Last weekend I submitted my entry for the JS13K game development competition. The goal of the competition was to write a game in Javascript that fills maximum 13 KB when zipped. The theme this year was “Reversed” so I decided to write a…
Here is a small round-up of small open source games I have made, but did not blog about: Enter the Penguin was an entry for the Flappy Jam 2014 Monstruous Times was an entry for the Seven-Day Roguelike challenge 2014 Buddinge was en…
Another great thing introduced with Java 7 is the “try-with-resources” construct – previously known as Automatic Resource Management (ARM). This feature is part of Project Coin, which is an umbrella project for a set of small changes to the Java language. You can…
Java 7 is just around the corner. Sadly it does not contain the highly anticipated closures/lambda expressions, but instead it includes a set of small language changes developed under the codename “Project Coin”. In this post I will explore the basic language changes.…
Lately I have been experimenting with Ender. It is a JavaScript library with a twist. In fact the authors refer to it as “no-library library”. It is a tiny wrapper and a command line tool that you can use to construct a Javascript…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a small game using Javascript and HTML5 canvas. It is a clone of the classic Asteroids game by Atari Inc. The game is not complete yet, but I have decided to put it up anyway. You…