May 17, 2009
GameJam0509

GameJam0509

This screenshot is as far as I got during the latest GameJam, which has been running in my home town, Perth. I joined remotely from here in London, but unfortunately I just didn't manage to squeeze in the time to make the game I was hoping to. I did manage to advance the MinimalistPlatformer codebase quite a bit further than it was towards the larger platformer game I have cooking away in the back of my mind though, so that's quite positive. Hopefully I'll get some more time to continue this work, and maybe even produce some binaries of my GameJam entry at some point.

May 8, 2009
Euro Python 2009 talks

Woooooooooooooooo, I am pretty excited that my talk has been accepted for EuroPython 2009! It's in Birmingham, UK, at the end of June. My talk is called "RjDj + Python = Reality morph for the iPhone" and is about how we've used Python at RjDj to break out of the iPhone jail[1], somewhat.

There are a ton of really fascinating talks happening, and every one of the keynote speakers is a tech luminary. I am especially excited about seeing both Professor Sir Tony Hoare, and Cory Doctorow speak.

Good times!

[1] Note that I am an independent contractor and my views do not reflect those of Reality Jockey Ltd. :)

April 24, 2009
OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, London, 25th April 2009

If yr in London, come check this out tommorrow. I am playing a set using Pd, during the performances section, which should be a lot of fun.

OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night. The preliminary line up goes like this:

DAY: Workshops & Presentations : 12 - 5pm (free entry).

NIGHT: Performances : 7:30pm - 12:30am (5 pounds entry) - doors 7pm

Presentations

Workshops

  • Fluxus (Dave Griffiths) : (free, 1-2hrs, max 10) The venerable OpenGL/scheme environment. http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Fluxus

  • APODIO (Julien Ottavi) : (1hrs, max 20) Gnu/Linux multimedia distribution LiveDVD

  • Introducing Processing for Visual Artists (Evan Raskob) : (10 pounds, 2hrs, max 20)

Performances

You are all very welcome - see you there.

MORE INFO : openlab

April 20, 2009
maxmod audio library for NDS and GBA

Wow, huge news. There is finally, after all these years, an awesome free and open source audio playing library for the Nintendo DS and GBA. Hooray! This is big news for me as Looper Advance has been built against the non-Free Krawall library for years now and it's always irked me, quite appart from making the GPL license on Looper Advance invalid, and probably illegal.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to update Looper Advance soon and then I can release it properly as 100% Free Software.

MaxMod appears to be pretty comprehensive in that its API provides for mod-playing, sample-playing, and direct access to streaming buffers. This basically means you can write apps which mix and match all three types of audio playback.

maxmod

April 18, 2009
Some good tunes

Yo, this is a killer live set by Maddest Kings Alive who is also my periodical co-collaborator in Chrism + Fenris whenever we are in the same city. Bit-tune lurve and artfully selected chunky loops, this live set really is The Business!

Also good and recently blogged on Offworld is Leaves by Mattison. It's a wicked irie dub of chiptune source material by the artist.

Who needs the record labels? Not me.