Today the game Dustin and I have been working on for a while was finally released, just in time for the palib.com homebrew game competition.
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Here is a quick run down of the game from Dustin: Read More...
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It took some time to figure out and set up but it amazingly worked. Read on for a how-to guide...
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Somehow I ended up joining a french pair of coders who call themselves 'NomadTeam' that develop windows tools for creating 3D stuff for Nintendo DS homebrew projects. I am now a nomad, try not to be jealous. I set up their website (nomadteam.com) for them using the e107 content management system, it is very useful, php based, and the best part is: its free! Here is a screenshot of the latest program that we released today: the Nomad NDS Texture Converter
I made a nice icon for the program:
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At my job, I have many menial tasks which I must perform, several of which can be done by a soulless computer. I took it upon myself to look for ways of performing multiple steps with only pressing one button. I came upon Auto-It, which is an awesome "freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting."
I successfully figured out how to program a script that once fired, does the following:
1. Makes a new IE window, goes to a certain specified website.
2. Downloads a zip file, extracts it using IZarc (freeware winzip type utility).
3. Checks if the file (an Access .mdb database file) is newer or old than the current one on my hard drive, if it is old it stops, and if it is newer, it will extract it and overwrite my old one, and then run Microsoft Access and run a module.
I am very happy to have accomplished this, as it makes my job much easier, and let's me know that I can automate pretty much any computer task with a pattern.
The forums for Auto-It are very helpful, there are many examples, and is still growing.
The following is the code for my program if you would like to check it out and learn for yourself:
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Today I finally beat Final Fantasy III for the Nintendo DS! My friend Scubasteve recommended it to me, this was the first FF game I've ever played, and after leveling up a few times I was addicted like a heroin junkie. It was all I thought and cared about. The graphics contain awesome low poly goodness, and the environments were all really well done. I highly recommend this game if you want a great escape and huge time waster. A+ !
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This will hopefully motivate me to work on my game Legions of Legends more!
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Well, my new host, 1and1.com decided to do some maintenance for a whole week, which caused my site to be down, and then they failed to back up my site and replace it when they fixed the servers. I guess that is what you get when you pay for cheap hosting ($3/month no complaints). So my old wordpress blog was deleted, and everything else, so I am in the process of setting up a new site. I will post some of my recent things, and see how this new simple php blog works out for me, it seems nice and spam free.
See you punks on the flip side!
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