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I came across Jamie’s blog after he left a comment on my SVG Solitaire post. Apparently he’s been a little busy with SVG too. If you’ve got 10 minutes and the Firefox 1.5 browser, why not go try a game of Worm SVG.

Great work! Feature Requests:

1. Make it work in IE+ASV. Keyboard input didn’t work for me.
2. Make ‘P’ pause the game - useful if someone interrupts you at work, ahem…
3. Make the worm and dots a little less blocky, more sexy, this is vector graphics after all. At least make the worm a “polyline” and use stroke-linecap=”round”. Or maybe a “path” so that you only have to change one “d” attribute every time you move the worm…
4. Make it work faster in Opera 9 TP1 (if possible), see polyline/path idea above
5. Make a server-side high score tracker (I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this in a hack-proof way myself)

My record (after 3 tries) was 200 points.

I was going over the Game Developer’s Conference schedule for 2006 and came across this session entitled “Collada for the PlayStation3″. The reason it caught my eye is that Collada is a specification put forth by the Khronos Group, which I had read about in my SVG research. Click To Read More...

Via Sean Inman. A great essay by Paul Graham entitled How To Do What You Love, also has some overlap with Rob’s latest entry revealing this key: Always Produce.

My brother, Eric, was Director of Photography on the film “Things To Do“, directed by Ted Bezaire and starring Mike Stasko. The film was shot in Windsor over last year and I know my brother and his colleagues have been working their collective butts off on it. The film will be competing at the Slamdance Film Festival which starts today. The Slamdance Festival takes place at the same time and locale as the Sundance Film Festival but is reserved for “first time filmmakers” only.

He flew out to Utah from Windsor very early this morning, where he’ll be staying at a rented condo with Ted, Mike and others for the week. I’m sure they’ll be networking scripts and whatnot while down there too. What an exciting time for them!

You can see some photos and a trailer of the movie at their official website, though I had to download and install the latest version of Quicktime to get the video to play. I’m really impressed with the trailer, it seems to have that wistful quality of a a good Wes Anderson film, which is perhaps fitting because I believe their co-star Daniel Wilson is cousin to Luke and Owen Wilson. Anyway, I can’t wait until I can get a copy of it. Kind of weird to see Mike Stasko acting on the “big screen”.

I’m really excited for them, I hope they win. Send your good mojo his way. Too bad they’re not blogging the experience…

Uploaded a new SVG Game: Solitaire. Also, I updated my Draggable SVG library on the Code page.

I came across David Bellot’s SVG cards awhile back and thought it would be cool to put together a simple online card game in SVG. Click To Read More...

Uploaded a new version of Caverns of Xaskazien from Jeff Sinasac.