Peavey 6505 +112 Switching Peddle

My friend and bandmate has been after a channel switching peddle for his Peavey 6505 +112 combo amp and with Christmas coming up I thought it’d be the perfect gift for him. But rather than buy one I decided to make one from some parts I had lying around.

Python Dungeon Generator

I designed the python dungeon generator after finding that there weren’t many python procedural level generators that were generic enough for use in any game engine/rendering set up. Those that did exist either weren’t very documented or lacked in features. So this aims to rectify that.

BGE: Stealth mechanics

With the BGMC 16 underway and as I’m running it and won’t be entering and the theme being stealth I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial on making a stealth game. We’ll start by looking and creating enemies that patrol or look around on guard, then see how we can create line’s of sight for them. From there we’ll explore ways we the player can distract enemies, get them to follow footprints and hide in the shadows. So lets get stuck in…

Hand Carved Jewellery Boxes

One of the benefits of having a tree surgeon for a housemate is the amount of free wood available. I’ve always wanted to do something with it but was held back by a lack of inspiration or restricted by the size and type wood available. However, with my girlfriend’s birthday approaching I decided to make some small jewellery boxes carved from some juniper that was available.

Edible Valentine’s Day Flowers

This year for Valentines day I decided to follow an idea suggested by my boss. She’s really into her baking and was showing me some of the things that she has baked, including the flowers she’d made to decorate cakes. This inspired me to create a bouquet of edible flowers.

BGE: scrolling textures with GLSL

Often in games we’ll want to give the appearance of a complex animation by animating 2D images. Such as smoke, explosions, muzzle flashes and tracks/conveyor belts. In the BGE is this typically done by manipulating an object’s UV co-ordinates. In this tutorial we’ll take a look at another way of doing this by writing custom GLSL shaders to manipulate textures. I’ll cover how we can create endless scrolling textures, rotate textures and scroll through sprite sheets. I’ll also touch on using try/except blocks to optimise code. Check out the video to see it all in action:

BGMC15: Lessons Learnt

Ever since learning to program I’ve always wanted to create games. I’ve dreamt of being able to enter a game contest, but between work, my girlfriend and life I don’t normally have time to dedicate to something so time intensive. However, in February I was lucky enough to have several days off work so I could enter the Blender Game Making Contest 15. It was a long slog to finish (seven 16-18 hour days) and over the week I had learnt a lot. So I thought I’d share with you what I learnt:

BGE: menu buttons and opening webpages

This tutorial will look at the method I use to create menu buttons in the BGE. We’ll cover how to change a button’s text when it’s being hovered over, how to change the game scene or exit from a button and how we can use the webbrowser module to open websites from within the BGE.

BGE: passing arguments to __init__() when subclassing a KX_GameObject

Extending the KX_GameObject is a powerful way to add extra functionality to game objects. Once built, custom classes can speed up development while maintaining a tidy syntax. However, difficulties arise when trying to pass additional arguments to a subclass of the KX_GameObject. This tutorial looks at the various ways this can be overcome.

Arduino power backfeed

On a recent Arduino project I had encountered issues with power backfeeding from the Arduino into other areas of my project. Since there wasn’t much on the net about this issue I thought I’d write about what I’d encountered and the various solutions.