SVG Time Waster: Worms

I came across Jamie's blog after he left a comment on my SVG Solitaire post. Apparently he's been a little busy with SVG too. If you've got 10 minutes and the Firefox 1.5 browser, why not go try a game of Worm SVG.

Great work! Feature Requests:

  1. Make it work in IE+ASV. Keyboard input didn't work for me.
  2. Make 'P' pause the game - useful if someone interrupts you at work, ahem...
  3. Make the worm and dots a little less blocky, more sexy, this is vector graphics after all. At least make the worm a "polyline" and use stroke-linecap="round". Or maybe a "path" so that you only have to change one "d" attribute every time you move the worm...
  4. Make it work faster in Opera 9 TP1 (if possible), see polyline/path idea above
  5. Make a server-side high score tracker (I've been trying to figure out how to do this in a hack-proof way myself)

My record (after 3 tries) was 200 points.


§212 · January 23, 2006 · Games, QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Time Waster: Worms ·

GDC 2006: Collada on the PS3

I was going over the Game Developer's Conference schedule for 2006 and came across this session entitled "Collada for the PlayStation3". The reason it caught my eye is that Collada is a specification put forth by the Khronos Group, which I had read about in my SVG research. Read the rest of this entry ...

§210 · January 21, 2006 · Games, GDC, Software, Technology, XML · Comments Off on GDC 2006: Collada on the PS3 ·

SVG Time Waster: Solitaire

I came across David Bellot's SVG cards awhile back and thought it would be cool to put together a simple online card game in SVG. Read the rest of this entry ...

§207 · January 18, 2006 · Games, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Time Waster: Solitaire ·

Inlaying SVG with HTML

After Rob called my code ugly, I decided to update my technique for embedding SVG into HTML and it finally crystallized into a nice solution for me. I hesitate to say "embedding" because that might imply that I condone the <embed> tag, when in fact I only use it at gunpoint. Rob came up with a suitable term for including SVG in a HTML document: inlaying (as opposed to inlining). Read the rest of this entry ...

§206 · January 13, 2006 · JavaScript, PHP, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 10 comments ·

Pretty Web Statistics in SVG

I posted a week ago about how there are some blogs/sites out there that roll their own web statistics and display them SVG. After reading this challenge on the weekend, I decided to work on my own, roughly mimicking these designs. Read the rest of this entry ...

§205 · January 12, 2006 · JavaScript, PHP, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 24 comments ·

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