BLOG SHIFTED !

Hi everyone !

My Blog is now shifted to wordpress. This blog and its content is still accessible but future posts will be on the new blog.

See you THERE.

My first Ludum Dare Entry !

Hi everyone !
Last weekend was a great weekend. Why ? It was Ludum Dare 20, and yes...I did participate in it. The theme for this jam was ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE ! TAKE THIS !.

My game was a mix of 2 genres- MEMORY and ROCK-PAPER-SCISSOR type. And its called RIGHT THING. RIGHT TIME.. I couldn't work on it the whole time and so it lacks gameplay at the moment with few sever bugs :P I am planning to extend it in coming days !

For now, the final game jam build can be played HERE.

Keep FLASHING !!

A wallpaper I designed for all game developers.

Howz it ?


EDIT:

Made a dark version of this. Check out.

Game Developer Summit 2011

The second Game Developer Summit is scheduled to take place in August in Bangalore. For those who don't know what that it is, here is some intro :

Game Developer Summit (GDS) is the quintessential Indian game industry event focused on inspiring, connecting and educating the Indian Game Developer ecosystem. Featuring top-notch keynotes from luminaries, visionaries and gaming gurus on various subjects from mobile and indie games to MMOs and AAA games, GDS will also provide a hub for business and networking opportunities in the Indian industry.

Well...I am looking forward to attend it, specially after being at the awesome Nasscom A&G summit. Hope to see you there.

KEEP FLASHING !
Cheers

Processor - LEVEL UP-graded !!

Hey everyone !

Finally received my prize from Intel for the Level Up 2010 :) Check it out :

Hurray !

New game in the making..but with a touch !

Hi every !

I have been working on a Flash Lite game for touch phones. It has been 2 days since I started it and its pretty much playable now (can't show it though).

Heres a ninja character from the game:

Stay tuned for the game :)

Till then, KEEP FLASHING !!

Which plan is best for me ?

Hi


Today I was just wondering if I should switch over to 'Pay per second' plan from my '0.5 rupee per minute'. I couldn't really figure out which one was better. All I wanted to visualize it to be clear. And so here it is. An application that I made to visualize how the two plans cost with time.


(Refresh the page to see it again).

LEGEND:
Red Line - pay per second ( 0.01 Rupee per second).
Blue Line - 0.5 Rupees per minute.
Green Line - time where the 2 plans cost equal.

ANALYSIS:

As is clear from the graph, after ~200 second (the 4th green line) Red Plan never comes below Blue Plan (except for few seconds). It costs more than Blue Plan after that point and the difference between them only keeps on growing with time.
Before that, Red Plan costs less than the Blue one for most of the time being the best specially between 0-150 seconds (3rd green line).

VERDICT:
If you make calls that generally last for about 200 seconds or less, Plan Red is for you. But if you like to talk for long durations to your pals gossiping about the cricket match or last night party then Plan Red is certainly not for you...Go for Plan Blue.  :D

Duration                             Plan
0-200 s               Pay per second (RED)
>200                   0.5 Rupee per minute (BLUE)


Just in case if someone wants to see the application code :
Download Project

Cheers !

The caricature artist has awakened !!!

Hi all !

Well, I have recently started drawing caricatures. It started out as a requirement when I needed a caricature of me for my Tee. I realized I liked it and its so much fun doing this :D So from now on I would be practicing drawing caricatures and putting all of them right here. So stay tuned for more.

For the time being here is my second one :

The easiest person to caricature :|

Let the comments pour in. Tell me if you like it so I know I am improving.

My T-Shirt design ready !

Hey everyone !

Finally I am done with my new T-Shirt designs. And here it is :




Comments on the design are welcome :D

JIDE crosses 100 downloads on Softpedia

Hurray Hurray ! JIDE crosses the 100 download mark on Softpedia. CENTURY !!
Thank you all who downloaded it.

Way to go JIDE.

New year's first post - 2011

A new year and a new decade has started. Its 2011 - year of new developments, creations, fun, gaming, chatting, surfing, and lots of opportunities and targets. This year has started with a trip to IIT-B's TECHFEST 2011 ( for the 3rd time :P ). It was a yet another great experience but with a twist. As there were no software events, I decided to take part in a mechanical event this time called FULCRUM - An event where we had to create a crane from ice-cream sticks :). I together with my friends Ankit and Nishant made a crane that was somewhat awesome being a first attempt though it failed to lift the required weight. Nevertheless, building it was fun and I enjoyed a lot. This is a pic of our crane.

You can count the number of ice creams we had to eat ;)

And now back from TECHFEST, its time to dive into some serious stuff. Just to keep a record of what my plans are for this year, here is a list of it.

1. More blogging, writing tutorials for blogs and forums.
2. Be active on programming forums like actionscript.org, dreamincode.in etc
3. Create a playable MMORPG in flash. (tough job).
4. Do some freelancing stuff.
5. Improve my website...make it better in looks and functionality.
6. Develop Rickshaw Brawl into a complete full version game.
7. May be apply or at least prepare for a job in gaming companies.
8. Work on my aptitude skills :P
9. Develop some AIR applications for the Intel AppUp store and Adobe Marketplace.
10. Participate in as many GAME JAMs as possible. Cool thing >:D
11. Register my own game company...not sure though.
12. And lots of lots of learning the whole year - new languages, hacks, games, etc.

EDIT:

1. Become a caricature expert :)

NOTE : These are in no order of priority.
Lets see how the year goes. All the best to all for their plans.

Happy New Year everyone !
Keep Flashing !

Cheers !