Stupid Web Tricks

An Explosion in JavaScript

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

At my new job, I had the pleasure of writing my first two games. What made this especially fun is that they are games written in JavaScript.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to write a videogame. Sure, I wrote one in BASIC (didn’t we all?), and a few lame attempts in C [...]

Stupid Web Tricks: Sightglass 0.1

Friday, January 5th, 2007

As expected, I’m behind where I want to be with my Stupid Web Tricks section. Anyway, the Domo-kun were starting to look really lonely, so I decided to throw together a quick carousel implementation for the heck of it.

Stupid Web Tricks: Orbiting Domo-Kun

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I just whipped up this simple orbiting domo-kun animation in JavaScript. After playing around with JavaScript’s Math trig methods (particularly Math.sin and Math.cos), one thing led to another, and after watching a few domo-kun videos on YouTube, I was inspired to use its picture in the effect.