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Hello, and welcome to my site. If you are looking for a Boston / South Shore area real estate photographer, click "photography" above. For blog posts and photos, see below or the sampling to the left. Enjoy your stay!

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First Screenshot of Delve Deep

Here's the first screenshot of my upcoming Android-based strategy game, Delve Deep.

I am irrationally excited about this.

For some reason, I expect smart phones to be like embedded systems - nightmares of custom drivers and serial cables. To whip up a quick tile-based system with OpenGL and actually see the results seems like magic.

There's still plenty wrong with it: There's no far background layer, the water stream doesn't properly intersect the pool, I don't like the foreground/background contrast on some of the tiles, just to name a few issues. I might never fix any of it though. Currently I'm too busy scrolling around the map, being amazed that it "just works."

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Pixel Shape Generators?

A bunch of generators that turn shapes into pixel / voxel versions, for building games like Minecraft.

3D Shapes

Ellipsoid - For domes and the like, up to a total cross section of 25x35, and height of 10; example shown below.

2D Shapes

Ellipse - For that sweet amphitheater you've been thinkin' bout. Better than the ellipsoid generator if you only want one floor, since it gives you a blown-up quarter ellipse, shown below.

Circle - Did I just make this first, or did I make a whole generator that is a special case of the ellipse? The world may never know.

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