Continuing my Blockventures in Minecraft, this time I’ve reimagined the classic game of snake as a competitive arena style challenge. By leveraging some interesting abstractions, I was able to get a collection of blocks to act like a “living entity”. However, the implementation is somewhat performance intensive on account of needing to constantly draw and…
This was a bit of tangent for me, but working in javascript and remixing some code for Networks & Creativity resulted in the creation of multiple incarnations of a “Word Frequency Spiral” script. The first creates the spirals in photoshop and the second version uses D3.js, a data visualization library, to make an interactive, zoomable…
What’s better than virtual legos? Not much. I’ve been working on some javascript mods for consistently amazing and exceptionally time consuming Minecraft using Walter Higgin’s Scriptcraft. It uses Rhino Javascript Interpreter to implement the Craftbukkit API , which ends up with scripts that look like some sort of horrible demon-spawn of java and javascript. Way of…