JamesGecko

AJAX is a pain if you don’t know Javascript or PHP. Fortunately, there’s jQuery. It’s pretty much the easiest way to get started. Here are a few handy notes. Select element ids from the HTML page in jQuery by using $('#theIdIsHere’).functionName(… You need to hash mark in front of the name for ids. If you are selecting a class, you don’t. This is how buttons work. If jquery click events won’t trigger, remember to double check that you’re using the document ready function.

Like Unguku, I tend to have a project or three running in the background. Here’s what I’ve been up to in the past months. I have a job! Soon I’ll be moving to Nowhere, AL for an internship. Weeks of buisness logic development with Visual Basic shall follow. Not my favorite language, but there’s talk of fun with PHP on the horizon. When I haven’t been actively seeking or preparing for a job, I’ve dabbled with three different projects.

You’ve likely heard it before. PC gaming is dying because the hardware is expensive, or because consoles sell more games, or this or that. Well no, actually, it’s not dying. It’s just not making as large a blip on sales charts of physical copies because digital distribution has gotten so good. A bit over a year and a half ago Valve projectedthat Steam sales of their games would overtake retail sales.

Went to the Atlanta Game Developer Meetup yesterday. Cool group of people. Unity seemed popular. Understandable. It’s easy to use. Somewhat artsy. Free for indies, even. SIEGE is going to be a big deal locally, apparently. One person I talked to seemed to think that a software engineering course was unessential for a game development education. He also talked about crunch like it was just a fact of life. I know game development is a creative process, but even so, it’s a process.

theme:rain is a small game I wrote in about ten days for Dr. Tevis’ computer graphics class. I believe it was my second or OpenGL application. It shows somewhat. For many year evil green square empire may oppressed the lowly yellow square. Now times have come. Take fight and win! Use arrow keys to defeat menace. Smash yellow invincible ship into fragile green hull! Bonus score buy frequent collision! Beware; the red box fire evil rejuvenation.