An Experiment in Accelerometers, the Raspberry Pi, and Web Technology
Once a quarter my place of work grants our teams a ‘day of autonomy’ to work on any projects we see fit to grow our knowledge and development skill set. For ...
Game Off 2018! (Using PICO-8)
Next month marks GitHub’s fifth annual Game Off, where participants spend one month creating games based on a theme that GitHub provides once the contest begins. This will be my first game jam and it sounds like an interesting opportunity to learn something new.
For this project I’m going to be checking out PICO-8, one of a few available ‘fantasy consoles’ used for making small games and other computer programs which uses a subset of the Lua programming language. I’ve been spending the past couple days getting up to speed with the PICO-8 and am excited to see what comes of it.
“PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.”
I’ll be writing some follow up posts tracking my progress throughout the month - can’t wait to see what this year’s there is going to be.
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A Journey in NES Emulation - Part II
With the last post covering a brief overview of the project as a whole, I want to start discussing some of the more detailed subject matter surrounding the N...
A Journey in NES Emulation - Part I
Writing an NES emulator has been a long time interest of mine, primarily because the subject of software emulation is fascinating. I’ve spent my fair share o...
Game Off 2018 Update - Part II
It’s only been a few days since the last update, but I’ve decided to go ahead and comment on the overall status of this project and where I see it heading.
Game Off 2018 Update - Part I
Wow, I can’t believe it’s already been over two weeks since the Game Off kicked off. This year’s theme is ‘Hybrid’.
Game Off 2018! (Using PICO-8)
Next month marks GitHub’s fifth annual Game Off, where participants spend one month creating games based on a theme that GitHub provides once the contest beg...
A Journey in NES Emulation
NES emulation has been done again and again for decades, yet seemly every year there is a new take on this monumental task using new languages, frameworks, a...