013 | 09:29 pm
My loyal long-term readers (by whom I mean Anton) would know my technological aesthetic bent strongly favour the 1980s. Seeing as the third dimension was not discovered until 1992, I have thus far had...
Pix Up, Look Sharp: a pixel resizer for Pixelmator 13 May 2013 | 08:08 pm
Pixelmator is a fantastic image editor for Mac, but it lacks the ability to stretch an image via a "nearest-neighbor, big pixels please" method. I know, right?! Anyhoo... I made a Quartz Composer call...
More is Zmore 2 May 2013 | 12:01 am
Ludum Darer JellyCakes has been live streaming his playing-and-rating efforts of entries in Ludum Dare 26. He's an excellent reviewer: testing each game very thoroughly and fairly. And he's hilarious....
ZMORE: a game in 48 hours 29 Apr 2013 | 05:14 pm
Here's my entry for Ludum Dare #26, on the theme Minimalism. It's written in pure JavaScript and a "library" I cobbled together a few days before the competition. I also snuck in jQuery for doing the ...
DHTML Lemmings: an awesome hack 23 Apr 2013 | 05:35 pm
That image is the punchline to the question I awoke with in the middle of last night: "How the FLIPPIN' 'ECK did that guy do destructible terrain for DHTML Lemmings... in 2004?!!!". I lay there for so...
Short function syntax is here! 25 Mar 2013 | 06:22 pm
It's happened. It's finally happened. Short function syntax is here! At least, if you're running the nightly version of Firefox (which I am now, due to my promise to adopt the first browser to introdu...
#Random Hex colour 8 Mar 2013 | 06:13 pm
Want a random colour between white and black? "#" + (Math.random() * 0xffffff | 0).toString(16) That is all. [Update: after I posted this I thought... i bet this has been done a zillion times already....
Three.js: looking away from .lookAt 6 Mar 2013 | 03:42 pm
Have a hankering to look in the opposite direction of the vector you get from Three.js's .lookAt function? You need .lookAwayFrom! Dunno if there's an easier way, but the idea is find the vector betwe...
