Realms of Rivalry - turned based rpg in java

Realms of Rivaly is a free multiplayer turn-based strategy/roleplay game written in Java. From the site:


Realms of Rivalry is a turn-based multiplayer strategy game with roleplay elements. The game has many similarities to classic titles like Space Crusade and the X-Com series.

Features:

* Multiplayer with up to 4 players.
* Players control teams of 3 characters: Warrior, Archer and Mage.
* Turn-based gameplay with optional time limit per turn.
* Randomly generated game world.
* CPU controlled monsters.
* Several weapons, armor, traps and other items.
* Occlusion calculation used in combat situations.
* Interrupts.
* Different types of terrain.
* Buy & sell items at vendors.
* Monster respawning.
* Ingame chat.
* Detailed end-of-game summary panel.

Cheezy Canvas Test #6 - reactive interfaces

The concept behind this test is to show how you could place a canvas element behind some markup and creat some interesting rollover effects. Not only that, you could "annotate" the markup with perhaps callouts, thought ballons, diagrams, etc. etc.

How I constructed this test was to place a canvas element behind some markup via css, then on mouseover, highlight the link via drawing a rectangle around the target element as well as a larger circle around that. I dont have to know what the content is, since the dimensions and position come from the event object on each element.

You might also imagine having a marker board style background canvas that allowed you to draw "on" the markup and take notes, highlight elements. or connect elements on the screen.

Yahoo buys del.icio.us

What awesome news! I'm an avid del.icio.us user myself and having flickr, del.icio.us, konfabulator, and more folks all under one roof is fabulous!

Canvas Test #5 - using one canvas in another canvas

This is a fairly stupid, yet illustrative example of using a canvas element as a source image in another canvas. The far right canvas is "sourced" into the middle one, which in turn is sourced in the far left one. All generative. All scripting. Canvas seems perfect for retro gaming.

Firefox - in space!

From Digg I find a cute article that shows a stellar feature near our own galaxy that looks very much like the Firefox logo. It is uncanny, really. Is this a galactic stamp of approval? :)

More Canvas goodness from Teethgrinder

There are two sets of great new canvas demos over at Teethgrinder:

http://www.teethgrinder.co.uk/perm.php?id=126
A series of experiments using fractals to create trees.

and

http://www.teethgrinder.co.uk/perm.php?id=127
Some image experiments to rotate images. This one has a great "motion blur" demo.

Firefox Extension of the Year - Scrapbook

Sure, I'm not some official body of high-powered web developers who can influence thousands with a mere blog post. However, for the folks who do read this - I wanted to say I'm nominating Scrapbook as Extension of the Year. This is the single most useful extension I've encountered in all my years of browsing and webdevery. Sure there's the Web Developer Extensions, but those are for just webdevs. For the masses, including developers, Scrapbook is extremely useful. You can capture pages, whole sites, or just a tiny snippet from a site. You can then index, search, annotate, and export your pages. Two thumbs and two big toes up for Scrapbook!

XML for Script

From the site:

XML for SCRIPT is a powerful, standards-compliant JavaScript XML parser that is designed to help web application designers implement cross platform applications that take advantage of client-side manipulation of XML data

Gee, I'm famous (for a few hours)

Wow, I get mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. (And CNET and Mercury News) I'm famous! (For a few hours at least)

Squidoo gone live!

Now you too can create your own lenses and share them with the world. I just got word of the now public beta of Squidoo which I've been testing out for a while now. It's way cool, and brings together a lot of different ideas into one page.

Wishing I could dabble in DabbleDB

I've been database deficient all my life. I eat, drink, and breath client-side, but put me in front of some mysql or other database app and I'm lost. That's why I'd give my eye-teeth to get a beta account with the dabbledb site. It looks like something that I might actually use to create some really cool applications. I have years of pent up ideas for various app-like things and it would be awesome to start seeing if this is the place for them to live. I've tried Ning, but the barriers to entry for something even like that are too high. Google Base doesnt seem all that compelling, and traditional databases are just to complicated.

So, if you are out there DabbleDB creators, I would be your friend for life if you sent me a beta account. No, really. Heh.

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EDIT: Amazing! I got an invite! Time to start digging.

Edit in place javascript

Here's a nice demo of using DHTML to create editable elements on your page - nice perhaps for say a blogging tool, or for editing forms.

GCast - do it yourself podcasting

Ok, so it's kinda an oxymoron to say do-it-yourself podcasting, since that's probably how 99% of the folks are doing it, but this is more like podcasting without having to invest anything in terms of software or hardware. If you can find a payphone, you can podcast on this service. They host it for free, run the rss feeds, and do everything. Very cool!

Motor Storm Trailer for PS3

Ok, if this doesnt get to totally and freakishly excited about the new PS3 then I dont know what will.

From the site I found this on:


The E3 trailer footage was realtime running on the PS3 Alpha kits with the 6800 SLI and a slower cell processor. I do have one caveot the AI was turned off to showcase the visuals. Keep in mind the graphics were achieved with a watered down version of the final PS3.

2006 Entrants for the Independend Games Festival

The IGF is always a great way to see what is going on in the world of indie games. Every year folks from around the world create indie games to compete in this contest. Check out the entrants and get a glimpse into the world of indie gaming.

Data url generator

I stumbled across this data: url generator - very handy for when you want to embed an image directly in your sourcecode without having to make a roundtrip to the server for the bits. It also seems to make smaller urls than Hixie's URL Kitchen.