Author Archives: dylan

Displaying image thumbnails in the level editor

Posted on January 17, 2010 by dylan

To display the sprite thumbnails in my level editor application, I wrote a couple of simple custom controls. The first control extends from the .NET PictureBox control, and just has an additional property to track whether it’s been selected. Then, … Continue reading →

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Jolicloud

Posted on July 26, 2009 by dylan

I installed the Jolicloud OS on my EEE PC 701 this weekend, and so far it’s working beautifully. Installation was fast (around 15 minutes) and easy, and it picked up my home WiFi with no problems. It’s also easy to … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7

Posted on February 9, 2009 by dylan

Just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.7 via the DreamHost One-Click upgrade, please let me know if anything looks wrong. It all seems a bit too easy somehow…

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Writing the level processor

Posted on July 4, 2008 by dylan

I thought it might be useful to go over how I wrote the custom level processor, because after following the example in the documentation I still had some questions. The Level Classes I already had the classes that make up … Continue reading →

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Video of exported level in-game!

Posted on July 2, 2008 by dylan
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XNA Level Editor

Posted on July 2, 2008 by dylan

I’m working on a level editor for creating XNA games. At the moment, it only supports the 2D game engine I’m working on, but I’m planning to extend both the engine and editor to support 3D graphics (but keeping it … Continue reading →

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