A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That App used to make me smile....
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those dice dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while....

Uh, wrong lyrics. Actually, it was quite a while ago …

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There are a lot of great open source apps out there, for personal computers, cell phones, smart televisions, and everything in-between. But when it comes to Android, I can't think of a better suite …

Two things that probably don't sound like they go together. Unless, of course, you are making a video game where you play water drums and it is written in C++.

So far, there's not much to this game. I'm really just getting started. While I don't anticipate this game being …

Okay, so this might sound like some kind of gimicky advertisement, but it's not. I work on custom ROMs for various cell phones, and it is becoming a bit difficult to keep swapping my sim card around to test them all out. The prospect of paying money for a second …

Okay, so I'm done with the class, but I'm still having fun! I've updated some of the game mechanics for JelloStorm!

Some of the improvements that I have made to my game are not really technical, but really improve the game play. First off, I added in "poison rings" around …

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Hey everyone! I'm really excited about an up and coming series on the site. It's probably obvious that I'm big into open source. With that, I've always wondered about the stories behind some of these great open …

In the last update on my game JelloStorm! we ran into the issue of defunct jello blobs. I could not figure out why there are some jello blobs that don't move and can't be touched or shot with your arrows. The problem for this is that the game can't continue …

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Here is a side by side comparison of my project, verses the one from the course.

Now that I've completed the C++ beginner's game creation course, that means I've also completed my second C++ game using SFML. So …

Just finished section 10 of my course. While working through the code, I ran into a snag:

alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/Cpp_training/JelloStorm\$ ./build.sh
JelloStorm.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
JelloStorm.cpp:121:13: error: ‘class sf::Text’ has no member named ‘setFillColor’
pausedText.setFillColor(Color::White);

I triple …

You can now splatter jello guts all over!

An interesting phenomenon occurred while finishing up section 9 of my C++ game development course.

Consider this code:

// Per class was: Pickup::Pickup(int type);

// But that gave me errors.

Pickup(int type);

// Prepare a new pickup

void setArena(IntRect arena);

The …