Recently I decided to build part of a game that used an isometric projection for displaying the game board using HTML5.
Dirty plagiarist that I am, I found an excellent (albeit very old) tutorial by Danko Kozar for doing this. However it was written in Actionscript. No bother – I just modified the code to work in HTML5. This meant I could more or less ignore the theory of how isometric projection works and just get down to the business of doing it. Porting the code was easy. As it says in the tutorial:
These tutorials can be used for programming an isometric game in many programming languages not just in Flash. They are more about game programming than about Flash programming.
Here’s the swf from Danko’s tutorial:
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Published on April 4, 2012 8:30 pm.
Filed under: Flash, HTML5, jQuery
So you want to create a dynamic leaderboard that changes on the fly using jQuery? Well do ya?
Here’s the scenario: you have some cool (to you at least) data that you want to put up on a webpage/kiosk/touchscreen/smartphone that animates beautifully in real time to update the results.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:
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Published on March 19, 2012 5:05 pm.
Filed under: jQuery Tags: jQuery, leaderboard, tinysort, Zend Framework
Here’s some linux tricks I use in my line of work. I find them useful, you may not. You decide.
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Published on September 15, 2011 2:37 pm.
Filed under: Servers Tags: Linux
Turn your Facebook profile picture into a photomosaic made up of your friends profile pictures.
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Published on January 16, 2011 12:31 pm.
Filed under: Facebook
Create line or bar charts and graphs within php. They can be output directly or image files created.
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Published on January 11, 2011 12:06 pm.
Filed under: Code, PHP Tags: barchart, chart, gd, graph, php, statistics
Published on March 3, 2010 7:37 pm.
Filed under: Flash
A collection of many spontaneous drawings generated with Flash
Over a thousand random drawings created since 2003.
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Published on March 3, 2010 11:36 am.
Filed under: Flash
Published on January 19, 2008 6:52 pm.
Filed under: Code, PHP
A script for converting images to different sizes inline, with support for server caching.
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Published on April 7, 2007 9:06 pm.
Filed under: PHP Tags: gd, images, php
Chess program designed to learn from player interaction. Made with flash and PHP server technology, the finished version will (in theory) be able to beat all players that aren’t as good as players that have played the system often.
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Published on March 3, 2007 10:14 pm.
Filed under: Flash
