Friday, May 25, 2007

Another little program

I got this idea from a little Google gadget. The game was fun, but there were no options to speak of, so I created Fill It! The object is to turn the playing field all one color in as few moves as possible. I have created an instruction file in HTML which is loaded into your browser when you click Help/Instructions in the program.
The current version (1.2) is complete for a 1-person game. I have ideas to make it a 2-player game as soon as I figure out network objects in VB.

Download Fill It!

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Rethinking my short story

Sorry for the delay. I read my short story, "Crime Doesn't Pay" and I realized it needs a serious re-write, so I'm going to work on that for a while.

In the mean time, enjoy this little program I threw together called TextClock. It displays the current time in readable English. It's a version 1.0, so there are lots of things I have yet to impliment. Please post any ideas, suggestions or comments. Thanks!

Download TextClock!

Friday, May 18, 2007

Welcome. Come here to check out whatever I happen to be doing. On here you're likely to see a wide variety of things. Currently on my plate are:

  • A categorized list of all 4,000 Atari 8-bit programs in my collection (work in progress)
  • The rules to my board game "Radio Networks"
  • A fantasy/sci-fi short story of mine called "Crime Doesn't Pay"
  • A puzzle game I wrote in VB.NET called "Fill It!"
  • Various VBA scripts I write for people
  • A rejected Star Trek:TNG script I wrote called "All Life"

I think that's enough for now. My next post will start things off with my short story. I wrote it about 15 years ago while trying to develop some characters for a novel. It's about two young but highly talented wizards, Norman and Thomas. Without Thomas knowing, Norman had stolen an electronic spell book from an equally talented, but much more experienced wizard named Aryer. (Pronounced are-YEHR) The story is how Norman and Thomas do whatever they can think of to stay one step ahead of Aryer. (Remember, my intent was just to live in the characters for a while, so this is more of a 'day in the life' rather than a fully-developed story.)

Thanks for reading!

- Sean

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