ParticleX
A little app i
whipped up in REALbasic to generate explosions, fire, fountains and
some other effects.
Unfinished, but free. Source code is available under
the "Do-What-You-Want-With-It-As-Long-As-You-Give-Me-Credit"
license ;).
IDevil
My
entry for the
IDevGames.com 21 Days Later: Vectorized contest. I scored
8th out of 16. Its written in REALbasic
and the source is
available as well.
The
Temp
Igor
A
gallery of photos of my
friend Tommy who died of a heart attack in November of 2003.
My
friend Rich demonstrating
the need to recycle.
Kicked
out
of the original Village People for being too iffeminite, Andy continues
in his never-ending quest to become the world's foremost sideshow
freak. Can you guess he drives a truck for a living?
My
main fuel source.
People Who Might (or
might not) Admit To Knowing Me
The Eck in Graveck
Interactive. Author of Bug
Thug,
which won the 2004 uDevGames contest. Also was nice enough to
make music for two of my contest entries(The
Temp and Igor.)
Needless
to say, the music was the best thing about either game.
Author of Kill
Monty, a horribly addictive killfest in the tradition of
Robotron and SmashTV. Hopefully there'll be a sequel at some
point.
Another immensely
talented artist/coder. One of my favorite games by him is Tower
of Tears, a Cthulhu-inspired
top down shooter in Flash. He's making an awesome Mini
Golf game at the moment.
- Daniel Labriet
Artist/programmer
Daniel
Labriet must be allergic to sleep considering how often he releases new
games. He has a great visual style and if there's
any Mac
shareware author who can afford to give up their day job, it must be
him.
Coincidentally, he also has a 3D Miniature Golf game: Islands
Mini Golf.
- Jake Leveto
The programmer
responsible for Escape,
a charming retro 2d puzzle game which I helped port to Windows for him.
It was my first big game and the port wasn't as great as I would have
liked, but the Mac version rocks.
His current game is GLGolf, a
3D Non-Miniature-Golf
game. (Enough with the golf already!)
What Soothes This Savage Beast
(the sort of crap you'd find on my mp3
player)
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Lodger
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Albrecht Durer's Melancholia
(for some reason I love this drawing)
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Silly Places I Like
To Go
Macintosh
Programming
- IDevGames
If you want to
make games on your Mac, this is the place
to go for
help.
- IGame3D
A freeware,
scriptable 3D engine and editor for making the next
Quake... or maybe Spyro. Yeah. Make Spyro. That game's a lot of fun.
- Unity
A new RAD tool
for making 3D games. Includes an impressive physics
engine. You can do quite a bit with this without writing a
single line of code. Which is great for me---since my code
sucks!
- dim3
Another 3D
engine. Not nearly as slick as
Unity, but free. Has a rabidly dedicated developer and a large fan
base.
- BANG!
A RAD for making your own cross platform 3d
games. Still in alpha, but
should be out soon. Right, Chris? ;)
The
BANG! Blog
- BASICs
for the Macintosh
- REALbasic
A
powerful,
cross-platform BASIC with OO features. This is what I used
for IDevil.
- Extreme Basic
A new
cross
platform BASIC from Andrew Barry, the creator of REALbasic.
Looks promising. Check it out.
- BlitzMax
Without a
doubt, the best games oriented BASIC on the Mac. A competing
product to AMOS back in the Amiga days. This language is ruthlessly
optimized for games, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and has OOP
features to boot.
- TNT BASIC
If you're
an
ex-Amiga fanatic like me, this is the closest you'll get
to AMOS on the Macintosh. An neat little language, targeted at making
sprite based games. The Map Editor is a particularly useful feature.
Its free and the source code is available, too.
- METAL
BASIC
Back
before
Apple started giving away decent dev tools, METAL was a
great language for beginners to program games in. The developer has
promised a 2.0 version of this for some time now, but its going on
almost 4 years since the last update. OTOH, its free, easy to learn,
and a lot of folks on IDev (such as myself) know it, and can help you
out.
