I made a game called Maziness last winter that I didn’t announce.

Back in elementary school, we would sit for hours drawing mazes on graph paper. This game was a visit to the past with my knowledge of today. It’s very minimalist as well, mostly because I just didn’t care to work on it after the initial revision.

The purpose is to get from start to finish in the smallest amount of time possible. It relies heavily on the JavaScript capabilities of your web browser, so those with Google Chrome or Safari 4 will be able to play the large maze. I used a well known but simple maze algorithm to generate the mazes, which regenerate everytime you refresh the page.

If you’re bored, check it out: http://maziness.com.

Tags: game, maze, maziness, technical, video games, web, website

The new site has a minimalist design. A person is running away from an alien spacecraft but the large yellow beam- similar to the spot light at a prison- has spotted him and is following him. The oddly balanced rectangular block gives the city an alien feel as well.

I liked the simplicity of my last site, but I wanted to shrink the header image and make it less egocentric. The content started half way down the page, so I believe I’ve resolved that problem. The grey background and black foreground help bring out the yellow parts, which draw attention to the more active elements of the site. I used Pixelmator, a cool graphics program that Chris recommended. It’s basically a stripped down version of photoshop with Mac style for $59.

Tags: alien, art, technical, website

I’ve added paging to the tags pages on the Pictures page. Page, page, page.

Tags: flickr, paging, web, website

Flickr opened up their service to the programming world with a publicly accessible API. As usual, I’m way behind the times and I’ve just discovered this feature.

I started using Flickr a few months back for photo hosting and I’ve been addicted ever since. So much in fact, that I haven’t bothered updating my own pictures page. The solution of course was to create a section on my website that connects to Flickr using their API. The first iteration of this page is located at http://mswebby.com/flickr/sets.php.

Unfortunately, Flickr’s API doesn’t include any functions for getting Collections of photos, just Sets. So my site is completely disorganized at the moment.

Tags: api, computer, flickr, internet, photography, photos, technical, web, website

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