Author: Jon

I recently decided to spend some time learning basic games programming using web technologies. I have started off as simply as possible, by cloning Pong. The source code for what I produced is available on Github, and you can play the game as it stands here. It’s for two human players, the left bat controls…

Several times in the past, I’ve dabbled with writing things in script/screenplay format. The basic of screenplay formatting are simple enough that you reproduce them in a Word Processor easily enough, but it always seemed like it would be useful to have a dedicated piece of software for it. Unfortunately, whenever I looked, I only…

Recently, John Carmack, of id software fame, announced that he is working on a new virtual reality headset. Carmack is a fantastically intelligent and interesting guy, and it’s well know that when a journalist asks him a question about technology, he never gives a soundbite or a vague answer. Instead, he expounds at length, in…