What's new at demofox.org?
7/4/2008
Java
2 new game projects are up, 2 java applet games, check em out on the projects tab!Also, the silverlight version of line rider is now open to the public at www.linerider.com woohoo! I wrote the server side backend for that game which lets you upload tracks and videos to share with your friends.
The retail versions of line rider are wrapping up as well, good times!
5/24/2008
Future retro
After investigating tb-303 clones I found out about these Future Retro Revolution.I ordered one from ebay as well as a tb-707 (a close cousin of the TR-909) Well the 707 was broken a little more than the seller said and not really usable or repairable (lame!) but the future retro works great!
Check out my first song with it, a tribute to JS Bach!
Now if only I had a drum machine to put in some beats and make a real song outa this!
5/18/2008
Awesome sound hardware emulator
My friend "professor logic" sent me a link to a flash page which emulates a handful of classic sound hardware and lets you play around with them and make music. I ended up making a song with it Click here to listen.Check out the site, it's really cool: http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
They have some kind of closed beta too, it looks like that could be one hell of a product whenever it's out!
5/6/2008
New Song - Transcendence
Inspiration hits you when you least expect it sometimes. I made a new song on my keyboard tonight called "Transcendence", check it out under the music page.Enjoy!
4/29/2008
New project up
As line rider is coming to a close, our 4 month crunch is coming to a close as well wooo! :PI re-organized my music, and added the Action/RPG project I've been working on with Eric.
It's pretty ugly right now and doesn't yet have a name but it should turn out pretty awesome in the end (:
The idea is to mix the side scrolling combat style of zelda 2, castlevania, and even street fighter a bit to the exploration of zelda 2 (again) and the old final fantasy series. There will be some really cool features such as auto-updating to receive new content as we put it out, network co-op play, and ties in from the game to stories, art and music found in the website.
It will probably be released as freeware with an option to make donations on the website, but we'll see.
More info as it develops!
2/16/2008
Two new projects up!
At work we have a challenge every now and then where a random word is chosen by a random word generator, and anyone who wants to participate has one week to create a game in their spare time which is based on that word.The word this week was "absorption" and I made an overhead view action/rpg type game. I did the programming and made the music, and my friend Eric made the art. It's up on the projects page go check it out!
I also put up an old project I did called "Dust" which is a dust simulator.
Enjoy!
11/13/2007
Neural Networks etc.
So I've been looking at the neural network book that sits on my desk at work for a while and I've been thinking to my self "self, neural networks are pretty cool...if you knew how to make them, you could do some really really neat stuff.". So, the other day I started reading through this book again, now that I am older and wiser, and I decided I'm going to start programming a bunch of neural networks...yay!I'm going to start with a hopfield network program, which is a simple neural network that you teach binary patterns to and it can recall them. My goal is to make a fully functional program where you define the size of the input and create a network, and you can import/create input from inside the program that trains it. After that you can give it input and tell it to "go to it!" and watch it slowly converge on a pattern.
I'm thinking of doing this in DirectX and making it a very visual and hands on utility, hopefully seperating the NN logic enough from the display to not only be able to re-use the display code for other neural net programs I make in the future, but also so the neural network code can be re-used as a stand alone library by anyone who wishes to use it.
That's right I'm going to make all my NN programs open sourced and public domain woot!
Also, this weekend I'm going to be hangin out w/ my bio dad and his wife...celebrating their 17th aniversary on saturday and kickin it/drinkin beers/makin music on sunday. It should be sweet.
Also today drivin home, I was rockin out to "Light my fire" by the doors and decided "hey i should try and duplicate that song using my bass, keyboard, computer and my very own voice". It should be a fun project, more info as it develops :P
10/11/2007
New Section - ART!.
I put up a new section for my art. It is fairly humble but everyone has to start somewhere and I hope to get better in time. Right now I'm inspired by a book i ordered from amazon called "World of Faerie" by Brian Froud. A wonderful book.I've been feeling a strange mix of inspiration and discontent as of late. I feel drawn towards imagination and fantasy and repelled from the blandness of every day life. I think it's my imagination is trying to re-emerge which is nice because wow, things are depressing and boring right now. I'm tired of too much heartache and too much "real world".
Everyone needs a little magic in their life after all I guess, and the magic's been gone from my life for a long while. I think it's time for a change.
9/22/2007
What's New
It's been 9 months since I last updated and boy has a lot happened since then.As of my last post I was programming for DC Shoes, but in March I joined inxile as a game programmer! Things have been going great there and as anyone who knows me can attest to, it is literally a dream come true.
In other news, I've started writing again believe it or not (and drawing a little). I've added a new writing section tab (which you can see above) and have put in the beginning of "Forgotten Heroes", a working title of the story I'm working on. Check it out!
I'll try to keep this updated better with my current going ons so anyone who wants to know what's going on in my life can check up on me (;
12/28/2006
Wow this page has content? Say it aint so!
Believe it or not, some real content is on the site now - the "Projects" page is almost finished, just a couple stragglers left.I started watching the anime "Hand M.A.I.D." last night. It started out looking like some rather tasteful softcore anime (droool) but as the episodes went on, that stuff started to disapear and a real storyline came about. There's only 10 episodes so I'll probably watch the rest of em tonight! (:
12/27/2006
Welcome to the new demofox.org - it's about time...
The old demofox.org page was seriously sucking so i figured what better time than now to update it?I plan on using this site to organize all my stuff into one neat location so that #1 my life and projects are more organized, but also so that i can put a link to this site on my resume without shame :P
I just finished watching the trigun series and wow...vash is seriously my new idol. Man he rocks...