Voyaging Mind

The other week I purchased the interphase ebook , it is partially sold as a look at all the fun things you can do PhaserJS in not many lines of code and partially as a increase your skills in PhaserJS. I was considering writing a few games in Javascript and if I had then I would have used PhaserJS. The mini games they produce attempt to demonstrate various features of PhaserJS while also attempting to remain fun. A retro feel pervades the whole ebook. Overall I quite liked the feel and their production standards are quite high although if you were not a child of the eighties or at least partial to updated games from that era you may not enjoy it so much. For unrelated reasons I decided to return to libgdx before getting very far into the book. The writing was good enough and what they were producing interesting enough that I continued to read the book and learn a few tricks. In my mind that reflects well on the author and PhaserJS in general. The only negative side is while it tells yo...

Over the weekend it was my birthday. Yay for surviving another year. Boo for a total lack of productivity as long weekend always produce. It did give my brain a bit of a break from coding. That does not mean my brain stopped working. I added a couple of game idea to my list of ones I would like to make at some point. My children are on their Easter break and all promptly came down ill. The oldest did show me what the scratch project he has been working on. We did a bit of pair programming to add a couple of features he wanted to add. Until then I had not looked at scratch much - well at all if I am honest. My eldest two had shown a slight interest in programming (them being 6 and 8 years old) and I showed them a bit of java. Printing out times tables and so on and that amazed them that it could work them out so fast. They even tried making it do the 17 times table to see if it would struggle! A little while later (about a month) we installed scratch on our computers a...