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Kaaaaahhhhn!… puter!

Posted by nfirvine
Friday, May 2nd, 2008

While I was doing the compo (and before), my computer was suffering from a disease I like to call “imabigstupidjerkofacomputerandimgoingtofreezeeveryfifteenminutes”.  It made coding extra fun, but by the grace of Billy Idol, I managed to submit something.

I noticed the comments and stuff on my entry about it basically being a piece of junk, so I went back and (hopefully) fixed those bugs.  Yet my computer was apparently just being a saucy taunt-face, because pretty much right after I’d packaged and tested the bugfix release, the thing froze before I could upload it anywhere.  It now freezes about one minute after it starts, thereby disallowing my every effort to get the update posted.

In all fairness, the computer’s about six years old, which I think is a pretty impressive lifespan for a laptop which I’ve worked pretty hard every day I’ve owned it.  I guess Ludum Dare must have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Anyway, in summary, I won’t be able to get the new, fixed, maybe-working-for-Windows version up before the voting closes.  If you can’t get it working on your system, feel free to judge it on the last-minute drunken stupor of a README and the sexy graphics in the gfx directory.

Also, I’m not going to be able to really rate anyone else’s because I only have access to computers which are not mine to install dodgy games on (no offence).

Peace out, and good luck to everyone whose computer isn’t a steaming pile of wreckage!

Casey is ready to rock (kind of)

Posted by nfirvine
Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Update: The Windows port is a no go.  I’ve tested the below package on Windows and it works provided all the libs are installed, but py2exe simply mangles it.  Too tired to worry about it.

Update 2: Moved photos to flickr to minimse murder on my site. Why I just didn’t upload them I’ll never know.

Only two-ish hours left, and I’m feeling sick and tired (in a literal sense).  I’ve created a game called Billy and Casey.  It’s about programming robots.

Casey screenshot Casey screenshot 2!

One can download this monstrosity here:

http://www.nfirvine.com/wiki/uploads/Projects/casey-0.1.0.tar.gz

If the .tar.gz extension didn’t tip you off, this one’s meant for Linux only at this point.  I’m going to spend the rest of the time trying to whip together a Windows port.  We’ll see how she goes.

Introduction of nfirvine

Posted by nfirvine
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Hi kids,

I’m nfirvine.  I haven’t really done one of these before, but whe I saw that it was this weekend, I got really excited.  So here we go.  We’ll see if I actually submit anything or not.

By the way, there’s a couple of custom libraries I might be using.  Check out the index at http://www.nfirvine.com/wiki/projects . The only one I’ve got up at the moment is some binding for Python that allow you to use multiple mice.


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