This isn't a new feature in Chrome, but I just found out that we can use Google Chrome to visualize inline profiling data, rather than write our own visualization tool. This is done via chrome://tracing (see http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/08/21/using-chrometracing-to-view-your-inline-profiling-data/).
All we have to do is write the profiling data in a format that the Chrome viewer accepts (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CvAClvFfyA5R-PhYUmn5OOQtYMH4h6I0nSsKchNAySU) and load it up in the viewer. Awesome!
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Sidequest Updated: Blast
Two posts ago, I talked about creating a mash-up of Geometry Wars and Rez. I present to you Blast, an audio toy where shooting stuff paints a tone matrix. In this initial version, you control a simple ship to blast circles in order to colour cells on the tone matrix. Coloured cells then determine what sounds are played. It's still lacking a lot of feedback, but the general idea is there. I think the audio generated is pretty interesting.
In hindsight, coding everything with EaselJS was probably a bad idea, as I had to write out a lot of stuff on my own; stuff like motion and collision detection which could have been done easily with a framework like Phaser. I'll probably be porting everything over to Phaser before adding more stuff like particles and more interesting enemies. Chiny pointed me to a sprite generation tool that could come in handy for creating enemies. I'll see what I can come up with them. Maybe exploding enemies that colour multiple tiles in one go.
In hindsight, coding everything with EaselJS was probably a bad idea, as I had to write out a lot of stuff on my own; stuff like motion and collision detection which could have been done easily with a framework like Phaser. I'll probably be porting everything over to Phaser before adding more stuff like particles and more interesting enemies. Chiny pointed me to a sprite generation tool that could come in handy for creating enemies. I'll see what I can come up with them. Maybe exploding enemies that colour multiple tiles in one go.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Quick and Dirty Checkerboard Spritesheet
Need a checkerboard transition but don't want to code it out? Want to use a spritesheet for it instead? Don't want to have to do it by hand? Then this script is for you!
Just came up with a quick and dirty script using ImageMagick to generate a checkerboard transition spritesheet. Not the best way to do things, but at least it serves to help me remember the ImageMagick options that I tend to use.
Just came up with a quick and dirty script using ImageMagick to generate a checkerboard transition spritesheet. Not the best way to do things, but at least it serves to help me remember the ImageMagick options that I tend to use.
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