Game Video

Posted by DesertFox on March 17, 2011, 11:04 p.m.

Holy crap, I've got a video!

(Embedded Video)

This is just a video capture test of my Android game-in-development, showing an early view of the action. Here you can see 3 types of enemies in their 4 levels of incarnation - Quadlasers, Spitters, and Wavers. This video is a bit …

Moar pixels!

Posted by DesertFox on March 16, 2011, 7:15 p.m.

So…

Blogging…

Let's begin!

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation…

Wait. That's not very original!

Okay, plan B!

So this is what I am currently working on:

Oooh shiny main menu!

A pixelly-ish vertical shooter for Android. I know I'm …

Attack of the Dreaded, Double-damned FloatBuffer

Posted by DesertFox on March 13, 2011, 1:38 a.m.

*sigh*

So one of the major irritations in game-development for the Android just reared-up and bit me in the ass - that of the Dreaded, Double-damned FloatBuffer.

What is a floatbuffer? Its a buffer of floats! Basically, its an array that you can put floats into singly, or in large …

Ha ha!

Posted by DesertFox on March 11, 2011, 12:42 p.m.

"Ha ha! Cookies on dowels!" - Phil Ken Sebben

So yeah. Harvey Birdman.

In other news, this:

Anyone with a multitouch/accelerometer-enabled Android phone running at least Eclair who wants to help test, send me a PM.

Also, does anyone know where I can get some good 8-bit sound effects? Or …

Post-valentine blues

Posted by DesertFox on Feb. 15, 2011, 10:43 a.m.

Also, post-Valentine jazz, post-valentine reggae, and post-valentine post-modern rock!

I just thought i'd pop in and say "hi folks!"

Random stuff:

Minecraft server is slow. This makes me sad.

I read a good book recently. This makes me happy.

I made some good food recently, and ate it. This makes …

Gawd! Potatoes! Sherbert!

Posted by DesertFox on Jan. 18, 2011, 10:43 p.m.

Awesome weekend. Spent it all with a friend, doing random things.

On Saturday,we saw The Green Hornet. It was… interesting. Very Seth-Rogeny, if you know what that means. Lots of facepalming for the first half of the movie, because Seth Rogen was being, well, himself. It was an all-around okay-ish …

New Stuff

Posted by DesertFox on Dec. 28, 2010, 12:24 a.m.

What did I get for christmas?

A bunch of stuff, but here are the main things:

Frappachino maker

Safari-style lambskin fedora (awesome)

Portable rice cooker and recipe book

Last Night on Earth board game + Growing Hunger expansion

Miniature RC helicopter <- pure win

What have I been doing lately? …

Turkey Blawg

Posted by DesertFox on Nov. 25, 2010, 3:01 p.m.

So, first some turkey.

Om nom nom nom nom…

There. Now, with that out of the way, we can concentrate on other things, like this:

Menu

Gameplay

This is what I've been dabbling with for the last few weeks - Android stuff! The goal of the game is simple - …

My First Android Widget

Posted by DesertFox on Nov. 6, 2010, 10:52 p.m.

So I got me an Android phone. Samsung Epic, to be specific. This is the first phone that I've ever had that was in fact worth having. So it is awesome.

Whats more is now I can screw around with the Android SDK. It turns out that Android apps are …

Scary Blag

Posted by DesertFox on Oct. 31, 2010, 2:01 p.m.

So, Halloween avatar.

I need a new banner. My current one feels old now.

I've been playing Minecraft - the new update disappoints me. Hell doesn't work properly, trees and snow broke, and 2 of the 6 blocks are "unlit pumpkin" and "lit pumpkin". We waited a month and a …