Casting Out a Net

This is EneilShade, casting out a net to the internet to reel in real people. There is apparently not a single real, living person reading this blog. If you are a real person, though, then congratulations, and please comment below. Otherwise, GTFO! All of the tags on this post are on what this blog is about, to capture real readers.

Dot Fighter V 0.07 Public Beta

YES! I finally have found a better way to save and load ships! It took me a few hours, but now the save and load scripts work in perfect conjunction and are easy to maintain!

Download here

UPDATE: Download revision 1 here (Changes file extension to avoid some Windows overlap)

Available Features: Add dots, good popup menus, delete dots, save ships, load ships

Features to come with next release: Weapons/Upgrades, submenus (possible v 1.0)

Dot Fighter: V 0.06 Public Beta

Hello readers! I have recently come up with a good idea during my history class for a new game. I can thank my fellow student for goofing off during class and drawing things on his paper for this one. It is a game with simple pretenses: get points, upgrade ship, KILL! Ok, what is it really about? Well, you play as a ship with a square core, and a bunch of little dots arrayed around it. Each of these dots can be equipped with some form or another of upgrades, and each can be individually targeted and destroyed. I have been diligently working for the past three days on it, and have finally found a Public Beta release candidate for the ship maker.

Working Features: Dynamic popup menus, adding dots, moving dots, and deleting dots

Features to come with next version: Saving and loading

Download here

UPDATE: Download revision 1 here (Fixes some stupid menu retracting bug…)

UPDATE: Download revision 2 here (Fixes a pre-popout click error)

Send all suggestions via the comments!

Introduction to HTML

As promised, a simple HTML tutorial. In the past, I have done tutorials on more advanced subjects than this, so I am just going to take a step back now.

Let’s get started!

What I Cannot Seem to Do

I cannot seem to bring myself away from this blog. I am going to post a new tutorial on the basics of HTML tomorrow, in the usual text format. I would like to now thank those of you who visit this blog regularly for your support.

I Have Moved

But not in the literal sense of the word.

I am Back!

I, as many of you have probably seen (or can see in the blog archives), have been gone for a while. I have taken a break from the blog, I would not abandon it. But, I am back, and ready to make more tutorials.

Why I have not been posting.

There are a few reasons to explain why I have not been posting anything on my blog. 

First off, I do not have any good on-computer blog posting programs. The internal WordPress one is rather terrible.

Second, I have been working furiously on a new site: ‘thevrpsite.com’. It has replaced ‘eneilshade.com’.

Finally, and most importantly, I have been re-addicted to Game Maker. My trip to the internet programming languages has taught me much, including WONDERFUL syntax. I can now type very understandable code, and can code incredibly well. I am working on a “Tank Builder” for a game I am going to soon make. What it does is allow you to make a tank that you can then use in the game. I have it mostly working. You can add parts, move them around (properly), save and load, but not yet import into the nonexistent game.

(download here)

EneilShade

AJAX: What it is and how to use it.

I have recently discovered this wonderful tool called AJAX that uses a combination of JavaScript, HTML, and one (or more) of these three: PHP, ASP, ASPX. AJAX is asynchronous JavaScript and XML and it became popular in 2005 because Google used it to give suggestions to their users while they searched. AJAX is not a new programming language, instead, it takes advantage of the native XMLHttpRequest object in most browsers (save for IE 5 and 6). Now, before you proceed, You should at least know JavaScript and HTML/XHTML (I will assume you do). Do not worry if you know those, because AJAX is based on the internet standards, so there will be nothing new to learn.

 WHY AJAX IS GOOD:

Before AJAX, when someone wanted to submit a form to a PHP page, the form would send them to the separate PHP page on the server, and then the user would have to be re-directed back to the previous page. But with AJAX, the page can send a request to the remote server, or to a local page – discreetly. The user will not notice anything, because AJAX sends the request, then processes the result without changing URLs or refreshing any pages. AJAX is all about more user-friendly and better internet applications. Many people do not like the internet because the applications on the internet are clumsy, not user friendly, and relatively poor. With AJAX, you can change these things.

HOW TO USE AJAX:

AJAX is very easy to use. Let’s start with a simple form:

CODE:
<input type="button" value="Get Time"onClick="makeAJAXRequest()"/>

 

I have been a little behind…

I just recently went on a 10 mile, 3 day Boy Scout hike. I deeply apologize for my absence and lack of debugging on my AJAX Tutorial (the tutorial has been written for a few days, but it does not work, and if I give you a non-working tutorial, I will have defied my whole purpose – to teach you).

EneilShade