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 […]