The CheezyCafe

Dev team killed, so new plans

2009-04-23T17:13:00.002-04:00

Well, it turns out that due to some legal crap, the dev team won't be working out. The good news is that that means I will have complete creative control over the programming that goes into any of my games. I have an artist, though, who is ready and willing to make the graphics for me, he's actually one of my friends, so that's all cool I guess.

In other news I finished the One Enemy Challenge a while ago, but won't go public with it until I find some music for it, which may take a LONG arse time.

Started another game project in flash, this one's gonna be a vertical shooter and the engine is EXTREMELY interchangeable and versatile. All I'm going to say on it is: I can publish hundreds of unique games with it, without having to write a single line of actionscript, all thanks to the power of XML.

I won't be working on the java project I started a while ago very much in the near future. I will return to it eventually, but for some reason Eclipse hates me going back and forth between computers to work on it, and has come up with every glitch imaginable to keep me from working on it (I can't tell you how many times I've had to copy + paste my source files into an empty project, ugh...).

New post in a while, dev team.

2009-04-09T18:17:00.004-04:00

So I've kinda been really lazy lately with updates, unfortunately not much has happened as of late.

The flash loader looks as though its just not going to work, flash player simply won't load random pages, and it's really unreliable.

In other news I may be starting a new game development team which would mean new flash games being cranked out much faster than ever before. (Not that I've published one since the beginning of this blog, lol.)

Will ping in with updates on the dev team later.

My own little file type

2009-03-18T20:56:00.002-04:00

So as I've mentioned before I have been working on a small java game at school for a few months now, just trying to self teach myself java. This is going to be a retro-looking sprite game, complete with screen flicker and all.

So in order to store my sprite data in a format that doesn't have all sorts of unnecessary compression and features that make a file like a .gif so hard to read for someone like me, I have set out to create my own file type.

The official name right now is ".csprt" for "cheezy sprite." It can store essentially everything you need for a simple, small bitmap sprite in an overly bulky, easy to read format. (It even supports transparency, yay!)

This is the documentation I have so far on it, should you want to try something with it yourself:
here.

And here is the hex data for one of the files:
here.

The One Enemy Challenge

2009-03-13T18:58:00.002-04:00

I just recently posted the beta of my new game in progress, The One Enemy Challenge, you can play the tester's beta here. Please comment on your experience with it on the thread on Newgrounds.

That's about it right now, not much more news to... talk... about?
(I'm not very articulate today lol)

Still sick, haven't done much

2009-03-08T10:43:00.003-04:00

I'm still feeing really sick so I haven't done much in the way of work lately, ugh. On top of that I have a ton of schoolwork to do that I missed, so don't expect anything much in the near future, although I'll try to update this with anything that pops up.

Still chugging with the loader system

2009-03-05T16:57:00.003-05:00

I'm still working on smoothing out the bugs in the flash loader for the blog. It seems to load some flash files (indirect ones, youtube, and ones made in flex) but not some with external AS as their document class. So I have no idea what the problem is right now. I'll probably get this whole mess sorted out and up and running by the end of this weekend.

Then you guys can get to see my One_Enemy_Challenge game that I've been working on for a while. ;)

Still sick, didn't do much.

2009-03-04T19:01:00.004-05:00

Gah, didn't feel up to doing much in the way of programming today, so I just made some sprite art for a java game I've been making at school for the past couple of months. I don't feel like uploading and embedding and bla-bla-bla-ing all that crap to show it to you. Given that it's 16x16 pixels and you wouldn't be able to see much anyways. So, blegh!

Will work on the uploader and other crap later...

Flash Loader System

2009-03-03T10:02:00.010-05:00

Working on a new Flash Loader with a small file size so all of the Flashes I post in the future don't all load up on the same page lagging like crazy, and then starting whether you like it or not. That would get pretty annoying, I'm guessing, lol.

It should be set up within a few days, and then I'll get back to work on the AS Wars engine.

EDIT: Here it is, this is a test embed of the loader:

codebase=""http://macromedia.com/cabs/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0""
width="500" height="400" id="TestLoader" ALIGN="CENTER">

FlashVars="UrlString=http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/140209/54630_test.swf"

quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="500" height="400"
NAME="flaMovie1as3" ALIGN TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">

New AS Wars: Reunion

2009-03-02T13:05:00.002-05:00

So I'm working on an AS Wars engine where the aim is simply to avoid bullets for as long as you can, the engine will be released in a couple of weeks and the competition will be started on Newgrounds sometime soon afterwards.

That's about it for today. :\

Please meet Mrs. Mandell Brot

2009-03-01T11:50:00.000-05:00

Yup, so I made a quick Mandelbrot fractal generator in AS3 a couple of days ago from a tutorial. Not as easy as it sounds, the psuedo-code he used was VERY obscure, and I had to come up with the coloring system all by myself. While you can't zoom in on it yet, it still looks pretty cool.

Needless to say, I'm very proud of myself. :3

New Blag Christening

2009-03-01T09:52:00.001-05:00

Welcome to the new blag of awesomeness that is... The Cheezy Cafe.