What I think is pretty cool about it so far is all the graphics (except the bg) are procedural and generated based off of whatever seed you give it. Not only are the graphics based on a seed but so is the level. For example if you play game?testing, you will have the same level/graphics as someone else who plays using that seed. This could provide some interesting challenges. Anyway heres the work in progress using the seed shmupity.

Also of course this is being done using js/canvas so you need a modern browser to test it.. but I don’t think there’s many who’d come here without one of those .

Was pretty stressful trying to make this in a day (especially since I did a full workday at my day job as well!). This ended up being my entry. I borrowed some game concepts (ok all of them) from the awesome game World Infectonator. Basically what you do is you get one chance to convert a 1%’er or “the unaware” in hopes they will spread their new found awareness enough to beat the level. Game was done using JS and Canvas of course, and using my homegrown game engine thats been evolving over the last year or so. You can check out the game in all its glory from the direct link.

Step 1 – Make a directory somewhere on your machine, but not in program files, or program files(x86). Otherwise in order to save you will have to run the game as an administrator. What I did was create a directory structure on the root of my drive “DRIVE:\Firaxis\Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri\”.

Step 2 - Copy the contents of the “programs” directory from Disc 1 to the directory we created above. Now copy the Directories FX, MOVIES, and VOICES into the directory. Now your structure should look something like the following,

Now do the same with CD2, copy the contents of programs to the root of the same directory and then copy FX/MOVIES/VOICES, and just acknowledge the file overwrites. At this point you now have a “working” copy of the game, you just run Terran.exe, or Terranx.exe in order to play, but you will probably have a few odd issues with windows not appearing, and low resolution. So I recommend you follow the rest of the directions posted at this forum (2nd post).

And enjoy

I might mess with this some more, got a few ideas for a small game or two, but who knows if Ill actually get around to it before finding something else that’s shiny. Feel free to do whatever with the code. Theres a lot of room for optimization.

Figured I might as well post this thing I was messing around with. Same concept but much slower .

Starting messing around with grinding out a pumpkin rather than cut, this is my first attempt. I love Super Meat Boy so I tried to capture his awesome little face! I definitely need to practice the rest of the year on apples or something.

My collection

Ill have to get some pictures up.. but I love collecting PC games, old and new. Currently my Steam account sits at just under 800 games, and my physical copy count sits at about 600 or so. I have most popular games that were released for the PC and quite a few obscure ones. I wont lie I haven’t played them all, last time I calculated I have played about a third of them. Once I get my spreadsheet up to date Ill post it on here.

Games Im currently playing

Right now Im switching between a few games, Dungeon Defenders, Battlefield 3, and Team Fortress 2. The Halloween events in TF2, and Dungeon Defenders are great I love when games include things going on in the real world, such as holidays.

The idea is *heavily* inspired by a JS1K demo submission that was done by @daisyowl.  I just thought the demo was so cool it was begging to be a live wallpaper. I plan on adding more features such as clouds/different seasons etc. Heres a link to the source if anyones interested, https://github.com/loktar00/Android-Forest-LWP and heres the link to it on the app market, https://market.android.com/details?id=com.loktar.forestscenes&feature=search_result

Used libgdx along with the libgdx live wallpaper backend. Was a fun project, found out about an awesome filter library while making it, its what allowed for such great high res nasty images.

The hardest thing besides a bit of OpenGL I had to learn was the Android preferences. I dont know why but I have such a hard time getting them working right. So right now the only option is to pick different images to mess with. I plan on adding more later. I also plan on releasing a “lite” version which only includes one background to choose.

Added snow buildup to the plugin, so now you can pass a jquery selector in the collection option and the snow will collect on top of all the elements matched. It uses the canvas tag so the snow wont collect in IE8 or lower. To enable collection you can do the following

    snowfall({collection : 'element'});

Element can be either a class or id or a list such as

    $(document).snowfall({collection : '.elements'});
    $(document).snowfall({collection : '#element'});

Thats pretty much it for new options below is the standard way of using the plugin.

Invoking the snow

    $(document).snowfall();
    $('#elementid').snowfall({flakeCount : 100, maxSpeed : 10});
    $('.class').snowfall({flakeCount : 100, maxSpeed : 10});

Snowfall Methods

    // stopping the snow
    $(document).snowfall('clear');
    $('#elementid').snowfall('clear');
    $('.class').snowfall('clear');

Options currently supported with default values

options = {
	flakeCount : 35,		// number
	flakeColor : '#ffffff', // string
	flakeIndex: 999999,		// number
	minSize : 1,			// number
	maxSize : 3,			// number
	minSpeed : 2,			// number
	maxSpeed : 3,			// number
	round : false,			// bool
	shadow : false,			// bool
        collection : 'element'          // string
};

Example

Theres really no terrain generation, its just the y value set to a random height. I just didn’t have the room in 1k to fit it in unfortunately.