Servelet - less Laszlo

I sat down and created a simple example of a servelet-less laszlo thingy. It's a simple button for my site, and proves that, yes, you can create things using laszlo without having to have the lzx app on your server.

Just scroll down to the lower right hand side of this blog and you'll see a little banner with my Knight fellow fading in and out. I also figured out how to place it here as well for your viewing pleasure. If you would like to link to my site, feel free to steal this button. Just view source of the code beween these lines:



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jpeg sewing machine

This is simply awesome. A sewing maching for geeks. Takes any jpeg and sews it onto whatever you want. Coool.

IGDA Whitepaper on Persistent Worlds

These whitepapers that the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) release periodically are always great reading. In light of games like World of Warcraft sucking up much of thousands of people's free tim, it seems pertinent that they would release a whitepaper on persistent worlds (MMORPG, MUD, MUSH, MOO, etc.) Check it out.

YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates

Imagine if you could take Lego people, dress them up as pirates, toss them into a MMORPG style world, and then force them to play Bejeweled style games? Sound like fun? Actually its way fun, and if you are looking for something to get your kids to try out something online and dont feel like exposing them to Everquest yet, then you may find this to be just what the Scurvy Dog ordered - ARRRRRH!

Orisinal.com - Floats

Orisinal.com has some of the most peaceful and zen-feeling-inducing games I've ever encountered. This game is no different as you trace lasso lines around little flying bubble bugs which then merge to make bigger bugs - all to nice piano music. Very peaceful, yet fun.

PuppyGames releases Puppytron 2084

If you are old enough to remember Robotron, that classic coin-eating arcade game from days of yore, you'll get a nice warm fuzzy feeling playing this latest installment from PuppyGames. Basically you shoot stuff -- robots with bright neon colors which get harder and harder to beat. It's mindless fun. Oh yeah - for those of you who are still reading this - you may find it much easier to play if you toggle the controls using "T" so that you can shoot with the WASD keys and move with the arrows -- a seemingly more confortable arrangement, at least to me.

Laszlo Chatbar .01 lives

Laszlo does chat "out of the box" but it's a completely underutilized feature. While creating this widget I saw many places saying this is "not for prime time" - meanind more that 100 ppl at a time using the application. Can you ever remember a time when you've been chatting with 100 people at once? With that in mind I sat down on my mini-vacation last week and pulled together a simple chat application using Laszlo. There are already "demos" of chat, yes, but it's always been coupled with something else, or abstracted to the heavens with libraries, etc. etc. I just wanted to create a simple app which implements chat so folks can "get it". So give it a go and see what you think. It could totally be expanded upon for avatars, music, co-browsing, tons of things. For me, I'm going to build off of this and create my simple little rpg.

JPEGBook -- read books on your PSP

Complete with english translation for you ala google: This is a utility to convert text into easily readable jpeg files so that you can then import them to your PSP. What a cool and wonderful idea. Makes me want a psp even more now that I could put a few books on it to read on the plane.

iPSP: intelligent Picture and Sound Pusher

Wow! Itunes style application to sync music, video, etc. on your psp. Where's the windows version? Check it out.

Streets of Rage remake

From remakes.org comes news of a new Streets Of Rage remake, using the Fenix engine. Looks fruity! Go click and see for yourself. Complete with nice google translation for ya.