Egyptian Rat Slap
ERS is a matching card game with war like elements and slapping where players attempt to gain all the cards of the deck before their friends do. Designed to be played with two to four players sitting around a table. This makes for a great time filling game for board game groups and those waiting for their food to arrive at a restaurant. Sept 2017
Jet Island mods
Seven mods for the VR game Jet Island.
Hook Island - I found using only the hook shot for movement to be really fun, significally different experience from the full mobility experience. This mod reduces your fuel reserves to nearly empty, and the jet's power to nothing.
Bunny Hop On Trigger - This VR game has uses room movement to trigger jumps. The user must crouch down and rise at a decent rate. For both those that this is physically unconfirbable, and those playing seated, I add an option for the player to jump by a button press. For speedrunning purposes, I would consider this cheating.
Checkpoint Hopper - Normally, checkpoints are only used upon player death, returning you to the last checkpoint you touched. A common strategy is stop using checkpoints once the player has a checkpoint on the highest island, and purposely dying to get back up there and traveling where they want to go. This mod adds the ability to teleport between checkpoints that you have visited, provided you are currently at a checkpoint.
Map Retexture - I found the techie style texture for the map to look cool, but be functionally difficult to use. This mod uses one of the player model's textures instead, resulting in an opaque visual.
Delete Profile X - As the speedrunning crowd grew, more of us wanted an easier way to delete existing profiles to get fresh starts for the "Any % new game" category. The only way to delete existing profiles was reg editing. This mod added keyboard shortcuts to reset a profile, as well as optionally send the user back to the main menu, helping to restart dead runs.
Positional Save State - For the use of speedrunners to learn a section, this mod allows the user to select their current location as a place to return to at any point in the future. It doesn't remember your speed, nor does it reset bosses, both of which have been requested by players.
Fall Damage Bad Mkay - Someone in the Discord jokingly asked for fall damage to harm the player. The game measures magnitude of collisions to apply visuals and sound effects. This mod taps into that. Anything larger then a medium hit results in being sent back to a checkpoint.
Hook Island - I found using only the hook shot for movement to be really fun, significally different experience from the full mobility experience. This mod reduces your fuel reserves to nearly empty, and the jet's power to nothing. Bunny Hop On Trigger - This VR game has uses room movement to trigger jumps. The user must crouch down and rise at a decent rate. For both those that this is physically unconfirbable, and those playing seated, I add an option for the player to jump by a button press. For speedrunning purposes, I would consider this cheating. Checkpoint Hopper - Normally, checkpoints are only used upon player death, returning you to the last checkpoint you touched. A common strategy is stop using checkpoints once the player has a checkpoint on the highest island, and purposely dying to get back up there and traveling where they want to go. This mod adds the ability to teleport between checkpoints that you have visited, provided you are currently at a checkpoint. Map Retexture - I found the techie style texture for the map to look cool, but be functionally difficult to use. This mod uses one of the player model's textures instead, resulting in an opaque visual. Delete Profile X - As the speedrunning crowd grew, more of us wanted an easier way to delete existing profiles to get fresh starts for the "Any % new game" category. The only way to delete existing profiles was reg editing. This mod added keyboard shortcuts to reset a profile, as well as optionally send the user back to the main menu, helping to restart dead runs. Positional Save State - For the use of speedrunners to learn a section, this mod allows the user to select their current location as a place to return to at any point in the future. It doesn't remember your speed, nor does it reset bosses, both of which have been requested by players. Fall Damage Bad Mkay - Someone in the Discord jokingly asked for fall damage to harm the player. The game measures magnitude of collisions to apply visuals and sound effects. This mod taps into that. Anything larger then a medium hit results in being sent back to a checkpoint. Distribution and download stats. Author: Aki
C#, Unity, VR
Late 2018
Game of Life simulator
This project began as a tool to create a strong setup for Botania's Dandelifeon. Here is a video showing this Minecraft mod in action.
While creating the simulator, I quickly lost sight of my objective and enjoyed adding more features to the simulator. It supports dynamically changing rules (who are valid neighbors, born/survive neighbor counts), has genetics in the form of cell color, and tracks lineage (cell family age) and cell age (important values for the Dandelifeon).
Choosing options that prevent cells from dying, as seen in the lower screenshot, can result in interesting patterns.
Jan 2016
Level Generator for Speedrunners
Speedrunners is a game about out running your opponents. All the maps in the game are hand crafted, and the ones in use for rank are mostly well known. I like the idea of playing on random maps, where no one has ever seen the map before. This gives less value in memorizing routes of the popular maps, and gives value in figuring out routes during play.See the attached album to see the progress this generator took as it was being created. I recall the generation taking less than a minute to make a looped level. There is still work to be done to make the levels more interesting, as all of the maps are limited to being a single tunnel. A major limitation I had was importing my data into the game to play with the maps. This limitation eventually halted development of this project.
I have a gallery of sample output that the generator makes in it's current form, error levels and all.
