My first two-day hackathon I created an real-time multiplayer game called QuizTime. Users go to the site (http://qu.izti.me) and list items that relate to a set category. Guesses can only be picked once, so you have to be quick. The…
Cocos2d-x Box2D iOS/Android Hybrid Tutorial
How to start a Cocos2d-X project designed for both iPhone/iPad and Android The Cocos2d-x project is always updating, so the latest tutorials on setting up a hybrid work environment aren’t completely accurate. Versions for this tutorial: Cocos2d-x: cocos2d-2.0-x-2.0.2 @ Aug…
PictoSphero – Sphero Hack Tour Seattle 2012
I created a Cocos2d-iphone game for the iPhone/Sphero in 36 hours. When I got a Sphero from the Seattle Startup Weekend in May, I brainstormed what this thing could do. I thought of a cool behavior for a Sphero, where…
CopterDude/Twistris – Sphero Hack Tour Seattle 2012
Update 9/29/2012: Twistris has been named Disc Groove and is on iTunes and Google Play Using Cocos2d-iphone, Objective-C and Sphero, I made a casual game which I find myself playing during short breaks. I was a small part of the Sphero…
Create Temporary Phone Numbers Using Twilio
Using Twilio and PHP, you can create a temporary phone number for your own purposes. You can put this on Craigslist for some ads, and delete the number when you’re done. The less tech-advanced can use Burner Phone, which also…
Cards Against Humanity – Comparison game
Using Node.JS, Socket.IO and Knockout.JS, I created a comparison game using the rules of open source card game Cards Against Humanity. Cards Against Humanity is a card game for horrible people. The premise of the game is like Apples to…
PubNub Acronym Game
Using Twilio, PubNub and PHP, I created a simple acronym creation and voting game. See the demo in action. Check out the project on GitHub Another of my childhood games was Acrophobia. There are a few games like it nowadays,…
Seattle Startup Weekend 2012
I used Node.JS, Express and MongoDB to create the back end for Seattle Startup Weekend group TableSurfing.org. On Friday night, Sheikh Shuvo presented the idea of building a tool that allows people to meet local chefs in their area as…
Buttermilk
I attended Startup Weekend SLC from February 2-4. I was a part of team Buttermilk. The back end was created on an EC2 Micro instance running a standard LAMP server. The back end used PHP to deliver data from the…
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Click2Client – Call Me button
I modeled Click2Client after a similar WordPress plugin, wp-click2call. My finished project was similar to the original, but did not have the same functionality (namely, the ability for the customer to call the author in one click). Luckily, it’s pretty…
