I’ve been working on a skeletal animation/game programming article for a little while now, and it has prompted me to update some of my other projects. The first update is that ‘Quick Grapher’ functionality is now embedded into my WordPress theme. I’ve posted up the original ‘Quick Grapher Embedded’ tutorial page here.
So you’ve seen the power of Quick Grapher and want to add it to your site? What’s the absolute fastest way to do this? Well, you can always grab the source from the GitHub repo, but if you don’t want to mess with all that, just include the files from hunterdavis.com like: <br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br>
While pushing out an update to ‘The Grind‘ this week, I had a few users who reported crashes with the newest content pack update. Unfortunately, Google Play’s dev console did not show the errors, and the users were not sure where the crashes were occurring. What is a developer to do?
Just a heads up for folks leveling characters in my pseudo-RPG The Grind, I’ve just pushed live a new expansion pack! This updates the leveling system and adds a ton of new data items. You can (of course), grab the newest code from the GitHub repository, or from Google Play
This is the second in an article series about Android development, open source software, audio production, and so much more. You can read part 1 here.
Just a couple of quick updates for my weekend readers. First, I spent a bit of time on the Dreamcast coffee table, adding a set of chair wheels for mobility, and a hook beneath for holding the controllers, and replacing...
After a week or so of using my unfinished Dreamcast coffee table, some of its flaws were beginning to irk me. The 1/8″ acrylic top was too bendy to hold heavy drinks or pitchers, and the clear-top table was too camouflaged for my aging dog to see properly. As such, she wouldn’t notice it was there until she was right up on it; at which point she’d get spooked and run off. I taped paper over the corners in an effort to not terrify my dog on a regular basis. This helped her see the table, but looked rather unfinished. I knew what had to be done. I headed out to my local hardware store to purchase some 1/4″ acrylic sheeting and a can of “Gamecube” purple spray-paint. I have to say, there’s something oddly satisfying about embedding a Sega system in a table painted like a Nintedo system.
A couple of weeks ago I threw a Dreamcast and an LCD monitor into a Printer/Scanner shell. It turned out great, but was just the beginning. I was playing some Marvel Vs Capcom on it, and I realized that with a bit of modification it could make for a great coffee table. The first part of that modification is completed, and the lower top-plate has been attached to the unit. It’s pretty much finished, functionally speaking, but there’s still much to do in the visual department. I still need to decorate the case, add a front-plate for the DC controller ports, decorate the upper portion of the top-plate and secure it the the plate that’s currently on there, and a few other visual niceties (like a volume control rocker). In the meantime, here’s a preview of how it’s going so far.
As anyone living in Seattle can tell you, the rainy season has finally returned. This is great news for basement-dwellers like myself, who languish through the summer months waiting for the cold rains. And while I’m always striving to reinvent myself, there are some facets of life that are as inevitable as the rains in Seattle. One of those certainties of life is that I’m going to want to play some obscure game. Years ago this may have been a difficulty, technically. Sadly today it is a difficulty, ethically. You can download any and all obscure games for any system in a matter of seconds on most home connections. While that may be fine and well for those who condone piracy, that is cold comfort to me, surrounded by ethical quandary. Technically speaking, it is a simple matter to find these rare titles to pirate or to purchase. However the purchase price for many an obscure title is often way beyond reasonable. Where then, do you draw the line in the sand and say ‘I’m going to pirate that game, or I’m never going to play that game.”?
When I go to start working on a new hack, the issue of how to enclose it is always a tricky one. Building an enclosure from scratch can be extremely time consuming (if done well). Retrofitting an old enclosure can shave hours off of a build, and allow for more rapid prototyping. As I’ve been on a console hacking kick lately, I decided to open up the closet and see what grand old systems I could pull out and improve upon. This time it was the Sega Dreamcast which caught my eye and set my mind wandering about in a myriad of directions.
