In this summer, I kept playing free Flash games. Some games are really fun and worth to play. I will list them so you can try them out. I can’t find any more good games on addictinggames.com, so I moved to Armor Games.
- World Wars 2 – New version of the previous game World Wars. This version has card system and map of Europe. The AI also increased.
- Phage Wars 2 – An RTS where you command your viruses to help them to multiply and you can modify their genes to give them abilities.
- Warfare 1944 – New version of Warfare 1917. It has three deployment lines and more features such as resource points, flanking, and a new campaign.
- Neuron – A simple shooting game, but it has great particle effects and music.
- Exploit – A hard puzzle game. To clear the game, try to think in subproblem-based model and backtracing model.
- Pwong – A pong game with multiple balls. It has great graphics and music.
Tags: Armor Games, Flash Game, List, Strategy Game
I think providing links to good sites, useful programs and enlightening tutorials are best for me, because they benefit people. Unlike free layouts and graphics, most people do not use them and they make people become lazy.
I found a lots of good programs that I want to share:
First, it is the JPC, a Java PC emulator, it enables you to run Linux or other operating systems in a Java applet or application, you can see it at http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/. They overloads CPU and on some computers, it shows OutOfMemoryException when trying to run Linux, because they attempt to load 1GB Linux image to your memory.
FlightGear is a free flight simulator that allows you to choose your location and aircraft and fly. It is somewhat hard to learn, so you must read the instruction manual. You can get more information about FlightGear at http://www.flightgear.org/
VirtualBox is an emulator of PC operating systems that lets you to run Windows, Linux or BSD inside Windows, Mac or Linux. It is best to try out Linux without formatting hard drive and a long time of waiting. You can download VirtualBox at http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/.
Can’t afford Microsoft Office? You can use OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is a free and open-source office suite that allows you to do things that Microsoft Office can do, and it can also open Microsoft Office documents. Of course, its official site is http://www.openoffice.org/.
Inkscape is a free and useful drawing program. It has features of Adobe Illustrator and other vector graphic editors. Its official site is http://www.inkscape.org/.
NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java, but it can be extended to work for PHP, Ruby, Python and even C/C++/FORTRAN. Its official site is http://www.netbeans.org/.
Processing is a programming language for graphics and game. It is mostly used for mathematics, physics, algorithms, game programming and more. You can read more at http://www.processing.org/. If you are a going to be a game programmer, you can read The Nature of Code tutorial and learn some mathematics and physics that are required for game programming and simulation (Processing.org and The Nature of Code do not mention game programming very often, they only mention about data visualization and (physics) simulation).
Komodo Edit is a free advanced text editor that has FTP and projects support. It has most to all feature that Notepad++ and other advanced text editor has. Komodo Edit is best for Web developers and dynamic language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) developers. You can read more about Komodo Edit at http://www.activestate.com/.
Songbird is a Mozilla-codebased music player. It has a built-in Web browser and media detection feature when using its Web browser. It can also be extended by downloading extensions. Some Firefox extensions such as AdBlock Plus and Greasemonkey are ported to Songbird. The official site of Songbird is http://www.getsongbird.com/.
Synfig Studio is a free animator. It works somewhat like Adobe Flash (but without ActionScript and interactions), keyframe-based animations and effects. You can read more about Synfig Studio at http://www.synfig.org/.
Blender is a free 3D modeling and animation editor. It is very complex and requires learning curve. It also require you to remember shortcut keys. You can download Blender at http://www.blender.org/.
That’s it for the list. There are even more but I don’t have time. This post may be updated when I found new programs.
Tags: List, Tutorial, Useful Programs
After almost 2 hours of re-uploading and DROPping TABLEs and INSERTing, I finally finished to install and restore the blog.
In last a few months, I started to use Twitter, my Twitter is @JirachiFan, you can follow me if you like.
School is finally over, I got a somewhat normal grade on my report card:
- English: B (about 75%, almost C+)
- Math: A
- Science: A
- Social Studies: C+ (almost B)
- P.E.: B
I played with Processing and Processing.js, and I made a lots of applets, you can see them at:
I’m also making a tower defense game with Processing. Currently I implemented the map, the monsters and the towers, and the tower can fire the laser to attack the monsters.
Because I got bored in last week, I played a lots of Flash games, I recommend you to play the following fun ones:
That’s it for now, bye.
Tags: Flash Game, List, Processing, Processing.js, School
