Saturday, February 4, 2017

Back Again After a Long Hiatus!

After a nearly 2-year-long hiatus, I'm finally back to coding and experimenting? Been doing some organizing and house-cleaning at http://chromeoverload.github.io/-- I'm finishing the process of transferring and updating my site files from Google Drive to Github (since the Google Drive hosting trick seems to no longer work), and I'm moving all my defunct or unfinished projects to a new 'abandoned' folder in order to clean up the site directory. Next, I'm going to write a short ASCII Javascript game to practice accessing and manipulating 2D Arrays in real time. I'm thinking of writing a short level-based ASCII Roguelike with a Hitman theme. It's good to be back!

Friday, April 3, 2015

New Design and New Project!

First of all, the site has been redesigned (again), this time trying to fix some bugs reported by ios users that project text glitches through images at times. In addition, I finally uploaded my latest project: Grandmaster Koi! (working title) The source files for Bluewirez were somewhat corrupted, and Mythocompendium is broken, so I have put both of those projects as well as my twitter bot aside (Bluewirez only temporarily) in favor of some short, week-long JS projects, the first of which being Koi. Koi is nearly finished and functioning already, which is why I have posted it, and there are only a few things I intend to add before finishing it, among them animating the ASCII art. Go check it out!

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Cardify Concept

A while back, I conceived of the idea of a card-based task manager for Android Wear. More recently, I wrote up a full description of that concept and drew a rough sketch of what such an app would look like on both phone and watch. I put both the concept and the sketch to my site, and you can view them here: http://goo.gl/Iwg6nC. I have never actually developed for neither Android nor Android Wear (though I am learning Java Android Development as we speak!) so I may put this concept aside for a while and continue to work on Bluewirez and the Mythocompendium (more on that later!). I just wanted to put the idea out there so that people can see it and so that I will remember it.

New art and other updates!

Hello everyone! First of all, I now have a Twitter! Follow me at @chromeoverload. Second of all, I have created a simple little pixel art avatar for my site and social networks. It is subject to change! Here is a link to it. Lastly, I have an email. You may now email questions, comments, and desires to chromeoverload@gmail.com. Expect to see some additions to my current projects in the future, as well as a new concept (spoilers: it's for Android Wear!).

Monday, March 16, 2015

Bluewirez Alpha Online!

I have finally documented and added the alpha version of Bluewirez to my projects list. Bluewirez is a little electricity simulator thing that I created in Gamemaker a while back. I would like to get back to it and polish it a little as well as adding a few new things before submitting a full release here and possibly some more traditional game distribution sites (itch.io, Gamejolt, etc.) At this point, due to the fact that I wrote this game in Gamemaker 8.1 (an outdated version which supports windows only), this game is a windows-only release. I hope to someday get access to a Mac and the Mac port of Gamemaker so that I can port Bluewirez to Mac. Here is a link the game page: http://goo.gl/0VlxMi.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Site Finished

I finished the site, chromeoverload.co.nr, a few days ago. I spent this evening overhauling the color scheme. I replaced the vintage red scheme with a cooler blue-themed scheme with I feel looks a lot a better on the eyes. This scheme now features 3 colors instead of just two. I feel like the site is now finished. My next project will be the procedurally generated mythocompendium thing I teased about on the site a while ago. I'll be doing this project so that I can learn about procedural generation and refresh my Javascript a little. I've already started, and I feel good about this one. More on that project later. Stay tuned!

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Website In Progress

I was finally able to jerry-rig a Google Drive-Hosted website using a nifty Google Script found here, and then redirecting it to chromeoverload.co.nr. I am currently coding the HTML for the page itself. I've finished the topbar for the home screen so far. I'll probably explain this project more in-depth once the whole website is finished and polished.