- KBasic
A cross platform BASIC compiler with a
feature set comparable to
REAL's. Its much cheaper (and much less mature.) The last Mac version I
tried was very unstable, but there's supposed to be an update soon.
- COCOA
BASIC
Could
never
do much with this one. Seems like an attempt to make a
BASIC that ties into Project Builder/XCode. Hasn't been updated in
awhile. Project may be dead.
- FUTURE BASIC
Very
powerful BASIC language with a very optimized compiler. Although
it can make programs that run in OS X, the Editor only works in Classic
at the moment. Almost 2x as expensive as REALbasic, but builds smaller,
faster apps.
- Chipmunk BASIC
An old
school line number BASIC. If the last time you programmed a
computer was something like this:
10 ?"Dan rules!"
20 goto 10
then you'll feel right at home with Chipmunk.
- True BASIC
A BASIC
from
the guys who invented BASIC. Seems very pricey for what it
is, and I've never met a Mac person who used it.
- Omikron BASIC
Got its
start on the Atari ST. Looks neat, but *again* I am not aware
of anyone who uses it.
- Visual Mac Standard BASIC
is a dead
product and can't make apps for X anyway. The company that
bought it continues to sell it, but they are really just sucking what
little life ($) it has left out of it. If you only have $30 to spend,
get TNT instead.
Dietary Madness
- Protein
Power
A great site for
people interested in low carb nutrition.
- Livin'
LaVida LowCarb
The blog of
Jimmy Moore. He's an infectiously inspiring, enthusiastic
man who lost over 180 lbs. on Atkins and
regained his health.
- LowCarbMuscle
A site for
athletes interested in low carb
nutritional approaches. Run by Anthony Colpo.
- ActiveNoCarber
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Grab
a seat,
meet
and greet
people
who eat
nothing
but meat. |
A bunch of nice
carnivores who believe no carb beats
low carb. This group split away from the ActiveLowCarber
forum after
the members there rudely flamed The
Bear, a man who has been
on an all meat diet for 47 years.
- Adiposity
101
Why eating fat
doesn't neccessarily make you fat.
- Optimal
Nutrition
The polish Dr.
Jan Kwasniewski's high fat dietary regime. Only two of
his books are avaialable in English (but you can only order them from
Poland :( ) The info on the site is more then enough to go on though.
- The
Warrior Diet
Are three square
meals a day neccessary? 2? 1? Every other day. A plan
based around intermittent
fasting.
Exercise
- High
Intensity Training (H.I.T.)
How much
strength training is neccessary?
Proponents of H.I.T. believe one set of an exercise to the point of
complete muscular failure is all you need.
Hard, brief and infrequent
workouts (first popularized by Arthur
Jones, founder of Nautilus.)
See below for some good
ones:
If
you're a cheap bastard
who refuses to buy books, there is a FAQ
with loads of info.
Just
Plain Funny
-
SomethingAwful
Their Photshop
Phriday Contests are so funny, you'll need to change
pants.
- Newgrounds
A huge Flash
portal. There is some really funny stuff on there. Check
out stuff by Will Stamper, Krinkels, or Mike Hauser.
- IRCImages
More
fascinating
than a traffic accident. The site mirrors image links
people post in IRC chat rooms. There are 100s of pages of these at any
time, and you never know what the next image is going to be.
- Transbuddha
Mostly weird
movies and games. Never a dull link.
- 101
Spells Not Worth Memorizing
Back before
Magic: The Gathering and these new fangled MMORPGs, we sat
in our parents' basements playing Dungeons & Dragons. My wizard
never had spells this lame though.
- Caption City
Make your own
ridiculous signs.
- Perry
Bible
Fellowship
If Jack Handy
and Gary Lason had a son...somehow...they would probably
make cartoons like these. New strips every week. Painfully funny.
- General Zod
Come to me,
son
of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod! ZOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
- T-Shirt Hell
A wide variety
of shirts guaranteed to get your ass kicked.
- Patently Silly
Why didn't I
think of these?
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