new game: a ball at the mall

play a ball at the mall (flash)

collab with samuel davidson, audio by micah  johnston

I made a Twitter bot

@TheyCallMe_Bot posts in the form “They call me the [adjective] [noun].”

Also, check out the Not Games page.

i made a new thing

it’s called cellphone

1st html/javascript/css thing, it uses a lot of hacks and workarounds and a webkit feature so it only works in chrome

i’m don’t think i’m going to do any more visual games using pure javascript and css

Git Rebase Workflow

I’ve been working on a set of instructions that walk you through a typical Git workflow using rebase and topic branches.

Git Rebase Workflow Documentation

It consists of five steps:

1. Create Topic Branch
2. Commit Code Modifications
3. Rebase onto Parent Branch
4. Resolve Rebase Conflicts
5. Merge Topic Branch into Parent Branch

I’ve also put together a quick reference sheet that only lists the basic Git commands in the workflow.

Git Rebase Workflow Reference Sheet

Feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments.

new game: pc case

first twine game

play pc case

How to Open Notepad++ Associated Files in a New Window

Recently I’ve been messing around with the customization settings for Notepad++. Although the program allows you to change a lot about its appearance (syntax highlighting, remove that pesky toolbar) I immediately noticed that there were no settings that allow you open multiple Notepad++ windows. Instead, when you open a new file it just adds it as a tab to your current window. After googling for a bit I found a couple solutions.

Notepad++ has a command line switch, “-multiInst”, which will open a new instance of Notepad++ in a new window when it’s run. An easy solution to our problem is to stick this switch on the end of your Notepad++ shortcut. Unfortunately, I usually open my text editor by double clicking a text editable file, and this doesn’t change that behavior.

Some people have suggested creating an empty “asNotepad.xml” file in the same directory as Notepad++.exe. This does exactly what we want, except that it also disables the tab bar, which I want to keep enabled.

The last solution is to edit the Windows registry files. This is the approach I took, since it allowed me to set up Notepad++ exactly how I wanted it.

Make Notepad++ associated files open in their own window:

• Open the registry editor (Windows Key + R, type in regedit and hit enter).
• Navigate to 

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++.exe\shell\open\command

• If you ever created “asNotepad.xml” this key will already exist, otherwise just make the keys yourself (Right Click->New->Key).
• Open (Default) REG_SZ
• If the key already existed, just add -multiInst to the end
• If you made the key yourself, Enter "yourpath" "%1" -multiInst

My key value looked like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "%1" -multiInst

Now when we double click files associated with Notepad++ they open in a new window, just like we wanted! There still is one small problem, when you right click on a file and click “Edit with Notepad++”, it still opens the file in an existing window as a new tab.

Make the “Edit with Notepad++” context menu option open files in their own window:

• Open the registry editor.
• Navigate to

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Notepad++64 (the last key might be named ANotepad++64)

• Copy the value in (Default) REG_SZ to your clipboard.

My value was:
{B298D29A-A6ED-11DE-BA8C-A68E55D89593}

• In the toolbar go to Edit->Find
• Paste the value into the search bar.
• Uncheck values and data.
• Click Find.
• Expand the key and click on Settings
• Double click on Custom REG_SZ
• Set the value data to -multiInst

Now the “Edit with Notepad++” button should open files in their own windows.

Too long

Nothing ever gets finished around here.