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DDR simfiles

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I enjoyed Dance Dance Revolution a LOT a few years ago. I loved the seizurely backgrounds and arrows, being able to excuse it as exercise, and there’s actually some pretty good music. It does tend to drain the cash, however.

So I got Dance With Intensity, a DDR simulator for the computer, and found out how to make my own songs. I didn’t have pad though, so I danced on my keyboard. It’s not quite the same, but it’s close.

StepMania makes it infinitely easier to create, edit, sync, and play songs, and it’s got all kinds of crazy ways you can modify the game. So I brushed a few songs up, and they all happen to be from PC games:

Lava Crush – From “Frogger: He’s Back”

Metallic Madness (past) – From Sonic CD

Progressive – from The Incredible Machine

More to come :)

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Hiksaditi’s tomb

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Inform.

It allows you to make text adventure games, or for the more sophisticated, “interactive fiction”.

And it has the easiest code language ever: plain english.

Paper Clips is south of Theatre. The description of Paper Clips is “For all your office supply needs… or perhaps just one or two of them. It looks like the whole store has been picked clean. You can’t even find paper clips in Paper Clips!”
A candy is in Paper Clips. “There’s a piece of candy on the desk.” The candy is edible.
The description of the candy is “Tempting chocolate.”

If you were to type these exact lines it would create exactly that.

It’s CRAZY.

Last summer I threw together my very first IF. It’s a short puzzleventure called King Hiksaditi’s tomb. It’s really not that great, sometimes trying to find the right wording is a pain, but it’s pretty short otherwise.

Download it

How to run the file:

1) Read this guide. It will save you plenty of frustration. [link]

2) You need a program that reads z files (Called an interpreter) to play this game. Download one here: [link] They have one for just about every platform. I recommend Windows Frotz to windows users; it’s included in the zip file.

3) Click Download on this deviation, and save it to the desktop.

4) After you have installed the interpreter, run it, then select the file on the desktop (or wherever you saved it.)

5) Sit there and wonder why you can’t get ye flask.

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Flash

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Several years ago, when I discovered the joyous world of Homestar Runner, I became dead set on getting my own website which would pretty much be exactly like it.

Of course, that meant I had to learn flash, web design, and actually learn to animate. Who wants that?

So the dream fermented, and I had plenty of ideas on what I would make my website about when/if I finally got one. The Sketchy characters (a very broad subject for another post) was one idea. Making stupid little cartoon adventures seemed like fun. But here’s something I learned very quickly: Animation is hard. Having the patience to animate is a tremendous gift, one which I don’t quite have. But I had enough to make the following.

- Fuzion logo. This was when my screen name was “DJ FuZion” (*goes back in time and slaps self in the face*) and I don’t know what the theme of such a website would be. I think it was computer games.

- Lovely Music. Made this over a winter break. Stars Tarquar, Jake/Jace, and Zap. Much fun was had.

- Think outside the box. This was more programming than animation, and it was based on a game that I learned in Scholar’s bowl. WARNING: Leads to insanity

- Logic Puzzle. And this one is really nothing more than text. It’s part of a game/phenomenon called Lost, which I lost. I still like the puzzle, so see if you can figure it out.

- Hex says some stuff. This was my first animation with a tablet, and it’s my favorite. These are some lines from Planet B.

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eatpoopucat.com

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

This is a fun diversion for artists of all skill levels. It’s a variation on the telephone game, and it goes something like this:

Person A writes a sentence.
Person B reads the sentence and illustrates it.
Person C looks at Person B’s picture (but not Person A’s sentence) and writes a new sentence.
Person D reads only Person C’s sentence and illustrates it, and so on.

The result is a disjointed yet continuous “story”. I think this is one of the funniest.

Here are my favorite pictorial contributions:

epuc manamatotaepuc toothpasteepuc slugsepuc quarkobellepuc venusepuc ladybugepuc galaxyepuc dragonlunchepuc dinosaurepuc dignityepuc bjornepuc addiction

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Crossblock

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

This is the official page for Crossblock, my flash puzzle game.

