game

I finished my version of Tetris, and it's now available for you to try on your PC. I set a goal of finishing the game before Super Bowl XLV, and there turned out to be a lot to.

My implementation of Tetris is nearly finished! It plays pretty decently, which is the measure of any game. There's no sound right now, but there's a help screen and a modest splash screen. My goal is to release it before the Super Bowl XLV (February 6, 2011).

In the beginning of December (last year), I wrote another small game. It's even simpler than the Concentrate game, but instead of JavaScript, it's in Flex. You can play the small game here:

http://rgu.freeshell.org/PickNumber.html

Or better yet, get a school-aged child to play it. This will be yet another piece of computer code I hope to break down in these pages.

I finished that concentration game. You can play it at:

http://rgu.freeshell.org/concentrate

There's a bunch to BLOG about this game. I'll get to it soon, I hope.

I'm writing a small JavaScript program to implement the simple game of "Concentrate". A few weeks ago, I borrowed JavaScript: The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford. It's a terrific little book on what's good about JavaScript. I admit freely that my JavaScript programming skills are mostly at the "cut and paste" level, but writing a small game will force me to get beyond this level, and to penetrate some of the patterns in Crockford's book. I'm hopeful to be blogging about this soon!