'web developer' Category
Project: Virtual Villagers II
The sequeal to Virtual Villagers is out. And new port is in order. Using the same game engine, the project was completely more quickly. Virtual Villagers III is coming soon too. With LDWSoftware’s success, I probably won’t be hard pressed looking for freelance work.
ActionScripting 1.0
XML
Animated Characters
Scrolling Maps
Real-time simulationsPlay It Now
Project: Plant Tycoon
This is the Flash Port of the LDWSoftare’s Plant Tycoon. I’m now at an expert level in ActionScript 2.0. This is an unbelievably addicting game. Really simple gameplay.
September 2007
ActionScripting 1.0
Real-time simulationsPlay It Now
Project: Fish Tycoon
This is the Flash Port of the LDWSoftare’s Fish Tycoon. This is the second game project I worked with Arthur Humphrey. They have another hit game. Maybe the Flash Ports are helping in the sales
August 2006
ActionScripting 1.0
Animated Fish Characters
Real-time simulationsPlay It Now
Project: Virtual Villagers
This is the Flash Port of the LDWSoftare’s hit casual game Virtual Villagers. Their game was created in C/C++. The port consisted on resizing and processing all images, converting some C functions to ActionScript, a more importantly recreating 90% of the games features entirely in Flash.
January 2006
ActionScripting 1.0
XML
Animated Characters
Scrolling Maps
Real-time simulationsPlay It Now
Zend View Helper - Segmented Blocks
There have been complaints about Zend Framework’s limited layout capabilities. Infact, as of 1.0.2 ZF has no high level layout system. There are currently a couple of proposals on how to implement complex views and layouts. But the Framework itself already has some mechanism to implement simple layouts. I looked into response segments to implement […]
BBAuth - Invalid Signature
I’ve was playing around with Yahoo’s single sign on API using BBAuth yesterday. And hit a road block…
My Yahoo authentications always resulted in a signature validation error. I took me half a day to find the bug. It turns out that my server returned a $relative_url prefixed with ‘/’ which apparently should be omitted.
I modified […]Upgrading ‘legacy’ PHP code with Zend Framework
Six years ago I led a team in developing a System for a Japanese manufacturing company. It started as a small project which managed only materials purchases, developed in PHP 4.0, Postgres 6.0 with pl/sql. With the Japanese concept of Kaizen - ‘continuous incremental improvements’, the project never entered maintenance mode. But it has […]