This was a very fun and rewarding project. I got the idea during a holiday flight, pounded it out during winter break, tested it on DeviantArt, and uploaded it to Newgrounds where it made the front page.

I have also (with help) translated it into Hebrew, and it has been used in a research paper conducted by MIT students.

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Miraculous recovery

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I asked at Chess.com a while back about any nice recoveries they’d seen at the grandmaster level – where one side is on the verge of mate and the other slips up just enough to end up the loser.
Here was one I played on Blitz, 5 minutes both sides.

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nf3 h6 4. O-O
I’m still not sure what the best response to 3…h6 is. It’s passive, which some consider bad, but I don’t know how to take advantage of it.

4… Nf6 5. Nxe5 Nxe5 6. d4 Nxc4
Double whoops.

7. Nc3 d6 8. e5 dxe5 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8
Trading is never a good idea when down this much material.

11. Rd1+ Bd7 12. Bf4 Neg4 13. Nb5
Setting up an attack on c7, though this would do nothing but get a pawn and rook for a knight and bishop.

13… g5 14. Nxc7 Rc8 15. Bg3 Bc5 16. Nb5 Re8 17. Bc7+ Rxc7 18. Nxc7 Kxc7
This is a nightmare!

19. h3 Bxf2+ 20. Kf1 Bb5+ 21. Rd3
forced.

21… Ne4 22. hxg4 Nd2+ 23. Kxf2 Bxd3 24. cxd3
In only a few moves he let all his minor pieces die, and that last knight can’t go anywhere.

24… b5 25. Rc1+ Kd6 26. b4 Rf8 27. Rd1 f5 28. Rxd2
Material is even again!

And the rest is easy.
28… f4 29. a3 h5 30. gxh5 g4 31. g3 fxg3+ 32. Kxg3 Rf3+ 33. Kxg4 Rf8 34. h6 Rg8+ 35. Kf4 Rf8+ 36. Ke4 Re8+ 37. Kd4 Re5 38. Kc3 Rh5 39. Kb3 Rxh6 40. a4 a5 41. bxa5 bxa4+ 42. Kxa4 Rh4+ 43. Ka3 Rd4 44. Kb3 Kc5 45. Kc3 Ra4 46. d4+ Kd5 47. Re2 Rc4+ 48. Kb3 Rxd4 49. Ra2 Kc5 50. a6 Rd3+ 51. Kc2 Kc4 52. a7 Rc3+ 53. Kd2 Rd3+ 54. Ke2 Rd8 55. a8=Q Rxa8 56. Rxa8 Kd5 57. Kd3 Ke6 58. Ra5 Kf6 59. Ke4 Ke6 60. Ra6+ Kf7 61. Kf5 Ke7 62. Rh6 Kd7 63. Ke5 Kc7 64. Kd5 Kb7 65. Kc5 Kc7 66. Rh7+ Kb8 67. Kc6 Ka8 68. Kb6 Kb8 69. Rh8#

And I know I made plenty more mistakes than I indicated here, but I just play for fun. :)

Here’s the pgn file, which you can open in Winboard.
miraculous-recovery

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NewFolder

Friday, June 5th, 2009

NewFolder is a 64-level downloadable puzzle. It was inspired by NotPron, the original and best online riddle. You should go there first to get somewhat of an idea of what NewFolder is like. Not a Notpron clone.

Download it here:

NewFolder puzzle

(About 7mb)

Start by extracting the folder’s contents, then open “NewFolder readme” in the main directory.

If you need hints, feel free to email me.

Finishers

1 Ryoga “This is the best offline riddle I’ve ever seen (and finished). It has entertained me for months and it somehow worked out in the end. I would like to send my regards from Holland, I liked your artwork a lot and I’ve started reading Planet B comics =) Dunno if you publish these comments somewhere, but then i’d like to greet Macker, Twilight and Reptile ^_^ Thanks a lot for all this fun!”

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