Speed Coding

I'm working on a series of videos for youtube based off of those speed painting videos that started showing up a few years ago. I'm going to be making a small game where you have to climb to the top of a tower. In the first video, I set up the basic frame work for the game. The second one is going to set up a basic camera that will follow the player around as he goes higher and higher, and will have all of the floors set up. The third video is going to be mainly about the graphics, with animated sprites and possibly a small particle engine. The fourth video will set up the menu system, as well as a victory screen. The final video will introduce a sound system, as well as a possibly updated control scheme.

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Anagram Generation

Heres a simple algorithm I developed to test if a word can be made out of the given letters.

1. Fill a 255 sized array with zeroes
2. Loop through the given letters, converting them to ascii and then incrementing that location in the array
3. Get a word from the dictionary file
4. Do steps 1 and 2 again with the word from the dictionary file.
5. If any of the locations in the second array are bigger than the 1st, the word is not an anagram
6. Else, add the word a list
7. Go back to step 3 untill you are out of words in the dictionary file.

Edit:

Heres a proof of concept for that algorithm. I also made a little bot to type it for you. I'd suggest having a copy of notepad running when you use this.

source code and dictionary file included.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A1XVC576

Demo Rising

Okay, so a beta Demo of Maze Plus should be up soon. Its just one level. The Menu systems aren't implemented yet, so its just a preview of the puzzle system and the graphics, which still need tweaked a bit.
Please realize that this is an early work in progress, and I'll probably release another version before the final project's released. See 2 posts ago with the road map for more info on this.


UPDATE:
The beta demo is now available for download. Post on the comments for this post for any problems/questions/bug reports.

link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=45MINNBI

Introduction to the shoe project.

Okay, so I'm working on a project to add wheels to shoes, so I can go downhill faster when I go to college or meet up with friends down there. I'm trying to make them be able to survive the fairly shitty roads around here, something that things like "heelies" cannot do well.

I've gotten most of the things shipped to me by now, and next week I'll be heading down to the shop to get some measurements and drill a few holes. Here's just a quick pic of how it'll look.