Java Test: Ramping up for 7DRL

I’ve decided to take the jump and enter the Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) competition starting next month. The challenge? Write a complete “rogue-like” adventure game in just seven days. The additional challenge is that these include WORKING days, so there’s far less time in which to do it. My first inclination was to do it … Read more

Adventures in Computer Science: Monopoly board computer

Yesterday, Bear was caught in a bind because he didn’t have a computer to run the Champions Online beta. He didn’t know that he was standing on a computer — the Monopoly board itself. Before World War II, computers weren’t machines, they were a profession. Rooms of people-computers, usually women, would perform calculation after calculation … Read more

XFire WordPress Widget

… if I could draw your attention to your right, especially you WordPress bloggers … I’ve written a WordPress Widget that shows your gaming (via XFire) for the past week. It still has one or two bugs issues challenges before I can release it publicly, but if anyone has any ideas of what they would … Read more

How to tell if you’re a coder, part 1.

Step 1: Start browsing the games Xfire claims are installed on your system and come across a children’s version of that old game, Mastermind: Step 2: Spend 15 minutes writing a program in Python to solve it for you. Step 3: Suddenly realize you missed the point of the puzzle in the first place 😛 … Read more