Author Archives: Matt Roszak

Brb & Awesome Day

I’m away to Poland for a week, just so everyone knows.
So I won’t be working on anything, but I’ll probably still have internet access.

Anyway, I finally got my driving license! Hurray!
I made quite a lot of mistakes on the test, but nothing serious enough to fail apparently.
It’s a bit late, but I live in a big city, so driving isn’t always the best way to get around. Hopefully now I’ll be able to do a bit of exploring in the countryside.
(I’d also like to point out to the Americans that our driving test is a lot harder than yours, and we don’t drive automatic cars either. :P)

I had a Minecraft party to celebrate afterwards.
We explored King’s Landing and Winterfell, played some minigames, and teamed up for the Hunger Games. Great times were had.

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We got pretty good at the Hunger Games by the end of our 11-hour Minecraft session. Managed to win two matches!

 

Cat Cafe Dress Up Mode

This is pretty much the same thing as that “Cat Maker” I posted earlier, but with a new interface. I’m a bit worried that the buttons might be a bit small on devices with small screens, so if that ends up being the case, I’ll have to rearrange things a bit.

dress up

He looks happy…

Anyway! The main thing to notice here is the “Screenshot” button! Click that and you’ll get a wee JPEG of your cat saved to your device! This is a feature that a lot of my previous games would have benefited from. Unfortunately, it’s a lot harder to implement if the game is running in a web browser. For security reasons, Flashplayer can’t create random files on your computer, without help from some external PHP code (or something like that). So this is a feature that the web version won’t have, but will be available on your mobile device instead.

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This image was made by the app.

Cate Cafe Main Menu

Been working on the main menu for Cat Cafe.
It’s nothing too fancy, but I think it looks quite good so far.

I’ve also been playing around with some more Android features.
Turns out that it’s pretty easy to use the “Menu”, “Back”, “Search”, and other buttons. They’re basically treated like keyboard keys.
I shouldn’t rely too much on them though, since different Android devices have different buttons, but it’s still handy to have them.