Minecraft: The Fall of Gondolin
As people who know me know, I like playing the game Minecraft from time to time, especially adventure maps with my little brother (whom I brought the game for on a whim and am rather proud of the time...
View ArticleMinecraft and Education
I recently saw a very well thought out talk on Minecraft, teaching programming to kids, and how the next set of Java developers will be coming from a Minecraft background at JavaOne. It reminded me...
View ArticleCellular Automata
I have far too much fun programming ALife programs and little cellular automaton (in fact it was the first thing I tried to do in JavaFX outside of work, unfortunately it isn’t fast enough at...
View ArticleAn Introduction to: State Based Games using the Slick2D Library
I’ve been using the LWJGL library for quite some time to make simple games in Java. For those who don’t know the LWJGL library is used in the indie title Minecraft so it’s quite reliable. Originally...
View ArticleWriting a program to retrieve people’s Minecraft skins, in JavaFX
After seeing JavaFX in action at JavaOne I decided I’d try to keep up to date with it. And in order to stay up to date I need to keep myself familiar with it all, so I decided to make a small...
View ArticleQuick HTML5 App: Minecraft Skin Getter
In my previous blog post I explained how to make a skin getter/stealer for Minecraft in Java using JavaFX. Turns out that post was actually quite popular, probably something to do with the buzzwords...
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