Mechanically Separated Meathttp://datafall.org/feed/1/?enSo I normally hate April Fools Day…http://msm.runhello.com/?p=145…on the Internet, but this is actually incredibly awesome. (Note: if you just see the normal video, try logging out and then going to the link again. For me there seems to be some sort of problem where it usually doesn’t work when I’m logged in.)Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:25:00 -0000iJumpman (Jumpman for iPhone)http://msm.runhello.com/?p=135My free Mac/PC game Jumpman is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch. HOW TO GET IT Click here or search on the App Store for “iJumpman”. GAMEPLAY VIDEO FEATURES All the content from the PC version Gesture and tilt controls (plus optional button control scheme) Full in-game soundtrack (plus iTunes library support) Full level editor with integrated online level swapping PLOT Guide Jumpman to [...]Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:27 -0000It’s submittedhttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=133Please holdFri, 12 Mar 2010 18:05:15 -0000A Game of the Year 2009 Poll: Resultshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=125CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE PRETTY COLOR-CODED FULL RESULTS This explanation will look a lot like last year’s, but: Every year since 2004 I’ve been hosting this Game of the Year poll for the users of some forums I read. There are a lot of GOTY polls out there, but this one I think is kind [...]Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:46:08 -0000Game of the Year 2009: Vote Herehttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=112Hello anyone out there: I’ve got this Game of the Year poll that I run on some web forums I frequent. The way it works is that you rank your favorite games of the year– up to 20, though vote for as many or as few as you want– and the script will sort out [...]Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:24:20 -0000Volunteer opportunities on LGBT rightshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=101This is a little off from the normal format of this blog, but what the heck. I had a conversation last week with some people who were frustrated that they saw a lot of discussion about lack of progress on LGBT rights, but didn’t see the kind of practical, meat-and-potatoes organizing on LGBT issues as they [...]Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:06:05 -0000Jumpcore: A starting point for SDL/OpenGL gameshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=64NON-PROGRAMMERS READ THIS Here, download this silly physics toy: “Typewriter” Mac version Windows version (Linux users: Source below) Controls: Keyboard, mouse, F1, F4, ESC PROGRAMMERS READ THIS When I started writing Jumpman, something that frustrated me was that there are a couple of seemingly basic things that SDL/OpenGL doesn’t actually provide out of the box, and that I couldn’t seem to find a [...]Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:13:31 -0000Jumpman Level Databasehttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=36So my Jumpman game has a level editor, and I thought I should make a place for people to put the level packs they’ve made. Until I think of a better way to do this: if you made a level pack you want to share, zip up the .jmp and email it to jumpmanlevels@gmail.com and I’ll [...]Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:26:08 -0000Jumpmanhttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=24I made a video game. DOWNLOAD Windows 2.1 MB Macintosh 3.3 MB (Universal Binary) GAMEPLAY VIDEO FEATURES Old-school puzzle platforming with some twists Low-definition graphics Gamepad support Full level editor PLOT Guide Jumpman to the exit.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:13:17 -0000A Game of the Year 2008 Poll: Resultshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=23CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE PRETTY COLOR-CODED FULL RESULTS I’m just gonna copy and paste the explanation I gave last year: For the last few years I’ve been hosting this Game of the Year poll for the users of some forums I read. There are a lot of GOTY polls out there, but this one I [...]Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:45:07 -00002009http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=22Hey. This is mostly just to say, did you see the video game of the year poll I did last year? Well, I’m doing it again this year, and the voting is up and running right now this instant. The poll gives you a list of [an attempt at] almost every game released last year, [...]Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:53:59 -0000Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physicshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=20Short version: Just watch this video. Okay, now what was that? So a few months back some of my friends were passing around these videos of something called “Kazio Mario World“, which I was told, at first, translated to “Asshole Mario World”. This turned out to have actually been a misunderstanding of something [...]Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:22:11 -0000A Game of the Year 2007 Poll: Resultshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=19CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE PRETTY COLOR-CODED FULL RESULTS So for the last few years I’ve been hosting this Game of the Year poll for the users of some forums I read. There are a lot of GOTY polls out there, but this one I think is kind of special. Most polls, you’re given a [...]Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:04:03 -0000A Game of the Year 2007 Poll: Vote herehttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=18Short version: Click here to vote So for the last few years I’ve been hosting a “Game of the Year” poll for a video game forum I frequent, using a voting script I wrote. There’s now more than one forum involved in the voting, so I figured I might as well post a link here too. [...]Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:14:25 -0000The Physics of Super Mario Galaxyhttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=17For the last week I’ve been playing this game called “Super Mario Galaxy”, and if it isn’t the best game ever made, then it’s in the top three. It has fanservice by the buckets, and a soundtrack that soars as if the game itself is just happy it is being played, and little blue tractor [...]Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:15:32 -0000Datafall.org, take twohttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=16SHORT VERSION So I’ve made this website for building blog communities, and it’s called datafall.org. Datafall lets you start these things called “blogcircles”. If there’s some group of people– maybe the people from your web forum, or your fish club, or just your circle of friends– that you know have blogs, you can go start a [...]Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:06:48 -0000The Ballad of the Lambda Calculushttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=15Computer Science can be said to predate even the idea of a computer itself by at least two millennia, in the sense that even before Babbage started designing calculating engines (for simplicity, I will here ignore mechanical calculation devices which predate Babbage), mathematicians had for a long time been analyzing “algorithms”, mathematical procedures which behave [...]Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:30:42 -0000Dear Congress: Beyond Einstein, Wtfhttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=14This is a copy of a letter I wrote to various congressthings. I reproduce it here because I didn’t write a blog post this weekend, and because you probably won’t be able to tell the difference between this and a blog post anyway. Enjoy. * * * * * Dear [Whoever], I am writing about the recent effective [...]Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:49:07 -0000Pretty pictureshttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=13So last week I made a little custom variation on an old computer program called the “Game of Life”, with the hopes that my version could be used to demonstrate neat things about quantum physics. As chronicled in my last blog post, that basically didn’t work at all. However, despite not working the way I’d [...]Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:53:05 -0000A Quantum Game of Lifehttp://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=12I’ve had this blog for awhile, but barely posted in it. I’m tired of this, and it’s strange because the reason I haven’t posted isn’t a lack of things to say, the problem is just plain not getting around to writing anything. So, an experiment: From now on, I’m going to start making a post [...]Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:14:39 -0000