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The Pestering Squad - Demo produced

The Pestering Squad - Demo produced

Last week, I announced the creation of the Pestering Squad. Here's what's up after 2 weeks.The first thing I did was create a top-secret, password...

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The Pestering Squad!

The Pestering Squad!

Last week, I had an idea. One of my biggest problems is focus, and I noticed I was usually much more motivated to code when I had an actual audience,...

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Must... Stop... Playing...

Must... Stop... Playing...

So I'm supposed to be writing a GLSL shader/GPGPU version of my rock-paper-scissors cellular automata. Unfortunately, I got sidetracked again.I...

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Another cellular automaton video

Another cellular automaton video

[media][/media]Automata, automaton... Is each cell considered an automaton? Or is the whole thing the automaton? I really have no clue.How it...

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Pixels, pixels

Pixels, pixels

It's the game of life:My attempt at adding new rules to it:(Nailed it)And a colorful life simulation:Colored pixels move randomly, spawn lower...

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Monkey Mind

Monkey Mind

Lots and lots of IRL work lately... I don't know what I'm doing up at 6 AM on a Sunday morning. Maybe I shouldn't be bloggin'.Nevertheless, very...

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Sequencers

Sequencers

Lots of bug hunting today.Just finished the code to deal cards from a deck to an arbitrary hand. I don't know if anyone else will understand it, but...

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Introducing... Hardk

Introducing... Hardk

Welcome to Hardkore Blackjack, a fast-paced "arcade" twist on a popular casino classic.It's Blackjack, except before each round starts, you get to...

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Functors will eat your children

Functors will eat your children

Oh yes they will. Here's what I've been doing instead of programming a game:A typical game object class, before:#define MSG_ONMOUSEOVER 1#define...

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What to absolutely never do

What to absolutely never do

When writing a (genre), you often have to make sure that (some abstract concept) is properly (synonym of handled), but you want to make sure you...

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Graphics

Graphics

I made some unnecessarily huge casino chip graphics today.

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Anatomy

Anatomy

So I'm hard at work on my object composition-driven rapid development framework. I reached a significant milestone in my career as a hobbyist...

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Duplicate functionality!

Duplicate functionality!

So lately I've been investing significant amounts of time into a "sequence listener" class that enables sequential and timed actions.This is useful...

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Derp

Derp

*click click click* Damn it. It's not doing anything. *click click click click click* Oh well... Guess it's time for some debugging.Ladies and...

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Very bloggy

Very bloggy

Talking about my life to justify how little has been accomplished in the past week, programming-wise. [...]Big big "IRL job" projects right now......

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A Shiny New Devblog!

A Shiny New Devblog!

Well, this is exciting. I think I'll use this and pipe the RSS into my website or something. (more)A little introduction: My name is Ben and I'm a...

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