C#, Forms, JSON
Early 2015
Super Sudoku
My father enjoys making puzzles. In 2012, he started making 3D Sudoku by hand (9*9*9 puzzles). Finding his tools primitive, I created a viewer to help him continue his craft. Since he had a stronger tool, he began working on more complicated setups. As he advanced his craft, I enhanced the tool. By the end, the tool had a basic solver that helped answer a question we had, "How few clues could be required to solve a Super Sudoku?"In regular sudoku, 17 clues has been found to be the minimum or about 21% of the 81 cell puzzle. With Super Sudoku, the minimum appears to be 43 or just 6% of the 729 cells. - Roy Watts
July 2012
Wave Mountain
This generator of wallpapers was a fun art project. I have a gallery of many of the wallpapers that were generated. Twice a day, in my Discord, my bot post new random art waves.DBAO - Database Access Object
This tool creates code based on a template for a given database table. I estimate that each time we used this at Pyramedium, we saved two days of work.
C#, Forms, XML
June 2010
Discord Bot: AkiBot
This bot is an interface to many of my hobby projects.
- The bot can announce an upcoming Challonge tournament, as well as signups for that tournament.
- One of the features I miss from other VoIP apps is a chat log history of who joined and left a channel. The membership plugin implements this feature.
- Though a audit log exist within Discord, having a channel message is easier to see. The membership plugin also shows users joining/leaving a server, changing their name, and announce changes in members' roles.
- Using `>role get` and `>role drop`, users can self alter their roles in a server, gaining/losing the role with the same name as the channel.
- `>art wave new` generates a random Wave Mountain from the project mentioned previously in this list.
- The current players online for a Minecraft server can be echoed into a Discord server.
- The game Guess, also known to some as Master Mind, can be played with the bot.
- As can minesweeper, using spoiler tags in Discord, and the honor system.
Dec 2017
A Particle Helper for Game Maker
I have yet to see a particle system that didn't need to be played with. I wanted an easy way to alter the settings of a particle, allowing for exploration of possibilities. All of the particles used in my Match 3 prototype came from this tool. Oct 2015
AkiMatch3
A Match 3 prototype in GameMaker. I last worked on this in November 2015. I wanted the game to be modable, and found GameMaker's lack of nested objects a hindrance.
I put effort into making multi-move interactions work well, which is useless if the game was a turn based "only get 2 turns in a row if you match 4+" style.
Video talking about and showing off this project. GameMaker Studio
Sept 2015
Name That Abbreviation
I enjoy taking a few letters and figuring out what it could be an abbreviation for. Being from Colorado,
our license plates give ample access to 3 letter combinations to play this game with. To play this game with more players, I post daily a NTA on twitter. It considers the frequency that letters appear as the first letter of English words (about 50k words in the statistics dictionary) for frequency that a letter is chosen. I don't think Z has come up in the nearly 3 years it has been running. March 2015
Shortcut Manipulation tool
Many games alter the resolution of a monitor as they launch. Each time this happened, all my neatly organized icons on my desktop would be shoved to one side. This was quite annoying to fix each time, so I figured out how to move shortcuts on a desktop, filtered them by file type and specific names to allow single button press organization of my icons. Alas, it no longer worked once I finally left Windows XP.
C#, Forms, XML
March 2011
Blank EVE Character Generator
EVE Online is a MMO in space. Where most MMOs separate large groups of players into separate servers, EVE has a single server for all players. There is a tool for EVE Online that helps players track their training within the game called EVEMon, short for EVE Monitor. At the time I wrote a blank template generator for EVEMon, it provided a means of importing data as a new character to edit. I utilized publicly available data to know what a base character would based on multiple options, and gave an XML output for users to import into EVEMon.
Around five years after I wrote this generator, EVE greatly changed how new characters work in order to improve new player experience.
Around five years after I wrote this generator, EVE greatly changed how new characters work in order to improve new player experience.
PHP, MySQL
Nov '08
Student Success System
For my Senior Project at DeVry, I got the opportunity to develop a Student Retention Management system for use by DeVry Westminster. I wrote a blog during the development of SSS. It was my first full stack experience, building a site from the ground up.
VB.NET, SQL Server
Feb 2008
FFX-2 Sphere Break
Sphere Break is a math mini game within Final Fantasy X-2. While creating this project, I learned about dynamic control creation. I don't provide a public download for this, as I don't feel I should. C#, Forms
Download: Ask
Aug 2006
Text based UNO
During CIS115, I needed something to work on while finished with the provided assignments, and UNO was it. It was enjoyable to figure out card shuffling, game management, and a simple weak AI.
C#
May 2006
Red Faction - Level Design
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Red Faction gave a great tool to create levels in. I previously wrote an article about my time using their tool. RED Level Editor
June 2003
Links to Other Projects
Altitude Level generator - Layered image manipulation to create levels for a 2d game.
Altitude chat parser - Tool to view chat log files.
Todo: Continue adding projects that have been made.
Projects to be added:
NUnit: TimeSandbox - A tool for testing variations of code for speed of execution by running each sample for a given number of seconds or cycles.
Fallout Caravan - Recreation of the Fallout: New Vegas mini-game as both a website correspondence game, and a text bot game.
Altitude Ladder site - Altitude Community contribution for displaying results of competitive gameplay.
IRCBot, TwitchBot
Altitude chat parser - Tool to view chat log files.
Todo: Continue adding projects that have been made.
Projects to be added:
NUnit: TimeSandbox - A tool for testing variations of code for speed of execution by running each sample for a given number of seconds or cycles.
Fallout Caravan - Recreation of the Fallout: New Vegas mini-game as both a website correspondence game, and a text bot game.
Altitude Ladder site - Altitude Community contribution for displaying results of competitive gameplay.
IRCBot, TwitchBot
