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September 18, 2009
Made another mediawiki extension for embedding flash stuff more easily.
The wiki code to use it looks like:
<meyermikeflashembed width="123" height="456" swf="http://url.com/path/to/some.swf" />
September 16, 2009
It's been a busy three weeks or so since the last update!
Ludum Dare 15
I participated in Ludum Dare 15 and made Ninja Spelunker! Sort of a clone of Ninja Pipe Cleaner from Wario Ware, Inc.
There were also one hundred forty three other games made for this LD! Check them out!
Post LD15
I tried some expanding on Ninja Spelunker, but Flash really has problems rendering the large cave images the way I want it to without destroying the framerate. I do like the game idea, but if I return to it, it will probably be in some form other than a Flash game. I got a lot of framework cleanup in while doing that, though.
Mercurial
I switched to using Mercurial instead of Subversion for my source control. Very happy I did so. TortoiseHg seems a bit lacking compared to TortoiseSvn, but it is a small price to pay for being able to merge and branch so painlessly. And being able to commit to a local repo before pushing to a server is the cat's pajamas.
I do find myself wishing for a way to just pull specific changes from another repo instead of the entire history up to a revision, and that I could do part of a branch merge at a time instead of having to commit the entire thing at once, but I think I only wanted those because I had a bad workflow. The situation is that I have several games in development, and there is code that is shared between them and code that should not be. Branches were a pain because I have to undo the other branch's changes to game-specific code after a merge. The way I did separate repos had a similar problem, in that I couldn't pull just the shared code from the other repo, and so again I had to undo the game-specific parts that got pulled in. I think the right way to do it is to have separate repositories for shared code and game code instead of a game's repo containing both game-specific changes and the shared code changes.
Mini Ludum Dare 12
Only two weeks after Ludum Dare 15, there was a mini LD! The theme was "Wikipedia/Mediawiki" so I made [Blow Up Wikipedia]!
It's a game that was supposed to be a twist on a typing tutor. Instead of typing out the articles it pulls from Wikipedia, you just hold any key that is in the word to shoot at it. The version I got done within the 48hrs was bad, but the post-competition version is pretty neat!
Post MiniLD12
Got my use of music generated by WolframTones officially cleared by Wolfram Research, Inc.! I also had gotten actually cleared by work to participate in this compo and remembered to credit the creator of the font even, so I think this Blow Up Wikipedia is legit except... I am actually unclear on whether the actual Wikipedia content needs attribution and how I would give it.