Constant I/O | Concept Art and World Building | Week 6
Wednesday, March 13th 2019, 12:44:52 amLast week, I spent a lot of time writing code for making procedurally generated levels. . That was fun. But it left me neglecting the…
Constant I/O | Procedurally Generated Levels in the Style of Spelunky | Week 5
Wednesday, March 6th 2019, 5:54:01 pmConstant I/O (or Project 2, Part 2) Background In part 1 of project 2, I studied the creative process of Derek Yu with regards to Spelunky…
Constant I/O | The Core Game Loop | Week 4
Tuesday, February 26th 2019, 10:42:04 pmThis week I focused on tighetning up the code in a few key ways to support a functioning game loop. This basically means I focused more on…
Constant I/O | Tilemaps | Week 3
Monday, February 18th 2019, 3:01:37 pmThus far, all of the pixelart you’ve seen on this site and in the game screenshots thus far has been made using PyxelEdit. This is an…
Constant I/O | Blend Trees and Animations | Week 2
Wednesday, February 13th 2019, 1:13:09 amAfter watching this amazing video tutorial on YouTube on making 2D games , this week’s breakthrough is discovering the magic of blend trees…
Constant I/O | Organizing Sprite Sheets | Week 1
Wednesday, February 6th 2019, 7:14:49 pmAs part of my Ideation and Prototyping class at NYU I will be creating a game prototype and writing about the process each week . For the…
Moving To Gatsby
Saturday, February 2nd 2019, 10:36:30 pmIt’s been fun blogging with my own homebrew static blogging engine for the past year or two. Was a very lightweight way to play around…
Markov Chain Rhythms using SonicPi (ft. Drake)
Sunday, June 17th 2018, 3:13:08 pmA few weeks back I started dabbling in using markov chains to make hip hop music . When I wrote that last post, there was one hurdle that I…
How To Build A Tiny Grid System with Stylus
Saturday, June 16th 2018, 3:57:17 pmBackground Since I moved my site/blog/etc over to this static, micro-site a while back , I haven’t given it much ❤️ codewise. There are a…
Moving Back To Github Pages (or Static Hosting Saga 3)
Thursday, June 14th 2018, 2:30:11 amA while back, I made a big deal about moving this site to Cloudflare and using HTTPS . Well now that Github Pages supports HTTPS for…
Making Markov Chain Hip Hop with SonicPi
Wednesday, June 6th 2018, 2:16:27 amFor a long time, I’ve tried to merge two significant pursuits in my life: music and code. Although the two are not mutually exclusive, I’ve…
Simple HTTPS Setup S3 + CloudFlare
Wednesday, November 29th 2017, 4:48:01 pmAfter a bit more investigation yesterday, I realized that github pages forces my website headers to always be 30x. This is not ideal…
Static Hosting Updates 1
Tuesday, November 28th 2017, 4:02:58 pmSo during this past Thanksgiving holiday, about the only time of year I sit down and work on personal projects these days, I went to go…
Discovered Gem - Pipe Dream
Saturday, February 25th 2017, 6:45:48 pmMy primary mode of listening to music these days is Spotify’s Discovered Weekly . Although I’ve historically prefered “manually curated…
Google Publisher Tags and React Playing in Harmony
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 3:33:51 amDoing Google Publisher Tags the React Way For all the wonders Webpack and Babel have brought to Front-End JavaScript, the modern, modular…
Making a Markdown Blog Using Webpack
Wednesday, January 4th 2017, 2:58:34 amA Brief Background When I started working on this site, my first hunch was to use that classic static website builder, Jekyll . It’s…
A New Way of Blogging
Monday, January 2nd 2017, 10:40:49 pmIt’s been a while since I wrote a blog post. Why? Well on the one hand, I’ve had a shortage of free time. On the other, I’ve spent way too…
Written by Omar Delarosa who lives in Brooklyn and builds things using computers.
