An experiment with additive blending. Particles are emitted and slowly fade. When rendered the colors add together, creating a glowing flame effect. Written in C#

Source code is availible here.

This weekend is going to be the second time I’ve competed in the 3 Thing Game. It’s run by my University twice a year, and the premise is essentially teams compete against each other to make the best game in 24 hours of programming. Last year the team I was in did fairly well, although we didn’t place in the top 3 we managed to finish the game and stuck the competition out until the end:

This year I’m hoping to do better, or at least produce a more polished final result. The words we have managed to get are looking better; we have monkey, fantasy and casino this year, whereas last year the word we had were skateboarding, chicken and hospital. At any rate it’s a fun thing to be part of with some experience for programming under time constraints, working in a group and using the XNA libraries thrown on top.

New track up a couple of days ago:

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F14916055&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=644527 Willy Bum Bum Remix by bencoveney

You can find the original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrBj3u5dPgM

Take a listen if you want. You can find my soundcloud link in the header, it’s where I upload my music. Let me know what you think.

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F692224&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&show_playcount=true&show_artwork=true&color=644527 Public Tracks by bencoveney

QR Code For Bencoveney.com

QR codes are a 2 dimensional bar code. Unlike the bar codes you find on products in a shop which have a series of lines to encode data, QR codes are made up of a grid of black and white squares. They are becoming increasingly popular lately, you may have seen them on the side of cans to be used in promotions or similar.

There are many types of 2D bar codes, but QR codes are one of the more popular formats. You can use them to encode a wealth of different things, for example text, a hyperlink or even wireless network access. This data can then be accessed by scanning or photographing the code using a camera or phone. Linking real world physical objects to online/computer content is called hardlinking. Generating codes is as simple as inputting your data into a form online, and he resulting image can be placed anywhere you can think of: on a business card, on a poster, even on clothing. QR code readers are available on many different devices, for example the iPhone.

A screenshot of the game Faultline

Faultline is a pretty cool flash game by Nitrome. A platform based puzzle game, you have to get from the start to the finish of each level by folding the level to avoid obstacles and create pathways.

While building my custom theme I have created a blueprint theme to start from. This was made by basically stripping out the Kubrick theme to it’s bare bones, with nothing unnecessary. The Kubrick theme was an ideal starting point because it comes with all the includes people expect. This is what it results with:

Its small in size, at 16.5kb as opposed to kubrick’s 89.5kb. This theme file is really rough and mainly for my use, but feel free to download if you want to use it.

Skeleton Theme

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