Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

My friend Saira called me up and after hearing that I was programming at the time, eagerly asked me, “Hey are you still willing to program a game if I design it? Because I have an idea now.”

“Ok, what is it?”

“It’s called PUNG! Isn’t that great?”

“Um, I guess so… let me know when you have more than a great title, ok?”

So anyway, for all I know it’s already sitting in my in-box, but while I’m waiting for the specs to “Pung” from Saira, I made a little graphics scratch-pad that does a variety of things that I may need to do variants on in a game. Bouncing balls, collision detection, fractal landscapes, screen capture and bitmap manipulation, fireworks, snow, starfields, emittors, and other particle systems, gravity, 3D animation, and so on… Nefarious actually had a lot of fun fiddling with it before school this morning.

If you want to download it, you can, although it does nothing useful, and I haven’t optimized or tested it in any way so it won’t surprise me at all if it is terrible slow on some computers (or perhaps the opposite), or even crashes. To use it, just run the executable, select a drawing mode, and, usually, move the mouse around to change settings and click in the graphics window to reset, initialize, and/or randomize: zengraphicstest.exe (39k)

Here it is running through its modes (in reality the framerate is much better than in this YouTube video — it’s the capture process that slowed it down)…