I simply enjoy days where my queue is empty and I can develop little random apps to keep my brain occupied. It's the small pleasures in life that brings me such joy.
Today I present "newsFeed". Inspired by the large flash based image menu at the top of Gamespot.com's site, I decided to create a similar application through JQuery. I replaced the flash with a simple definition list that contains the large image that is used for the background and the text content. I was able to recreate the hover and rollover blur effects as the flash but I wasn't able to figure out how to get it to autoscroll. I'll save that for the next release. Simply check out the links below for a working example. Sorry no download is available on this one yet!
I, like millions of other people, am fervently waiting for the upcoming release of the sequel for Gears of War. Who doesn’t like a little chainsaw or torque bow action once in awhile? Well, naturally, the folks over at the Yahoo! decided to post about a story about how much more violent Gears of War 2 is from it’s predecessor.
Umm, d’uh! We all know it’s going to get shipped with a big ol’ “MATURE” rating and that some of us will get carded as we wait for our game to be swipped across the cashier’s scanners.
More violence is what we want. Of course we want a sequel to have more realistic graphics, more enemies to kill and, yes, more melee moves! That’s what is needed for a series to evolve to do two things: increase their gamership as well as keeping the current fans of the series happy. I am personally looking forward to the chainsaw mini-game and “meat shield”. The “meat shield” is using dead opponent’s body as a protective shield.
Complain all they want about the violence, this is what we asked for. This is exactly what we want and hopefully the developers won’t downgrade the violence to make the censors happy.
So, why don’t you head over to your Xbox 360 and download the game play footage. I said do it!
Lately, I have had the chance to talk to a few people about my programming habits and a few simple steps I can do to go a little further, atleast on the JavaScript side of things. So, since TheCinemaSource is down, I took the time to mess around with my little toolbar script.
What I have done is updated the script so that there is a better division between my HTML presentation and my JS file. The easiest way to put this is that I was able to move all my behaviorial JavaScript method calls out of my HTML file and into my external JS file. Now, the HTML file contains (Yes! You guessed it!) HTML while the JS file contains all my lovely JavaScript code.
As I was looking at the code, I still see LOTS of room for improvement but below you'll find the link to download and view the latest version of my toolbar.
Forces beyond our control have kept TCS down for about a week now. But I wanted to let everyone know that you can still see what's going on with TheCinemaSource.com by visiting any one of the links below. Once we're back up, I'll try to remind everyone of our existence!
Sadly, I have totally abandoned watching G4's XPlay ever since they changed their format, yet again. I just want reviews, no filler and no gaming tips. So, thanks to the show's revamp, I frequent their website, A LOT. And on today's visit I was able to snag this footage of XPlay hosts Adam and Morgan playing around with with Super Smash Bros. Morgan playing old school while Adam tries to manage with the Wii controller.
Check out the gameplay below: