HTML is a markup language. One of the first principals you should know is that HTML is actually just another form of a text file. For example, text files (like Microsoft Word files) don’t change. Notepad or Microsoft Word just knows how to open the files and display the files in a readable way. The [...]
April 29th, 2009
Unauthorized Flash Game Cloning
As a Flash game developer, I routinly get requests to port or make derivatives of my games. Depending on the situation and agreement, I usually have no problem. However, what I don’t like is when authors completely DUPLICATE without permission and slap their name on it.
My most popular game, Boomshine, was recently duplicated by some [...]
April 20th, 2009
Flash Artistic Experiment: is feeling good #1
Throughout the semester I developed this Flash art/simulation/game. It was originally supposed to be a game… maybe it is I don’t know it all depends on your definition. The title is called Is Feeling Good. I reserved the name IsFeelingGood.com a few months ago and thought for a while of what could possibly be on the [...]
March 30th, 2009
Soundpen
For my experimental digital art class at Georgia Tech, I created this toy I call SoundPen. It’s a very basic version obviously (although I think some cool things could come from this idea).
The basic idea is to create music by clicking your mouse and placing balls that will bounce of the screen. There are 3 [...]
March 29th, 2009
Basic Random Walk in Flash
Here’s a random walk program. I always wondered what the screen would look like if i had a dot move in a random direction.
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March 9th, 2009
Picture of Pictures
The Internet has provided a new means of data expression. I decided to play with the idea of machine aesthetics by developing an application that creates images of images.
I first saw this effect a long time ago on a poster advertisement for the Truman show. I always wondered how they made the effect of compiling images together to form, when looked at a certain distance, an image. The program I made this week creates the effect by downloading Flickr images.