Ludum Dare 34

There is going to be another Ludum Dare this weekend and I'll be taking part, profile here.

The final round of theme voting has begun, pretty happy with the themes that have proved popular;
Growing, Colony, Four Elements, Unexplored etc. are all my kind of jam :D

Will be posting progress updates onto my Ludum Dare profile and will post the completed project here once its over.

Seeded Map Generation

Been messing around with various hobby projects. The latest one, a Seeded Map Generator, I'm overjoyed to have implemented. There are a whole wealth of ideas I want to try out with this :D
One sentence summary: I can use this code to produce nice looking random maps of varying levels of detail with each map produced being connected to a fixed seed value, if you know the seed you can recreate the entire map!

A quick explanation of the techniques involved and an interactive demo are below the fold...

Cellular Automata Sim v0.2

Been too long since I last posted an update here. Progress on the user interface for the Cellular Automata Sim has been fantastic :D Been a whole lot of fun to prototype the layout and then implement it in code. It now does so many neat things I feel a UI should be capable of; zooming, panning, fit to screen. Hell I even got a fullscreen button in there.

Javascript Cellular Automata Editor

After spending time learning to save and load text then images I have now moved onto creating save files for more complex objects. This program allows you to create schematics for a kind of Cellular Automata which follows rules similar to logic gates. The rules are a mix of the Von Neumann cellular automata I was experimenting with previously and some of the thoughts I had after playing the excellent Infinifactory.

Sorry that the program is light on instructions, you can select tools from the top menu:

Prototype Character Generator

Been chatting to a friend of mine about procedural content generation in games, got to talking about creating characters in such a manner for Dungeons and Dragons. The idea would be to play the role of the leader of an adventuring guild sending parties of random adventurers into similarly random dungeons :)

I do so enjoy creating procedural programs so I said I'd be happy to help out. We'll probably explore this idea in a pen and paper format but I went and coded a prototype of a browser-based character generator. The results are very simplistic but its oddly compelling to see what the program will produce.

If you come across an amusing combination do let me know!

DnD Character Generator (prototype)

Javascript Image Editor

This is a natural continuation of that code for a text editor running in Javascript. I switched the save, load code to expect images and have now got a proof-of-concept image editor running! Like the last experiment use the buttons to open an image file and then save it. The mouse can be used to crudely paint onto the image :P

Javascript Image Editor

Image :

HTML5 canvas goes here

Save As :

Some fun in WebGL

Been experimenting with OpenGL in the form of WebGL, it only makes sense after upgrading from basic 2D graphics to rotatable sprites in the last Ludum Dare that I would now make the important step to full 3D :P