Since the iPhone happened in 2007, touch input has been at the forefront of human interaction with machines. But Game Engines have existed for a reasonable long life, preceding the mobile boom. Touch as a means of interaction with the game world in engines is provided in many ways. Below, we are going to look at different touch APIs to see how they have been provided to enable gaming on our…
A Sonatype Nexus and the internal self signed Gitlab instances were the only resources available to this CentOS 7 Server we were dealt. Recently I and a dev configured a Gitlab Runner Docker for CI builds. This is our story. Dun Dun Note: I am assuming that you don't want to use proxy for some reason. If you can access external resources through some corporate proxy, you may configure that, and it…
Hello, I would like to talk a bit on Tea for Two which is my entry for Adventure Jam 2019 , and the ideas and inspirations for it. This is the first Adventure Game I write and design, along with the usual management and coding. Adventure Jam is a two weeks event, I only selected the tools and thought about the prompt before, and used the first week to actually build the story and design the game,…
So 2016 passed, and then 2017 and it's now 2018. Life just goes faster the older you get... Time for some updates. update time! So I decided to give a pause on A Glass of Lores - starting out building a full blown RPG and engine as my first project maybe wasn't very smart. The story keeps refining slowly on my Google docs... But, cool thing. I started to make a new game! And I am NOT making an…
So, I have been working in this javascript game for almost two years now! The first A Glass of Lores post was in 31 january 2015 ! So I have been learning, and you can say some piles of javascript code has been lying around. 😁 I have been learning a lot for the past years, I have recently read A Theory of Fun , for more input on how to make fun games, and I also needed some help on code, so I've…
using a bitmap font to write text on canvas. When I made the game engine, my first idea was to make everything in English. But then I noticed most people really like localized text, and supporting more languages is as important as supporting many platforms. When I started writing what you have to be different so I could support different languages, at the end point, I had a problem with my…
This is just a video of the FGMK making a chest by modifying the tile map. One of the important concepts is that you are free to edit any tile - the building blocks of the these 2D world - in any place in the map, and it's ok to do it. FGMK
Since the post A tilemap in PyQt for a bigger game Project I have been working in something that at the time I wasn't quite sure of what it was. And now I think I am going somewhere. I present you my game maker, named FGMK . At the time of this writing, I am at version 0.5.3, I have a huge backlog of things I want to implement: scripting, plugins, monster design, hero design, skill design,…
Been a long time since I've written something here. So I thought I should post some small things I've done in the mean time. Running NIK Collection filters on GIMP I am slowly transitioning to use GIMP more. It's far easier once you've made it to look just like Photoshop - look this guide or this theme - if that's what you are coming from. Recently, Google made some filters from NIK, a company it…
So I plan to post here and update on what I've been doing. But since I don't really have the time, today I'm just going to link to a small side project! This side project is Command Line Erico , a small blog, to which I post through a bash script to Github Pages. This script is a fork of the bash script from Carlos Fenollosa, available here . The idea of this blog came from giving a use for my old…
Hello. This a different post… Nothing was lying around... I’ve read in a book recently - Steal Like an Artist - a phrase, that’s attributed to a cartoonist named Tom Gauld, “ that once the computer is involved, ‘things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.’ ” Since the Moleskines brought the paper as something cool again - I use most…
So, I'm working on my game and decided to share some simplified version of my code here. I'm making a game engine in javascript, and needed some way to code some actions. The code is here, you can save it as example.html (http://jsfiddle.net/e3b0kocc/): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 <!DOCTYPE html>…
I'm working in my game, it's going be awesome. Ok, so while working in it, I need a fast way to test my animated background sprites. I use Aseprite for drawing - it's great, and if you use Ubuntu, you can sudo apt-get install aseprite . Go to the website for more info on other OS: http://www.aseprite.org/ Let's try an example: save this water sprite! I made it myself! :D (that's why it's ugly..)…
I wanted to get back into game development, as a hobby, for some time now. I have some idea of what I want: a simple 2d rpg game, like Pokemon in Game Boy. So for starts, I needed a way to draw tilemaps, a good editor, something I could customize for my needs. But I really couldn't find anything as easy to use as I wanted so I decided to write my own. I opted to use Python and PyQt - and I don't…
Been away from here for some time, basically I haven't been doing much fun stuff lately that seemed important to share here. But, last week, a friend asked me if I could help him counting people heads in a store. Basically, there is this very expensive hardware that use two cameras side by side, with an IR only filter and an IR emitter, so the idea is to find what is a head in a image and at what…
Weeks ago I tried to make a ultrasonic radar like, but things didn't work out very well. I will post everything here soon.
Ok, the idea here is to try to unite the bits later. % Copyright 2014 Érico Porto % Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); % you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. % You may obtain a copy of the License at % http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 % Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software % distributed under the…
At least if you are not in your computer. If I want to pass a web site from computer to WhatsApp or other text to my phone world, I use this website to generate a Qrcode for it: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ If the website is to big use a URL shortener to make the Qrcode more readable through your cellphone camera. Update: Just found out today that there is a way to make it better...…
Some time ago I had some time, a spare webcam, Matlab and some Legos lying around, so I began building a Spectrometer from it. Now, to the hardware, you just need a dark box, with no light infusing in it, and a piece of dvd to use as diffraction grid. This website will help to answer most questions: http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/spectrometer At the time, their software didn't ran on my computer…
I think it's always cool to once in a while boot your old computer inside your new one, just to keep track of the old stuff you've done. So here is a tip on how to run Windows XP for free inside Virtual Box. Import Windows XP Mode into VirtualBox # while maintaining product activation: Download Windows XP Mode (WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe | MD5: bf3726d684d3acb98185665123c9efcf) Extract xpm from…
So, I had a netbook lying around, an old ASUS SURF 4G, and thought "hey, it would be cool to look my calendar on this, and make a key hanger with it's screen". So I thought, ok, I will let the browser open in google calendar and run to the street to find something to build the key hanger. Unfortunately, my ASUS has only 4GB SSD HD, so right now it's loaded with a custom Gentoo that will never…
Today I enrolled for the gamification course on Coursera . It's a regular course with homeworks and tests, the video lectures are awesome and I also bought the book already. Which also reminds me that I have a ton of things to write in here about some other books that I've already read on Kindle. I will let survival of the fittest decide which project will see daylight. So I leave this, from Why…
Is it possible? Has anyone ever tried? I'm looking at a bacteria right now, just downloaded 2.8MB of ATCG madness. Wondering if DNA is a regular language. XKCD Time Strip I want to download all the pictures featured on the time strip. I think that the image name is cryptic using Skein. But, there is an easy way: people are uploading the drawings on the XKCD Wikia. So I installed wget on Windows8.…
This code may be old . please follow here to the most up-to-date version: https://github.com/ericoporto/CazyBatchSearch Yes, a way to use a table to search the Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes Database. Below the Python 2.7.3 script. ''' Copyright 2014 Érico Porto Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may…
Throw the numbers on the browser for going to the gps location. Start researching on the wikipedia about Willian Kid or other pirate. Example: Meat | -21.53,46.05 Squid | 34.61,137.7 Boat | -28.30,-57.30 Aligator with letter C | -37.85,-25.83 Right now I could find C R and V if I remember correctly. Small tip on faster learning when audio is required Use 1.5x speed. Thanks LifeHacker