Primitive homebrew 3D snakes.
Dullish emulation of a cool PDP-11 front panel hack.
No one can stop the Alien Bill invasion!
Kinetic gravity study...click, hold, and release to launch balls into the fray.
Fishtanks are my way of learning new graphical toolkits.
A styish 60-second timer for board games...no more waiting for the clock to run out!
Swarms of all 7 critter types from Imagic's Atari 2600 "Cosmic Ark".
Two similar applets, virtual pets of sorts.
Kinetic abstraction -- either let it run, or click and hold to bring the bars to the pointer.
Snarky political potshot, a proof of concept of a photo/word stencil tool.
Small math toy.
Artsier piece about a caught moment.
Tool to better see an amazing optical illusion switcharoo.
Roulette for science fiction story elements.
Exploration toy for Jessica Hagy's cleverness.
A font made of 2x2 grids of blocks and triangles.
Ducks. Lots of ducks. A virtual plane full of an infinite number of graphpaper ducks.
Ephemeral sculptures made by projecting generations of John Conway's 2D Life in 3D.
A graph of sunrise, sunset, and twilight throughout a year.
A.K. Dewdney's "Wallpaper" algorithm from "The New Turing Omnibus".
Not 100% original but 100% charming, a robot army derived from the ASCIIBotics lab factory.
A small castle building program - I was thinking "Zaxxon" but it came out all "Crystal Castles".
An implementation of a timepiece that came to me in a dream. Possibly inspired by the Wii Virtual Console throbber.
An update of the program below, for my Aunt on her birthday -- blood in variable widths, and ink, for cathartic doodling.
glorious trainwrecks
So the site Glorious Trainwrecks announced The Emergency 100-In-1 Klik And Play Pirate Kart Meltdown.
My first five entries were in processing/java, and each was done in two hours, give or take.
Nudge the white ball to sidestep the red chasers
Space invaders...in a box! Click to play, arrows move, space fires.
A moral and aesthetic lesson in birth control.
My previous cosmic ark swarm meets Katamari Damacy.
Err...in the adolescent spirit of the event, it's pong. With breasts.
My first post-100-in-1. It's an action game set in Conway's Game of Life.
My first processing with sound! Drag your draggin to eat the villagers who are threatening you and your apples.
A parody mashup of the indy game Flywrench and my own Atari 2600 JoustPong
A slightly spruced up version of my Holiday KotM... also my virtual greeting card that year!
My nerdiest trainwreck! Type the words that are sounded out before they destroy the planet or whatever.
Drag the boulder to the top of the mountain and ponder your existential despair! (First in the Vengeance of the Gods Trilogy.)
Reach for the delicious grapes, or duck into the pristine water to slake your endless thirst! (Second in the Vengeance of the Gods Trilogy.)
Drag the bound firebringer away from the eagle that seeks to consume his delicious liver! (Third in the Vengeance of the Gods Trilogy.)
the springy yoyo / bashes the three sticky frogs / send them to heaven!
Physics-y target game... see the first basho for cultural context.
These are beautiful, ephemeral pixies, flitting about hither and yon on gossamer wings, creatures of virutal light and logic, the very stuff dreams are made of. You smash them with a rock.
You are the beardy manspider. Throw your springy webstrands to catch rides from the green leaf pods and catch flies for health and points!
Not yet fleshed out into a full game, now it's more of a one-button pretty splashing bees with water simulator.
A toy to entertain 2 year olds... "kirkjerk taught the alphabet to sing and dance" --auntie pixelante
A rather failed gameplay experiment, you have to spray particles to discover your environment and pursuers. The guy looks like the one from 2600 Haunted House...
My 2008 Virtual Christmas Card started as a Glorious Trainwreck - slingshot the snowmen! Uses 2D cel shaded graphics.
Another bit of a disappointment, 3D Table Tennis for Two turned into an odd sketing program.
Another sketching program made during the MIT Mystery Hunt, ported by memory from a Palm program I made back in the day.
Fun port of a Compute's! Gazette game for the C=64...
More of a dorky simulation than a game, RGB particles "swarm" and laser it out.
The physicsy "joy of smashing" game.
A rough idea for a 3D Joustpong turned into yet another insect-ish control scheme game.
You control, and possibly destroy, beautiful patterns of swirling rainbow invaders. As Six said "feel like a riot cop firing into a group of people who are staging a demonstration about how much they love pretty colours."
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Old "make all the stars disappear" puzzle"
A functional virtual prototype of a watch that tells you the time more like a person would.