A Meditation on a Late Summer Evening
by admin on Sep.01, 2009, under Uncategorized
Dog calls out to the fading Summer evening, chasing it with frantic cries as it rolls down over the blushing horizon. Then he is quiet. Moon shivers in the still surface of a child’s forgotten wading pool. The silence, Autumn’s herald, rings and hisses in my ears as I sit before a candle flame that dances into the deepening night.
Sunday afternoon thoughts near the end of Summer
by admin on Aug.23, 2009, under Uncategorized
The world is such a magical place. Spider webs, curving like Einsteinian space time diagrams, shimmer in the breeze and sun. Crickets call to one another endlessly, hopping frantically through the fresh mowed grass. Somewhere a child cries out and then giggles, leaping one last time through a summer sprinkler. I watch and listen and smell, both observer and participant. I stretch out to the world with my imagination and pull it back into myself with my senses, a fisherman casting a net woven from feelings.
Developing a Platformer in Java with Slick2D
by admin on May.30, 2009, under Game Development in Java, Slick2D and NetBeans
About a month ago, I posted some youtube videos showing a technology demo that I did to learn how to do game development in Java.
This first one shows the technologies that I used: Java, NetBeans IDE and Slick2D. It is probably the more coherent of the two although the game was in an earlier state.
The second video shows the game at a point where there were enemies, some kind of accounting for hit and mana points and the beginnings of some strategy. It is, however, the less coherent of the two.
