Angela Dickens

Fun With Pens

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:35:51 +0000

Time to stop twiddling your pen and start bashing your keyboard instead in the Pentathlon! A simple button basher flash game. Check it out here.

Jquery – Further Learning

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:09:13 +0000

I’ve had a dabble with jquery in the past and I do rather like it. I find it logical and straight forward to use and I was keen to learn it further. Once upon a blue moon my portfolio wasn’t a wordpress site. I kept the original files for it and decided to set myself a challenge to revamp my old portfolio with some funky jquery techniques. Twas a very rewarding process and I’ve published the results on here for you to have a goggle at. I plan to do a bit more work with jquery in the not so distant future, perhaps working with it and some php. Here’s my ‘jqueried’ old portfolio.

Easter Flash Fun

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:38:44 +0000

Easter was a family affair! The current trend within our extensive family are seasonal e-cards. Relatives sending them left, right and centre. So I says to my Mum, I says “Mother! I could custom build one of these bad boys before the 3 O’Clock football games are out! A mere two hours is all it’d need.” (Twas a Saturday). Thus the challenge was set to put together a custom easter card in two hours. And this is the farce I came up with. Sincerest apologies for the lack of preloader, I assure you the animation is there!

Meetdraw & BallSh*t Bingo

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:10:46 +0000

I was lucky enough to have a chance to show off my flash skills at the latest Meetdraw. Meetdraw is a regular evening that brings together designers and developers to share their passion of all things digital. The latest outing ‘So Meety’ had a bingo theme. Every guest was given a badge on the way in of an animal. Every half an hour a game of bingo commenced where four different animals would be drawn. The guests had to form a ‘herd’ in order to win a free drink.

So my job was to produce an animation to generate the balls. Check out my crude creation here.

Fun With Flies

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:40:19 +0000

Heres a fly physics engine I quickly mocked up for a little project I’m working on. You can add flies, subtract flies and change their swarming pattern.

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7BitArcade Episode 5: Based On Lies & 1000+ Subscribers

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:36:33 +0000

I look back at a post of not long ago and see my celebration of passing the 200+ subscriber mark. Now 7BitArcade is in quadruple figures and the subscriber count is rising rapidly. Its more than exciting and every episode I feel the show gets stronger and stronger. When we hit 10,000 its champagne time.

OMGWOWHI and welcome to another episode of the famous 7 Bit Arcade. In this board game special, we recruit the help of board game connoiseur Christopher Boakes who shares his wry view on how video game could be turned into fully fledged board games. We wonder how the moderator on xbox live gets away with banning people, Stevie rants again and among other things, this podcast see’s the return of Eden who ignites proceedings with his dry banter and almost chaos inducing comments. All the usual features are in the bag as is the now famous ramble time, which includes Australia, Motion Control, Banning, Milo, Wrestling, Mass Effect 2, and more.

Listen to it here.

7BitArcade Episode 4: Gamers Have Souls

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:29:09 +0000

Its the fourth episode of the 7Bit saga and this time its business. Marvel as we manage to go 12 whole minutes without lowering the tone. We solve the problem of the infamous red ring and dispute whether monkeys prefer flags or bananas. In a new feature, Spanjj reviews a game live on the show and we ramble about iPads and map exploring. Eden’s absence causes the abuse to be fired in all directions in this manageable chunk of audio joy. Topics include: Burnout Paradise, Susan Boyle, Split Second, Microsoft Points, Gerbil Physics, New York, Fuzzies, Ticks, I Dig It, Breasts, MAG, Tumbleweed, Heavy Rain, iPads, AVP, Apocalyptos, Bayonetta, Vienetta, Bioshock 2, Milo and Sonic 4.

Listen to it here.

Tabloid Me! (Facebook)

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:44:57 +0000

Tabloid Me! has been transferred to the Facebook platform. This project shows a basic understanding of the creation Facebook Apps. It uses the Facebook Actionscript API to allow users to put there face in the tabloids and then post it on their wall. Check out the application here.

Elance & Article Writing

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:03 +0000

Find me on Elance, a great little site where I’m getting a lot of freelance work at the moment. A lot of which is work writing articles, both original pieces and content spinning. So if you’re in need of some content writing up then feel free to look me as I’ve had excellent feedback from the jobs I’ve done so far.

Episode 3: Let Them Eat Cake & 600+ Subscribers

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:35:54 +0000

As 7BitArcade goes 600 subscribers strong the third episode also hits the gaming scene.

‘It’s Stevie’s Birthday on this rather special 7BitArcade podcast as he reaches the fine age of 12 years old (according to some sources).

Birthday Shenanigans include messages from The Newb Review, Pink & Deadly, Gamer Dork and the Frugal massive. Eden is assaulted numerous times for straying past his line but is also congratulated for buying his first bit of virtual real estate.

Subjects include Dragon Age, Pie Catapults, Demon Souls, Susan Boyle Cannons, Blood Bowl, Balloons, Lego Rock Band, Shallow Hal, Brutal Legend, XBox Woes, Dead Space, Ass Creed 2, Karate Monkey, Game Demakes, Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered, Virtual Space Stations, Shatter, New Years Resolutions, Army of Two, Unthinkable Sequels, Modern Warfare 2, Dark Void and the Vancouver Olympic Games.

Yes, that is a lot of subjects. What you gonna do? Wanna fight about it?’

Listen to it here.